They did it! They really did it! This week’s blog post is going to be short and sweet, seeing that it is going out on the first day of the Spring 2021 semester and our audience is undoubtedly busy with many fun and exciting start-of-term things. And for this very reason, we considered not making…Continue Reading Otter Streams Captions in Live Zoom Sessions
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!
Changes to Canvas Help Beginning January 1st 2021 Canvas changed their technical support model for colleges. The biggest change: Canvas removed phone-based technical support for students and replaced it with a 24/7 live chat option. Professors continue to have Canvas phone support and now have a live chat option as well. For a few…Continue Reading New Year, New Canvas Help Options!
On Saturday, January 16, 2021, Canvas will make their new Rich Content Editor (RCE) the default and only editor for all Canvas users! You may recall using the new RCE in Mt. SAC Canvas last winter, but due to issues with adding images, we reverted back to the old RCE. Canvas has since resolved the…Continue Reading R-C-E-p-e-c-t: Find Out What It Means to You
The FCLT and our wonderful friends over at IT are very excited to announce some big and exciting changes coming to Zoom inside of Canvas for the Winter 2021 term. In fact, the changes occurred earlier this week (FYI, for those teaching non-credit or prepping their courses for winter)! I will try and keep this…Continue Reading From ConferZoom to TechConnect Zoom: What you Need to Know!
Tips for Using the Canvas Gradebook As the term comes to an end, this post offers a few reminders and tips for using the Canvas grading tools to support you and represent information correctly to students. Final grades are not submitted via Canvas. Professors must hand in Grades using Banner/the portal. Viewing and Entering Grades…Continue Reading The Canvas Finish Line: Grading Tips for the End of Term
Have you heard of the Canvas Commons? Have you used it? If not, you will want to after reading this post! What is the Canvas Commons? It’s a free faulty and Canvas admin resource (students do not have access) that is chock full of content shared by Canvas users for others to use, including assignments,…Continue Reading The Canvas Commons: Anything but Common