If your students submitted their assignment online in Canvas, you can use SpeedGrader to add inline feedback to the document as well as general comments.

Tutorial: How to use SpeedGrader

Further ideas

Further easily implementable ideas about communicating with students may be found in the Time Savers section of the TLC Canvas page. Some of these directly refer or are applicable to online communication.

Skype

A special note on Skype for Business (S4B): Although employees have a Skype for Business account from the UvA (linked to outlook), students do not. For this reason we advise against using S4B to communicate with students, because communicating with external (non-UvA Skype) users is impossible.

Advanced

Private meetings using Zoom (in Canvas)

Zoom (Links to an external site.) is a professional conferencing tool that can also be used for teaching. A Zoom business account is now available for UvA employees. You can start Zoom conferences from within Canvas . Zoom is perfect for live lectures for up to 100 students.

We have a great step by step guide on Using Zoom-in-Canvas for Teaching , explaining how to download and install Zoom, how to start Zoom conferences from you Canvas course, and how to use it to host your tutorials.

Check out the instruction video made by UvA teacher Fam te Poel

And also her video on how to schedule a meeting

BigBlueButton

The web conferencing tool Big Blue button, available via Canvas Conferences, is very appropriate for replacing face to face supervision. It offers conference call functionality similar to Skype, Google Hangouts, or Zoom while being GDPR-compliant.

Tutorial: Setting up Conferences

Appointment groups

Let students reserve a time slot. This can be used in combination with BigBlueButton or the Canvas Chat function

Tutorial: Set up appointment groups