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  • February 17, 2021August 5, 2021
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Three Strategies for Building Online Community

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Welcome to the new home of ITG’s Instructional Technology Blog! We’ll be posting advice, tips, and strategies for making the most of your digital tools. Check back often for ways to breathe new life into your Canvas courses, spice up your Zoom sessions, craft engaging Panopto videos, and more!

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  • June 19, 2020
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Case Study: Asking Students to Make Video Presentations

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In the fall of 2019, I interviewed Mike McGuirk who teaches in the Marketing Communication Department about his use of video in his assignment prompts. Mike asked his Social Media and VOC Analytics students to make two video presentations. Our conversation has been edited and condensed for […]

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  • August 19, 2019February 11, 2021
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Canvas New Gradebook Overview

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In this blog post, you will learn how to use the New Gradebook in Canvas. The New Gradebook helps instructors easily input, manage, and release grades to students. Please note that New Gradebook has been enabled for all Fall 2019 Canvas course! In the very […]

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  • June 27, 2019February 17, 2021
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Access to Learning Analytics inside Canvas

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This article provides instructors with tutorials for accessing course and student analytics in Canvas. Canvas Analytics provides an overview of students’ activity within your course. You can use this data in correlation with student performance to inform instructional decisions in your course. Course Analytics Overview […]

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  • June 11, 2019February 17, 2021
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In a Nutshell: Canvas Announcements

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“In a Nutshell” condenses frequently requested instructions into practical, bite-sized chunks. Learn a new tool in the time it takes to drink a cup of coffee! What’s the quickest way to send a message to your entire class (and be reasonably sure they see it)? […]

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  • November 29, 2018
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In a Nutshell: How to Use the New Canvas Scheduler

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Official guides for tools like Canvas and Panopto are dense out of necessity—the authors need to cover EVERYTHING about each topic. In this series, “In a Nutshell,” I’ll condense frequently requested instructions into practical, bite-sized chunks. Learn a new tool in the time it takes […]

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  • September 7, 2018
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Introducing Deep Embeds: An Easier Way to Show Videos in Canvas

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You’ve probably heard that Panopto, Emerson’s video-hosting platform, underwent a major update this summer. Now you can simply embed Panopto videos in Canvas, and students will automatically be able to view them! Here’s more about what this change means for your teaching. What you don’t […]

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  • February 21, 2018February 11, 2021
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Ways of Implementing UDL principles in Canvas

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As educators, we tend to replicate techniques we are comfortable using while assuming our students are OK with them. But in fact, our learners differ in ways that “they perceive and comprehend information that is presented to them”, and learners differ in ways in which […]

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  • November 17, 2017February 11, 2021
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Incorporate Video Feedback in Teaching

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In traditional educational contexts, providing meaningful feedback to students can enhance their learning and improve their learning performance. In online teaching contexts or in response to assignments submitted for formal assessment, providing written feedback is considered to be the most commonly used format. Research shows […]

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  • October 11, 2017
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Faculty Spotlight: Jon Honea

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In this first of a series of interviews with Emerson faculty, we talk with Jon Honea about how he uses technology to enhance his teaching… What courses do you teach? Ecology and Conservation, Science and Politics of Water, Energy, and Sustainability, Science in Translation: Environmental […]

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Video Spotlight: Creating Accessible Videos


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