Instructional designers share the three essential items all Carmen courses should include in order to set students up for success —a nd they are simpler than you might expect.
Envision a class with no textbook. One where podcasts and video playlists are part of the course material, assignments can be completed using apps and the iPad Pro® is an essential learning tool. An engaging class about civil rights where the president of the university and the dean of Ohio...
Learn how Assistant Professor Karen Dannemiller couples a quiz assignment with open reference material to evaluate student readiness in her Engineering Design for Environmental Health course.
There are several new features coming to CarmenCanvas this spring that are designed to improve the teaching and learning experience. From participation roster widgets to Office integration, from an improved gradebook to enhanced quizzing capabilities, there is so much in store for you to explore in the LMS for next semester!
You may notice a new feature available on the Carmen landing page. For each of your CarmenCanvas courses, between Add Participants and Final Grades , you will now see a tab called Participation .
The Office of Distance Education and eLearning (ODEE) is launching a new widget to make...
Learn about the Teaching in CarmenCanvas section of the odee.osu.edu website, dedicated to inspiring new teaching and learning strategies at The Ohio State University. As an instructor, have you ever wondered how other faculty members organize their courses, or how teachers at other institutions use the same LMS platform? Maybe you’ve been dying to know how to prepare your students for online course material. Maybe you just want to read a story from someone using parts of Carmen you are unfamiliar with, to spark an idea of how you can better utilize the tool for your own courses. Now you can find answers to those types of questions at the Teaching in CarmenCanvas site.
Prior to the most recent change in Ohio State's learning management system, faculty who wanted to share resources between Carmen courses had few ways of doing so. Further, if departments wanted to create branded pages or standard assignments across a general education course, the processes for...
To help you build better courses in CarmenCanvas, instructional designers share recommendations and best practices they created based on student feedback. If you are not sure where to start, or you are looking for ways to improve your current courses, these tips can help you build courses that...
Now that we have fully adopted the Canvas LMS to power Carmen, we can enjoy the benefit of constant improvements from the software company, Instructure. Just in time for fall, the Office of Distance Education and eLearning (ODEE) is introducing a new website with teaching and learning best...