Revisions
2023-06-20 General information updated.
2019-06-04 The language is now English and it has been almost completely rewritten since we're moving to Canvas in the autumn.
2019-04-28  This page will shortly be completely rewritten since we will start using the course room in Canvas, the new learning management system at GU and Chalmers. You login to Canvas with your CID and your usual password at Chalmers canvas regardless if the course is at GU or Chalmers. For the workshop on April 29 some of you will need the following templates to import to your own training course: Chalmers Swedish, Chalmers English, GU Swedish, GU English.

This web page was created in June 2013, initially in Swedish but since May 2019 in English. Significant changes to the page content will be announced here. The revisions before 2019 has been deleted since they are now obsolete.
General
We now use Canvas for our course homepages on Mathematical Sciences. All old course websites can be reached via utb.math.chalmers.se
Canvas
Starting from autumn 2019 both GU and Chalmers change their Learning management system (LMS) to Canvas (from GUL/Pingpong). In conjunction with this, we will from autumn 2019 use Canvas as the platform for the homepage for all courses given by Mathematical sciences. Hence instead of having material both on GUL/Pingpong and on a separate web page, everything will now be on Canvas.

Learning Canvas

The teachers' meeting in spring 2019 was devoted to a workshop on Canvas and there will be a second chance in June 2019 to learn the basics. There are also introductions arranged by Chalmers. The best and most relevant online introduction is the information created by the project group at Chalmers in the form of a course in Canvas. This covers both the basics and some more advanced topics.The more advanced user might also want to consult the information provided by the developers of Canvas.

Support

We have two local LMS-supporters, Thomas Wernstål and Elisabeth Eriksson, who will be able to answer many of the question you might have. There is also central support on Chalmers which can be reached by canvas@chalmers.se.

Getting started

You login with your Chalmers ID and regular password at https://chalmers.instructure.com/, regardless if the course is at Chalmers, GU or joint between the two. Once your logged in you will see all your courses on your Dashboard. Clicking on one of the courses will take you to that course's home page where you can add to and edit the content. We have some information specific to MV collected in this area in Canvas (only accessible after login) including information about linking Canvas with Möbius.

Content in Canvas

Course template

We have a basic template for our courses in Canvas with a Swedish and an English version depending on the language used in the course and with slight variations for GU and Chalmers. This template contains two pages. The starting page holds the program of the course and a second page contains the course-PM. This has been designed to conform with the rules at GU and Chalmers regarding necessary information to the students. You should not delete (or move) any of the sections except those which are not relevant to the course. In particular, on the course-PM the only section that could be deleted is "Old exams".

The first time the course is given in Canvas, the examiner is expected to populate the template with all the information from scratch and/or copy selected information from previous home pages. Make sure that none of the text in the template is replaced (except of course text that is only explanatory to the examiner), since some of this information has been updated since last year. For future instances of the course, last year's page will be copied so you can start editing from that. Note that nothing will be visible to the outside world until you publish the page, so you can edit it without worrying about the content not being up to date.

Necessary content

The page should be published no later than two weeks before the course starts. After the course has started nothing in the course-PM should be changed except for correcting mistakes. The following list contains everything that is necessary to include and there is a dedicated place in the template for every item:

Note that the information must conform to the course syllabus. You decide for yourself, and to what extent, you want to put old exams, with or without solutions, on the course page. Pages for courses given in English must be written in English, no Swedish version is needed. For courses given in Swedish, no English version is needed.

Public content

All information about the course in Canvas should be public and visible to everyone. This is set by default and you're not allowed to change this. This does not include information about people in the course, results on tests, groups, or messages and other interactive content which is always hidden. If you visit a course without logging in you'll see what it looks for people not involved in the course. If you have copyrighted material or other documents that you only want the students and teachers to access, then you can hide these files and share a link to them with the participants (see the documentation on Canvas or ask a Canvas supporter).

Joint courses between GU and Chalmers
Joint courses between Chalmers and GU will have only one homepage and it will be placed on the Chalmers server. However, students studying the GU version of the course will login to the GU server in the same way as it does for regular GU courses.