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
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
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
Embedding content in Canvas can be an easy way to add more interactive and engaging elements in a course. What is embedding? How do you do it? What kinds of activities and interaction can be embedded in Canvas? Read on to learn more! What is Embedding? A Window to Another Website Embedding is a way…Continue Reading Incredible Embeddables to Expand Course Engagement!
How Can You Encourage Students to Use Help Resources? As you prepare your materials for spring term, consider how you incorporate student resources and what language you use to encourage help-seeking behavior with your students. Taking steps to support awareness of available student resources is especially useful in the remote teaching format. The FCLT’s surveys…Continue Reading Encouraging Help-Seeking Behavior
In today’s post, I will share time-saving tips, tools, and resources to help you organize and build student-friendly courses for the coming spring term, or any term for that matter. 1. Course Prep & Start-of-Term Checklist The Course Prep & Start-of-Term Checklist in our Canvas Faculty Center walks you through the basics of setting up your…Continue Reading Spring Forward: Four Time-Saving Tips for Spring Course Prep
This post includes SPOT Tips from Assistant Distance Learning Coordinator & SPOT Facilitator Catherine McKee. TRUE or FALSE: The best way to create headings in Canvas is by adding formatting to the heading text such as bold, underlining, or typing text in all capital letters. The answer is False! Read on to learn more about…Continue Reading Getting A-HEAD on Headers in Canvas: Tips for Completing SPOT
The FAC’s new FACE! The Faculty Accessibility Center is a Resource Guide to accessibility for Mt. SAC professors. It can be found in Canvas and is set up as an open course for any Mt. SAC employees. If you have never visited the course, you can enroll in the FAC course here or simply visit…Continue Reading Check out the refreshed Faculty Accessibility Center!