How do I use Gateway as an instructor in my Canvas course?

How do I use Gateway as an instructor in my Canvas course?

 

Navigate to your course page in Canvas.

Select the module in which you would like to add your lab assignment and then click the "+" button.

 

Under the "Add" dropdown, select External Tool.

Select the tool for Carolina. It should be called "Carolina Science Online" or something similar. If you cannot find the tool, contact your LMS admin.

Select the Lab Manual you wish to add. Any Virtual and Dry labs will be found in the “Virtual and dry lab library”. The lab safety and Intro to graphing labs are found under “ Introductory materials”.

Click "CREATE ASSIGNMENT"

Enter a title in the "Title" field. Note the title of the Lab Manual will be added to the end of whatever title you give the lab.

Enter a Description in the "Description" field. These will show up to students as instructions when they open their lab. It is recommended you include information on how you want students to submit their lab notebook and how it will be graded.

You can select whether you would like the lab to create a column in the gradebook:

a. This column is a manual entry and will accept a score entered into it from the Gateway or Carolina Science Online teacher portal. This score can be used as the lab notebook score if you would like to grade within the Gateway Instructor portal, or as the pre-lab score if you would like to grade the PDF of the lab notebook within Canvas. The pre-lab score will be 100% for all students who complete it. In either case, the grade will need to be entered by the instructor. No grade will be auto-generated. If this case, you must select a number of points.

b. Please note, if you want to grade the PDF of the lab notebook in Canvas instead, you will need to set up a separate assignment that can accept file submissions.

c. If you do not wish for this assignment to create a column in the gradebook (only assigning a grade for the PDF lab notebook), check the box to not include in the gradebook.

 

Click "CREATE ASSIGNMENT"

Click "Load in a new tab"

Click "Add Item"

Click on the symbol below to publish the assignment and make it visible to students.

Click "Lab 1 - Determination of Water Hardness Lab Manual"

 

Click the grey box to launch the lab. When you open the lab as an instructor, you will be taken to the assignment page in the instructor portal. When a student clicks this link, they will be taken directly to the assignment.

An instructor can also access the student version of Gateway with this link when "viewing as a student" in Canvas. However, in the regular Instructor view they will link to a teacher dashboard instead.

Overview videos,

Knowledge Check Questions,

Experimental Design Diagrams,

and a Pre-lab Assessment.

In order for a student to access the Procedure and Lab Notebook pages, and perform the experiment, they must answer all Pre-lab questions correctly, they have an unlimited number of attempts to do so.

In order for students to submit their PDF, they will need to click "Print" on the final page of their lab notebook. This will allow them to save the notebook as a PDF. Students can then submit this PDF to an assignment you have created in Canvas.

If at any point students need to leave the lab and come back to it, they can click the "SAVE & CLOSE" button.

In the teacher portal, you will be able to view your student's progress. Please note that your students will not be pre-populated into the portal. They will only be added to the assignment once they have first accessed the lab.

In this portal, you will be able to see whether the student has submitted the lab.

their score on the pre-lab,

 

the time spent in the lab to this point,

whether the assignment has been graded in the portal

and how much of the lab they have visited. In order to view the specific student's version of the lab, click this percentage under R1.

If you want to grade in the portal, you will need to click the "Lab Notebook" and open the student's lab notebook to grade their score.

You will be able to view what the student has entered in their lab notebook and grade using your answer key.

In order to grade the lab in the platform, students must submit the lab. You can also "Close the lab for grading" in order to force submit all of the labs for all students.

Once a lab is submitted, you can click "GRADE" and enter a score. This score will pass-back into your gradebook if you have enabled grading. This score can be for either the pre-lab or the lab notebook depending on how you set up your course.

To grade the lab notebook in Canvas, you will need to create an assignment for students to upload their PDF lab notebook to.

This assignment will need to be set up to allow "File Uploads."

The assignment can then be graded using Canvas "SpeedGrader".

And all of the tools such as Rubrics and comments will be available to help you grade the assignment.

To open the answer key in the portal, click the home button.

Then select the name of the assignment you wish to grade.

Select the "Instructor Key" to open it.

From here you can view the answers to the Knowledge check question, pre-lab assessment and

And lab notebook. You can also skip straight to the procedure without having to answer the questions.

Please reach out to your Carolina Distance Learning Team with any questions.