See Canvas in Action at The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Discover how The Chinese University of Hong Kong could deliver engaging, inclusive, and AI enabled learning experiences with Canvas.
In this personalised demo, you’ll follow the day-to-day journey of both a student and a teacher—from preparing for finals and managing coursework, to creating assessments and analysing engagement. You’ll also explore the powerful admin capabilities that support a flexible, scalable LMS tailored to your institution’s needs.
We'll cover:
- Student experience in Canvas
- Engagement and motivation tools
- Teacher workflow made simpler
- Smarter insights and interventions with AI
- Admin flexibility and control
- Advanced analytics and AI-powered reporting
- Credentialling and lifelong learning
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Welcome to the team from Chinese University of Hong Kong. In this video series, we will explore teacher and student day to day experience with Canvas. We will also talk about some of our admin features to help you you maximise your LMS capabilities. We hope you enjoyed these videos and we look forward to hearing from you. Is Stephen Tan, a fourth year student from the University of Hong Kong. As he logs into his Canvas course, he proceeds immediately to his inbox.
He is anticipating a message from his professor as his finals is due in a few weeks. His group is scrambling to get a consultation with him. Thankfully, his professor sets up a schedule for consultation. He also noticed that the message was sent in both English and Chinese to accommodate both local and international students. He rushes back dashboard, knowing that he has a lot of assignments due in the coming days.
As you can see on the right side of his screen, it's flooded by deadlines. As he enters his course in Creative Engineering, he is greeted by an announcement from his Dear students, final season is upon us. Oh no. Stephen, upon realising the finals is near, he decides to proceed to his modules and complete his missing requirements. Upon seeing how much he has not yet fulfilled, he decides to start with the initial video quiz.
This quiz was given three weeks ago using Canvas Studio. As he starts his video quiz on Sloths by David Attenborough, he turns on his closed captioning just so he can understand the video a bit better. As he answers the first question, he realises that he has a lot more to accomplish. He then proceeds to his discussion board. His teacher uses discussion boards in order to engage both Stephen and his classmates.
This helps them talk to each other even in a digital setting. Stephen loves this feature a lot. The first thing he does as he enters is he enables translations so that he understands his classmates' responses better. As he scrolls through the different responses, he sees that he has already submitted this. Phew! Less work needs to be done.
He then sees Kevin Anderson's response which he decides to reply on. As he goes through the responses, his procrastination habit kicks in. Stephen decides to check his overall progress in Parchment digital badges. Micro credentialing serves as his professor's way of promoting healthy competition. Upon seeing the badges he has earned, he realized that he has been lagging behind.
He has only completed one out of the seven possible badges. He also checked the progress of his pathways, which is also enrolled based on what badges he has earned throughout his journey. He realises that he's far away from completing anything. To give himself an ease of mind, he enters the leaderboard and checks whether he is in the leaderboard. And lo and behold, he's actually third out of the thirty two learners.
He realizes that he's not that far behind and decides to continue on with his day. Professor Lim has been with the University of Hong Kong for the past ten years. AI has taken over the education space, but he still has some reservations about it. Thankfully, Canvas has been providing reliable AI solutions, which makes his job a lot easier. The first thing he does for any workday is to check his to do list, which has all the assignments he has to go through.
He then checks his calendar, which is also integrated in his work calendar to see any upcoming deadlines. Upon seeing that everything he assigned three weeks ago is due tomorrow, he knows that his student would have accomplished their tasks by now. Oh brother, your students have not even started their modules. He then proceeds to his creative engineering course modules and upon entering his modules, he reviews the way his content flows. Seems like everything is in order.
He decides to build the quiz for next week. He opens up the quiz builder to create his assessment. He is greeted by the rich content editor. This feature offers a myriad of tools for Professor Lim to use. Third party integration, YouTube videos, cloud based files, you name it.
Everything can be embedded into the text box seamlessly. He decides to give some words of encouragement by posting a super cheesy inspirational quote. He then proceeds to create his questions. Upon looking at the different question types that he can generate in Canvas, he decides to use AI. In choosing AI to generate questions for him, he has to select a source, which Canvas requires for all AI based content to set a baseline of information.
