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Recording your in-person teaching

January 25, 2022

Before your first in-person course session, review your lecture capture and self-filming options. These ideas will help you decide which one works best for you, your teaching, and your students.

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Quercus Updates (January 2022)

January 21, 2022

This week’s Canvas Updates: Gradebook & SpeedGrader. This Week’s Faculty Question: We have been recording our Zoom lectures and saving the recordings to the Zoom cloud.

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Designing visual elements that pop (and promote learning)!

January 10, 2022

Learn about how the ETO’s Educational Graphic and Media Developer can help elevate your content via our review and design process (and see an example with…eggs)!

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Howdy, Cheryl! New ETO Team Member

Howdy Cheryl!

January 7, 2022

Cheryl Heeyeon Lee joins the EdTech Office (ETO) as our new Educational Graphic and Media Developer, Content Production.

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Quercus Updates (December 2021)

December 9, 2021

This week: Canvas Updates, This Week’s Faculty Question: I created manual sections in my Quercus course and now my student list is not updating properly from ACORN.

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Using a video template to make recording videos easier

December 8, 2021

Creating strong instructional video content is definitely labor intensive but also can be very rewarding (learners report that they value the self-paced nature of video and appreciate being able to review as needed).

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New Service! Access the Minerva Safety Modules

November 22, 2021

What are the Minerva online health and safety modules?

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Quercus Updates (November 11, 2021)

November 11, 2021

This week: Canvas Profiles Reporting Interface, Crowdmark Download Text Responses, This Week’s Faculty Question: How can I invite a guest speaker from another University to my Zoom lecture?

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The ETO Holiday Gift Guide

November 9, 2021

It is a common refrain (isn’t it?) – what will delight the EdTech-er in my life? Here are some of the fun things that have helped the ETO Team get through the COVID months. You might even find something here that sparks your imagination and makes your teaching (and meeting) a touch easier.

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Quercus Updates (November 4, 2021)

November 4, 2021

This week: Canvas updates, This Week’s Faculty Question: I used the Copy to function to send a quiz from my 2020 course to my 2021 course, but when I open the copied Quiz it has no questions in it.

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