Settings Course Settings Publish Buttons Summary Course Publish and Unpublish buttons display in the Course Settings page. Change Benefit This change allows courses to be published from either the Course Settings page or the Dashboard. Affected User Roles Instructors Feature Workflow In the Course Details tab, the top of the Course Settings sidebar includes the
Welcome your students for the upcoming term prior to your first class. In Canvas, after you have published your course, you can post an announcement and/or have a course Homepage with a welcome message. In the Rich Content Editor, you can type the information and add a video for your welcome message. If you are
On August 9th, Chapman will be requiring all Zoom meetings to be secured with one security option (either a Passcode or a Waiting Room). If you are already using a passcode for your meetings, nothing will change. If you have an existing meeting or schedule a new one without a passcode, Zoom will automatically add
The Wylie Aitken Court room received a complete makeover this summer. Not only has it been physically transformed but it has also received a complete technology upgrade. Upgrades include a new projection system, wireless connection for laptops and devices, video conferencing, annotation capabilities, as well as lecture capture and live streaming.
Ever wonder how other faculty members teach? What their classrooms are like? How it feels to be a student today, specifically at Chapman? The Institute for Excellence in Teaching and Learning’s (IETL’s) new Faculty Open Classroom Initiative – FOCI, for short – aims to connect Chapman’s teaching faculty to each other by pairing volunteer faculty
As of February 5th, the Academic Technology division was reorganized and renamed to Educational Technology Services. The former divisions of Academic Technology and Learning Spaces will be combined under this one umbrella. This new name and organization will be led by Jana Remy as Director. More changes are ahead with the formation of this division,
I’d like to think that all higher education faculty, at Chapman University and elsewhere, are aware of several ways that we accommodate students who have documented disabilities and need assistance in order to optimally perform in our classes. Large print materials, screen readers, voice amplification, use of a laptop or a note taker, preferential seating,
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Collaborative learning is a pedagogical method often used to help students build advanced skills with material by using a social learning model. It is based in social learning theory, such as Lev Vygotsky’s foundational ideas on the Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD) (summarized, this means the learning one can achieve by being paired with and
All fall semester grades are due Monday, January 2, 2017, but why wait! Online grade submission must be done through my.chapman.edu; grades entered into Blackboard are not considered official and are not applied to student records. For step-by-step instructions on how to assign final grades please download the PDF below. Also, for more training and