In this case, he will be selecting one of his course materials to actually be used as the base of his questions. Upon generating the quiz questions, he decides not to build the quiz since he realized that since its final seasons, the students must be bombarded with requirements. He decides to go to his first discussion forum instead. In here, the first thing he does is to enable translations. He translates everything to English first just so he can effectively review the submissions.
Seeing that there are a lot of responses already and having no time to go through them one by one, he asks AI to summarise the discussions submitted. He then proceeds to the grade book. He sees that there are a couple of submissions already. From here, he decides to check on Stephen's work. Stephen has been messaging him about checking all his requirements.
He whips out the SpeedGrader and goes through his submission and checks his rubric. Professor Lim is quite busy today, so he decides to have AI do the checking for him. He checks the feedback afterwards. He checks the feedback and seems like everything is in order. He submits the assessment and proceeds to his next task.
Finally, seeing how students are in campus as of the moment, he proceeds to his course analytics to check for student engagement as of late. In the course analytics page, Professor Lim can check course grade, weekly online activity, students, and reports. He checks on the weekly online activity and lo and behold, you can see that not a lot of students have been accessing. This means he has to prompt them in class and remind them to complete all the tasks they have to accomplish within Canvas. Canvas admin provides endless customisability for your Canvas instance.
From modifying the environment structure through sub accounts to changing the language Canvas is in by default. We ensure that all admins can make changes to enhance the learning experience. Outcomes is one of the core functions of the admin page wherein course leaders, school administrators, and department heads can create, modify, and push learning outcomes to the courses within their respective subaccounts. It is here where institutions would want to specify learning outcomes for courses under their umbrella. Using this, the teachers can simply extract these learning outcomes and add it to their own courses.
We also have a built in Apps Hub which showcases different tools used in education. Canvas has partnered with hundreds of edtech developers around the world to enhance the learning experience. These tools can be simply integrated into Canvas with a few simple steps. Our Analytics Hub provides users with robust reporting of their environment's overall health. It includes a filter which allows information to be customised to a minute detail.
Our Analytics Hub provides a general health overview, course usage overview, and student overview. We also have what we call Intelligent Insights, which is an AI data extraction tool. Previously, this workflow involves having to use API calls in order to extract data manually from the data warehouse. However, Instructure has developed this solution in order to allow admins to extract said data from the data warehouse using natural language. This is how an AI generated data is extracted from the data warehouse.
You can also check the SQL as well as the SQL diagram. Parchment Digital Badges is our micro credentialing solution that offers your institution a strong credentialling platform. Each institution can create several issuers within their umbrellas. Each issuer will have a compilation of their own badges as well as pathways which is an amazing feature that allows issuers to create guided learning experiences for their students. Instructure has been on top of their game when it comes to global edtech standards. We would love to hear from you and talk about how we, together, can impact the education space in Hong Kong.
He is anticipating a message from his professor as his finals is due in a few weeks. His group is scrambling to get a consultation with him. Thankfully, his professor sets up a schedule for consultation. He also noticed that the message was sent in both English and Chinese to accommodate both local and international students. He rushes back dashboard, knowing that he has a lot of assignments due in the coming days.
As you can see on the right side of his screen, it's flooded by deadlines. As he enters his course in Creative Engineering, he is greeted by an announcement from his Dear students, final season is upon us. Oh no. Stephen, upon realising the finals is near, he decides to proceed to his modules and complete his missing requirements. Upon seeing how much he has not yet fulfilled, he decides to start with the initial video quiz.
This quiz was given three weeks ago using Canvas Studio. As he starts his video quiz on Sloths by David Attenborough, he turns on his closed captioning just so he can understand the video a bit better. As he answers the first question, he realises that he has a lot more to accomplish. He then proceeds to his discussion board. His teacher uses discussion boards in order to engage both Stephen and his classmates.
This helps them talk to each other even in a digital setting. Stephen loves this feature a lot. The first thing he does as he enters is he enables translations so that he understands his classmates' responses better. As he scrolls through the different responses, he sees that he has already submitted this. Phew! Less work needs to be done.
He then sees Kevin Anderson's response which he decides to reply on. As he goes through the responses, his procrastination habit kicks in. Stephen decides to check his overall progress in Parchment digital badges. Micro credentialing serves as his professor's way of promoting healthy competition. Upon seeing the badges he has earned, he realized that he has been lagging behind.
