Students: Sign Up for an Appointment in Canvas
Have your instructors asked you to sign up for office hours or an appointment in Canvas? This article will detail how to find available appointment times, reserve an appointment, add notes, and un-reserve your time. To find appointments in Canvas, select the calendar...
Regular Canvas Maintenance Window Beginning Thursday, July 15
Beginning on Thursday, July 15, 2021, Canvas is implementing regular maintenance windows for each of its customer regions. These windows will fall on the first and third Thursdays of each month. Each window will last for two hours, although it is not expected that...
Expanded Student Annotation Assignment Options in Canvas
With an updated release of Canvas that launched in mid-May, instructors now have access to an additional Assignment format on Canvas: Student Annotation Assignments. With the addition of Student Annotation Assignments to the suite of resources supported through...
Global Accessibility Awareness Day Is May 20
Thursday, May 20, 2021, is the tenth annual Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD), which focuses on digital equality for the one billion people in the world with a disability. GAAD activities at the University of Chicago are coordinated by the Center for Digital...
A Tale of Two Online Quizzing Tools: Choosing between Canvas Quizzes and Gradescope Online Assignments
Online quizzes can be a good way to help students assess their learning. Faculty and instructors can now choose from two different options--Canvas Quizzes and Gradescope’s online quizzing tool, which the company calls “Online Assignments”. Though their functions and...
Digital Pedagogy Events for March 1-5, 2021
The week of March 1-5 will feature numerous events on topics in digital pedagogy. Come to learn more about Zoom, Panopto, the social annotation tool Hypothes.is, and the classroom polling tool Poll Everywhere. All workshops and discussions will be held online via...
Make Your Canvas Site More Accessible!
In this new digital world we live in, online courses can become very confusing. However, if faculty keep accessible design in mind everyone from students to staff can benefit. This article will show you how you can use the Canvas Accessibility Checker to ensure your...
Update to Student View Button in Canvas
In an attempt to make Student View more readily available to faculty and instructors, Canvas has changed the look and location of the Student View button. The button is now a small rectangle with a pair of eyeglasses; the explanatory “Student View” label has been...
Panopto Desktop App Incompatibility with Newest Apple Computers
Update: This issue has now been resolved. - 6/14/2021 The Issue and Cause If you are using the latest Apple Mac computers equipped with the latest Apple M1 CPU chip–these include MacBook Air (2020), MacBook Pro 13″ (2020), and Mac Mini (2020)–you are likely to be...