As a College of IST faculty member, you are receiving this email to help assist you with Canvas and online learning.
Welcome to the College of IST Learning Design eNewsletter
October 2017
Canvas Updates
The latest release from Canvas happened October 7th. Not all of the updates may apply to Penn State’s usage of Canvas. Of note from Canvas:Student Late and Missing Status LabelsFrom Canvas: The submission details page and student Grades page do not display labels for missing or late submissions. This change reverts the labels for students introduced in the Canvas Production Release Notes (2017-08-05) and helps minimize confusion for students when their instructors create online assignments that can be submitted online or on paper in class. Canvas always marks online assignments as missing when no submission is made. For instructors, SpeedGrader has not been affected and continues to display missing and late labels for online assignments. If an assignment has not been submitted by the due date, the assignment is identified as missing. If the assignment is submitted after the due date, the assignment is identified as late.Performance UpdateFrom Canvas: SpeedGrader has been optimized for performance in large courses and includes a JavaScript improvement for loading students in the student menu. Although all values for an assignment are loaded and saved in the browser to reduce load time, the browser JavaScript inefficiently managed values when switching students. Instead of updating for all students, the student menu is only updated where a student’s status could change and only updates affected students accordingly.For more information, visit the Canvas Production Release Notes.
Join Us for Our Next Online Teaching and Learning Meeting
Please join us for the Online Teaching and Learning Meeting on Friday, October 27th 11:00 – 12:00 p.m. via Zoom. Meetings will happen via Zoom: https://psu.zoom.us/my/agarbrick Please contact Amy Garbrick, Gary Heberling, or Fred Fonseca with questions or agenda items. This month, online academic integrity tools including online proctoring will be discussed.
IST Statewide
Please join us for the Fall Statewide Faculty Meeting—Monday, November 13 (10:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m.) at the The Nittany Lion Inn, Boardroom 1. If you cannot attend in person, the meeting will be available online via Zoom as well. More details on the Zoom information to come.
World Campus Courses: Spring ‘18 Prep
The Learning Design Team has been working on Spring 2018 course preparations. For FA17 teaching faculty, expect your instructional designer to reach out in the next few weeks to check on any recommended changes to the course template. We expect SP18 sections to be ready by December 22nd.
TLT Symposium
The 2018 Symposium for Teaching and Learning with Technology will take place on Saturday, March 17, 2018 at the Penn Stater Hotel and Conference Center. More info: http://symposium.tlt.psu.edu/