Does your Canvas course site need a check up? Come drop by ATC’s “Canvas Clinic” open office hours to get help beginning August 30th and then offered every Wednesday in September. We’ll have staff on-call for your Canvas design questions, tech support, or just reassurance or feedback. No appointments necessary, walk-ins welcome. We’ll be in Anderson Lab…Continue Reading Drop by our weekly Canvas Clinics – starting August 30th!
Announcing our 2nd Annual Canvas Camp workshop!
This 1/2 day session will feature 4 brief (~25 min) rotating sessions throughout the 3 hour block, and an open session for the final hour. Come for the snacks, stay for the learning!
Where? Anderson Labs and Tech Suites
When? August 21st 1pm-4pm…Continue Reading Announcing our 2nd Annual Canvas Camp workshop!
Canvas: Custom Home Page with Buttons
Are you looking to add some aesthetics and usability to your Canvas course? Consider building a custom home page for your course. Your students will see this home page right away and each button will link them to modules or other areas in the course that they need to go to. This leads to less…Continue Reading Canvas: Custom Home Page with Buttons
Canvas is coming to WPI!
Last fall, a task force was organized to evaluate what direction WPI should take regarding our Learning Management System (LMS) as Blackboard phases out support for the current version of their product and our contract is set to expire. On behalf of the LMS task force, the ATC is pleased to share the announcement made at…Continue Reading Canvas is coming to WPI!
myWPI Accessibility Series: Providing Semantic Structure to your Documents
The myWPI platform is accessible to all users by default; however, the individual content items uploaded by faculty and students may not be. How can the common documents we use day to day be made accessible for users with visual impairments or learning and cognitive disabilities? You’ll be happy to hear that there are just a few…Continue Reading myWPI Accessibility Series: Providing Semantic Structure to your Documents
Spotlight on Student Engagement: Piazza
Piazza is a free, easy to use Q&A platform integrated within Canvas. If you’ve been looking for more ways to get your students contributing in class, Piazza might be the tool for you. The Piazza platform encourages all types of learners to ask and answer questions in an online forum environment. Students have the option…Continue Reading Spotlight on Student Engagement: Piazza
Welcome back WPI Faculty!
Hope everyone’s first week is going smoothly! Last Wednesday TTL was able to meet with new faculty members at WPI and give them an overview of the services we offer from Technology for Teaching and Learning @ the ATC. It got me thinking that we should give the same refresher to our returning faculty! Such is the…Continue Reading Welcome back WPI Faculty!
myWPI Update Completed 11/26
During our morning maintenance window on 11/26, our System Administrators were able to successfully deploy a fix to the myWPI Grade Center. We had several reports over the past month that e-mail was unable to be delivered to students via Grade Center. E-mail can now once again be sent from Grade Center in myWPI. Please…Continue Reading myWPI Update Completed 11/26