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 st...
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 f...
Want to add a YouTube video into your course? [You can already do this in Canvas][1], but now you can use Kaltura's player to play YouTube videos instead. ## Why use Kaltura to play YouTube videos? * **Increase accessibility of course media** Kaltura's video player increases the accessibility of the YouTube video...
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 f...
## 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 ...
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 device...
Though we have both [Canvas Conferences][1] and [Zoom][2] 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 t...
Please Note: Microsoft Teams meetings do not directly integrate with our Canvas system. As a result, we only recommend using a Microsoft Teams meeting to facilitate a virtual course meeting for your class in the event that both [Zoom][1] and [Canvas Conferences][2] are unavailable for use. 1. [Install the Microso...
We have integrated FSU's ACE Tutoring with Canvas, which means that you can now add an ACE Tutoring 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?][1]. [1]: https://community.canvaslms.com/docs/D...
The FSU Course Evaluation Module is designed to provide tips and resources that will help instructors engage students in the evaluation process and, ultimately, increase their course evaluation response rates. Students who opt out of course evaluations cite a variety of reasons. As an instructor, you play a critical ro...