This semester, 2 new GLOW features give faculty better control of how their specific grading practices are reflected in how students view grades in their course Gradebook area: The “Restrict view of quantitative data” course setting supports faculty whose courses prioritize qualitative feedback. When this setting is enabled, students will… Continue reading »
Introduction The Immersive Reader feature provides every GLOW user a set of customizable tools to enhance their academic access. Immersive Reader supports fluency for multilingual students with translation tools; offers text decoding features for students with dyslexia; provides text-to-speech audio; and includes visual scaffolding options to improve reading comprehension and… Continue reading »
Gradescope is a tool from Turnitin which enables faculty to grade and assess a wide range of student work within GLOW (Canvas), including handwritten worksheets, “bubble” sheet exams, code, and more. Faculty at Williams can activate Gradescope within their individual course by completing the Gradescope activation request form… Continue reading »
Introduction Understanding who can access your course in GLOW (Canvas), how you can add them, and what they are (and are not) allowed to do, is an important element for faculty to manage a course in GLOW. Adding People to GLOW. Registered Students. All officially registered students are automatically… Continue reading »
Introduction Discussions in GLOW (Canvas) enable threaded conversations among faculty and students in a course. Discussions can include text, images, audio, video, and files, and can be graded or ungraded. Faculty can manage Discussions exclusively, or can allow students to create Discussions as well. Beyond the native Discussion feature, Williams… Continue reading »
Introduction Quizzes in GLOW (Canvas) offer options for faculty to design quizzes, exams, and surveys. Quizzes can accommodate a range of question types, including some that can be auto-graded. Faculty can build questions manually, or import questions from publisher materials or another GLOW course. Quizzes can draw random questions from… Continue reading »
Introduction Assignments in GLOW (Canvas) are a versatile element of the course tool suite. Faculty can build Assignments to suit many specific requirements, from traditional paper-based work to file uploads to media to integrated software (e.g. Google Workspace, Panopto). Faculty have fine-grained control over important elements such as grade weighting,… Continue reading »
Introduction GLOW (Canvas) provides 5 options for faculty to choose what students see first when they enter a GLOW course. This design flexibility empowers faculty to intentionally select the most pedagogically useful starting-point for students in their specific course. The default home page in GLOW is the Syllabus option. Faculty… Continue reading »
Introduction Modules enable faculty to organize (and students to access) GLOW course materials thematically, regardless of type. All types of digital object in a GLOW course can be included in a Module. Beyond simple presentation, Modules also enable faculty to easily set conditional access to course content, including date-release access… Continue reading »
Introduction GLOW (Canvas) is Williams’ learning management system, a suite of integrated tools for online learning and interaction. All academic courses (and many other campus programs) have GLOW spaces. A GLOW course can help faculty streamline how they provide course materials, communicate and interact with students, and collect and grade… Continue reading »
Williams strives to be a place “where concern for the needs and ideas of other people is not only an educational, but an ethical, imperative” (Williams College Mission). Accessibility is an effort to ensure that all students, regardless of disability, face as few unnecessary barriers as possible to their… Continue reading »
Previously, we added the ability for students to store their pronouns in our student records system, for use on class rosters and in the Glow learning management system. We’re now providing the same capability for faculty and staff. At present, faculty and staff pronouns are used only in Glow, though… Continue reading »
A: Streaming videos may be located in one of two places: the Course Media Gallery (link on left) or on a Page called, Library Films. See screenshots below. … Continue reading »
Q: I’m trying to access streaming media in Glow, but I see a blank screen? Q: How can I troubleshoot other issues such as buffering and A/V desync while viewing videos? … Continue reading »
You can unpublish your course by clicking the Unpublish button in the Course Home Page sidebar. However, once your course contains a graded submission, you can no longer unpublish your course. Continue reading »
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