Case Study: Asking Students to Make Video Presentations
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…
How to Help Students Become Digital Storytellers
We Emersonians know that you don’t need to be a grizzled rogue with a lute to be a storyteller. Nor do you need to read or listen passively as stories…
Canvas New Gradebook Overview
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…
Access to Learning Analytics inside Canvas
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 a Nutshell: Canvas Announcements
“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…
“Pedagogy” in Higher Education
Everyone seems to have a hill they will die on. A (sometimes) irrational fixation on something that will cause eye-rolling and heavy sighing among others when one starts to sound…
Emerson.build: Rule Your Domain!
Emerson.build has been building a larger following! If you haven’t heard of it, Emerson.build is a pilot of Reclaim Hosting’s “Domain of One’s Own” program. It allows any Emersonian to…
Making your videos useful for all your students
Nice Public Service Announcement from the University of Cincinnati: You can always add automatic speech recognition captions to your Panopto videos and then edit the captions for accuracy. The same…
In a Nutshell: How to Use the New Canvas Scheduler
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…
Introducing Deep Embeds: An Easier Way to Show Videos in Canvas
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…