Purpose

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.

Resources

• Faculty Guide: Academic Status Reports

Embedded media means videos or audios will be playable directly in a course. Students will not need to navigate away from the course in order to gain access. In addition, embedding items from MediaAMP will prevent students from sharing to other sites or accessing it outside of ASU Canvas. Please embed media from MediaAMP into your Canvas courses to create interactive course material and prevent unauthorized distribution.

Resources: 

• Canvas MediaAMP Tool - Media Selector [One click embedding]
• Email the LX Design team
• Video Suggestions

Uploading videos to MediaAMP allows media content to be stored on the MediaAMP cloud and avoid using course space in Canvas. In addition, MediaAMP prevents media from being shared and accessed on other sites outside of ASU. All faculty and staff have MediaAMP accounts available. However, user roles may vary on what content can be shared between others within MediaAMP.

Resources: 

• ASU KB Article - ASU's MediaAMP Welcome Page
• ASU KB Article - MediaAMP's Modalis - Start Here
• ASU KB Article - MediaAMP's Modalis - MediaAMP - Frequently Asked Questions
• Email the LX Design team
• Video Suggestions

Course cards in the Canvas Dashboard can be uniquely customized by a user and does not reflect towards others enrolled in the same course. Aside from choosing which courses to display, Canvas allows users to freely move their course cards on their Dashboard to any viewing order they please. However, once users arrange their course cards, they cannot revert the display back to the defaulted order (“ alphabetically by course name and your role in the course - Canvas”).

Resources: 

• How do I view my favorite courses in the Card View Dashboard as an instructor?
• Email the LX Design team
• Video Suggestions

Purpose: Ally is a third-party tool enabled at ASU to provide accessibility scores on files housed in a Canvas course. Accessibility scores show instructors how accommodating their content is for a student with disabilities and meets accessibility standards. The Ally Dashboard in a Canvas course provides an overall accessibility score for the course in addition to breaking down what documents need their scores improved.

**Students will NOT be able to see this navigation link in the Canvas course. This link is only for instructors.**

Resources:

• Course Accessibility Report
• ASU Accessibility and Resources
• Disability Resource Center
• Email the LX Design team
• Video Suggestions

In MyASU, under “My Classes”, an “Attend” button will be available next to a class’s title for students to join via Zoom. By default, the instructor’s personal meeting room will be linked to the button. If a different Zoom room should be used, instructors may update the room link via the “Class Tools” icon to the right. A new room can be automatically created to their Zoom account (scheduled as a recurring meeting) from MyASU or the instructor may enter a zoom room number they already created (should be scheduled as recurring).

**If more than one instructor is listed to teach a class, by default all their personal zoom rooms will appear as buttons to the student, corresponding to their last names. However, if a new room is created or set via the “Change this” option, only one button will appear and all other instructors will be made alternative hosts.**

Resources:

• MyASU Attend via Sync Button Customization
• Email the LX Design team
• Video Suggestions

iClickers can be used to take live attendance, polling, and quiz results from participating students during a class session. Courses created in iClickers can be connected to the instructor’s Canvas course, allowing for grade syncing which will create grade columns and populate scores in Canvas automatically.

**Before starting, create an iClicker instructor account using your ASU email, then create the course that will be connected to a Canvas course.**

Resources: 

• Email the LX Design team
• Video Suggestions

iClickers can be used to take live attendance, polling, and quiz results from participating students during a class session. After integrating, or connecting, a Canvas course to the iClickers course, instructors can easily sync grades that have been collected from class sessions to their Canvas gradebook. iClickers will create grade column(s) in the gradebook with each students’ respective score(s). The instructor will need to sync grades to Canvas each time new activity or scores are updated in iClickers.

Resources:

• Email the LX Design team
• Video Suggestions

Question Banks are a question pool system allowing instructors to reuse quiz questions in multiple quizzes or exams. Question Banks only need to be created once, then they can be pulled to other courses or copied over.

Resources:

• How do I create a question bank in a course?
• Email the LX Design team
• Video Suggestions

Images can be added to a Canvas course by adding it to the Rich Content Editor, or RCE. The option, “Embed Image” is located as a picture icon in the RCE’s toolbar and can be used to pull images from a URL, Canvas, computer’s desktop, or from the copyright-free website Flickr. Using images can not only add attractiveness to course material but also provide more visual aid support on provided information. 

**Please also be sure to add a description, or alternative text, to added images so students with special accommodations may also understand the displayed material accurately. See resources below for guides on accessibility.**

Resources:

• How do I embed images from the web in the Rich Content Editor as an instructor?
• How do I embed images from Canvas into the Rich Content Editor as an instructor?
• How do I embed images from Flickr Creative Commons in the Rich Content Editor as an instructor?
• Accessibility Quick Tip Videos
• Email the LX Design team
• Video Suggestions