4️⃣Floor 4 - Using Technology to Engage Students

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Leveling Up Your Tech

Another way to engage our students is by integrating technology into our teaching practices. While online instructors may already be using various technological tools, both online and face-to-face faculty can benefit from exploring new technologies to enhance student engagement. By leveraging these tools, we can create more interactive and dynamic learning experiences for all students.

Using Canvas

Canvas is our learning management system (LMS) at SDCCD; all students and faculty have access to it. For those of you teaching online, you're already familiar with Canvas and the several ways to engage students with announcements and assignments online. If you are teaching on campus courses, these same tools are available to you.

Ways to use Canvas to engage students

  • Send out a weekly Canvas announcement letting students know why they won't want to miss class this week. Or highlighting the awesome contributions of particular students to last week's discussion.
  • Use Canvas to share important resources with students so that they can stay engaged with the classwork even when they do need to be absent.
  • Allow students to submit assignments through Canvas to reduce the barriers to participation. 
  • Provide feedback videos through Canvas allowing students to rewatch as many times as they need.
  • Encourage students to post questions to a Canvas Q&A discussion board. 

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