Canvas Tip of the Week: Due Dates
Managing Due Dates in Canvas So, you want to assign due dates, but you’ve chosen not to because it becomes a challenge to continually update them for each class? Worry no more! In Canvas, if you set dates in your …
Managing Due Dates in Canvas So, you want to assign due dates, but you’ve chosen not to because it becomes a challenge to continually update them for each class? Worry no more! In Canvas, if you set dates in your …
Symbols such as hearts, arrows, diamonds, triangles such as ♥ → ♦ Δ or diacritical marks such as Ᾱ may be easily inserted in Word on a PC or Mac. The symbol is inserted at the cursor in a line of text and acts …
15 minute Webinar from Microsoft Office Blogs Presented by Doug Thomas, August 19, 2013 “Yes, you can format headlines with different fonts, but using Styles allows you to do so much more. In this week’s webinar, you’ll learn the benefits …
This year, we have three of our ITS student workers who are graduating. Want to know more about them and what they will be doing after graduation? Need a break from studying or grading? Check out this fun video that …
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Sending Announcements Versus Emails Announcements on Canvas are a great way to virtually communicate with your whole class. Canvas allows users to reply to any announcements that are sent, so you may want to consider using Announcements for all course-related communication and save …
16 Minute Webinar from Microsoft Office Blogs Presented by Doug Thomas “If you give presentations, you need to know about the tool in PowerPoint that offers you a second screen to give you more control over your talk. In this …
Elizabethtown College is proud to announce the graduation of three of the most beloved and well-known students on campus, Bb Fake Student 1, 2, and 3. Attending classes completely online certainly was a challenge for these plucky undergrads but they …
Commonly known but often ignored, electronic screens before bed time have a negative impact on your health. However, that “one more episode,” which turns into three, could be slowly killing you. Light-emitting screens can be electronic boogeymen by keeping you …
Before You Leave Now that finals week is upon us, it’s a good time to change your account password on the school network. Why? Because you’ll have enough time to get used to the new password before summer hits and …
Keeping track of a budget by department or ledger number using Excel? And you want to put each department or ledger category on separate worksheets? Now how do you add up all that information by department on a summary sheet? …
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Understanding the Value of Course Analytics Once you log into Canvas, be sure to check out the Course Analytics page to monitor student activity and see what your students have been up to. On this page, you can easily see who in each of your classes has …
If you have many rows of data and then have to summarize by, for example, department and date, Excel makes it very easy with PivotTables. PivotTables leaves the source data alone and creates the formulas for you. So experiment to …
15 Minute Webinar from Microsoft Office Blogs “Did you know that you can drag any email into your calendar to make an appointment? Or you can just ignore pesky emails? You will if you watch this Office 15-Minute Webinar.” “Need a sneak …
Microsoft programs (Word and Outlook) have a great feature called Quick Parts. Quick Parts makes your frequently used text, images, signature blocks and tables easy to find and insert. For example, you insert the Etown logo a lot but it’s …
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The process of updating all software for the upcoming school year has begun. For the 2015-2016 year, new updates have already been released or will be released in the near future in computer labs throughout campus. It’s important to know …