Applying the Quality Matters Rubric Free Online Workshop
You are invited to join the Applying the Quality Matters Rubric workshop facilitated by Dr. Racheal Brooks of NCCU. This workshop introduces participants to the Quality Matters Rubric and how to apply its standards to develop high-quality online courses and evaluate them. This workshop occurs over 2 afternoons virtually in Zoom: Wednesday, 05/13/2020, […]
UDOIT Now Available
From ITS: The Universal Design Online content Inspection Tool, or UDOIT, helps faculty identify accessibility issues in Canvas course content. With the click of a button, UDOIT scans a course, generates a report, and provides resources on how to address common accessibility issues. Created by the Center for Distributed Learning at the University of Central […]
Respondus LockDown Browser Now Available
Respondus Monitor and Lockdown Browser are now available for faculty use. Respondus Monitor uses the student’s webcam to create a recording of the student’s behavior during an online assessment. Respondus LockDown Browser is an application that prevents students from accessing other websites, tools, and resources during online assessment. More information from ITS here. From UNCG ITS: SUPPORT AND RESOURCES […]
Canvas Studio Now Available in All Canvas Courses
Canvas Studio is a communication tool that allows instructors and students to actively collaborate through video and audio media. Canvas Studio is enabled in your course by default. The following information was adapted for UNCG from Instructure Canvas Guides. The Canvas Studio user interface provides an interactive video tool that allows students and instructors to […]
“Undeleting” in Canvas
Undelete Canvas currently provides a feature that allows instructors to “undelete” course content that has been recently deleted. To restore deleted content follow these steps: Navigate to the course in which you need to restore deleted content In the address (URL) box of your browser, note that the address of your course is https://uncg.instructure.com/courses/(your course […]
Turnitin Service Alert
If you are a user of Turnitin you may have experienced a disruption this morning: Service update You might have experienced intermittent issues caused by a service disruption affecting the performance of Turnitin and TurnitinUK. When did this happen? PDT August 29th 01:13 – 03:15 BST August 29th 09:13– 11:15 AEST August 29th 18:13– 20:15 Issue now resolved.
Canvas Service Latency
From ITS: Canvas experienced latency issues, preventing users from being able to login from approximately 7:45-8:15pm. Canvas posted information about its service on its status page. Information Technology Services (ITS) will continue to monitor the situation, but it appears the problems are resolved at this time. If you have questions or are still experiencing issues, please contact 6-TECH […]
New Canvas Gradebook
Instructure has enabled a new Gradebook with added functionality and features. While faculty are able to access this new Gradebook, please note that the feature is still in beta. Faculty may enable the new Gradebook (follow the steps below) but note that Instructure may still adjust features before final release. This Gradebook will eventually replace the […]
Arc Webcam Capture
CVPA Faculty and Staff, For those of you who use Arc, in the latest release, Instructure has enabled webcam capture for creating local video for use in the Arc Video Library. Read more about this new feature in the Arc Release Notes here. Please note that webcam capture is limited to the Chrome and Firefox browsers […]
New Canvas Support Page
Faculty and Staff, I have added a new Canvas support page to our Performing Arts Technology online resources. The new page, vpa.uncg.edu/canvas, includes support documentation I have curated to aid you in using Canvas in your teaching. I hope that you find this useful in your course development and implementation of Canvas in your instruction. Additional resources will […]