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...
Introducing the Student Assignment Enhancements Feature
As of December 21, 2020, Canvas’ Student Assignment Enhancements Feature has been turned on. The new feature improves interface and submission workflow for students. It does not affect the instructor's view of assignments. The new interface makes it easier for...
Introducing the New Canvas Rich Content Editor (RCE)
On December 21, 2020, Canvas introduced the New Rich Content Editor (New RCE), which aims to provide a condensed, more intuitive and user-friendly toolbar that is grouped by common icons and interactions. The New Rich Content Editor will be enabled for all...
Training Offerings in Autumn Quarter Week 11
You can choose from a variety of workshops in Week 11 of Autumn Quarter to learn more about Canvas, Zoom, Panopto, and Hypothes.is for remote and hybrid teaching. Read more