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For Staff and Administrators mostly. Instructors should use their Canvas course Zoom to schedule course-related meetings. But faculty may want to use the Zoom scheduling tool in Microsoft Outlook to schedule individual meetings with students. The following screencast walks through …
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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 …
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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 …
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Old PowerPoint presentations that were recorded as Adobe Presentations several years ago rely on Flash, an obsolete technology that is set to expire in December, 2020. Until then, these troubleshooting steps will allow users to see Adobe Presentations. One method: …
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Canvas has an appointment-scheduling tool for setting up individual conferences with students. The instructor uses the tool to schedule a series of time slots, and the students sign up for them on a first-come, first-serve basis. The instructor should provide …
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To record yourself presenting via webcam to Canvas Studio, you must be using a laptop with a webcam built-in and a microphone, or from a desktop computer that is equipped with webcam and mic accessories. The steps are simple, and …
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If you want to record a video directly to Canvas Studio from your iPhone (or other smartphone), go ahead! These steps show you how.
Your instructor has asked you to upload a video to a Canvas assignment. Now what do you do? Here are three basic tutorials on uploading video to a Canvas assignment, or just to Canvas Studio to be used later. There …
You can create new content in Canvas by creating a “page,” directly from a module. The steps are shown in the screencast that follows. [frame width=”560px” height=”320px” allowfullscreen=”true” src=”https://stfrancis.instructuremedia.com/embed/23b9ac7c-ef46-4c6f-aa15-8c915e86c8a9″ frameborder=”0″][/iframe]
You can submit a video to a Canvas assignment that is enabled by the instructor to do so. The first video below, shows the steps for submitting the video from your computer. The second video, below the first, shows you …
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