Lift Up Learning: Elevate Your Canvas Course with Interactive Content

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Elevate Your Canvas Course with Interactive Content

Looking for ways to enrich your online course and promote active learning? Canvas quick checks and flip cards transform your content from flat to interactive in a flash!

Quick Checks

Canvas quick checks are no stakes, multiple-choice quiz questions to formatively assess learning throughout modules. Embedded on pages following key content, quick checks promote “just in time” reflection and processing. Providing timely, specific feedback is a critical element of effective instruction (Hattie & Timperley, 2007; Van der Kleij et al., 2015). High quality quick check questions with feedback allow students to identify errors and misconceptions, extend their understanding, and regulate their learning – without any grading pressure.

Add Quick Checks in a Few Clicks

A variety of pre-styled quick check “blocks” are available using the new DesignPLUS QuickStart Wizard when creating new pages or within the DesignPLUS sidebar when adding to existing pages. Contact your Digital Learning Connector for help getting started!
Example of a quick check quiz question titled "Knowledge Check" embedded alongside related text information on a Canvas page.

Flip Cards

Consider new ways to lift up your content with interactive flash cards! Canvas flip cards offer a new way for learners to interact with content by “flipping” a card and revealing important information. Use them for questions & answers, terms & definitions, or identification of image or audio, for example. Explore the possibilities!

Add Flip Cards in a Flash

Two basic flip card “blocks” can be added using the new DesignPLUS QuickStart Wizard when creating new Canvas pages (see the navigation screenshot below). Your Digital Learning Connector can help you customize flip cards for your specific content and design purposes.

Layout options menu includes Flip Card Gold and Flip Card Maroon


Flip Card Front Flip Card Back
Front of flip card shows purple flower on long stem Back of flip card reveals plant identification as purple loosestrife
Ready to lift up learning in your course? Start small: try adding a Quick Check to a key content page or swap out a static definition list for Flip Cards. Need support? Your Digital Learning Connector is here to help!

References

Hattie, J., & Timperley, H. (2007). The Power of Feedback. Review of Educational Research, 77(1), 81-112. https://doi.org/10.3102/003465430298487

Van der Kleij, F. M., Feskens, R. C. W., & Eggen, T. J. H. M. (2015). Effects of Feedback in a Computer-Based Learning Environment on Students’ Learning Outcomes: A Meta-Analysis. Review of Educational Research, 85(4), 475–511. https://doi.org/10.3102/0034654314564881


Article by Shona Burke, Extension Learning Technologies, sfburke@umn.edu

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