If you are teaching at Ohio State, your gradekeeping is an essential part of how your students experience learning. Grades are correlative to assessments; they’re how students measure progress, anticipate final grades and take responsibility for their own academic careers. Thus, many...
Starting spring semester 2017, you’ll notice there’s a new process for creating CarmenCanvas Assignments that use Turnitin for plagiarism detection. The latest upgrade to the Turnitin software suite requires a slight adjustment to how you have traditionally set up Assignments in Carmen.
You’ve likely adopted the Canvas LMS for your spring courses, but did you know how much more you have access to in the new system? Canvas came with apps already built in, and we’ve been integrating even more for a seamless experience of added functionality. For example, you can host videos in...
When we set out to improve our Carmen (Canvas) support resources for spring 2017, our first step was gathering feedback from the users. We asked instructors questions about awareness of our support service offerings, effectiveness of these services and what new services would be helpful....
Calling all faculty and staff that manage non-academic courses or forums in Carmen (D2L)!
Please be aware that any materials in Carmen (D2L) will no longer be available as of May 14, 2017 . This includes non-academic courses or forums in which enrollment is not controlled by the...
It's crunch time for adopting the Canvas LMS! While you're building out those master courses for spring semester, review the following #protips from instructors who have been successfully teaching in Carmen (Canvas). Tab through the different topics for a variety of helpful advice:
You said hello to Canvas and you’ve started building…so what’s next? We’ve revamped the Canvas Adoption Timeline to showcase the important dates you need to know for spring semester 2017:
Deadline for Exception Requests – November 18, 2016 – If you feel your course...
In autumn 2016, the Office of Distance Education and eLearning (ODEE) saw 70% of courses in Carmen using the Canvas LMS. All of the colleges at The Ohio State University are on the path to reach nearly 100% of their courses in Carmen (Canvas) for spring semester, but we’d like to give a shout...
On September 21, ODEE hosted the Innovate Faculty Showcase in the newest Innovative Spaces classroom , the Innovation Center in Campbell Hall 100. Instructors and staff gathered to hear stories from those who are making the most of the Carmen...