Changes Coming to Turnitin

As you may know, Turnitin is the plagiarism detection tool integrated within Canvas. The new integration provides greater control over assignment settings and allows access to Feedback Studio. The old Turnitin integration will be disabled on August 10, 2016. At this point, your Turnitin assignments should continue to accept student… Continue reading…

Cloud File Storage Options at UNCG

UNCG offers three different cloud storage options for your files: Google Drive, Box, and Microsoft OneDrive. It can be confusing trying to decide which service to use, so here are brief descriptions of each service. Google Drive   Google Drive is the file storage solution that comes with the Google… Continue reading…

Digital ACT Studio and Digital Media Commons

Today’s post is about two technology-related resources located in the Library- the Digital Act Studio and the Digital Media Commons (DMC). They are sister centers to the Speaking and Writing Centers, and both are located in the lower level of Jackson Library. The Digital ACT Studio assists faculty, staff, and… Continue reading…

Campus Pack for Canvas

Campus Pack is a suite of tools that integrates with Canvas. Campus Pack provides blogs, wikis, journals, and a robust ePortfolio tool. We only have access to test Campus Pack through March 25, so there isn’t time to incorporate the tools into a live course, but if you would like… Continue reading…

Spring Workshops Scheduled

I’ve scheduled a selection of workshops for the Spring semester. As we come to the end of the main push to migrate to Canvas, I hope to add more variety of topics, so please email me if you have requests. Campus Pack ITS is considering adopting Campus Pack, which is… Continue reading…

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ArtStor Digital Library: A Brief Overview

UNCG faculty, staff, and students have access to ArtStor, a nonprofit digital library with database of “over 1.6 million digital images in the arts, architecture, humanities, and sciences with an accessible suite of software tools for teaching and research.” Images are collected from a variety of resources, such as  museums,… Continue reading…

Canvas: An Overview of Modules

Below is a link to a helpful article posted by the Canvas administrators. The article provides a brief overview of Modules in Canvas, including what kind of content you can add to a module, how to define completion criteria for modules (requirements), and controlling flow with Modules (prerequisites). Here is… Continue reading…

Microsoft: PowerPoint Compared to Sway

Both PowerPoint and Sway are presentation software. All UNCG faculty and staff can access both PowerPoint and Sway through UNCG’s license for Office 365. The link to access Office 365 is located here: https://portal.office.com/Home You can use the Office tools online, or download them for whatever device you are using…. Continue reading…

Canvas: How to Excuse an Assignment

Sometimes, instructors want to excuse a student from an individual assignment. You can excuse a student from an assignment, graded discussion, or quiz. You can also excuse a student from a group assignment. Excused assignments are not calculated as part of a student’s total grade. When an assignment is excused,… Continue reading…

Canvas: New Dashboard User Interface Coming

On December 11th, ITS plans to turn on the new user interface for the dashboard area of Canvas. The dashboard is the main landing page that appears immediately after you log into Canvas. This is the only page that will be affected- the appearance of courses themselves should remain the… Continue reading…