by Craig Short | Aug 5, 2019 | June 2019, News, Weekly Newsletter
Interested in learning more about Canvas during the summer? The Instructional Design/Technology (ID/T) team offers free training year round. UMKC faculty, staff, and graduate assistants may register for the free sessions on our workshops calendar. The Canvas 101,...
by Craig Short | Jun 27, 2019 | June 2019, News, Weekly Newsletter
Attendees of the July 26th UMKC Canvas Conference will be able to explore tools to improve the online experience for students as well as themselves. How do you ensure the originality of student papers? How do you prevent cheating in an online exam? Jing Zou,...
by Craig Short | Jun 27, 2019 | June 2019, News, Weekly Newsletter
When you create pages, assignments, quizzes, discussions, etc., you have a Rich Text Editor similar to what you use to create emails. By using the Rich Text Editor, you are able to enhance content by embedding hyperlinks to websites, videos, and images. You are able...
by Craig Short | Jun 27, 2019 | June 2019, News, Weekly Newsletter
The Instructional Design & Technology (ID/T) team consists of Instructional Designers and Technologists here to help you design quality online courses and practice using eLearning tools at UMKC. We offer a variety of face-to-face and online resources and...
by Craig Short | Jun 27, 2019 | July 2019, June 2019, News, Weekly Newsletter
On July 13, 2019, Turnitin will take an 8-hour maintenance window from 3 a.m. until 11 a.m. (CST). During this time, users will be unable to submit items, access similarity reports, or grade. Please ensure any submission deadlines are adjusted to fall outside of this...
by Craig Short | Jun 27, 2019 | June 2019, News, Weekly Newsletter
Top Hat is an interactive, cloud-based teaching platform that enables instructors to engage students both inside and outside the classroom with compelling content and activities. You can use Top Hat to take attendance, ask interactive questions with automated grading,...
