by Craig Short | May 9, 2019 | April 2019, May 2019, News
Easily send your end of term grades from Canvas to Pathway. Combined courses in Canvas can now use the grade sync feature to push grades to Pathway. When you are ready to send your grades to Pathway, In the Canvas Grades screen, look for the Actions menu, and...
by Craig Short | Apr 23, 2019 | April 2019, News
Location: Kauffman Conference Center Date: July 26, 2019 Proposal Form: Click here July 2019 CALL FOR PROPOSALS: What’s new in your digital classroom? What makes your course stand out? Are you a skilled eLearning instructor with knowledge to offer? Or, are you...
by Craig Short | Apr 22, 2019 | April 2019, News, Weekly Newsletter
Blackboard will be unavailable after the Summer 2019 semester. It’s time to archive the valuable course content you had created and move on to Canvas. UMKC Instructional Design/Technology offers conversion services for faculty who wish to move Blackboard courses to...
by Craig Short | Apr 22, 2019 | April 2019, News, Weekly Newsletter
If a student told you that they were able to modify test or assignment scores on their end, do not panic. They were just using the “What-If” feature in their own gradebook. This feature allows students to calculate their total grade by entering hypothetical grades for...
by Craig Short | Apr 22, 2019 | April 2019, News, Weekly Newsletter
This is a reminder that Summer 2019 is the last semester you will be able to teach in Blackboard. After the Summer 2019 session, you will be unable to access Blackboard. Summer 2019 courses have been created in Canvas over the next few weeks. After they are created,...
by Craig Short | Apr 22, 2019 | April 2019, News, Weekly Newsletter
Get instant answers to your instructional design and technology questions. During business hours Monday through Friday, come to online.umkc.edu to chat live with our on-campus instructional designers about teaching, Canvas, Panopto, Zoom, or any of the tools we...