You registered for spring classes, you bought your books, you have your tech gear charged and ready for the new semester...but have you visited carmen.osu.edu recently? This semester, most (if not all) of your courses in Carmen will be using the Canvas LMS. If you are new to Canvas, you should...
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...
A wise person once said, “The only reason you should look back is to see how far you’ve come.” That is the sentiment the Office of Distance Education and eLearning (ODEE) took these past two weeks as it reminisced on its top viewed features of 2016.
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...
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...