Tip! How to Create “Thumbnail” Links in Canvas In web parlance, a thumbnail is a scaled down (sometimes also cropped) copy of a larger picture or graphic. A… Continue reading “Tip! How to Create “Thumbnail” Links in Canvas”…
Tip! Why can’t I “mute” grades in Canvas anymore? (Or, what do these “eye-cons” mean?) Once upon a time, it was possible to prevent grades entered into a given column in Canvas from being communicated… Continue reading “Tip! Why can’t I “mute” grades in Canvas anymore? (Or, what do these “eye-cons” mean?)”…
Tip! Let Students into a Canvas Class before Day One For any number of reasons, a professor may wish to give students access to their section’s Canvas space before the… Continue reading “Tip! Let Students into a Canvas Class before Day One”…
Tip! Where did the mandatory attendance entry go? The Faculty “community” on the “My JCCC” site includes a tool for entering mandatory attendance (which determines whether a student… Continue reading “Tip! Where did the mandatory attendance entry go?”…
Tip! Under-appreciated Benefits of a Source Course Every section in every term’s credit schedule gets a dedicated space in Canvas. Canvas itself calls these spaces “courses” —… Continue reading “Tip! Under-appreciated Benefits of a Source Course”…
Tip! Important Canvas Updates Two significant items are included in the updates being applied to Canvas next week: changes to how the “student view”… Continue reading “Tip! Important Canvas Updates”…
Tip! Using the Canvas Scheduler Feature for Student Appointments Scheduler is a Calendar tool that creates appointment groups within a course or group. Students can sign up for a… Continue reading “Tip! Using the Canvas Scheduler Feature for Student Appointments”…
Tip! Invoke Turnitin after Submissions already Turned in Have you ever developed suspicions that students might have plagiarized material for a particular paper after one or more submissions have already… Continue reading “Tip! Invoke Turnitin after Submissions already Turned in”…
Tip! Ed Tech Equipment Available for Checkout We’ve got a lot of equipment here in the center, and it’s all for faculty benefit. We have tried to… Continue reading “Tip! Ed Tech Equipment Available for Checkout”…
Tip! Student Study Spaces and Resources Plan ahead and reserve a study room for yourself or your group. Need a laptop? Borrow one for use while… Continue reading “Tip! Student Study Spaces and Resources”…
Tip! Request a Course Consultation with the Ed Tech Center Request a consultation with ETC’s Design Team. We work side-by-side with faculty throughout the course development process to create an… Continue reading “Tip! Request a Course Consultation with the Ed Tech Center”…
Tip! Canvas Assignment Availability All Canvas assignments (including graded discussions and quizzes) have settings which determine their availability for interaction: availability when, and to… Continue reading “Tip! Canvas Assignment Availability”…
Tip! Canvas Assignment Upload File Types Canvas assignments (if they aren’t also discussions or quizzes) can act as “drop boxes” for content which originates outside of… Continue reading “Tip! Canvas Assignment Upload File Types”…
Tip! “LockDown” Browser for Chromebook UPDATE AUG 2021: The Chromebook feature is now standard in Respondus Lockdown Browser and installation guidelines will redirect students to… Continue reading “Tip! “LockDown” Browser for Chromebook”…
Tip! Closed Caption Assistance Do you have an online lecture or video that needs closed captions? Complete the Closed Caption Cleanup Request Form and… Continue reading “Tip! Closed Caption Assistance”…
Keeping Your JCCC Account Safe Attend either of these two sessions to learn about best practices to keep your JCCC credentials safe. Topics include when… Continue reading “Keeping Your JCCC Account Safe”…
Sabbatical information sessions scheduled for faculty Faculty interested in applying for sabbatical or learning more about the process may attend an informational session. Both sessions will… Continue reading “Sabbatical information sessions scheduled for faculty”…
Library Lock-In: Writing Retreat Do you have a writing project that you just can’t find the time to work on? Are you looking for… Continue reading “Library Lock-In: Writing Retreat”…
2018 Fall Professional Development Days Presentation Proposals Accepted Now Staff Development is accepting proposals for August 2018 Professional Development Days (PDD) presentations. PDD sessions are 50-minutes and will be… Continue reading “2018 Fall Professional Development Days Presentation Proposals Accepted Now”…
Our Learning Management System — Present and Future JCCC begins a two-semester process of migration from one LMS to another. Continue reading “Our Learning Management System — Present and Future”…