Accessibility Tips: The Scary Truth About Scanned PDFs
Need some simple fixes to improve accessibility? The Office of Digital Learning has a collection of tips for making course content more accessible. See the full collection: Accessibility Overview This tip focuses on scanned PDFs – why you shouldn’t use them and how to find alternative solutions. Please note that…
Accessibility Tips: Kaltura Makes "Kaptioning" Easy
Need some simple fixes to improve accessibility? The Office of Digital Learning has a collection of tips for making course content more accessible. See the full collection: Accessibility Overview Create, Caption, and Share Your Videos with Kaltura This tip focuses on Kaltura. Kaltura is a Canvas tool that makes i…
Accessibility Tips: Clean Up Your Ally Score with TidyUP
Need some simple fixes to improve accessibility? The Office of Digital Learning has a collection of tips for making course content more accessible. See the full collection: Accessibility Overview This tip describes how to use TidyUP. TidyUP is a content cleanup tool for Canvas courses that identifies potentially…
Accessibility Tips: Converting Documents and PowerPoints to PDFs
Need some simple fixes to improve accessibility? The Office of Digital Learning has a collection of tips for making course content more accessible. See the full collection: Accessibility Overview This tip focuses on converting your documents and PowerPoints to PDFs. PDFs are often the preferred document type for …
Accessibility Tips: Fix Inaccessible Content with Built-in Canvas Tools
Need some simple fixes to improve accessibility? The Office of Digital Learning has a collection of tips for making course content more accessible. See the full collection: Accessibility Overview This tip demonstrates how to use Canvas's built-in accessibility tools. These simple and efficient tools can help you…
Annoto Personal Notes
Annoto Personal Notes is a feature that allows students or instructors to make time-tagged notes while watching videos. These notes are visible only to the individual who made them and help link notes to a particular part of a video for easy reference. You can use your personal notes to summarize the video, reflect …
Canvas Grade Distribution
Can students view their grade distribution in a Canvas course? Instructors can allow students to view their grade distribution for assignments by deselecting the Hide grade distribution graphs from students option in their Course settings . Conversely, by selecting that same box, you can hide the grade distributi…
How to update modules and other resources imported from Canvas Commons
If you've ever imported modules (like the FSU Emergency Module or the FSU Course Evaluation Module ) into your course site from Canvas Commons, you may want to know how to update them with the latest information. Follow these steps to check for, read about, and import updates available to Canvas Commons resources …
Microsoft Immersive Reader in Canvas
Navigate this article : * Text Preferences * Grammar Options * Reading Preferences Microsoft Immersive Reader is an accessibility and reading experience tool integrated into Canvas. The tool can be used to help students read and understand course pages, assignment instructions, and the syllabus. It is not availab…
How do I hold virtual office hours?
Though we have both Canvas Conferences and Zoom web-conferencing tools available at FSU, we strongly recommend using Zoom for virtual office hours because it is well suited to both of the meeting types in this support article. Facilitating regular, scheduled office hours that all students can join This type of …
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