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by datlearnitPosted on Posted in Canvas-faculty, Faculty, Fall 2020 Bulletin, New, New Alternatives No Comments

The editing window you use to create content is about to change.  Coming January, 2021, it will have enhanced features but it is important to become familiar with the ones you may use the most.  The infographic below shows you …

Coming soon: the new Canvas “Rich Content Editor” (RCE) Read More »

by datlearnitPosted on Posted in Faculty, Fall 2020 Bulletin, How to... ?, New, webinars, Zoom No Comments

The decision whether to record a Zoom class session or lesson “to the Cloud” or to the local computer is not one to be taken lightly.  Our institutional Zoom account has a ceiling on the amount of recordings that can …

Zoom Recordings: to the Cloud, or Computer? A Discussion Read More »

by datlearnitPosted on Posted in Faculty, Fall 2020 Bulletin, How to... ?, New, webconferencing, webinars, Zoom No Comments

The Q Camera has been deployed to USF’s colleges for use in the classroom where voices need to be heard from far away.  There is a limited number and each college will need to sort out a means to share …

The Q2N-4K, “Qm” Webcam for superb audio Read More »

by datlearnitPosted on Posted in Faculty, Favorite Projects, Incandescent Moments No Comments

Statistics Professor Sudipta Roy makes statistics as easy as counting toothpicks, or cotton swabs, or anything else that comes in a box (!) as she demonstrates with her favorite classroom experiment.

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by datlearnitPosted on Posted in Faculty, Favorite Projects, Incandescent Moments No Comments

College of Education Professor Srimani Chakravarthi has an immersive way to show teachers-in-training methods of connecting with students whose native language is not the one used in the classroom.

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by datlearnitPosted on Posted in Faculty, Favorite Projects, Incandescent Moments No Comments

Professor Brown has students narrow down their most important values, and then asks them to keep track of the time they spend and match it with those values.  The results are revelatory.

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by datlearnitPosted on Posted in Alternative Teaching, Canvas Studio, Canvas-faculty, Closed Captions, Faculty, How to... ?, New, Posting, video No Comments

These procedures show how to upload a video, such as a PowerPoint video, directly to Canvas Content (a page, an assignment, a discussion topic or post, or a quiz), using Canvas Studio.  View the screencast, and/or see the documentation.

by datlearnitPosted on Posted in Alternative Teaching, Faculty, How to... ?, MS office, Posting, Powerpoint No Comments

… and exporting the show to video for upload to the web Using a current and supported version of PowerPoint, you can record audio narration to slides, and export the slide show to a video file that can then be …

Record Narration to PowerPoint using Slide Show Controls Read More »

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by datlearnitPosted on Posted in Canvas-faculty, Faculty, How to... ?, New No Comments

The following guide shows how a Word document of multiple choice quiz questions must be formatted for it to be uploaded successfully into Canvas.  All references to CID in this document are meant to indicate the Department of Academic Technology …

Creating a Quiz for Canvas in Word, Formatting Read More »

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by datlearnitPosted on Posted in Alternative Teaching, Faculty, Microsoft Stream, MS office, Posting, Powerpoint No Comments

… and uploading to Microsoft Stream USF faculty can be enabled to record audio narration to Powerpoint and publish the presentation as a video for distribution on the web.  This presentation shows that you can publish a Powerpoint video to …

Record narration to Powerpoint with the Recording Tab Read More »

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