I know the feeling. You open your inbox and there it is – another email asking for “one more thing.” Maybe your annual training is about to expire. Maybe it’s a new system migration. Or perhaps you’re getting a warning that your Zoom cloud recordings will soon be deleted unless you take action now. I get […]
As an educator, you are likely familiar with this feeling: a new semester is about to begin, and you are handed a blank Canvas shell and a syllabus that needs to be filled out for your course(s). At first, you feel genuine excitement as you envision the topics you’ll explore and the engaging discussions you’ll […]
The Call to Adventure In Spring 2025, many educators are still grappling with how to deal with AI diffusion and, in particular, how to position students to authentically demonstrate their learning. At the same time, students seek clarity in what counts as acceptable use and what skills they may need to develop to achieve their […]
This is the seventh post of the Carefully Curated Series for the Spring 2024 semester. In your teaching career, think about how many times you have had to remind a student about something included in the syllabus gently. Sometimes, it can be stressful to realize someone has made it deep into a semester without being aware of […]
This is the fourth post of the Carefully Curated Series for the Spring 2024 semester. Planning an online asynchronous course is no easy task– it requires thoughtful preparation, a generous chunk of time, and the bandwidth to learn new digital tools. But the course planning doesn’t end when the semester begins. As students progress through the course, […]
This is the third post of the Carefully Curated Series for the Spring 2024 semester. Before I begin, I want to acknowledge that accessibility is complex, with many guidelines and requirements, and I would never expect you to know everything. As with many other areas, accessibility can be nuanced, and there rarely, if ever, is […]
As a faculty member who teaches a mix of online, blended, and in-person courses each semester, I’m always on the lookout for aspects of Canvas that are both useful for students and can save me time in the semester. On this Valentine’s Day (whether you love, hate, or feel neutral about the holiday. Personally, I […]
This month, during the week of April 4-8, 2022, CSUCI participated in a CSU system-wide competition: Moving the Needle Challenge. It was an event to mobilize campuses around improving Canvas course accessibility scores by “fixing” existing content (pages, images, videos, presentations, etc.) housed in those courses. With the smallest FTE count of the participating campuses […]
It is now the second week of the Spring 2022 semester and if you’re teaching a course this term you may have noticed a new course menu item, Accessibility Report. Many of you may also recall me referring to an upcoming ALLY tool that would provide more information to faculty, well, this is it! I’m […]
First of all, I just wanted to take a moment to welcome you all to the Fall 2018 semester. It’s great to see the campus abuzz with students, faculty, staff, and guests again as we get this semester underway. I also wanted to remind you that Teaching & Learning Innovations (T&LI) is here to support […]
