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Happy November from the FAS Academic Technology Group! In this email, you will find the following information:
- Your Spring Canvas Site is Ready!
- Canvas Tip of the Month: Rubrics
- Thinking of Trying New Technologies This Spring?
- We Want to Hear from You
 Your Spring Canvas Site is Ready!
If you are teaching a Spring 2016 course, your Canvas site is ready to be set up! To claim your course site, visit your list of Spring courses in my.harvard.edu, launch the course website, and follow the setup checklist.
For assistance setting up your course site, or importing content from an iSite, contact the FAS Academic Technology Group at atg@fas.harvard.edu. We also hold regular office hours, both at the Science Center and in departments on campus. Dates and times for these can be found on our website. |
Canvas Tip of the Month: Rubrics
The teaching staff of Applied Physics 50b used Canvas's Rubrics feature to provide students with feedback and to guide the revision process.
| "By asking them to resubmit, students are actually forced to address the weaknesses of their reports." |
Applied Physics 50b, a new project-based introductory physics course, includes three month-long hands-on projects where students, working in teams, are asked to build physical devices applying the concepts taught in class.
Each project culminates with a team presentation and a written report, which is assessed according to a precise rubric. The availability of SpeedGrader and the rubric feature in Canvas prompted the teaching staff to ask students to submit a second version of their reports with the promise that they would regrade them. Read more...
Thinking of trying New Technologies this Spring?
ATG is piloting new tools this Spring! Contact us to learn more about our expanded Spring pilots of VoiceThread, AnnotationX, and Flashcards, each of which can be seamlessly integrated into your Canvas site.
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VoiceThread is a web-based application that allows you to place collections of media, including images, videos, documents, and presentations, at the center of an asynchronous conversation. A VoiceThread allows people to have conversations and to make comments using any mix of text, a microphone, a web cam, a telephone, or uploaded audio file.
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AnnotationX is a set of multimedia annotation tools being jointly developed by HarvardX and the Academic Technology Group. The Fall 2015 pilot of AnnotationX provided faculty and students with a forum for collaborative annotations on text documents, with a robust instructor dashboard for assessment and evaluation. This Spring, the AnnotationX pilot is being expanded to include image annotation, using an integrated version of the deep-zooming Mirador image viewer.
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Flashcards are one of the many methods students have traditionally utilized to help themselves learn new vocabulary, images, or other informations. It allows them to repeatedly quiz themselves and built a base on which they can build their higher levels of learning. This modern incarnation of flashcards allows teachers to easily create cards and organize them into decks and collections to be shared and used by students. |
We Want to Hear from You
ATG is here to help with any aspect of using technology in your courses, anytime during the year. Let us know how we can help at atg@fas.harvard.edu.
With best wishes,
The FAS Academic Technology Group
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