Learn what Canvas tool integrations are changing. Offer feedback from last year and express your preferences for next year in the FCLT survey. As classes wind down in this unprecedented pandemic year of remote teaching, the FCLT is still on duty, taking stock and starting our prep for the year ahead. For the purposes of…Continue Reading The Tool Line-Up for Fall 2021 (& FCLT Faculty Survey)
With finals just around the corner, I’d like to shamelessly plug our faculty survey (hehe) and point out two pages in our Canvas Faculty Center with helpful information for ending the current term and starting an upcoming term. You’ve probably noticed the Canvas announcement on your dashboard about our faculty survey. We’d love to know…Continue Reading One Term Ends, Another Begins
If you are a techie like me then you probably get very excited about software updates. Software updates can be beneficial for both fixing bugs and for improving functionality on the respective product they are intended for. Do you use a smartphone such as an iPhone? Then you are probably familiar with software updates! In…Continue Reading New Blog Series: Canvas Insider!
What is TidyUP? TidyUP is a content cleanup tool for Canvas courses that is a part of the Cidi Labs tools. It provides a quick way to view all of the content in your course and clean out anything that is no longer needed. Now you can identify and delete extra or unused files, folders,…Continue Reading Spring Clean your Canvas courses with TidyUP
Are you teaching an online asynchronous course? Do you want to add a video-based humanizing element to your course? Have you been wanting to try Flip? If you answered yes to any of these questions, then this post is for you! What is Flip? In case you haven’t heard of Flip (formerly Flipgrid), it is…Continue Reading Flip It, Flip It Good! Humanize with Flip
SPOT: Frequently Asked Questions This is a guest post from Assistant Distance Learning Coordinator and SPOT Facilitator, Catherine McKee. This post is for the many professors currently working to finish SPOT, otherwise known as Skills and Pedagogy for Online Teaching, the certification required to teach online courses beginning in Fall 2021. FOMAR is no longer…Continue Reading SPOT FAQ
Hosting Zoom Recordings on Platforms We now have quite a collection of video tools that can host Zoom video content. These all involve a few steps but are pretty easy to accomplish. Which one you use may depend on a few factors: which tool you prefer, how you want to manage captions, and what you…Continue Reading Storing and Sharing Zoom Recordings Long-term
Do you record sessions in Zoom that you want to share with your class? Perhaps you are already sharing Zoom recordings, but you are curious if there’s a better or right way to do it, or you just want to know your options. You are in luck! This week’s post describes how to manage…Continue Reading Sharing Zoom Recordings with your Class
Have you ever wondered how to set accommodations for a student on a Canvas quiz? Good news! That’s what today’s post is about. Whether you’re using Classic Quizzes or New Quizzes in Canvas, you can use the Moderate option to give students extra time and/or extra attempts on a quiz. You’ll want to know how…Continue Reading Moderate to Accommodate: Setting Accommodations on a Canvas Quiz
This post is from Assistant Distance Learning Coordinator, Catherine McKee Before March 2020, SPOT (Skills and Pedagogy for Online Teaching) was Mt. SAC’s required certification program for faculty teaching online (including hybrid courses). Then COVID hit and the college transitioned to Temporary Remote Instruction (TRI) and allowed non-SPOT-certified faculty to teach online if they completed…Continue Reading Connecting the Dots on SPOT: Prepping to Teach Online in Fall 2021