by Beth Hale | Mar 2, 2022 | Featured Updates - Technology, Technology Updates
What can Kami do for you? Kami is a document annotation tool licensed by Chemeketa. It lets instructors and students mark up PDFs, Word documents, images, and other formats, and makes it easy to split or merge documents. Kami works within Canvas, so you can create a...
by Heather Mariger | Feb 17, 2022 | Academic Updates, Blog
Digital Accessibility – it’s the smart thing to do, it’s the right thing to do, and for many students, it can be the difference between success and failure! The Center for Academic Innovation is pleased to announce that we are sponsoring another...
by Layli Liss | Feb 11, 2022 | Academic Updates, Featured Updates - Academic
Is your program or discipline interested in implementing a learning outcome assessment project that goes beyond the normal faculty duties, perhaps by working over the summer or paying adjunct faculty beyond the means of your department? The VPAA’s office has made up...
by Heather Mariger | Feb 3, 2022 | Blog, Canvas, Technology Updates
We are pleased to announce that we are adding some new features to make eLearn Canvas even more accessible and inclusive for you and your students. Accessibility Checks First, you now have two tools to help check the accessibility of your Canvas pages. The Canvas...
by Sage Freeman | Jan 19, 2022 | Canvas Release Notes
In this Canvas release: Courses: The expanded or collapsed state of the Course Navigation Menu persists throughout all Canvas courses. Gradebook: In the Gradebook, the Missing status is removed for missing submissions that receive a manually entered grade. The...
by Lauren Funderburg | Jan 11, 2022 | Canvas, Featured Updates - Technology, Technology Updates
As we are getting into the swing of winter term, we wanted to send out a few important reminders about Canvas Gradebook. Maintaining a clearly organized and regularly updated gradebook is very important for students to track their progress. Gradebook Tips It is...
by Lauren Funderburg | Jan 7, 2022 | Technology Updates
At the Academic Technology Fair this past fall, the Tech Hub Faculty featured a variety of useful online teaching tools, including Kami, Padlet, Kahoot, Accessibility Checkers, and DTEN/Zoom rooms. We’d like to highlight these tools again for those of you looking for...
by Layli Liss | Jan 4, 2022 | Academic Updates, Blog
While the gift-giving season has now passed for many of us, there is still an opportunity for you to give and receive a GIFT! The Center for Academic Innovation is seeking faculty members who would like to facilitate a Group Instruction Feedback Technique, or GIFT,...
by Sage Freeman | Dec 29, 2021 | Canvas, Featured Updates - Technology, Technology Updates, Zoom
REMINDER: clean up old Zoom Meetings in course calendar after course copy process in Canvas. Issue Unwanted calendar events for Zoom Meetings are copied from another course during the course copy process. This is a known issue with the Canvas Course Copy process and...
by Sage Freeman | Dec 28, 2021 | Canvas, Featured Updates - Technology, Technology Updates
Chemeketa continues to offer access to Digital Course Materials at no cost for students during winter term. The VitalSource Bookshelf provides students access to eTextbooks on or before the first day of class in Canvas. NOTE: This resource is only available for...
