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Teaching & Learning supports many learning technologies and has provided a collection of articles and resources to assist instructors.

As you access these guides, please remember the most important rule to implementing new tools is that they serve a purpose or support students in reaching course learning objectives.

If you would like to discuss how to best incorporate a tool into your facilitation process, have a question about what tool might best serve a particular goal, or have a question that these resources do not address, please contact Teaching & Learning.

In order to sign into Canvas, you will need to do the following:

1. Access Canvas (canvas.jhu.edu).

2. Select JHU Login.

3. Continue through the JHU Single Sign On process, logging in with your JHED ID.

4. After successfully signing in, your Canvas Dashboard will appear.

The Johns Hopkins University migration team has developed a series of guides for instructors and TAs. More information, including how to copy a course from a prior (or concurrent) Canvas section, can be found in the Getting Started for Faculty Canvas guide.

Announcements are a great way to communicate with students while also creating an artifact that students can access later. To post an announcement:

1. Navigate to your course and access the Announcements page.

2. Select +Announcement.

3. Give the topic a title, and input your announcement.

4. You may delay the posting until a certain date, or not select this and instead select Publish to immediately post the announcement.

5. Depending on your students’ notification settings, this announcement will be sent to their email. There is no way to force-send the announcement, but this is the default setting.

Over the course of the term, you will likely need to share information with students. This can be done with a Canvas page. To create a Canvas page:

1. Navigate to your course and access the Modules page.

    2. Find the module in which you would like to place the content.

    If you have not created a module, you will need to do this first.

3. Select the Add Item button (the plus sign).

4. Select Page from the Add drop-down menu.

5. Select Create Page and give it a title.

If you had previously created a page, you may select that and proceed.

6. Select Add Item.

7. Provide the content you would like to add to this page. You may add multimedia or any other materials you choose.

8. Select Save or Save & Publish.

9. If you do not publish the material now, you can do it later by selecting the Publish checkmark.

You may wish to have students submit assignments through Canvas. This allows organized collection of materials and will allow you to use the Canvas grade center. To create an assignment: 

1. Navigate to your course and access the Modules page.

2. Find the module in which you would like to place the content.

If you have not created a module, you will need to do this first.

3. Select the Add Item button (the plus sign).

4. Select Assignment from the Add drop-down menu.

5. Select Create Assignment and give it a title.

If you had previously created a page, you may select that and proceed.

6. Select Add Item.

7. Provide the content you would like to add to this assignment page. You may add multimedia or any other materials you choose.

8. Provide any of the assignment details, including due date and point totals.

9. Click Save or Save & Publish. 

10. If you do not publish the material now, you can do it later by selecting the Publish checkmark. Make sure the module is published. If it is not, you will need to do so before this content is visible to students.

More information for getting a little more involved in the Canvas environment, including how to manage your course due dates and run a SIS grade import, can be found in the Setting Up Your Course Canvas guide.

Managing Your Gradebook

Gradebooks in Canvas are slightly different from those in Blackboard, so it is important to familiarize yourself with how this tool works.

Accommodations or Altering Due Dates/Times

This guide cannot be found in the JHU Canvas guides, but is important nonetheless. Students may require extra time or other considerations during assignments or quizzes.

FAQs 

This page contains general (even more general) information about Canvas, such as: 

• Communicating with students
• Updating your chosen name and pronouns
• Managing other settings 

Do you have any specific questions? 

Schedule a 1:1 training with Teaching & Learning! 

Turnitin is a plagiarism detection tool. By design, this tool compares student submissions against a vast database that includes academic papers, websites, books, and other sources to identify potential unoriginal content.

Key points for faculty:

1. The Similarity Score: The Similarity Score does not definitively indicate plagiarism. It only identifies text that matches with other sources. Faculty should review these matches to determine whether it constitutes plagiarism or is a correctly cited source. 

For more detailed understanding and resources, please visit the Turnitin User Help Page.

Receiving a problematic RPNow Report indicates that there might have been some issues or violations during an online proctored exam.

Here are the next steps faculty should take:

1. Review the Report: The report will detail the problem, which could range from technical glitches to potential academic misconduct. Reports can be accessed through the Faculty Registration Page in the course modules section.
2. Take Appropriate Action: Depending on your findings and the severity of the violation, decide on the appropriate course of action. This could include reaching out to the student to give a warning, deducting points, failing the student for the exam, or escalating the issue to the Academic Ethics committee.
3. Review Exam Procedures: If the issue was related to the proctoring system itself, consider reviewing the procedures or providing additional instructions to prevent future issues. You can contact Teaching & Learning staff to discuss changes to the exam profile or other test settings.

The Whiting School of Engineering has created a great AI resources webpage, which we recommend reviewing if you are curious about generative AI. 

For any questions about Carey’s AI policy, faculty can reach out to the Office of Student Affairs at Carey.Student@jhu.edu with any general questions about academic integrity.

For more information about next steps should you suspect academic dishonesty, please refer to the Academic Ethics Policy.