How to restrict course Zoom meetings to FSU users only
To increase the security of your course Zoom meetings, you can now restrict your course meetings to only allow FSU students, staff, and faculty to join. Instead of joining your course meeting anonymously or from a personal Zoom account, your students will instead be required to login to their FSU Zoom accounts to jo…
How to add an ACE Tutoring link to your course navigation menu
We have integrated FSU's ACE Tutoring with Canvas, which means that you can now add an ACE Tutoring link to your Canvas course navigation menu. Simply follow the directions for enabling a navigation item in the Canvas article How do I manage Course Navigation links? .
Instructors: How to import the FSU Course Evaluation Module into your course site from Commons
The FSU Course Evaluation Module is designed to provide tips and resources that will help instructors engage students in the evaluation process and, ultimately, increase their course evaluation response rates. Students who opt out of course evaluations cite a variety of reasons. As an instructor, you play a critical …
How to use Microsoft Teams to facilitate a virtual course meeting
Please Note: Microsoft Teams meetings do not directly integrate with our Canvas system. As a result, we only recommend using a Microsoft Teams meeting to facilitate a virtual course meeting for your class in the event that both Zoom and Canvas Conferences are unavailable for use. * Install the Microsoft Teams…
How do I hold virtual office hours?
Though we have both Canvas Conferences and Zoom web-conferencing tools available at FSU, we strongly recommend using Zoom for virtual office hours because it is well suited to both of the meeting types in this support article. Facilitating regular, scheduled office hours that all students can join This type of …
Introducing New Quizzes
What is New Quizzes? New Quizzes is Canvas's new assessment engine, which will replace the current "Classic" Quizzes over the next few years. New Quizzes was built as a separate web tool to integrate into Canvas using the LTI (Learning Tools Interoperability) standard that securely connects applications to Canvas a…
How to use Kaltura to play YouTube videos in your course
Want to add a YouTube video into your course? You can already do this in Canvas , but now you can use Kaltura's player to play YouTube videos instead. Why use Kaltura to play YouTube videos? * Increase accessibility of course media Kaltura's video player increases the accessibility of the YouTube videos that yo…
Check Contrast for Accessibility with Colour Contrast Analyser
Making sure your documents follow guidelines for optimum contrast is helpful for all students but especially for those with visual impairments like color blindness. Good contrast makes content easier to view when it’s projected in class or on low-quality monitors. It also makes viewing content easier on a mobile devi…
Instructors: Add a Guest to your Course
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…
[Old LTI Integration] Instructors: Viewing & Interpreting Turnitin's Originality Reports
Turnitin is makes it easier for instructors to detect plagiarism or other unauthorized aid in students' submitted work. When students submit work to a Turnitin-enabled assignment, their submissions are run through Turnitin's database to determine if any portion of it appears in published works, web sources, or other …
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