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Serving the instructional design & educational technology needs of faculty in UT's School of Nursing
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Posted on August 7, 2017 | By Sean White | Filed Under: Software & Apps, Teaching & Learning | Tagged With: Canvas, Engagement, FIC, Virtual, Website

August 2017 FIC Workshops

All workshops will be conducted in SZB 450AF. unless otherwise noted. Workshop Descriptions are located below the schedule.

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Posted on July 10, 2017 | By Sean White | Filed Under: Teaching & Learning | Tagged With: Canvas, Dynamic, Engagement, Flipped, Learning

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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Posted on June 30, 2017 | By Sean White | Filed Under: Software & Apps | Tagged With: Canvas, Dynamic, UT Box

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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Posted on June 23, 2017 | By Sean White | Filed Under: Uncategorized | Tagged With: Canvas

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

Posted on June 22, 2017 | By Sean White | Filed Under: Teaching & Learning | Tagged With: Canvas, Learning, PDF, syllabus

Nursing Building Evacuation Plan

Is your course syllabus 20, 30 or even 50+ pages long?

Do you ever wonder what you can do to shorten it?

One EASY thing you can do is to remove those last 9 pages called the NUR Building Emergency Plan 2017-2018.

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Posted on May 24, 2017 | By Sean White | Filed Under: Media & A/V, Software & Apps, Teaching & Learning | Tagged With: Canvas, Clicker, Engagement, Interactivity, Learning, Media, Video

A Curated Toolkit for Instructors

The Faculty Innovation Center (FIC) recently unveiled a new website full of resources just for you!

Called “QUICK FIC Solutions – A Curated Toolkit for Instructors”, this website contains more than 50 short videos that will show you tips and best practices for everything from dealing with difficult students to how to incorporate technology into your classes.

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Posted on May 4, 2017 | By Sean White | Filed Under: Uncategorized | Tagged With: Assignment, Canvas, Troubleshooting

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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Posted on April 23, 2017 | By Sean White | Filed Under: Software & Apps | Tagged With: Adobe Connect, Canvas, Office Hours, Virtual

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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Posted on April 12, 2017 | By Sean White | Filed Under: Uncategorized | Tagged With: Canvas, Website

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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Posted on April 7, 2017 | By Sean White | Filed Under: Media & A/V, Software & Apps, Teaching & Learning | Tagged With: Audio, Canvas, Media, Video

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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