Instructure announced that they are releasing a major update to the the features and user interface for the Discussions and Announcements tools available in your courses. Meant to optimize accessibility and responsiveness, the update adds flexibility to how users participate […]
This year’s Teaching With Technology Showcase on March 18 was a major success. It featured informative presentations by FAU faculty and staff regarding trends and practices on the use of artificial intelligence in higher education. Among the talks is also […]
The Zoom AI Companion improves your productivity and team effectiveness when used in Meetings, Team Chats, and Smart Recordings. Please note, by default, AI Companion features are off and can be enabled by changing settings in the FAU Zoom Web […]
Greetings FAU Family! The Office of Information Technology is pleased to share some highly anticipated improvements to the Interfolio (FAR) Faculty Activity Reporting process: Faculty members no longer need to calculate FTE values New Aggregate FTE and Librarianship components Improved […]
In this Canvas release (November 18th), captions on copied Canvas videos have been made independent from the original media. Therefore, you won’t have to worry about affecting previously made captions when editing captions on copied Canvas videos. Furthermore, instructors have […]
Spring Courses Have Been Loaded! Your Spring 2024 courses are now loaded into Canvas for you to begin editing/publishing course content for the coming semester. This also means that your Simple Syllabus dashboard shows your pending syllabi for Spring 2024 […]
Recently, Respondus added Screen Recording to the Monitor settings for LockDown Browser exams. While LockDown Browser does the majority of the work by limiting computer functions and preventing students from opening other applications during an exam, the screen recording feature […]
Fall 2023 has arrived along with new features to Canvas to help you in the classroom! The Instructional Technologies team has got your back and is ready to help with any Canvas needs and questions as you get your courses […]
As we break for the 2023 summer semester, today, May 8th, 2023, the Cisco Webex tool will be removed from all Canvas courses. Zoom is stepping up as the main videoconferencing tool for FAU. We’ve been using it for the […]
Professors, you can now schedule office hours with your students. Here’s how to schedule them with the Zoom integration in Canvas: https://www.fau.edu/canvas/Files/zoom/schedule-zoom-office-hours.pdf Secondly, share the link below with your students to show them how to book appointments with you: https://www.fau.edu/canvas/Files/zoom/book-zoom-office-hours.pdf […]
Greetings FAU Family! The Instructional Technologies Training team is pleased to be hosting several training sessions throughout March, both virtually and in-person (in CM146). This month, we’re focusing heavily on Simple Syllabus — our new web-based platform which allows instructors […]
By now, you may have heard that FAU is sunsetting its license for Cisco Webex with an official retirement date of June 30, 2023. While this news does not affect a majority of the FAU population, we wanted to provide […]