Overview
Padlet enhances your Canvas course with interactive boards for collaboration and creativity. Students engage in discussions, share media-rich responses, and effortlessly navigate posts and comments without added complexity.
What can I do with Padlet?
- Integrate beautiful boards, timelines and maps with Canvas that are fun to contribute to.
- Students can types their responses, or use the built-in audio or video recorder.
- Participants can add content, comment, like and make edits in real-time.
- Add photos documents, web links, video, and music to make the text come alive.
- Project in your classroom and watch your students responses fill the screen.
How do I get started with Padlet?
Faculty & Staff
Once an instructor accesses the Padlet menu via Canvas Assignments, an account is automatically created for them with access to all of Padlet's tools and features.
Students
Students who click a Padlet link in Canvas will automatically have an account created for them. Students also have access to all of the tools and features of Padlet while attending UTSA.
How do I connect a Padlet to a Canvas Assignment?
In an Assignment
1. In your course go to Assignment on navigation bar
2. Then select + Assignments
3. In the Assignment's edit section add your points and change the "Submission Type" to External Tool
4. Click Find
5. Scroll down on the "Configure External Tool" window until you see Padlet and click the magnify glass.
6. Select the Padlet you want to post and then click select.
7. Click "Save & Publish" or "Save". The Padlet is linked within the assignment.
What are the privacy settings available in Padlet?
Privacy settings are categorized into 3 different options.
Secret: The Padlet is only accessible to the creator of the Padlet and any user who has the link. The link will be hidden from Google and public areas of Padlet. To share Secret Padlets with others, the owner must invite them through the Share menu.
Secret - Password: The Padlet is password protected. The Padlet is not searchable, and you need the link to the Padlet and the password to access it.
Secret - Log in: Anyone with the link can access the Padlet, but they must be logged into their Padlet account. Aside from this extra layer of security, comments and posts will display their author's names when this feature is enabled.
How do I share a Padlet with other faculty?
Click on the share icon in the top right-hand corner of the Padlet.
Select the faculty's permissions
No access: This will only allow the creator of the Padlet access. If anyone should need access to your Padlet or you would like a select few people to interact on the Padlet, these users will not be permitted unless you invite them as a collaborator.
Reader: If the permission is set to Reader, visitors can read others' posts, comment and add reactions (if these options are enabled). Readers will not be allowed to create new posts.
Writer: With Writer permissions enabled, users can do everything a Reader can do but they can also make new posts.
Moderator: Moderators can do everything a Reader and Writer can do with the added benefit of editing capabilities. This means they can change things such as wallpaper, format, title, etc. Approving and rejecting posts are another advantage of Moderator permissions.
Admin: Once a user is added as a collaborator you can give them their own special Visitor permissions from the dropdown menu. All of the permissions are the same as listed in this article except for one additional permission: Admin.
Admins have the same editing permissions as the owner/creator of the Padlet - including inviting other collaborators and the capability to delete the Padlet.
Enter the email of the faculty in Add a Collaborator.
How do I embed a Padlet on a page?
In Modules select the + icon on module section you would like the Padlet to appear on.
A new window will pop-up.
1. In the Add drop-down select External Tool.
2. Then Scroll to find the Padlet link. Click on link.
3. A new window will appear. Select the Padlet you would like to add to the page.
4. You will see the previous window.
5. Select Add item.
6. You will then see the Padlet link in your module and it will be embedded on a page.
7. This option is suggested only after creating a Introduction Padlet.
How do I create an Introduction Padlet?
1. On the left side navigation panel go to assignments.
2. Click on the +Assignment button
3. Name your Padlet
4. Set point value
5. Set submission Type to external tool
6. Click Find
7. In pop up window locate Padlet the click
8. Select your Introduction Padlet
9. Click select
10. Click Save or if ready to release Save and Publish
Resources
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Support
For support, email [email protected], call 210-458-4520, or book a consultation with our TLDT experts.