He has only completed one out of the seven possible badges. He also checked the progress of his pathways, which is also enrolled based on what badges he has earned throughout his journey. He realises that he's far away from completing anything. To give himself an ease of mind, he enters the leaderboard and checks whether he is in the leaderboard. And lo and behold, he's actually third out of the thirty two learners.
He realizes that he's not that far behind and decides to continue on with his day. Professor Lim has been with the University of Hong Kong for the past ten years. AI has taken over the education space, but he still has some reservations about it. Thankfully, Canvas has been providing reliable AI solutions, which makes his job a lot easier. The first thing he does for any workday is to check his to do list, which has all the assignments he has to go through.
He then checks his calendar, which is also integrated in his work calendar to see any upcoming deadlines. Upon seeing that everything he assigned three weeks ago is due tomorrow, he knows that his student would have accomplished their tasks by now. Oh brother, your students have not even started their modules. He then proceeds to his creative engineering course modules and upon entering his modules, he reviews the way his content flows. Seems like everything is in order.
He decides to build the quiz for next week. He opens up the quiz builder to create his assessment. He is greeted by the rich content editor. This feature offers a myriad of tools for Professor Lim to use. Third party integration, YouTube videos, cloud based files, you name it.
Everything can be embedded into the text box seamlessly. He decides to give some words of encouragement by posting a super cheesy inspirational quote. He then proceeds to create his questions. Upon looking at the different question types that he can generate in Canvas, he decides to use AI. In choosing AI to generate questions for him, he has to select a source, which Canvas requires for all AI based content to set a baseline of information.
In this case, he will be selecting one of his course materials to actually be used as the base of his questions. Upon generating the quiz questions, he decides not to build the quiz since he realized that since its final seasons, the students must be bombarded with requirements. He decides to go to his first discussion forum instead. In here, the first thing he does is to enable translations. He translates everything to English first just so he can effectively review the submissions.
Seeing that there are a lot of responses already and having no time to go through them one by one, he asks AI to summarise the discussions submitted. He then proceeds to the grade book. He sees that there are a couple of submissions already. From here, he decides to check on Stephen's work. Stephen has been messaging him about checking all his requirements.
He whips out the SpeedGrader and goes through his submission and checks his rubric. Professor Lim is quite busy today, so he decides to have AI do the checking for him. He checks the feedback afterwards. He checks the feedback and seems like everything is in order. He submits the assessment and proceeds to his next task.
Finally, seeing how students are in campus as of the moment, he proceeds to his course analytics to check for student engagement as of late. In the course analytics page, Professor Lim can check course grade, weekly online activity, students, and reports. He checks on the weekly online activity and lo and behold, you can see that not a lot of students have been accessing. This means he has to prompt them in class and remind them to complete all the tasks they have to accomplish within Canvas. Canvas admin provides endless customisability for your Canvas instance.
From modifying the environment structure through sub accounts to changing the language Canvas is in by default. We ensure that all admins can make changes to enhance the learning experience. Outcomes is one of the core functions of the admin page wherein course leaders, school administrators, and department heads can create, modify, and push learning outcomes to the courses within their respective subaccounts. It is here where institutions would want to specify learning outcomes for courses under their umbrella. Using this, the teachers can simply extract these learning outcomes and add it to their own courses.
We also have a built in Apps Hub which showcases different tools used in education. Canvas has partnered with hundreds of edtech developers around the world to enhance the learning experience. These tools can be simply integrated into Canvas with a few simple steps. Our Analytics Hub provides users with robust reporting of their environment's overall health. It includes a filter which allows information to be customised to a minute detail.
Our Analytics Hub provides a general health overview, course usage overview, and student overview. We also have what we call Intelligent Insights, which is an AI data extraction tool. Previously, this workflow involves having to use API calls in order to extract data manually from the data warehouse. However, Instructure has developed this solution in order to allow admins to extract said data from the data warehouse using natural language. This is how an AI generated data is extracted from the data warehouse.
You can also check the SQL as well as the SQL diagram. Parchment Digital Badges is our micro credentialing solution that offers your institution a strong credentialling platform. Each institution can create several issuers within their umbrellas. Each issuer will have a compilation of their own badges as well as pathways which is an amazing feature that allows issuers to create guided learning experiences for their students. Instructure has been on top of their game when it comes to global edtech standards. We would love to hear from you and talk about how we, together, can impact the education space in Hong Kong.
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