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Hybrid Learning Classrooms

December 22, 2021 by | Teaching Online

Chapman University offers its student body exceptional in-person learning opportunities. Through the pandemic, we made a huge investment in adding technology to learning spaces that allowed faculty members to teach from their classrooms and laboratories to remote students. The fall semester of 2021 brought most students back to campus so that they could continue the

Open Up to OER Getting to know open educational resources

September 28, 2021 by | Canvas

Open Educational Resources (OER) are learning materials that are created or managed by commercial publishers, but with open licenses. These resources are free for students and allow faculty to revise materials to fit individual courses specifications. Some benefits of using OER materials: They’re free! Easily accessible Flexible Can supplement existing materials Can be updated/changed anytime

I updated my Mac and can’t share my screen in Zoom!

September 6, 2021 by | Faculty

If you have updated your Mac Operating System to macOS 10.14 Mojave or later, you need to authorize your computer to give permission to Zoom to use the computer’s microphone and camera, share the screen, or allow others to remotely control your desktop. This is due to increased security permissions in Mac Operating System. After

Post-Pandemic Education Town Hall links

April 30, 2021 by | Teaching Online

For a deeper dive into the resources from the April 30, 2021 Town Hall on Post-Pandemic Education, the presentation links are included here: Presentation Slides for Town Hall Curated list of Post-Pandemic Education links Course Workload Estimator “Leveling Up” Workshop Recording PPE Form for more ETS/IETL information Educational Equity Video:    

5 Canvas Features That Can Help You Provide Richer Feedback

April 9, 2021 by | Canvas

For this week’s edition of Teaching Tips Thursdays, we explored five features of Canvas that can help instructors provide timely, consistent, specific, balanced, and actionable feedback. Feature #1: Quiz Question Feedback Research shows that providing frequent quizzes with timely feedback improves students’ understanding of concepts. Did you know that you can add feedback for answer

Canvas Updates April 2021

April 6, 2021 by | Canvas

Assignments Webcam Submissions Summary In File Upload assignments, students can use their webcam to submit to an assignment. Change Benefit This change allows students to use their webcam to submit a file upload assignment from the browser and aligns behavior with the Canvas Student app. Affected User Roles & Behaviors Students For File Upload assignments,

Zoom default recording changes Effective March 26th 2021

March 15, 2021 by | Canvas

Effective March 26th, 2021, Chapman will be changing the default cloud recording to: Record active speaker with shared screen. This change will provide a better viewing experience in Canvas for Students. Students will see only two options, audio and video. The prior default settings made five different files (speaker view, shared screen, gallery view, shared

3 Zoom Features to Enhance Virtual Class Meetings

February 9, 2021 by | Faculty

Dear Chapman University faculty, I would like to share 3 new Zoom features with you that will enhance your students’ experience and allow you to share your content easier. To ensure you can use these features, please make sure your Zoom application is up to date. 1- Virtual Seating Chart: Zoom’s gallery view allows you

How do students see grades and instructor feedback in Canvas?

November 30, 2020 by | Canvas

Have you ever wondered how your students see their grades and the feedback you provide them in Canvas?  In this workshop, we looked at grades and feedback from a student perspective: Here are the Canvas Guides for the topics that we covered.  Please feel free to share these with your students! For students: How do

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