Tip! Getting Your Canvas Course Ready for the Semester
The beginning of the semester is just a few weeks away so begin now to plan for getting your students…
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Making Word Documents (a Little Bit More) Accessible
If you’re seeing some low scores from Ally for your Word documents, chances are there are two things it’s looking…
JCCC Accessibility Training
The Educational Technology Center together with the Access Services is offering the following training opportunities. These individual sessions can be…
Tip! Live Proctoring with Lockdown Browser
When Respondus LockDown Browser is used with “Instructor Live Proctoring,” the instructor watches students remotely during an online test. This…
Tip! Zoom Recording Cleanup
We are now at capacity and need to begin removing old Zoom Cloud recordings older than 180 days old. We…
Tip! Zoom Auto Captioning
Zoom now has automatic Live Transcription (closed captioning) available in English. Once enabled, this automatically adds text to the bottom of…
Tip! Add Zoom to Outlook 365
Want to add an easy way to send Zoom invites via Outlook 365? You can add this ‘Add-In’ to your…
“Tip! What is Canvas Portfolium?
Portfolium is an academic portfolio allowing both students and faculty to showcase their education and work accomplishments and connect with…
Tip! Provide additional time or attempts for Canvas quizzes
If you have set a time limit on your quiz, you can grant access for extra time. If the student…
Tip! Stop Canvas messages from going to Junk or Clutter
First and foremost: Canvas does not have an email feature, but through “Notifications” process, Canvas can forward notices to the…
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” —…
Analytics in YuJa and Canvas
Need to know who watched a video? Or your class grade average? Here are some features you may be missing…
Tip! Important Canvas Updates
Two significant items are included in the updates being applied to Canvas next week: changes to how the “student view”…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Tip! Canvas Assignment Availability
All Canvas assignments (including graded discussions and quizzes) have settings which determine their availability for interaction: availability when, and to…
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…