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KTH Template Course room

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Welcome to this KTH Template Course room!

All text in italics is written to you as a teacher, and not for the students to see. Therefore, delete all text in italics before making the course room available to students.

This template course room is designed by the e-learning management object, established with teachers and students and approved by KTH's Board of Education, which is led by the Vice Principal for Education.

If you have any questions about the template please contact: it-support@kth.se

First, we would like you to upload a photo of yourself to your Canvas profile. You do this by clicking on Account at the top in the left-hand column, click Profile, and then click on the circle where the photo will be. 

By clicking Settings and choosing the tab Navigation, you will find how to drag and drop the tabs you want your students to see. This helps you and your students to access different course areas. Please note that some tabs, e.g. modules and announcements, will not be visible in the menu until content has been added.

By clicking the glasses (Student View) in the top right corner you can view the course as a student.

It is recommended to add a picture that is relevant for the course: Go to edit mode - Image - then click Upload image to upload a picture from your computer, or click Course image to choose an image already uploaded to your course.

Tips and support

Need to quickly and easily check so that you did not miss anything important when you created your course? Read more in this checklist for teachers at the start of the course (intra.kth.se). 

Read more about Canvas course design (intra.kth.se).

On the e-learning web pages you can find guides, instructions, pedagogical tips and inspiration for Canvas at KTH (intra.kth.se).

For further information and instructions about Canvas please visit these Canvas Community Guides (community.canvaslms.com) Links to an external site.. 

Do you need more inspiration? Course rooms to be inspired by (intra.kth.se).

To get started with Canvas you can also take the Self-study course Canvas@KTH - an introductory course (canvas.kth.se)

The Template

In a standard course KTH recommends you to keep the following tabs in the left hand menu visible for your students in this order:

Home

On the home page, KTH recommends that you provide the following information about the visible functions in the course room:

Welcome to the [course XXX]!

We are glad to welcome you to [course XXX]. During this course you will [add relevant information to the students here, e.g. what they will learn, develop and experience]. We hope that you, by the end of this course, will have [add relevant information, e.g. developed important skills for your future education as well as for life]. 

In the Syllabus you can find a summary of the course as well as links to the Course PM and the course's intended learning outcomes.

Contact:

In this course you will meet [add the teachers' names and brief information about them].

[Name1] ...@kth.se

[Name2] ...@kth.se 

Inform students about the course's "communication hygiene", i.e. be clear about how and where course communication should take place to avoid possible misunderstandings.

You find information about the course, and course content, in Modules. Here you also find the Zoom-link for our scheduled activities.

All announcements will be made via Announcements.

Under the People tab you can find the groups that you are a part of in this course.

Under Assignments you will find all quizzes and submissions that are due during the course.

You can find your grades on submitted assignments and quizzes under Grades.

Tools

SpeedGrader guide to SpeedGrader (intra.kth.se)

You can access SpeedGrader by clicking a graded assignment, quiz or discussion in Grades. The SpeedGrader link appears in the right hand sidebar menu. When using SpeedGrader we recommend that you begin by temporarily hiding grades for your students. You manage this by clicking on Grades, then click the settings wheel on the right hand side, choose the tab Grade posting policy and Manually post grades. 

KTH Transfer to Ladok guide to KTH transfer to Ladok (intra.kth.se)

This alternative is only visible for teachers, not for students. It is an application that has been developed with the intent to enable a secure digital transfer of grades from Canvas Gradebook to Ladok and hopefully also reduce the amount of manual grade administration.