Friendly Reminder — Mediasite 8 is Coming December 18th
Greetings FAU Family, Mediasite will be upgraded to version 8 on December 18th. At that time, Mediasite Desktop Recorder will be retired, and will no longer be […]
Category: New Tool
Save the Media: Using Mediasite to Store and Reuse Zoom Recordings
Greetings FAU Family, The shift to digital teaching and learning is here. Like so many of our faculty members, you may have recorded lecture presentations for your Canvas courses using Zoom. Now, with the end of term swiftly approaching, you […]
Canvas Assignment Due Dates — Simplified
Greetings FAU Family! Scheduling your Canvas assignments has never been simpler! We’re pleased to announce the new Edit Assignment Dates tool. This bulk assignment due date editor allows you to manage the availability of your Canvas course assignments all on […]
Mediasite U — Interactive Training Now Available!
Greetings FAU Family, OIT is pleased to announce that Mediasite U is now available for instructors! This new interactive set of training courses instills best practices and is sure to level up your Mediasite Mosaic presentations. Please click here for […]
Fall 2021 Is Here!
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 […]
Turnitin Draft Coach & Feedback Studio
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 […]
Badging In Canvas: A Quick Intro
Greetings FAU Family! Welcome to the third week of the Spring 2020 term. We’d like to take a moment to share this post regarding the use of Badging in Canvas. Badging Badgr is an IMS-certified Open Badging platform. Over 15 million […]
Career Center Canvas Assignments
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 […]
Updates and Integrations – Summer 2019
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 […]
Presentation Tools for Students
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, […]
Facilitating Classroom Interaction with iClicker & Top Hat
Instructors constantly search for ways to interact with students and keep them engaged in class, through even the lengthiest of lectures. As crowded as our lives have become with mobile devices and computers, it is important to remain open to […]
Enrich Your Courses with These Additional Tools
*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 […]