by Craig Short | Jan 18, 2019 | January 2019, News, Weekly Newsletter
Spring 2019 courses are now available in Canvas. In order for your students to access the course site and its contents, you will need to publish the course in Canvas. Follow these instructions on how to publish your course in Canvas. Please note that the publication...
by Craig Short | Jan 18, 2019 | January 2019, News, Weekly Newsletter
Each semester you plan to use the Panopto recorder, you must enable Panopto Recordings in your Canvas course. Enabling Panopto will create a unique Panopto folder for the course. Log-in to Canvas at http://umkc.instructure.com using your SSO and password. Open the...
by Craig Short | Jan 18, 2019 | January 2019, News, Weekly Newsletter
Turnitin is a third-party tool that integrates with Canvas and serves as a plagiarism detection and prevention tool. Turnitin may also be used check grammar, mechanics, and usage in papers. To identify matching content, student submissions are checked against the...
by Craig Short | Jan 18, 2019 | January 2019, News, Weekly Newsletter
The UMKC Libraries no longer have access to the database Safari Tech Books Online. If you are a UMKC instructor who has been assigning readings to your students from Safari Tech Books, please contact UMKC Libraries and we will find a replacement option or an...
by Craig Short | Jan 18, 2019 | January 2019, News, Weekly Newsletter
As the semester starts, many instructors choose to combine courses or sections into one Canvas site. This process moves all the students into one place so the instructor will not have to manage the content in multiple course sites. Accordingly, the Top Hat tool...
by Craig Short | Jan 11, 2019 | January 2019, News, Weekly Newsletter
As you prepare your course(s) for the upcoming Spring 2019 semester, the Beginning-of-Course Checklist may come in handy to ensure your course is ready to go for student access. Additionally, the End-of-Course Checklist is beneficial when you are nearing the end of...
