Best Practices, Lightboards, and More
In this post, we take a quick look at lightboards, Canvas course start and end dates, and a request for best practices.
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Instructional Technology Resources
As Spring semester begins, I wanted to take the opportunity to remind you of some of the instructional technology resources available on the College’s ITC website, in particular if you are still new to teaching online. The Canvas support documentation can be accessed at: https://casitc.uncg.edu/canvas/. Under the “Getting Started” category, there are… Continue reading…
Welcome back… and a new tech tool!
Announcements: Quality Matters Workshop Invitation You are invited to participate in the “Applying the Quality Matters Rubric” face-to-face, 1-day workshop at UNCG, which will be taught by certified Quality Matters instructor Dr. Racheal Brooks of NCCU. The Division of Online Learning is hosting the workshop on September 28 from 9am-4pm in Bryan 209; there… Continue reading…
UNCG Hosting N.C. Canvas Meeting
UNCG is hosting a NC Canvas Meeting for anyone interested in learning more about using Canvas or migrating to Canvas. The meeting will be held on Thursday, July 12th from 8:30am-4pm. This is a free meeting, with lunch provided. Sessions are performed by instructional technologists and librarians from all over the… Continue reading…
Audio/Video Captioning Request Form
Background As per ADA and Section 504 regulations, video and audio files used in UNCG courses must be accessible and closed captioned when needed to accommodate deaf and hard-of-hearing individuals. To assist academic units to address this, Provost Dunn has allocated funds to enable UNCG Online to work with departments… Continue reading…
Peer Reviews in Canvas
Announcements Box: Please be aware that there is currently an issue with eReserves. eReserves are loaded into Canvas through a Box embed widget. Users are reporting that the embed widget (and therefore the eReserves) are not loading in Canvas. If you or your students are unable to see the eReserves… Continue reading…
Two Important Changes in Canvas
Preferred Name Update If you have designated a preferred name in UNCGenie, that name will now appear everywhere names are displayed in Canvas. This change makes Canvas consistent with the other services that use preferred names (e.g. Google, Box, WebEx). In particular for students, in the past, their legal names… Continue reading…
Canvas: New Grade Center
Canvas has introduced a new grade center interface with some helpful new features. The new grade center keeps the tools from the old grade center view (such as import/export, filtering, and arranging column order), but makes the menus more intuitive and also adds two useful new features related to missing… Continue reading…
Create Interactive Timelines
Interactive timelines can be a great way to present a lot of individual facts and data in a visual, unified way that can help students make connections to larger themes and movements. Timelines can help in the understanding of chronology, cause and effect, and how events in different areas overlap… Continue reading…
Tips for Managing Large Enrollment Classes
Syllabus Quiz Write an FAQ into your syllabus with answers to commonly asked questions. Then create a syllabus quiz to reduce beginning of semester emails. You can also create an “Ask the Instructor” discussion board where students can post course-related questions. You can then encourage students to answer each other’s… Continue reading…