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Every holiday season, new gadgets and high-tech gifts are on the shelves, and this year is no exception. Shopping for the tech geek in your life, or shopping for yourself can be hard when you don’t know what’s good and …
Staying up to date with work and your students is always important, especially over long breaks. Whether they allow for improved productivity, or simply let you organize your life better, these apps are the best ones released in 2015. Work …
Turning your PowerPoint presentation into a video has many uses, and is done by exporting the presentation. To do this, open the presentation and click File, then Export. Next, click Create a Video. This process can take quite a while, …
Faculty, would you like to be able to see the letter grade that a percentage is equal to in a course so that it is easier to enter grades into Jayweb? If so, enable a grading scheme in your course. …
Canvas Tip of the Week: Using a Grading Scheme to Show Letter Grades for Total Grades Read more »
At the end of the semester, many faculty engage in conversations with students about what they did or didn’t like about a particular course. This article from Faculty Focus lists some useful questions faculty might want to pose to students …
Faculty, have you ever “lost” annotations in a document you graded while using Firefox? This is an identified bug, but there is a work-around discussed below. When an instructor uses Crocodoc annotations for a supported assignment submission type (primarily Word …
Canvas Tip of the Week: Crocodoc Annotations in Firefox Read more »
Turning off Read mode in Word 2013 can be done easily while in the program. First, click File, then Options. Under the General options, locate Start Up Options at the bottom of the window, and un-check the box next to …
As Thanksgiving approaches, it is a great time to reflect on what is working in our courses. What do you like about Canvas? What features or ways of organizing and doing things in Canvas are you thankful for? Students and …
Canvas Tip of the Week: Why are you thankful for Canvas? Read more »
When students send documents to a campus printer, they are informed of a printing charge through a dialogue box. While each page’s price varies depending on size and color, they are all part of a student’s print quota. Every student …
With final exams approaching, the importance of creating a good test for students is crucial. All faculty have the ability to create tests within their courses in Canvas. Settings for these online quizzes can be customized to allow for a …
In OneNote, you can have a page marked as ‘read’ or ‘unread’ for another person to see. This is useful for letting that person know that you want them to read the page. To do this, simply right-click on the page …
Linking to outside documents in OneNote can be done in much the same way as linking to other OneNote pages or to a website. First, select the text you wish to use and bring up the Link window (CTRL+K or …
Do you plan to record some videos for use in an online or blended class? Are you exploring the ideas of flipped learning? If so, check out this article that details some key characteristics of effective video: http://www.ecampusnews.com/technologies/good-online-video-552/ This article …
While in OneNote, a link to another document or website can be inserted onto a page. This can be done in two ways, both of which bring up the Link menu. Either highlight the text you wish to use for …
When in OneNote, it is possible to have tasks that you flag as important appear in Microsoft Outlook as reminders. This will let you view them while still in your mailbox. To learn how to do this, click this link.