Tip! Ally Alternative Text for Image Files Copy to New Semester & Other Updates
There are some exciting updates in the accessibility tool called Ally: Fixed: Alternative Text for Image Files Copy to New…
Category: Canvas
Canvas Updates – May 2025
Two new useful features (Smart Search and Discussion Summaries) are available now on our Beta Server and will be enabled…
Integrating Textbook Publisher Tools in Canvas
If you are using a publisher website for materials and assessments in your course, you may be able to connect…
Tip! – Changing the Language for Your Class
Hey FL instructors – make your course a (slightly) more immersive and fun experience by changing the language of your…
Tip! – Leveraging Rubrics in Canvas
Want to make your life and your students’ lives easier? Grade with a rubric. Rubrics in Canvas LMS ensure consistent assessment,…
Tip – Hide Your File Cabinet!
Are you one of those instructors that leaves your file cabinet open for students? And then your students can’t find the…
Tip! What is this “Tutoring” item on my Canvas menu?
The JCCC Library and the Academic Resource Center use a web-based tool (named “Penji”) to help students connect with librarians…
Tip! – Canvas Gradebook Filter
Check out this new feature in the Canvas Gradebook – the Filter! Now you can easily find assignments rather than…
Tip! – Using the Testing Services Request in Canvas
If you need to send a student to the Testing Center, you can do that (and your students can schedule…
Top 10 Reasons to Switch to Canvas New Quizzes
Four additional Question Types are available: Categorization, Hotspot, Ordering, Stimulus Course wide student accommodations: set it once and it applies…
Tip! Canvas Syllabus Template
The JCCC Ed Affairs Committee has created a new syllabus template for all credit courses. Ed Tech has created an…
Pearson Publisher Integration Changes
As part of a move to the new LTI 1.3 LMS integration standard, Pearson publisher tools in use at JCCC…
Tip! Turnitin Takes on AI
ChatGPT! ChatGPT! You can’t say it 5 times fast, but lately it’s all anyone can talk about. It’s either the…
Tip! Submit a File on a Student’s Behalf
Ever had that one student who can’t figure out how to convert their “Pages” document to a PDF in order…
Tip! If You Must Grade a Quiz Manually, Best to Post Grades Manually
Do you use Canvas quiz question types that require you to grade them manually? In the time between when a student submits an attempt at a quiz with such questions and when you finish grading the attempt, the student may see confusing or alarming information that they can easily misread to say they bombed the quiz. Use a manual grade posting policy to prevent unnecessary panic.
Tip! – Stop Hoarding Files in Canvas
It may be time to visit the Files area in your Canvas courses. Check to see if there are any…
Tip! – Why Use a Home Page?
The Center for Teaching and Learning Faculty Fellows are talking about it and you should definitely be thinking about it.…
Tip! – Troubleshooting LTI issues with students
Canvas has about a thousand LTIs and other applications that work with it, but they don’t always go smoothly. Where…
Tip! – Find Images for your Canvas course
Unsplash! has left Canvas and some of you may be wondering how to find stock images for your course. Here’s…
Tip! – Word Template Assignment in Canvas
Did you know – students do NOT like downloading a document juuuuust to fill it out and reupload it. So…