Happy New Year ESU!

Happy New Year ESU Canvas Community!

The latest Canvas updates are noted below. This update will occur on January 7^th.

Product Releases:

January 7^th Detailed Release Notes & Screencast

December 12^th iOS Detailed Release Notes

Smarthinking

This utility (online tutoring) has been removed from Canvas and will not be renewed. Instead, two new options for tutoring now appear on your course sidebar: ACES and WritingLab. These services reside in White Library. Students requesting tutoring should contact one or both of these campus services. Online students can participate in remote tutoring services provided through ACES.

CampusPack (Learning Objects)

This utility (blogs, wikis, journals, podcasts) has been removed from Canvas and will not be renewed. Instead, ….

Office365 + Canvas

….we are soliciting faculty who would like to voluntarily pilot two new Canvas enhancements: Office365 and OneNote. We’re requesting faculty opt into these new utilities for the Spring 2017 term during the pilot program. Here’s a little bit more about them….

Office 365 + Canvas: https://goo.gl/PBJVh5  (Provides the ability to add and collaborate using PowerPoint, Excel, and Word files through Canvas and OneDrive.)

OneNote + Canvas: https://goo.gl/rhLJK2 (Provides the ability to journal and blog using OneNote – a surprisingly powerful tool and supports multimedia.)

If you would like to participate in the pilot, please contact one of the Instructional Designers (Mark, Anna, Joe) and request to be included.

Panopto

The link for Panopto has changed to make it shorter and not wrap onto two sidebar lines. It now reads Panopto Videos rather than Panopto Recordings.

Learning Technologies Blog and Twitter Feed

If you want more information about anything you read here, check out our blog at http://emporiastate.blogspot.com/ or follow us on Twitter @esulearningtech. Our Twitter feed is one of the top educational Twitter feeds in the State of Kansas!