Division of Academic Innovation
September 30, 2024
Design Tools Is Now DesignPLUS!聽 聽Design Tools has upgraded to Design Plus! Design Plus provides users with a streamlined and intuitive experience to create courses with the learner in mind.聽聽 聽How do I switch from Design Tools to Design Plus?聽 As of July 1st, DesignPLUS will be the default option in Canvas courses. If necessary,…
September 30, 2024
Navigating the Canvas Dashboard聽 With the new semester underway, this week鈥檚 Canvas Tips and Tricks provides a refresher on navigating the Canvas Dashboard.聽 Students:聽聽 Only published courses will show on your dashboard. Unpublished courses will be listed under聽Courses icon > All Courses in the Global Navigation. Once published the course will automatically move to your…
September 16, 2024
Respondus Lockdown Browser and Monitor聽 Several updates have been made to Respondus Monitor this year. If you use Monitor, we suggest that you reference the New Features Rollup for Respondus Monitor article, which discusses the following updates:聽 Sensitivity levels in Respondus Monitor聽 Why Respondus does their聽own machine learning聽 Enhanced flagging for Respondus Monitor聽 Respondus Monitor…
September 9, 2024
Have you reviewed your Canvas settings? Below are the most common settings edited by users:聽 Profile picture: Click on the account icon at the top of the Canvas global navigation. In the window that opens, click on settings. Click on the account icon and navigate to the location of the desired image. Adjust the image…
August 29, 2024
Welcome to the new year of Canvas Tips and Tricks! Canvas has introduced an enhanced Discussions feature designed to foster more engaging and interactive conversations in your courses. This update offers streamlined tools for creating, managing, and participating in discussions, making it easier to track conversations and collaborate with peers. With improved organization and accessibility,…
June 24, 2024
Design Tools Is Now DesignPLUS!聽 Design Tools has upgraded to Design Plus! Design Plus provides users with a streamlined and intuitive experience to create courses with the learner in mind.聽聽 聽How do I switch from Design Tools to Design Plus?聽 As of July 1st, DesignPLUS will be the default option in Canvas courses.聽 How do…
June 10, 2024
Canvas Files聽 聽This week鈥檚 post provides a few tips and tricks for using Files in your Canvas course.聽聽 Organizing files: Did you know that you can create folders to organize your files? It鈥檚 easy! Click on Files in the Course Navigation then click the 鈥�+Folder鈥� in the upper right corner.聽 File types: Any type of…
May 20, 2024
New Discussions in Canvas聽 Canvas discussions have been updated to provide improved functionality for faculty! Here are some of the new features now available through Canvas discussions:聽 Edit 鈥� To edit a discussion, click the three vertical dots on the upper right聽 Reply 鈥� The Reply button is now a colored button providing additional ease-of-use…
April 22, 2024
Auto Play Canvas Media Captions聽 If you use closed captioning on media in any Canvas course, there is now a setting that will auto-play closed captioning throughout your course (when captions are available). This eliminates the need to turn on closed captioning on each individual video. It is easy to turn on! Simply go to…
April 8, 2024
Media Quick Start The Division of Academic Innovation provides multiple options for video creation. After reviewing the information below, contact canvas@unthsc@edu for additional assistance. DIY Office Options聽 Canvas Studio聽 The Canvas Studio tool is now available to all HSC Canvas users. Canvas Studio provides video recording and storage all within the Canvas LMS. In addition,…
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