This Fall, the College is collaborating with the School of Education to offer “Pop-Up” instructional technology training sessions. Please share this information with any new faculty in your department. Faculty, lecturers, adjuncts, teaching assistants, etc., are invited to drop-in and receive “just in time” assistance needed to jump start your… Continue reading…
Please join us at UNCG for our second annual Canvas Meetup. When: Wednesday, September 18, 2019 Where: UNCG’s Elliott University Center Start Time: 9am Cost: Free This event is designed to provide opportunities for instructors, technologists, LMS administrators, librarians and anyone else using technology for teaching and learning. Sessions will… Continue reading…
Earlier this week, Instructure made changes to the Canvas Grades area that have resulted in some unintended consequences. If you go into your Grades area (the spreadsheet view) and see columns with an “eye” icon with a line through it at the top of the column, this means that the… Continue reading…
In this post, we take a quick look at lightboards, Canvas course start and end dates, and a request for best practices.
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…
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 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…
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…
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…
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…
