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Carole Taxis | Faculty Innovator

The School of Nursing’s very own Dr. Carole Taxis was recently featured in this Provost Fellows profile.

Watch the short video below or visit the site here to learn more about what inspires Dr. Taxis and how she’s incorporating “flipped classroom” techniques into her own courses.

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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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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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Virtual Office Hours

Virtual Office Hours

Traditionally, office hours offer a predetermined time and place where students can visit with faculty for any of a number of different reasons. But sometimes, scheduling conflicts might arise, life might get in the way and students just can’t make it to your office when you’re available.

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Add People to Your Canvas Course

Adding people to your Canvas courses is pretty simple. That is, once you’ve done it a couple times.

However, if you never have, it’s not the most “intuitive” process ever. So, here’s how you can add anyone to Canvas… as long as they have a UT EID.

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How to create a video for a class – Teaching in Higher Ed

I have been talking often about the learning management system (LMS), Canvas, these past few days. We are switching over to it for the coming academic year, which, according to my calculations, starts in about two and a half seconds. One of the many features I appreciate about it is how easy it is to […]

Source: How to create a video for a class – Teaching in Higher Ed

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Google Apps in Canvas

screen-shot-2017-03-24-at-9-04-03-amLike most people, you’ve probably been using Google for ages now. And, I guarantee your students have been too. It’s also likely that your students are not just using Google to search for things, but they’re probably also using Google Apps and Google Drive to create and share documents.

The good news is, that now you and your students share documents, without ever leaving your Canvas course.

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