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  • Resources for Designers 4
    • The Designer Role
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    • Organizing Assignments
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    • Using the Calendar to remind students about readings and Assignments
  • Course Home Page 1
    • Building the Course Home Page
  • Discussions 1
    • Posting and responding to Discussion topics
  • Files 1
    • Sharing files with students
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    • Organizing course content in the Modules page
  • Outcomes 1
    • Writing course-level learning outcomes
  • Pages 2
    • Using Pages
    • Previewing documents in a page
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May 07, 2013

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Sharing files with students

Sharing and hiding files from students

Sharing and hiding files from students Zoom

Dr. Ulrich of Wharton University uses Canvas to supplement an engaging, hands-on class about becoming better innovators, problem solvers, and designers. He shares multiple files with his students to assist them as they complete projects and assignments but he chooses to keep his lecture slides in a private folder that he can access during classes. Click here to explore this public Canvas course.

Sharing PowerPoint slides

Sharing PowerPoint slides Zoom

Sally Coleman teaches a course on Northern Renaissance Art and uses Files to share all of her PowerPoint slides and images with students. Clicking the "Fullscreen" option in Files makes it possible to preview presentations without opening Microsoft PowerPoint on a computer. Click here to explore this public Canvas course.

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