Posted: January 26, 2023 12:00:00 AM CST
Good News! Qualtrics “File Upload" Question feature is now available!! The “file upload question” feature allows respondents to upload a file along with their other responses. Using the file upload, you can collect data that may not be available through standard survey questions.
Posted: November 2, 2022 12:00:00 AM CDT
Content Creators and Administrators can share their media with users inside and outside of the Video Platform using video Sharing, Publishing and Direct Links. Watch this video to learn. (2 min)
Posted: October 3, 2022 12:00:00 AM CDT
YuJa is our new Video platform that allows faculty to record, upload and share videos for students. It is integrated right into Canvas and will be replacing VidGrid over the current academic year.
Posted: July 11, 2022 12:00:00 AM CDT
The polling feature in the Zoom app allows you to create single choice or multiple choice polling questions for your meetings. You will be able to launch the poll during your meeting and gather the responses from your participants. You also have the ability to download a report of polling after the meeting.
Posted: June 23, 2022 12:00:00 AM CDT
You don’t have to be an expert to build and distribute an effective online survey, but by checking your survey against tried-and-tested benchmarks, you can help ensure you are collecting the best data possible.
Posted: May 3, 2022 12:00:00 AM CDT
The Canvas Gradebook feature in Course Evaluation & Surveys (CES) provides the ability to assign a specific number of points to the students who have completed the survey.
Posted: April 25, 2022 12:00:00 AM CDT
New Feature – January 2022 Canvas allows you to expand or collapse the Course Navigation menu throughout your courses.
Posted: April 18, 2022 12:00:00 AM CDT
Undoubtedly the simplest benefit of OneDrive is having a secure private cloud-based folder, to store everything you need, which you can access from any device. In addition, you can set sharing and editing rights at either folder or document level, meaning you can start collaborating with colleagues either inside or outside your organization. You can stop attaching documents to emails and simply work on cloud-shared files instead.
Posted: March 25, 2022 12:00:00 AM CDT
The co-host feature allows the host to share hosting privileges with another user.
Posted: February 11, 2022 12:00:00 AM CST
You don’t have to be an expert to create a survey, but by following a few survey best practices you can make sure you are collecting the best data possible. When you don’t have hours to devote to becoming a survey-creation guru, a quick guide to the essentials is a great way to get started.
Posted: February 8, 2022 12:00:00 AM CST
OneDrive and SharePoint are superior online data sharing and collaborative work environment. Here are some of the reasons you should use these platforms.
Posted: December 10, 2021 12:00:00 AM CST
Cloud drive services are becoming widely popular nowadays. Microsoft OneDrive lets you save files and folders securely online and access them from any device, virtually anywhere. From backing up files to sharing and collaborating, OneDrive has a lot of features for home, school and work.
Posted: September 27, 2021 12:00:00 AM CDT
Short URLs are easier to use for sharing content. Think about it, if you have a long and confusing URL, it is going to look weird when shared across social media or emails.
Posted: August 27, 2021 12:00:00 AM CDT
When you compose, reply to, or forward an email message, and the message body (including the text) appears larger or smaller than the size that you typically see, you might have changed the zoom view setting.
Posted: July 8, 2021 12:00:00 AM CDT
Do not ever let anyone shame you for having dozens and dozens of open tabs, implying you don’t have it together and can’t find the right one. Instead, dazzle them with this trick.
Posted: June 11, 2021 12:00:00 AM CDT
Use the test student option to turn in materials before you give the assignments to students. This allows you to get an idea of the procedure that your students must follow in order to submit their assignments. In addition, you will see how it will look once assignments are submitted. Bonus: Use VidGrid to record the steps for students to have a quick resource!
Posted: June 2, 2021 12:00:00 AM CDT
Have you deleted a file from Canvas and now you want it back? Did you delete the file from Modules, pages, or from Files? If the deleted file is from Modules or Pages, then the file is still in your course in Files. If you deleted the file from Files, then you'd want to try the "undelete" trick.
Posted: April 19, 2021 12:00:00 AM CDT
Qualtrics rolled out a new user interface late March. They also, provided an option to opt-in to a new version of their survey editor called Survey Builder. By the end of May, all users will be migrated permanently to the new survey builder.
Posted: March 26, 2021 12:00:00 AM CDT
If you want to make sure people know when you’re busy or away from your desk, set your status in Teams. The little dot on your profile indicates if you’re available or not.
Posted: February 26, 2021 12:00:00 AM CST
Presence is part of a user's profile in Microsoft Teams. Presence indicates the user's current availability and status to other users. By default, anyone in your organization using Teams can see in real time if other users are available online.
