Welcome to the College of IST Learning Design eNewsletter
February 2017
Canvas Updates
Canvas released its latest updates on February 18th. Not all of the updates may apply to Penn State’s usage of Canvas. Of note:
Discussions
Deleted Reply Management
Replies that have been deleted no longer show to all users as part of the discussion thread. Instructors can still view notices of the deleted individual replies by clicking on the Show icon. The Show icon is located in the discussion bar.
Faculty may view information regarding updates directly from Canvas
Changes to IT Support
The University Park IST Office of Information Technology is no longer providing support outside of standard working hours (Monday-Friday, 8 AM – 5 PM ET). Link to IST VLabs information: https://www.up.ist.psu.edu/vlabs/ Link to IST VHOL information: https://www.up.ist.psu.edu/vhol/
This means that our online students will likely have to wait until Monday morning for technical support if they are working on their assignments over the weekend.
Drupal Content
IST IT Helpdesk has informed us that any old content on Drupal will be permanently deleted on March 31st. Faculty should make us aware if they have any content that they link to that is located on https://online.ist.psu.edu/. With the transition to the new LMS, World Campus course content would have already been migrated over to Canvas.
Join Us for the Next Online Community Luncheon
The date for the next Online Teaching Luncheon is Friday, February 24 at 12:00 p.m. Please join us online: https://psu.zoom.us/my/agarbrick Any agenda items you wish to be discussed can be sent to Amy Garbrick at agarbrick@ist.psu.edu.
World Campus Courses: Staff Changes
As was announced previously, Brian Daigle joined the Learning Design team on November 1st. After Ravi Patel left the College on April 1st, our office had a vacant design position. We are starting to assign World Campus courses to Brian which means there will be a change of instructional designers for some courses. Your current instructional designer will be in contact soon if you teach a course which Brian will now be covering.
Canvas LTI Requests
Requests for Canvas enhancements or LTIs, such as https://www.eduappcenter.com/, can be sent through this request form.
The LMS Academic Transition Steering Committee and the Canvas Project Team will review and prioritize requests submitted.