Revitalize your Canvas Page with tips from Northeastern’s instructional design consultant, Megan Reinle, PhD. Break up large text blocks with engaging videos, use Adobe Express for appealing visuals, and enhance readability with headings and bullet points. …
Panopto’s integration with Microsoft Teams simplifies the sharing of meeting and lecture recordings, offering benefits such as seamless integration with Canvas, easy sharing of recordings, and enhanced teaching and learning support….
Prepare for the fall semester with curated Knowledge Base articles in the Tech Service Portal, offering guides and best practices to address common Canvas-related questions and issues. …
Northeastern’s Tech Knowledge Base (KB) includes a library of articles that can help enhance course material accessibility, support self-paced learning, improve problem-solving skills, and contribute to a more efficient and effective educational experience. …
Academic Technologies has a number of updates that will be implemented on April 30. These changes will enable more secure connectivity between Canvas and external tools, including Panopto, Gradescope, VoiceThread, Pearson, McGraw-Hill Connect, and Top Hat while unlocking additional functionality. …
More than 400 faculty will be teaching from a Global Learning Space (GLS) classroom next semester. These modern classrooms enable faculty to easily connect their own devices (phone, computer, or laptop) with one touch and share content with all participants, providing a consistent teaching and learning experience across the university’s global campus system.
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Marguerite Matherne, an assistant teaching professor in the Mechanical and Industrial Engineering department, joined Northeastern in the fall of 2021,…
When and why should you use a co-organizer role? This feature is particularly useful when you are teaching in a large class or have a teaching assistant who can help take on the role of managing important settings within a Microsoft Teams meeting, such as attendee restrictions, breakout rooms, screen sharing, and more. …
Have you ever assigned collaborative work that didn’t go as planned? Many instructors have experienced this situation and there can be numerous reasons for the problem….
Many instructors use Teams meetings for class sessions because it’s an effective way to share content, record lectures, have students collaborate, and chat. For even more efficiency, consider scheduling Teams meetings ahead of time….
Many instructors can benefit from sharing content in the classroom. Whether it’s through slide presentations, videos, outlines, or interactive activities, teaching has become more visual and—for many students—more engaging. …
Leveraging Canvas and integrated tools, Teaching Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies for Biology Missy McElligott has developed an inclusive, three-tiered approach to teaching her large introductory biology course that effectively shrinks the class size while promoting metacognition and active learning. …
Did you know that Canvas, Northeastern’s learning management system, provides built-in tools to help create accessible courses to support all learners? Canvas offers an embedded accessibility checker, which can be found anywhere that has the Rich Content Editor, including Canvas Announcements, Assignments, Pages, and Quizzes. …
Revitalize your Canvas Page with tips from Northeastern’s instructional design consultant, Megan Reinle, PhD. Break up large text blocks with engaging videos, use Adobe Express for appealing visuals, and enhance readability with headings and bullet points. …
Panopto’s integration with Microsoft Teams simplifies the sharing of meeting and lecture recordings, offering benefits such as seamless integration with Canvas, easy sharing of recordings, and enhanced teaching and learning support….
Prepare for the fall semester with curated Knowledge Base articles in the Tech Service Portal, offering guides and best practices to address common Canvas-related questions and issues. …
Northeastern’s Tech Knowledge Base (KB) includes a library of articles that can help enhance course material accessibility, support self-paced learning, improve problem-solving skills, and contribute to a more efficient and effective educational experience. …
Academic Technologies has a number of updates that will be implemented on April 30. These changes will enable more secure connectivity between Canvas and external tools, including Panopto, Gradescope, VoiceThread, Pearson, McGraw-Hill Connect, and Top Hat while unlocking additional functionality. …
More than 400 faculty will be teaching from a Global Learning Space (GLS) classroom next semester. These modern classrooms enable faculty to easily connect their own devices (phone, computer, or laptop) with one touch and share content with all participants, providing a consistent teaching and learning experience across the university’s global campus system. …
Marguerite Matherne, an assistant teaching professor in the Mechanical and Industrial Engineering department, joined Northeastern in the fall of 2021,…
When and why should you use a co-organizer role? This feature is particularly useful when you are teaching in a large class or have a teaching assistant who can help take on the role of managing important settings within a Microsoft Teams meeting, such as attendee restrictions, breakout rooms, screen sharing, and more. …
Have you ever assigned collaborative work that didn’t go as planned? Many instructors have experienced this situation and there can be numerous reasons for the problem….
Many instructors use Teams meetings for class sessions because it’s an effective way to share content, record lectures, have students collaborate, and chat. For even more efficiency, consider scheduling Teams meetings ahead of time….
Many instructors can benefit from sharing content in the classroom. Whether it’s through slide presentations, videos, outlines, or interactive activities, teaching has become more visual and—for many students—more engaging. …
Leveraging Canvas and integrated tools, Teaching Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies for Biology Missy McElligott has developed an inclusive, three-tiered approach to teaching her large introductory biology course that effectively shrinks the class size while promoting metacognition and active learning. …
Have you ever experienced a technological issue while teaching? Most instructors have had this experience and know how frustrating it can be….
On Aug. 31, Poll Everywhere will release several enhancements and bug fixes to support a more streamlined experience. …
Review new Academic Technologies enhancements, tools, and support available to help you prepare for the start of the school year. …
Explore and leverage new tools and resources available to faculty to help improve the Canvas digital teaching and learning experience. …
Explore and leverage new tools and resources available to faculty to help improve the Canvas digital teaching and learning experience. …
Did you know that Canvas, Northeastern’s learning management system, provides built-in tools to help create accessible courses to support all learners? Canvas offers an embedded accessibility checker, which can be found anywhere that has the Rich Content Editor, including Canvas Announcements, Assignments, Pages, and Quizzes. …
In June 2023, a new retention policy that affects stored course content is coming to Panopto. …
An Opportunity to Learn and Grow Before the start of the 2021-22 academic year, Kris Jaeger-Helton, teaching professor and director of…