Dear Chapman University faculty, As you are aware, final grades are due Sunday, January 2, 2022. As we approach the end of the semester and the holiday season, We recommend that you plan ahead for receiving support or troubleshooting any grading issues. Please review the Educational Technology Services team’s support options and availability. Support options
Imagine you have been given a new course last minute, which starts next week. There is a syllabus, commonly used the department, as well as a couple of textbooks options. You also have a copy of the exam that the former instructor was planning to use. However, nothing has been added to the Canvas course,
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
The latest versions of iOS and iPadOS (iPhone and iPad operating systems) include increased security and privacy enhancements. As a part of these enhancements, if you are using the Canvas Teacher or Students Apps on your iPad and iPhone, you’ll need to enable ‘Cross-Website Tracking’ to allow certain features to function. This includes the ability
Dear Chapman University faculty, instructional staff, and staff, As you are aware, over the past year and a half, the Instructional Technology team (Julie, Sarah, Elena, Sarem, and Jennifer) has been providing virtual support to the Chapman community. We have supported you with Educational Technology applications and platforms such as Canvas, Panopto, Poll Everywhere; Online
The 8 elements discussed below can either be created in Canvas or pulled in from elsewhere using an external tool or embed code. Email edutech@chapman.edu to find out how you can use Canvas to humanize your course.
Over the past year, many instructors started using Proctorio for remote proctoring in Canvas. In August, the license will expire. However, with a few modifications, you can reuse those quizzes in Canvas. Step 1. Copy the quiz to your new Canvas course There is more than one way to copy a quiz to a Canvas
Since March of 2020, the Educational Technology Services team has been providing support to Chapman University’s faculty in the Virtual Tech Hub. In the last year, we have gathered a lot of data, studied the help request trends, and surveyed the faculty to find out how to best support you in the future. One key
The most recent Canvas update rolled out a new feature inside of Assignments that allows for an Annotation assignment. Instructors can upload a document to Canvas that students can then annotate using the same annotation functions instructors see inside of the Speedgrader. This includes highlighting, commenting, creating text boxes, drawing, etc. Currently, the new Assignment
The latest update of Canvas (March 21, 2021) introduced a new feature in the Speedgrader: Submission Reassignments. SpeedGrader: Submission Reassignments (2021-03-20 Release) from Instructure Canvas Community on Vimeo. Summary In SpeedGrader, instructors can reassign an assignment with a due date to an individual student and ask them to redo their submission. Change Benefit This