Welcome to Fall 2021! The Instructional Technologies team is here to provide everything you need to get your Canvas courses ready and published. We offer workshops, one-on-one appointments, general support and other resources to get you ready to teach with […]
Greetings FAU Family! We’re pleased to announce that Draft Coach — the latest writing coach tool from Turnitin, is now available to all FAU students and faculty! Draft Coach is a Google Docs based add-on which encourages learning and provides […]
Lockdown Browser is a useful application that prevents students from being able to access outside applications and materials on their computer while taking an online exam. It also includes Respondus Monitor, which records students’ exam sessions using their webcams. However, […]
Turnitin continues being a beneficial measure for students to improve their writing skills and understand plagiarism. Not only does it provide a way of knowing when and how much a student is plagiarizing on an assignment, but it also eases […]
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 […]
*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 […]
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 […]
We’re about half-way through Spring 2019, meaning that energy drinks are selling well and midterm assignments are under way. The deadline for Midterm grades has been set to 5:00 P.M., Friday, March 1st. Don’t let this mid-semester rush stress you out! […]
Written by Julalak Kaewsai *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, […]
In the previous post we spoke about sending direct messages to students. Today, let’s look at how we can make Canvas’s notification infrastructure do the work for us. Setting Up Notifications If set up properly, Canvas accounts will notify users […]
The first 2 weeks of the semester are finally over and you’ve set your courses in motion. Your first few homework assignments have been assigned and your students have a deadline to meet within the next 2 days. On your […]