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…
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Tip! – LinkedIn Learning Access
LinkedIn Learning (formerly Lynda.com) is an excellent training resource available to all JCCC Faculty and Staff who want to do…
Tip! – Canvas Notifications on your Mobile Device
If you are looking for a way to stay current with what is happening in your Canvas courses you might…
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…
Tip! – Canvas Rosters and Course Calendar
Canvas Course Rosters Please review your student course rosters in both Canvas and the My JCCC portal. The My JCCC…
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! 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! 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” —…
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…