Division of Academic Innovation
October 17, 2023
OER Week October 23-29 October 23rd-29th is Open Access week. Open Educational Resources “are teaching, learning, and research materials in any medium – digital or otherwise – that reside in the public domain or have been released under an open license that permits no-cost access, use, adaptation, and redistribution by others with no or limited…
October 17, 2023
Canvas Studio Integration with Verbit Captioning! Canvas Studio and Verbit captioning service are now integrated! For online courses you can now create your videos directly in Canvas Studio and request Verbit captioning. Please feel free to create or upload your media in Canvas Studio and request your Verbit captioning. Below are a few guides to…
September 25, 2023
Canvas File Management With the new school year underway, this week’s Canvas Tips and Tricks provides Canvas users with a few guidelines regarding files within a Canvas course. Organizing files: Did you know that you can create folders to organize your files? It’s easy! Click on Files in the Course Navigation then click the “+Folder”…
September 11, 2023
Navigating the Canvas Dashboard With the new school year underway, this week’s Canvas Tips and Tricks provides Canvas users with a few guidelines on navigating the Canvas Dashboard. Students: Only published courses will show on your dashboard. Unpublished courses will be listed under Future Enrollments under the Courses icon in the Global Navigation. Once published…
August 28, 2023
Updating Your Canvas Profile Welcome to the new year of Canvas Tips and Tricks! Have you reviewed your Canvas settings recently? Below are the most common settings edited by users: Profile picture: Click on the account icon at the top of the Canvas global navigation. In the window that opens, click on settings. Click on…
August 14, 2023
Locking a Module or Adding Module Prerequisites/Requirements Instructors have multiple options in module settings that lock the module or add some type of requirement for module completion. The link with each option provides detailed instructions. Lock a module from student access until a given date. Note: When locked, students can see the module title and…
July 31, 2023
Completing a Video Assignment with Canvas Studio Canvas Studio is a new video recording and repository tool available to all HSC Canvas users. Users can not only record videos with Canvas Studio but also load external videos from YouTube or Vimeo. For additional assistance with Canvas Studio or any other technology tool, contact canvas@unthsc.edu. Navigate…
July 17, 2023
Creating Chapters in Mediasite Chapters are markers within a Mediasite video to indicate chapters/sections or to note important video content. Inserting chapters is an effective way to “chunk” content with longer videos. If using chapters to “chunk” the content, provide an index to students below the video on the Canvas page. For questions or additional…
June 19, 2023
Linking Articles in a Canvas Course There are several benefits to linking articles to the HSC library: By using the permalink provided through the library website, the link in your course will never change. When an article is linked, the library staff can see the resource’s usage and consider whether the resource is worth renewing.…
June 5, 2023
Fall is coming! Many of you are already busy preparing your courses for the fall semester. The Division of Academic Innovation would like to help with the Course Development Toolkit! You can access the toolkit through the orange Faculty Course Prep button in the right navigation of any course. The Course Development Toolkit contains the…
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