What to do this week in Canvas (January 20-26, 2020) Spring 2020 Early Adopters
This is part 3 of a 4-week series on how to get your course ready in Canvas Week 1 Week 2 Dear Canvas Early Adopters, Spring 2020 is only 2 weeks away! In the first week, we explored training opportunities, uploaded a profile picture, uploaded a syllabus to the Syllabus tab and uploaded files. In
What to do this week in Canvas (January 13-19, 2020) Spring 2020 Early Adopters
Did you miss last week’s list? What to do in Canvas January 6-12, 2020 Dear Canvas Early Adopters, Spring 2020 is only 3 weeks away! Last week we explored training opportunities, uploaded a profile picture, uploaded a syllabus to the Syllabus tab and uploaded files. See the link above to see last week’s post. Here
Attend the January Conference on Teaching Via Zoom The campus community is invited to attend JanCon via Zoom
While registration is closed for the January Conference on Teaching, if you are a member of the campus community, you are welcome to attend certain sessions via Zoom. The following sessions will be available via a Zoom web conferencing link on the date and times below: Friday, January 24, 2020 OPENING KEYNOTE TALK | 9:00
Teaching Math in Canvas Duy Tran
An interview with professor Duy Tran on teaching math in Canvas What did you teach in Canvas? I was one of the instructors who piloted Canvas before the decision was made to go to Canvas. I taught during Interterm 2019, Spring 2019, and Summer 2019. The courses I built out were Math 109 (Business Calculus)
What to do this week in Canvas (January 6-12, 2020) Spring 2020 Early Adopters
Dear Spring 2020 Early Adopters, Spring session is 4 weeks away. Some of you have already been attending training sessions on Canvas and started building out your courses. Bravo! If you haven’t gotten started yet, get out that calendar! Here are some ideas of what to do this week to prepare and start building your
Add a user to your Canvas course
Do you need to add a co-instructor, Course Designer, or Guest to your Canvas course? Faculty do not have the ability to add users to a Canvas course. All faculty and students who are in a course in PeopleSoft are automatically added to courses in Canvas. Any other user needs to be added manually. When
Merge your courses in Canvas
Why Merge Courses? If you teach multiple sections of the same course and want to manage them all together, this is for you. If you like the idea of sending instructions, deploying tests, or posting content one time instead of the same thing multiple times, this is for you. In Canvas, each “course” contains a “section” of
Blackboard Drop-in Office Hours and Support
Hello! My name is Elena Marusak, and I am a new member of the Educational Technology Services team. I am an Instructional Technologist working in the Tech Hub (DeMille 104), and I am very excited to support faculty and the campus community in their use of Blackboard Learn and other instructional technologies. I will be
Last minute guide to getting your Blackboard course in order
All courses for Interterm 2020 are being taught on Blackboard. Canvas will not be supported until Spring 2020. If you haven’t prepared your Blackboard Learn course yet for Interterm 2020, the time is now upon us! Here is a checklist to get you started. Log in to Blackboard and organize your courses by grouping them by term.
JanCon 2020 Registration is Still Open!
Registration is still open for Chapman University’s annual January Conference on Teaching (JanCon) sponsored by the Institute for Excellence in Teaching & Learning (IETL) and Educational Technology Services (ETS). The theme of JanCon will be “Teaching for Today’s Learners” and the main focus area of the conference will be on interactive training for Canvas, Chapman’s