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Online teaching
October 23, 2024
Want To Balance Design, Function, & Engagement? DesignPLUS Is Your Super Tool!
Have you ever wondered how we make CoE courses beautiful, scalable, and functional to deliver exceptional student experiences? We have a tool for that called DesignPLUS! This past summer the creators of DesignPLUS, Cidilabs, offered a 5 part workshop series over called Summer School for Educators that highlighted how to use DesignPLUS from first time…
September 19, 2024
Canvas Tips: Prepping for Autumn Quarter
Hello CoE Huskies! We wanted to send a note because Autumn quarter is just around the corner! You’ll note Canvas sites are available to start working on in Canvas. You can locate them on your Canvas dashboard in the Unpublished Courses section at the bottom of the page. If you would like assistance with…
June 13, 2024
Working on Accessibility in Your Course? Start with TidyUp!
We’ve all done it – added dozens of files into the Canvas Files area of our course to provide content and supplements to our students. It is what the Files area is made for. But then as quarters go by and we change or add more content, the old files have a tendency to stick…
May 31, 2024
Canvas Tips: Prepping for Summer Quarter & Beyond!
Hello CoE Huskies! We wanted to send a note because Summer quarter is just around the corner! You’ll note Summer and Autumn Canvas sites are already available to start working on in Canvas. You can locate them on your Canvas dashboard in the Unpublished Courses section. If you would like assistance with prepping your Canvas sites, now is…
May 28, 2024
Canvas Discussions & Announcements Redesign Launching June 12th!
Hello CoE Huskies! On June 12th, UW-IT will implement the redesign of Canvas Discussion and Announcements! The redesigned discussions and announcements has all of the same functionality of classic discussions and announcements, with a new look and a few additional features. Discussions and Announcements Redesign: What’s New? You can now: Use the split screen to…
March 1, 2024
Canvas Tips: Prepping for Spring Quarter
Hello CoE Huskies! We wanted to send a note because Spring quarter is just around the corner! You’ll note Spring and Summer Canvas sites are already available to start working on in Canvas. You can locate them on your Canvas dashboard in the Unpublished Courses section. If you would like assistance with prepping your Canvas…
November 17, 2023
Your Old Canvas Courses Need Attention!
Courses created in Canvas before Summer 2018 will be deleted on December 18 of this year. If you would like to preserve any course content from this period, you can create a course archive by exporting your Canvas content ahead of December 18th. If you need assistance with this process, please submit a request to…
June 8, 2023
Coming this Winter: Canvas Retention Policy
Content created in the UW Canvas LMS is retained for five years after the end of the academic year (considered to be June) in which the course section was offered. As this is the first year the policy will be implemented, courses from Autumn 2012 through Spring 2018 will be deleted on December 18, 2023….
Panopto Retention Policy
To comply with the University of Washington’s records retention policies — and to adapt to a new Panopto contract that charges for the number of recordings created, archived and stored — UW Information Technology will begin implementing a retention policy for Panopto recordings in June. June 12, 2023: recordings not viewed in the previous 24…
April 6, 2020
QM Emergency Remote Instruction Checklist
Quality Matters is one of the leaders in the development of a method/rubric to assess online course quality. Recognizing the uniqueness of our challenges, they have developed an Emergency Remote Instruction Checklist to help members of the teaching community to assess their courses. You can access the rubric here.
