American River College in Sacramento is hosting a 1-day Canvas conference called Can-Innovate on Monday, Aug. 14. The conference costs $20 and is supported by Canvas and the state’s Online Education Initiative. For more information, go to http://innovate.losrios.edu/.
Aug. 14 is Convocation Day for full-time LPC employees, so this is probably more pertinent to adjunct faculty.
Scott
Canvas instructors,
The issue with dropped students still showing in classes appears to have been solved by District ITS. Students who withdrew after the add period show as inactive in People. For those who started classes this week, you shouldn’t notice this until after the drop period. Students who dropped prior to NGR will simply disappear from your class.
Scott
Canvas instructors,
District ITS has been alerted of an issue whereby dropped students are still showing as active in Canvas courses. This happened last semester and got fixed, so I’m assuming ITS will fix it soon.
Scott
Canvas instructors,
The interface for the VeriCite anti-plagiarism tool in Canvas has been updated and is available to use. VeriCite said it was updated “for improved ease of use, functionality, and accessibility.” To see the update in action, view a YouTube video about it. You can also read about it on VeriCite’s Canvas User Guide for instructors.
Canvas’ Assignments tool has been updated with a new viewer in the SpeedGrader that converts uploaded documents into a readable format and allows you to add comments. It works very similarly to the old viewer. Read more about the new viewer.
Scott