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Enhance Canvas Course Sites and Engage Students with Visual Aids
The migration from in-person classes to online teaching has had a significant impact on faculty and students. It has transformed the way faculty teach and students learn in many ways. In my experience, one of the biggest challenges for faculty is how to keep students...
A Tale of Two Online Quizzing Tools: Choosing between Canvas Quizzes and Gradescope Online Assignments
Online quizzes can be a good way to help students assess their learning. Faculty and instructors can now choose from two different options--Canvas Quizzes and Gradescope’s online quizzing tool, which the company calls “Online Assignments”. Though their functions and...
Training Offerings for Spring Quarter Week 5
There are many training options for you to choose from in Week 5 of Spring Quarter. You can learn about Canvas, Zoom, Panopto, and how to create effective video assignments. Tuesday, April 27 11:00 A.M. - 12:30 P.M. Using Panopto for Remote and Hybrid Teaching: This...
Social Annotation and the Pedagogy of Hypothes.is
“Social Annotation: Tools for Teaching Reading” was a collaboration between Remote Humanities and Academic Technology Solutions. For more on this event, see “Reflections in Online Pedagogy: Social Annotation Panel Recap” on the Remote Humanities blog. During the...
Digital Pedagogy Events for March 1-5, 2021
The week of March 1-5 will feature numerous events on topics in digital pedagogy. Come to learn more about Zoom, Panopto, the social annotation tool Hypothes.is, and the classroom polling tool Poll Everywhere. All workshops and discussions will be held online via...
Digital Pedagogy Events for March 1-5, 2021
The week of March 1-5 will feature numerous events on topics in digital pedagogy. Come to learn more about Zoom, Panopto, the social annotation tool Hypothes.is, and the classroom polling tool Poll Everywhere. All workshops and discussions will be held online via...
Make Your Canvas Site More Accessible!
In this new digital world we live in, online courses can become very confusing. However, if faculty keep accessible design in mind everyone from students to staff can benefit. This article will show you how you can use the Canvas Accessibility Checker to ensure your...
Update to Student View Button in Canvas
In an attempt to make Student View more readily available to faculty and instructors, Canvas has changed the look and location of the Student View button. The button is now a small rectangle with a pair of eyeglasses; the explanatory “Student View” label has been...
Panopto Desktop App Incompatibility with Newest Apple Computers
Update: This issue has now been resolved. - 6/14/2021 The Issue and Cause If you are using the latest Apple Mac computers equipped with the latest Apple M1 CPU chip–these include MacBook Air (2020), MacBook Pro 13″ (2020), and Mac Mini (2020)–you are likely to be...
Panopto Desktop App Incompatibility with Newest Apple Computers
Update: This issue has now been resolved. -- 6/14/2021 The Issue and Cause If you are using the latest Apple Mac computers equipped with the latest Apple M1 CPU chip--these include MacBook Air (2020), MacBook Pro 13" (2020), and Mac Mini (2020)--you are likely to be...