The easiest and most useful way to share your class syllabus with your students is to use the Canvas Syllabus tool, providing both a link to the document (for downloading and printing) and an “automatic preview” so the students can see the text on the fly. How-to video follows these written instructions.
If you are unable to use the Java screenshare option within Conferences, please try the following: If you are receiving an error that states the .jnlp file cannot be opened, follow these steps (for Windows users): Once you save this file as the default ‘Open with’ setting, you can restart the screenshare in your Conferences… continue reading
Kaltura allows faculty, students, and staff at Rutgers to create or upload videos to a streaming server, which makes sharing them easy for everyone. You could think of our Kaltura server as Rutgers’ own YouTube-like service. Before you record a lecture for your course, review our tips about video lecture types and optimal video length…. continue reading
Two important factors affect the availability to students of all Rutgers Canvas course sites. At Rutgers, all Canvas courses follow our official “term dates” for availability to students (we try to get them adjusted consistently for the earlier start dates for Law). Term dates run from the first day of classes to some time after… continue reading
If you create a Canvas quiz for your course, you might want to share it with another instructor to use in their Canvas course. The simplest way to do that is to 1) export the quiz from Canvas to your computer, then 2) email the export file to your colleague, and then 3) they can… continue reading
In May 2018, Instructional Design & Technology collaborated with the Gender Studies department to create a workshop about designing welcoming and inclusive course syllabi. Why is this important? Research shows that students are more successful in courses where they feel a sense a rapport with a professor: specifically, when they believe the professor respects students,… continue reading
