If you’ve already added West Academic to your navigation bar, logged in, and configured your class, you are ready to assign content. Use the below steps to assign your casebook, recommended or required study aids and supplements, and/or quizzes.
1. Start by clicking “assignments” in your Canvas navigation bar and creating a new assignment. The three types of content you may assign using the West Academic tool are:
- Casebook Content
- Supplement Content
- Quizzing
2. To assign reading from a Casebook or from a supplement, start with a new assignment and click ‘tools’ then select "apps" and then “view all”
3. Select West Academic by scrolling or searching for it.
4. Select either “Course Materials & Quizzes” (to provide a link to your casebook) or “Study Aids Collection” (to provide a link to a West Academic study aid or supplement from the West Academic Study Aids collection)
To add casebook to assignment:
- Click on Go to My Bookshelf under “Course Materials & Quizzes”
- Select casebook then “add” to create a direct link to the casebook. You must tell them what the assigned chapter is because this link will go to the resources but not a specific page or chapter therein.
To add a Study Aid to the assignment:
- Click “Go to Study Aids” under “Study Aids Collection”
- Click on the blue arrow to the left of each filtering option to browse for resources by subject, content type, or series.
To add quizzing to an assignment:
- DO NOT start from “Tools” to assign quizzes. Instead, in your create an assignment form, scroll down to “submission type” and select “external tool”
- Click “find” then select West Academic from the list.
- Click “save” and you’ll see the below image –
- Select “go to my bookshelf” then “go to quizzes” and you may preview or add quizzes to the assignment.
What does this look like from the student point of view?
Because the West Academic app is connected directly to each student's own bookshelf, when an instructor clicks on "student view" in Canvas to view the quizzes they appear unavailable. This article from FIU Online provides screenshots of what the quizzing interface looks like from a student perspective in Canvas.