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myCourses - New Gradebook
July 30, 2018, by Louise Jones
myCourses new Gradebook
As of this fall, there will be a new gradebook in town. Don’t be alarmed the functionality will be the same. The new gradebook mimics the functionality of the current gradebook but with better navigation and new menu options that make it easier to locate gradebook functionality. You will continue to add assessments and grade using the Speedgrader as you have before.
What is New in the Gradebook?
When you first look at the gradebook you’ll notice that the Menu...
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Updates to myCourses for Saturday, July 14,2018
July 17, 2018, by Louise Jones
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.
The July 14th update to Canvas includes some modifications to existing functionality as well as new functionality. At this time after reviewing the new features, the team has decided to...
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Updates to myCourses for Saturday, June 23,2018
June 22, 2018, by Louise Jones
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.
The June 23rd updates to myCourses includes several design changes as Canvas moves to making the application accessible to all users. New functionality includes updates to Calendar Events...
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Updates to myCourses for Saturday, June 2, 2018
June 4, 2018, by Louise Jones
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.
The June 2 updates to myCourses includes several changes some of which don’t apply to the tools we use here at UNH. Let’s focus on the updates that do apply to our use of myCourses,...
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myCourses end of semester - Post Term Course Access
May 17, 2018, by Alicia Medros, edited by Louise Jones
Congratulations, spring term is over! Now that exams have wrapped up and final grades are done (or at least close!), the questions start to be asked, "What happens to my course now? What access do I and students have going forward?"
These questions and answers will explain a little more about how the process works.
Q1. How long is a course available to students and faculty after the end of the term?
A1.By default, students and faculty will continue to have full access to the course until...
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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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