Beginning of Semester Reminders – Spring 2025
Canvas Login In case you missed it… Copy a Canvas Course Spring 2025 Training Opportunities Course or Section Cross-Listing Academic Integrity Concerns Publishing and Unpublishing Courses We Appreciate Your Feedback Canvas 3rd Party Tools Academic Technologies Website Greetings Faculty and Staff, We hope you had an amazing winter break! Below are some reminders that will […]
End of Semester Reminders – Fall 2024
Spring 2025 Course Shells Available Now Carrying Over Incompletes to the Next Semester VCU IT Status Just-In-Time Support Training Opportunities Academic Technology Support Final Grades Canvas 3rd Party Tools We Appreciate your Feedback Greetings VCU Faculty, We hope everyone has had a successful Fall semester. Below you will find some items to consider while closing […]
Canvas Feature Updates – September 2024
Navigation – Lucid Link Text Update Production Environment Availability: 9/11/2024 When enabled in Course Navigation, the Lucid LTI link text is updated to Lucid (Whiteboard). This update allows instructors and students who are unfamiliar with Lucid to quickly grasp its value and the tools now available to them for free through Canvas. When enabled in […]
Farewell Lon-Capa
Greetings VCU Community, We hope this message finds you well. We are writing to inform you about an important change regarding one of our online learning tools. Lon-Capa has been used at VCU for many years as a solution for STEM learning needs, but in recent years it has been plagued by unyielding usage, support, […]
Canvas Feature Updates – August 2024
Courses – Course Setting End Dates Production Environment Availability: 8/14/2024 In Course Settings, when adding course participation dates, a warning displays if the course end date is set before the start date and settings cannot be saved. This update prevents scheduling errors by ensuring that the course timeline is logical and avoids potential confusion for […]
VoiceThread Training – Sept. 2024
Join VoiceThread for their free workshops! If you are new to VoiceThread or just want some new ideas, this interactive and hands-on explorations is just what you need. All sessions are led by VoiceThread’s instructional designer and online educator, George Haines, who will share his expertise to help you get the most from VoiceThread. Using VoiceThread in Canvas September […]
Announcing Community Pros: Collaborative, Customer-Led Support Sessions by Instructure
The Instructure Community is excited to introduce Community Pros, a new series of meetups exclusively for Instructure Community members! These sessions are designed to foster learning, collaboration, and networking in an informal and customer-led environment. Each Community Pros session is a one-hour event in which members participate in small group discussions on specific topics. […]
Canvas Overview for Students – Weeks of Welcome
VCU Learning Systems will host three live, online 30-minute overviews of Canvas for students during Weeks of Welcome (sponsored by VCU Academic Technologies). In these sessions, students will learn how to login and navigate Canvas to complete class assignments, projects, and more. Join us on August 21, 28, or September 4. For more information and […]
Canvas Feature Updates – July 2024
Announcements – Mark All As Read Button Production Environment Availability: 7/20/2024 In Announcements, a Mark all as read button is available. This update allows users to quickly and efficiently mark all announcements as read. Additionally, a Mark all as read button is available for students. Announcements – Notifications for Changed Content Production Environment Availability: 7/20/2024 […]
Beginning of Semester Reminders – Fall 2024
Greetings Faculty and Staff, We hope everyone had an amazing summer full of unforgettable memories! Below we wrap up of reminders that we hope will help get your semester off to a smooth start. For questions, email [email protected]. Canvas Login Login to Canvas, VCU’s designated Learning Management System (LMS), via the Canvas Login Portal page at […]