Canvas Updates – May 2025
Two new useful features (Smart Search and Discussion Summaries) are available now on our Beta Server and will be enabled…
Category: Teaching and Learning
As defined by the faculty, successful and effective teaching and learning environments join three integral parties: an effective teacher; willing, prepared and capable students; and supportive staff and administration. Effective teaching requires content expertise; reflects sound instructional methods drawn from the scholarship of teaching and learning; and communicates successfully.
Tip! – Removing Respondus Lockdown Browser
You may or may not have heard that we are no longer using Respondus for our proctoring needs. We are…
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! – Classroom Equipment Training
Need some assistance using classroom equipment and technology? You don’t have to wait until PLD to get the help you…
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! 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! – Plan My Classes
Plan My Classes is a planning tool used by students to help plan out course requirements and electives in order…
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…
Tip! Canvas Syllabus Template
The JCCC Ed Affairs Committee has created a new syllabus template for all credit courses. Ed Tech has created an…
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! Regular Substantive Interaction
Did you know the U.S. Department of Education requires that all online courses for which students may receive federal financial aid…
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! – 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…
Tip! – Find that Training Opportunity or Learning Event
I you are looking for any of our Professional Learning Series events or other training sessions try looking at the…
Tip! – Educational Podcasts
Remember iTunes? The use of Podcasting to share ideas and have conversations is not new and has been available for…
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…
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…