The new year has begun bringing chances and opportunities to set yourself up for 365 days of success. The Office of Distance Education and eLearning has a plethora of offerings for instructors at The Ohio State University to help them better their skills in the classroom and online.
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...
Since its inception in 2015, the Digital Union free 3-D printing program has helped bring hundreds of student and faculty designs to life. They have printed a whole host of items; from academic projects, to teaching models, and now a skull to aid an...
What happens when e-learning staff partners with faculty to run 22 distinct projects, all in the name of exploring new methods for teaching and learning?
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....
