Your Guide to Planning and Hosting Virtual Zoom Events

Are you planning to host an event and wondering how to best integrate Zoom into a hybrid or completely virtual event? Then check out Zoom's guide to planning and hosting virtual events!

The webinar will help you determine the five key steps of planning a virtual or hybrid event:

1. Think about your vision
2. Come up with a plan
3. Promote your event
4. Execute the plan
5. Follow up and evaluate the process

Check out the webinar below!

Webinar Series: Your Guide to Planning and Hosting Virtual Zoom Events

Canvas Updates for October 2021

There are some changes coming to Canvas when it runs its latest sprint on the 16th. Let's dive in!

Speedgrader Submission Labels

The SpeedGrader sidebar includes an Edit icon to be used for submission statuses. Statuses can be edited the same way as in the Gradebook. Additionally, adjusting a status in SpeedGrader also applies to the Gradebook.

• Setting the status to Missing displays the Missing label.
• If a late policy is enabled, setting the status to late displays the late label. Additionally, a text field allows the grader to enter a value for the days/hours late.
• Setting the status to excused displays the Excused status, and the grade field displays as EX and is grayed out.
• Setting the status to None removes any labels that were previously displayed for the assignment.

For more information, check out the video below:

 

 

Assignment Search Function

The Gradebook includes two search fields: one for student names, and one for assignment names. Using the Assignment search field displays any search results that match an assignment in the course.

Course Notification Customization

The User Notifications page displays all notification options for a user’s entire account. However, if a user has any active course enrollments, the menu displays the name of each course. Users can navigate between their courses and set specific notification options for each course, if preferred.

Any updated notifications also sync to the course-level Notifications page.

As always, contact Learning Technologies or visit our website at https://bit.ly/2MPyE1R

 

Add STEM Content to the Rich Content Editor in Canvas

 

If you're a STEM instructor, you know it can be difficult to add mathematical or scientific notations in Canvas. ESU, however, has recently enabled a product called EquatIO in the Rich Content Editor (RCE) in Canvas, allowing users to input a wide range of STEM figures into anything in Canvas that uses the RCE. 

While the version within Canvas is the free version with slightly more limited features, the full version is available for free as a Chrome extension. 

Check out the video from TextHelp that demos EquatIO and shows how and where you can use it!