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Try the myCourses Calendar to keep students on track
December 4, 2017, by Tyler Kennedy and Olivia Pelehach
The academic year can be a stressful time for both students and faculty members. Considering the course work, meetings, and extracurricular activities that consume the schedule of both groups, there is almost never a minute to waste. In order to be most productive, planning and organizing is of the utmost importance.
Course syllabi provide critical information about goals, assignments, readings, exams, expectations, and due dates that help to keep students and faculty on track. But those same...
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myCourses Accessibility Checker
October 25, 2017, by Alicia Medros
myCourses by Canvas operates on a three-week release cycle through which features are added or updated. Academic Technology myCourses blog will periodically highlight important information from these releases to inform the UNH Community about new and updated features available.
The Canvas release scheduled for Saturday, 10/28 includes a number of feature enhancements and break fixes. One of the new features I am most excited about is the Accessibility checker that is being added to the Rich...
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Try myCourses Grade Passback
October 20, 2017, by Tyler Kennedy
The long-requested Grade Passback feature on myCourses went live last May, just before the end of the spring semester, and based on the feedback we’ve gotten back, it’s been received with high marks from faculty members who’ve made use of it.
By using this myCourses feature, rather than having to manually transfer grades from myCourses to Webcat, a labor that could take hours to complete when dealing with large enrollment classes, faculty members can now log all their final grades into Webcat...
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The long-requested grade passback feature connecting myCourses to Webcat is live!
May 11, 2017, by UNH AT Staff
The end of the semester can be a stressful time for students and faculty. Students want to know their grade as soon as possible and faculty want to be responsive to student requests. One piece of the grade reporting process is now easier for faculty who use the myCourses's gradebook to manage and share their grades throughout the semester.
myCourses has a new feature that allows faculty to easily send final grades, as calculated in their myCourses gradebook, to Webcat. A student’s grade in ...
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Using myCourses for Snow Days
February 24, 2017, by Fran Keefe with Marquis Walsh and Peter Doughty
Here in Snow Hampshire, during the winter, UNH often curtails operations for inclement winter weather. This post will highlight a few options that you have available in case school gets cancelled and you need to make up some class time.
Please note each and every course has a myCourses site regardless of rather you have used it in the past or not, it exists. Your students are enrolled in it and you can use it for the purpose of posting content.
Recorded Content:
In myCourses you can enable...
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Updates to myCourses for Saturday February 18th, 2017
February 17, 2017, by UNH IT Staff
myCourses by Canvas operates on a three-week release cycle through which features are added or updated. Academic Technology Teaching and Learning Support blogs highlights from myCourses’ production release notes, a link to these notes, and other relevant content in the days surrounding a production release.
Here are the highlights of the 2/18 myCourses Production Release:
We’d like to highlight two new specific updates for this upcoming release, the Student Context Card and the Add User...
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VeriCite Plagiarism Detection Fully Intergrated with myCourses
January 11, 2017, by UNH IT Staff
UNH Academic Technology is pleased to announce a new and seamless integration of VeriCite plagiarism detection with myCourses, which is now available for all myCourses users.
By extending the VeriCite-myCourses integration beyond LTI, we're able to offer a much more streamlined process - one that doesn't duplicate LMS workflows. VeriCite functionality is now embedded in the myCourses tools that are so important to myCourses users, such as SpeedGrader, Assignments, Grades, Rubrics, Permissions...
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J-Term Support for Online Courses
December 22, 2016, by Alicia Medros
Online and hybrid courses for J-Term start in less than one week! UNH does have a campus shutdown beginning end of day Friday 12/23 and ending Tuesday 1/3. During this time on-campus support for faculty and students will be limited and we wanted to be sure and highlight what support is available.
24/7 technical support for myCourses is always available to faculty and students in your course by navigating to the help link in the lower left menu area of myCourses and select "24/7 Chat with...
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Updates to myCourses for Saturday December 10th, 2016
December 9, 2016, by Peter Doughty
myCourses by Canvas operates on a three-week release cycle through which features are added or updated. Academic Technology Teaching and Learning Support blogs highlights from myCourses’ production release notes, a link to these notes, and other relevant content in the days surrounding a production release.
Here are the highlights of the 12/10 myCourses Production Release:
There are some nice upgrades with this release including automatic favoriting for new courses which will answer many...
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Updates to myCourses for Saturday October 29th, 2016
October 28, 2016, by Peter Doughty
myCourses by Canvas operates on a three-week release cycle through which features are added or updated. Academic Technology Teaching and Learning Support blogs highlights from myCourses’ production release notes, a link to these notes, and other relevant content in the days surrounding a production release.
Here are the highlights of the 10/29 myCourses Production Release:
This update is the largest we’ve seen in a little while with some nifty additions and upgrades. We recently attended a...
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