The Explain Everything Whiteboard and Canvas LMS expanded integration
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The day has come! Explain Everything Whiteboard is now perfectly integrated with one of the most popular and reliable Learning Management Systems โ Canvas. This means you can create whiteboard assignments and live sessions without even having to open the whiteboard app.
This expanded integration is possible only with the Explain Everything Whiteboard as opposed to the Explain Everything Basics version that does not contain any cloud features. ๐๐ฝ Find out more details about differences between these two products. ๐๐ฝ
An online whiteboard and an LMS โ create whiteboard courses and live sessions
Most schools and universities are already familiar with and likely using a Learning Management System that proves to be exceedingly useful when it comes to the online or hybrid classroom. This basic educational technology tool helps teachers and students to collect data, store materials, shape courses, manage them and communicate with each other. In a time when digital skills are becoming more and more important, implementing and using an LMS at school can help students acquire skills that will continue to be useful to them in their professional lives.
Thanks to the full integration between a Canvas LMS and the Explain Everything Whiteboard, you can:
- Create and receive interactive assignments.
- Meet your students during live whiteboard sessions.
- Embed videos via Web Video Links.
Before you can start using the LMS and whiteboard together, you need to ๐๐ฝ add Explain Everything to Canvas. Learn how. ๐๐ฝ
Watch the complete video instruction on the Canvas and Explain Everything integration ๐๐ฝ
Create and receive whiteboard assignments in Canvas
If your institution has been using Canvas LMS, you can now use the Explain Everything Whiteboard to assign tasks within the system.
You can create assignments with the Explain Everything Whiteboard without having to leave Canvas LMS. Tasks you assign can consist of:
- editing a whiteboard project filled with problems, quizzes, questions etc.,
- watching a video lesson explaining or expanding a subject,
- recording a video on a project template you provide to your student.
This is how you can create Explain Everything assignments in Canvas LMS:
In both cases, the student will give you a note about their progress or completion of the activity.
The Canvas and Explain Everything Whiteboard expanded integration can be fully used if both teacher and student have Explain Everything Whiteboard licenses. If youโd like to request a demo or a free trial, ๐๐ฝ please contact us. ๐๐ฝ
Example: Scenario of assigning a task for a student to complete, from both perspectives
- Teacher creates an assignment and send it to a student or a whole group:
2. Student receives the assignment:
3. Teacher gets back and grades the assignment:
๐จ project assignments.
๐ฝ๏ธ video assignments.
Create a live whiteboard session in Canvas
A collaborative online whiteboard is the perfect space to discuss any topic and explain everything visually. Meet your students 1-on-1 or in a small group to:
- review extra material,
- practise,
- verify student knowledge,
- explore a studentโs perspective,
- present interactively,
- work on a problem together.
This is how you can create a live whiteboard session in Canvas:
Embed your whiteboard videos in Canvas
Whenever you create a Web Video Link in Explain Everything Whiteboard, it can be also conveniently implemented in a wide variety of Canvas LMS Course areas, including:
- Announcements
- Assignments
- Discussions
- Pages
- Quizzes
If you want your students to be able to watch your Explain Everything video conveniently as a part of a course, follow these instructions.
You can only embed video lessons in these Course areas that support Rich Content Editor.
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