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New Canvas features and resources for the new academic year
Academic Technologies has worked hard to release new resources and features to make Canvas a delight to teach and learn in. Here we will highlight some of the improvements and new resources available to help you elevate your Canvas course and make your teaching...
Fall 2023 Gradescope and Scanning Updates
Gradescope is a grading tool primarily for handwritten assignments, bubble sheets, and computer programming assignments. It allows an instructor (or multiple instructors and TAs) to save time reviewing, grading, commenting on, and re-grading student submissions. To...
Global Accessibility Awareness: Canvas Tools to Help Create More Accessible Courses
Did you know that Canvas, Northeastern’s learning management system, provides built-in tools to help create accessible courses to support all learners? Canvas offers an embedded accessibility checker, which can be found anywhere that has the Rich Content Editor,...
Panopto Retention Policy Change
In June 2023, a new retention policy that affects stored course content is coming to Panopto. The new policy is a result of a change in the university’s license agreement and allows faculty to continue accessing older content that may be stored on the service. ...
Bringing Interactive and Creative Experiences Into the Classroom
An Opportunity to Learn and Grow Before the start of the 2021-22 academic year, Kris Jaeger-Helton, teaching professor and director of Senior Capstone Design for the Industrial Engineering program in the College of Engineering, was seeking new opportunities to...
New tools for the new school year
New tools for the new school year It’s been a successful fall semester so far, with students, faculty and staff returning to campus “fully present” with in-person learning. Over the summer, the Academic Technologies team was busy completing several updates to learning...
Transforming Grading with Gradescope
Transforming Grading with Gradescope Since the rapid pivot to online learning for everyone at the start of the pandemic last year, Academic Technologies (AT) at Northeastern has been supporting students and faculty exchange knowledge across the world. This fall, as we...
Level Up Your Course Site With These Awesome Canvas Resources
Background At the beginning of the Fall 2020 semester, Northeastern transitioned to Canvas – a modern learning management system (LMS) that is mobile-first, reliable, accessible, and that can evolve with the ever-changing needs of Northeastern’s learners from...
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