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April 11, 2023 • Uncategorized
Introduction to Canvas Studio The Canvas Studio video creation tool is now available to all Canvas users. Canvas Studio can be accessed through the Canvas Studio icon in the Canvas Global Navigation, Clicking on the Canvas Studio icon will take you to My Library in Canvas Studio. In the upper right hand corner, you will…
April 11, 2023 • Uncategorized
Ease of Navigation: Providing a RoadMap for Canvas Course Content Have you ever entered a Canvas course (not your own) and thought to yourself, “how do I access the course content?” Many students think the very same thing when entering a Canvas course. How can we as instructors provide the clearest “roadmap” for students as…
April 10, 2023 • Uncategorized
Canvas Studio Discussions Recently Canvas Tips and Tricks introduced Canvas Studio. This week we will introduce using Canvas Studio for course discussions. Canvas Studio can be used for both graded and ungraded discussions. The ungraded discussion is useful as a knowledge check through course videos. First, navigate to Canvas Studio in the Canvas global navigation.…
January 23, 2023 • Uncategorized
Clearing the Web Browser Cache Have you ever “cleaned-up” your web browser? It is considered good practice to periodically clear the cache in the web browser. How often depends on the frequency that the web browser is used and what sites are visited. However, the beginning of each semester would be a good time to…
January 9, 2023 • Uncategorized
Navigating the Canvas Dashboard With the new semester underway, this week’s Canvas Tips and Tricks provides a refresher on navigating the Canvas Dashboard. Students: Only published courses will show on your dashboard. Unpublished courses will be listed under Future Enrollments under the Courses icon in the Global Navigation. Once published the course will automatically move…
November 28, 2022 • Uncategorized
Video and Audio Accessibility Procedures Recently questions have been asked regarding HSC captioning procedures. Below you will find abbreviated information regarding HSC captioning procedures. For detailed information regarding these procedures, please read the complete document, Video and Audio/Podcasts Accessibility Procedures. Videos in Face to Face Courses Class lectures recorded during a live class session are…
November 14, 2022 • Uncategorized
Course Development Toolkit Spring is coming! Many of you are already busy preparing your course for the spring semester. Division of Academic Innovation would like to help with the Course Development Toolkit! You can access the toolkit through the orange Faculty Course Prep button in the right navigation of any Canvas course. The Course Development…
October 31, 2022 • Uncategorized
Voice Over PowerPoints Recently the option to record audio on PowerPoint slides has become quite popular. However, when using this PowerPoint option a few things should be considered before using it. After using the audio directly on the PowerPoint slide, the user has the ability to save the file as an mp4 video file. This…
October 14, 2022 • Uncategorized
Mediasite Videos and Captioning Mediasite provides cloud-based video storage within the Canvas LMS. Many of these videos include captioning. With the advent of a new school year, here are a few reminders regarding captioning and Mediasite: All videos should be titled following this naming process: [Course Abbreviation, Course Number, Video Title] Example: PHAR 555 Introduction…
October 3, 2022 • Uncategorized
New Accessibility Tool – UDOIT! Have you noticed something new in your Canvas course navigation? UNTHSC Canvas now utilizes the UDOIT Cloud accessibility tool! Here are a few quick tips to start using UDOIT: The tool (not visible to students) scans your course once you click on UDOIT Cloud in the course navigation (a one-time…
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