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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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myCourses Storage Limit Options
October 21, 2016, by Peter Doughty
All myCourses courses have a file storage limit of 500 MB (megabytes). It's actually 524.3 for those wanting to go the extra geek mile! For most faculty, this limit will be fine, but if you are using large files, (audio and video files, high resolution images, media-heavy PowerPoint or Adobe presentations and complex programming files come to mind) it is possible to quickly use up your quota. So you probably want to know about alternate storage methods to be able to manage that pesky storage...
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myCourses Updates for 10/08
October 4, 2016, by Andrew Ciesielski
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 10/8 myCourses Production Release:
Dashboard Sidebar Course Names: The “To Do,” “Coming Up,” and other sections in the Dashboard sidebar display the course...
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Updates to myCourses for Saturday 8/27
August 24, 2016, by Alicia Medros
It is back to school time and I would have loved to see them a few weeks earlier, but there are a few feature updates in this weekend’s Canvas that I am really excited about and am glad to see for the new Academic Year.
As always, you can read the Canvas release notes for the full details on all the updates, but I have highlighted those that will be most impactful to you and your students below.
Look and feel of the index pages including Modules, Assignments, Quizzes, and Conferences. These...
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