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Updates to myCourses for Saturday, September 15, 2018
September 20, 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.
Updated Features:
Gradebook Section filter: In the Gradebook when the Section filter is applied the filter results will also be applied to the Speedgrader. To unfilter the Section,...
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Updates to myCourses for Saturday, August 25, 2018
September 20, 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 Canvas updates for August 25th involved some updates to current features and some bug fixes. This blog post focuses on the updates that apply to faculty and students.
Updated...
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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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