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Sean White

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Getting Started with UT Box

UT Box is a cloud-storage service available at no cost to all faculty, students, and staff at UT. And, which provides an unlimited amount of space for sharing and storing any type of digital file (e.g., video, document, image, etc.).

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Downloading multiple files from Canvas to your PC

Downloading multiple files from Canvas to your PC eCampus Help DeskFollowSo you’ve entered Canvas, you take a look at your files and realize you need more than one. Maybe you need 50 or 100 different files! Selecting those files one by one is an option, but what if you could get all those files from Canvas to your computer with just a couple clicks? You can and here is how:

Source: Downloading multiple files from Canvas to your PC – NCTC eCampus Help Desk

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Academic Integrity – Faculty Resources

This page provides information to assist faculty members in addressing various concerns such as scholastic dishonesty. The established procedures for dealing with suspected incidents of scholastic dishonesty (or other student misconduct) are also included along with guidelines for navigating the student discipline process.

http://deanofstudents.utexas.edu/conduct/facultyresources.php

Addressing Academic Dishonesty in Your Syllabus

http://deanofstudents.utexas.edu/conduct/facultyresources.php#addressing

 

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Promoting Academic Integrity – Teaching in Higher Ed

Quotes from the episode People have cheated forever. —Phil Newton Think about all the good principles of assessment, but do that through the lens of academic integrity. —Phil Newton If you make it easy for things to happen, then they’re more likely to happen. —Phil Newton We don’t design assessments to catch cheaters — we […]

Source: Promoting Academic Integrity – Teaching in Higher Ed

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A small bug in Canvas…

Recently, it came to my attention that group assignments that had worked in a particular way in the past, no longer seemed to be behaving now.

So, as we prepare for summer and next fall, if you find that your group assignments aren’t letting you assign groups of people to them, try the following:

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Embed Sli.do, Kahoot!, or anything else into your PowerPoint

You can embed ANY web page into your PowerPoint slideshow!

The steps below will show you how to embed a Sli.do poll into your slideshow. The steps are virtually identical if you’re using Kahoot!, Poll Everywhere, or just about any other website.

How do I embed Slido into my presentation?

Slido’s Present view can be embedded into your slides to make poll results and live questions visible directly in your PowerPoint presentation. The setup is really easy! To get started click the link above.

For more detailed instructions, you can also refer to this blog post.

 

 If you have any questions or you’d like to schedule a 1-on-1 training session to learn more about PowerPoint or anything else, please don’t hesitate to contact me.