TACC and IMS Merge
In an effort to better support the faculty and students using technology to improve teaching and learning at the University of Utah, the Technology Assisted Curriculum Center (TACC) and Instructional...
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Vacations and Courses: A Stretched Metaphor
Summer brings the annual vacation dilemma: Do you rent a cabin at the lake or take to the open road in the RV? The cabin is comfortable and familiar. You’ve gone there for years and know the area. You...
View ArticleRedirecting Canvas Questions and Problems to the Institution Level
Background Report a Problem is a feature that currently allows users to send both course specific and general Canvas questions and problems directly to Instructure’s help desk. We decided our Teaching...
View ArticlePushing Through the Perils of Teaching Online, a Repost from the Chronicle...
The University of Utah offers 328 fully online classes with over 11,000 enrollments for Fall semester 2012. In September we will post our call asking faculty to submit funding proposals to build even...
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Instructional Design Summit for Fall 2012
Teaching & Learning Technologies (TLT) hosted the Fall 2012 Instructional Design Summit during Fall Break on Tuesday, October 8. Keynote Address Video: A Busy Professor’s Guide to Sanely Flipping...
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Three Steps to Solve Most Instructure Canvas Problems
Step 1: Check Your Internet Connection if You Not Able To Connect To Canvas If you are connecting to the internet using a campus wireless connection, please try navigating to basic sites like Google or...
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How Do I Add Students to My Canvas Course? (University of Utah edition)
Students Automatically Added To Your Canvas Course The University of Utah Registrar’s Office automatically adds registered students to Canvas courses a few hours they register for it. All you need to...
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New Semester Instructor Checklist
It’s a new semester, and there’s never enough time to get ready, right? Did you activate your course? Did you remember to link to your course reserves? Did you add your TA? Have you forgotten to do...
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Quizomatic: Moving Paper Based Quizzes & Exams to Canvas
Do you have paper based quizzes or exams you would like to move to your Canvas course? Would you like to eliminate having to manually enter each question for each exam or quiz in Canvas? Where is...
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Technology & Teaching Day: Cutting Edge Technology
We would like to thank Center for Teaching & Learning, Digital Scholarship Lab and The Marriott Library for hosting the third annual Technology & Teaching Day on January 3, 2013. We are also...
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A Guide to Hidden Pathways in Canvas
Intuitive is a word I’ve heard faculty use to describe their course building and teaching experience in Canvas. After the initial Canvas orientation or consultation, most features are easy to find,...
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Faculty Center Spring Services Fair
Come and join us for an open house in the NEW! Faculty Center. We are excited to showcase services and resources provided by Teaching & Learning Technologies (TLT), The Center for Teaching and...
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Adobe Day on April 18
Adobe Creative Suite 6 Design & Web Premium/Creative Cloud Adobe’s Rick Miller will demonstrate how to work fluidly and productively with some of the hundreds of new time saving features and...
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Teaching and Learning With iPads
Apple representatives provided several workshops during our Spring Services Fair on April 3. We are pleased to announce that Apples has sent us the following resources from the session, “Teaching and...
View ArticleWimba Is Going Away!
Wimba will no longer be available effective June 1, 2013. What does this mean to you? If you have existing Wimba Classroom recordings (Wimba Archives) you wish to keep, make sure you download MP4...
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New Semester Instructor Checklist
It’s a new semester, and there’s never enough time to get ready, right? Did you activate your course? Did you remember to link to your course reserves? Did you add your TA? Have you forgotten to do...
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Two Annotation Tools: Which One is Best for You?
Would you like to write comments directly on student papers in Canvas? How about writing comments in the margins pointing to passages you highlight? Would you like to strike out words and provide...
View ArticleSaving Time and Effort with Canvas
If you manage and teach your classes the same in Canvas as you did in WebCT, you are missing out on some incredible features. Find out about the unique tools Canvas provides to help you engage students...
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Quizomatic Redux: Moving Paper Based Quizzes & Exams to Canvas
Our blog article about a quiz tool called Respondus, which you can download for free, received a lot of visitors in January 2013. I am re-posting this article with the hope that it will reach more...
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Professor Root’s Flipped Classroom Success Story
Languages & Literature Professor Jerry Root considers himself a traditional teacher of literary interpretation. When he was asked to teach an introductory course on literary interpretation,...
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