Zoom is a great tool for facilitating synchronous communication with your students, especially for online courses. Though Zoom does not feature an "always on" course room, your students can still utilize their own FSU Zoom accounts to meet with one another to collaborate on group projects, form study groups, and more w...
Are you a Distance Learning student at Florida State University? If so, we strongly recommend that you [adjust your personal Canvas time zone settings][1] to match your region. FSU's Canvas courses are automatically set to Eastern Time for all date and time displays, so times and dates you see within your Canvas course...
Canvas offers many different options for course settings and enabling optional course features. To navigate to your Canvas course settings: 1. Navigate to the course you would like to modify using either the **Courses** or **Dashboard** option on the garnet global navigation menu on the left-hand side of the screen....
As a substitute for in-person proctored exams, consider the following alternative means of assessing student learning. ## Open-book, take-home exams delivered and scored by Canvas This method can be especially effective if a high-stakes exams are replaced with or broken up into multiple, lower-stakes tests. When ques...
Flipgrid can be an effective way to foster communication among your students using a multimedia approach. You can also facilitate guest speaker engagements within the Flipgrid environment, or allow students from other courses/programs to participate in discussions with your students. This article details your options f...
![decorative image][1] Need some simple fixes to improve accessibility? The Office of Distance Learning has a series of tips for making course content more accessible. Other tips in this series: [Easy Fix #1 - Image descriptions][2] [Easy Fix #2 - Optimum color contrast][3] [Easy Fix #3 - Descriptive document title...
![][1] Need some simple fixes to improve accessibility? The Office of Distance Learning has a series of tips for making course content more accessible. Other tips in this series: [Easy Fix #1 - Image descriptions][2] [Easy Fix #2 - Optimum color contrast][3] [Easy Fix #3 - Descriptive document titles][4] [Easy Fix...
![][1] Need some simple fixes to improve accessibility? The Office of Distance Learning has a series of tips for making course content more accessible. Other tips in this series: [Easy Fix #1 - Image descriptions][2] [Easy Fix #2 - Optimum color contrast][3] [Easy Fix #3 - Descriptive document titles][4] [Easy Fix...
![decorative image][1] Need some simple fixes to improve accessibility? The Office of Distance Learning has a series of tips for making course content more accessible. Other tips in this series: [Easy Fix #1 - Image descriptions][2] [Easy Fix #2 - Optimum color contrast][3] [Easy Fix #3 - Descriptive document title...
![][1] Need some simple fixes to improve accessibility? The Office of Distance Learning has a series of tips for making course content more accessible. Other tips in this series: [Easy Fix #1 - Image descriptions][2] [Easy Fix #2 - Optimum color contrast][3] [Easy Fix #3 - Descriptive document titles][4] [Easy Fix...
