Accessibility Tips: Optimum Color Contrast
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 color contrast. Making sure your documents follow guidelines for optimum contrast is helpful for a…
Accessibility Tips: Converting Microsoft Word Files to PDF
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 In this tip, we show you how to avoid common accessibility issues when converting Microsoft Word files to PDF. Tips f…
How to add a Career Portfolio link to your course navigation menu
We have integrated the FSU Career Portfolio with Canvas, which means that you can now add a Career Portfolio link to your Canvas course navigation menu. Simply follow the directions for enabling a navigation item in the Canvas article How do I manage Course Navigation links? .
[Old LTI Integration] Instructors: Viewing & Interpreting Turnitin's Originality Reports
Turnitin is makes it easier for instructors to detect plagiarism or other unauthorized aid in students' submitted work. When students submit work to a Turnitin-enabled assignment, their submissions are run through Turnitin's database to determine if any portion of it appears in published works, web sources, or other …
Instructors: Add a Guest to your Course
Flipgrid can be an effective way to foster communication among your students using a multimedia approach. You can also facilitate guest speaker engagements within the Flipgrid environment, or allow students from other courses/programs to participate in discussions with your students. This article details your options…
Introducing New Quizzes
What is New Quizzes? New Quizzes is Canvas's new assessment engine, which will replace the current "Classic" Quizzes over the next few years. New Quizzes was built as a separate web tool to integrate into Canvas using the LTI (Learning Tools Interoperability) standard that securely connects applications to Canvas a…
How to get Kaltura captions in a language other than English
Kaltura supports closed captioning and transcripts for many different languages, but will auto-caption everything in English by default first. At present, your videos can be captioned in Arabic, French, German, Italian, Russian, Hebrew, Japanese, Portuguese, and Spanish in addition to English. How to get captions fo…
Check Contrast for Accessibility with Colour Contrast Analyser
Making sure your documents follow guidelines for optimum contrast is helpful for all students but especially for those with visual impairments like color blindness. Good contrast makes content easier to view when it’s projected in class or on low-quality monitors. It also makes viewing content easier on a mobile devi…
Using Canvas Integration: How to start your scheduled Zoom meeting
Before your students can join the Zoom meeting that you have scheduled, you will first have to start the meeting. You can do this by following these steps. Please Note: It is important that you always start your meetings as described below even if you have downloaded the Zoom software and are using the Zoom sof…
Where can I find external apps in my Canvas course?
Can’t find the tool you need for your course? Please visit our support page on the External Apps Supported in FSU's Canvas for more information.
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