IDT Blog: Teaching & Tech Tips
New edtech tool: Lucid for charts, graphs, and interactive whiteboards
You now have the option of embedding diagrams, charts, or interactive whiteboards anywhere you use the Canvas text editor with Lucid Visual Collaboration Suite. Add interactivity to Canvas pages, assignments, discussions, and more!
Lucidchart is a diagram tool that allows you to provide diagrams or have students collaboratively design the diagram. Lucidspark is a whiteboard tool that also allows students to collaborate to visualize course concepts.
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Preparing your Canvas site: A start-of-semester checklist
Posted August 7, 2024
- Ensure that your course syllabus has been updated and posted in your site.
- We advise sharing your syllabus in the Syllabus tool of your Canvas site so students can find it easily.
- See How to upload a document to the Syllabus tool for a step-by-step guide of adding your syllabus document to this tool.
- Content created/imported
- If you are creating new content (assignments, discussions, pages, etc.) in your Canvas site and need some assistance, we would be happy to help! Please reach out to us at idt@camden.rutgers.edu or 856-225-6090 to speak with one of our staff.
- There are several methods of transferring content from one Canvas site to another, depending on the circumstance. Please see How to copy course content for an in-depth guide.
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Alert for Flip video users
Posted July 22, 2024
Starting July 1, 2024, Flip (previously FlipGrid), Microsoft’s video discussion tool, is no longer a free-standing app but available only in Microsoft Teams. We apologize to those using Flip in their teaching, as this change happened suddenly.
If you have used Flip in the past, you can download your videos until September 30, 2024. This link provides directions on how to access and download your videos.
Please see these directions if you want to use Flip through Microsoft Teams. Rutgers does not currently have the ‘Teams Assignments’ tool integrated with Canvas. We will post updates when new information becomes available.
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Creating assessments in the age of AI
Posted July 1, 2024
In light of Artificial Intelligence advancements and the ever-increasing popularity of AI tools and LLMs (Large Language Models), many educators recognize the need to reevaluate the way we assess learning. We need to think critically about the design of not only individual prompts but the overall structure of our assessments. Here are a few ideas to consider, as we seek to develop assessments that discourage students from relying on AI-generated responses as a substitute for their work and demonstration of knowledge.
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