195 Open Educational Resources: Canvas Commons — 10.09.2019

On October 9, 2019, participants of the Active Teaching Lab discussed Canvas Commons as a warehouse from which to share and import course materials. The focus was on the specific steps to import to Canvas Commons, as well as some of the obstacles users will encounter when downloading to their own course pages.

Takeaways

• Canvas Commons facilitates the sharing of content between faculty members of the same department while also serving as a warehouse for a single instructor to archive their course materials. 
• Request a Canvas Sandbox course! The Sandbox course is your personal experimentation space for developing and designing course materials before releasing them to students.
• Preview course materials before you decide to import them from Canvas Commons. Materials from other instructors or institutions might include LTI components that the UW might not yet have a license for and so not all content will work as it should.

For more information visit the session’s activity sheet.

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