ScreenPal, formerly known as Screencast-o-Matic, is a tool that allows for screen recording, editing, and voice overs in one platform. In this toolkit, we will discuss how to install ScreenPal, troubleshooting, and finding ScreenPal Tutorials.
Within this resource you will find the ins and outs of EdDiscussion including how to access EdDiscussion from Canvas to utilizing MediaPlus within EdDiscussion to creating and managing threads.
Academic Status Reports (ASRs) are one way faculty instructors can provide students with early, personalized feedback about a student’s progress in a class. ASRs can provide positive feedback and are used to identify students in need of extra support. Instructors teaching 100 and 200-level courses are expected to generate ASRs early and often.
This video demonstrates how to submit an ASR through My ASU. After opening a course roster, instructors can assign either a letter grade or a "Satisfactory / Unsatisfactory" status to one student at a time or an entire group. They can select from a menu of clarifying reasons or enter their own. Finally, instructors can suggest next steps for support. Students are notified weekly through My ASU and via system-generated emails when they receive an ASR.
Canvas is an ASU licensed web conferencing tool available to all ASU faculty, staff, and students. Not only may users host online meetings, but they can share their screen and video record sessions if needed. Only the host needs to log into their ASU ZOOM account to create a new meeting. Attendees can participate using Canvas or a provided ZOOM link. Meeting schedules will also sync to the ZOOM desktop application.
**To use ZOOM in a Canvas course, instructors need to make sure their account settings email is defaulted (starred) to the [email protected] email address.**
Peer Reviews in Discussions function similarly to Peer Reviews for online assignments. Students will still initially post their thoughts relating to the discussion prompt. However, they will additionally provide comments and possibly rubric scores on their classmates’ posts. Rules and examples should be provided by instructors on how peer reviews must be completed for optimum feedback and participation.
**Rubric scores from peers will not populate into a student’s assignment grade. The instructor must provide the grade themselves for a student to earn credit. In addition, grades cannot be automatically allotted to completed peer reviews. Instructors must create a separate, no submission, graded assignment to enter scores into
Default channels in Slack allows workspace administrators to set the channels that should appear for new members joining the workspace. New members will also already be joined into the default channels and can start messaging within them instantly.
Unfortunately, existing members to the workspace will not see new or default set channels automatically appear. They will need to search for and manually join them or be invited. Additionally, private channels cannot be selected as a default channel as they require members to be invited to them by a user already in it.
**Channels #General and #Random will already exist in the workspace and can be renamed as needed. Only the #Random channel can be deleted or set as private.**
A Slack workspace is a shared environment between joined or invited users that displays channels set by the administrator. Users will be able to communicate and collaborate with others within the workspace. At ASU, workspaces may be used between departments or for courses requested by the instructor. Some workspaces may be public where users can join them voluntarily, while others may be private and require invitation by the workspace administrator.
The Instant messaging platform Slack is available as a third-party tool integration in Canvas for students and faculty to use. Slack can be used to boost communication and collaboration efforts in your Canvas course and can be added after the course request process.
A workspace in Slack can be customized to include automatic responses triggered by set words or phrases. When Slack users in the workspace send a message including the trigger word or phrase, Slackbot will instantly send the connected response. Workspace administrators or users with permission can create as many custom responses as needed. Instructors are encouraged to use the feature in their course workspaces for commonly asked items such as the syllabus or course schedule.
**If a user types more than one of the triggered words in their message, only the first set’s response will display.**
Slack channels are communication spaces that can be created and organized based on different topics or different groups of users in a workspace. Any Slack user in their designated workspace can create public or private channels. Public channels allows other users to locate and join them voluntarily, while private channels must have members invited to them by others already in that channel.
Channels in one workspace can only be joined by users within the same workspace the channel was created in. Users who wish to join channels outside their workspaces must be invited or the workspace administrators may need to enable outside sharing of that specific channel.
**Once a channel as been set to private, it cannot be set back to public. Please decide carefully before privatizing a channel.**
