Spring 2020 is here and the Instructional Technologies team has all you need to hit the ground running with your Canvas courses. Offering workshops, one-on-one appointments, support requests and other resources, we’ll get you on your way to a fruitful […]
The FAU Career Center recently launched a new initiative, Career Center Canvas Assignments. Faculty and staff can now partner with the FAU Career Center to infuse pre-made Career Center assignments into any Canvas course. Whether you teach a first-year seminar […]
This post is the first in a new monthly series that we’re publishing to keep you up to date with our live workshops, campus visits, and any other special events that are part of the Instructional Technologies calendar. It’ll go […]
Have you ever wanted to sit down and really learn Canvas? Are you in need of an overview of all the elements and features that make Canvas useful? We combined our resources with materials from Instructure to compile a guide […]
In this Canvas release (September 21), the navigation menus have been updated for improved accessibility. Noted updates have also been included for APIs and Live Events. Feature Options For institutions using the New Gradebook, SpeedGrader can be filtered by student […]
*Please note: FAU will retire use of Webex on June 30, 2023. The Webex platform will no longer be available for use in meetings after this date. Webex will be removed from Canvas on May 8, 2023, at the end […]
In this Canvas release (August 17), the Conferences interface (BigBlueButton) supports breakout rooms and closed captioning. Additionally, Conferences is WCAG 2.0 AA Accessible, with some exceptions. In Discussions, the option for students to add file attachments is enabled by default. […]
It’s Monday, August 12th 2019, and we’re 5 days from the start of the next academic year. Courses have appeared on your Canvas dashboard labeled “Fall 2019” and you’ve probably already started receiving emails from students. It may feel like […]
In this Canvas release (June 22), when students are not allowed to edit or delete their own discussion posts, the Settings menu for a discussion shows those features have been disabled. Canvas and Instructure logos have been updated throughout the […]
At the end of the Spring 2019 semester, we enabled the New Canvas Gradebook and installed a couple of new tools for in-course badging and videoconferencing. Below are some notes on these updates and links to documentation to help you […]
When writing a test or quiz in Canvas, we sometimes end up with quiz results that need to be adjusted. For example, a question may merit partial credit even though the student’s answer was marked as incorrect. We see this […]
This post is an abridged version of the full Canvas Production Release Notes for March 30th and April 20th, 2019. For the full version of the notes, click on one of the following links: March 30th; April 20th. Below is […]