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18Mar 201918 Mar 2019

“How Do I Prepare Students for Classroom Learning?” Priming in-Class Activities with Tech (DigPed 001) Wednesday, March 20, 2019 2:00pm - 3:30pm Goldstein Electronic Classroom (Room 114) Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center Workshop instructors will share how technology can prepare students for in-class activties. Participants will consider: “What do you want students to take away from class?” Workshop facilitators will model classroom scenarios to demonstate how technology can prepare students for achieving learning goals. Participants will explore instructional technology tools and develop pre-class activities of their own. For faculty, TAs, and staff. Workshops in the Teaching and Tech series are designed to develop your familiarity with theoretical frameworks of how people learn, the application and evaluation of technologies used for instruction, and techniques to leverage physical spaces for active learning. For more information and to register: guides.library.upenn.edu/teachtech

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12Mar 201913 Mar 2019

Teaching and Tech A 3-Part Workshop Series March 20 Priming In-Class Activities with Tech April 3 Maximizing Student Response April 17 Designing Effective Assessments. All workshops are held in the Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center. Register at https://guides.library.upenn.edu/teachtech

Spring 2019 Teaching+Tech Workshops

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Canvas Production Release: March 9, 2019

Canvas operates on a three-week release cycle through which features are added or updated. Courseware Support posts highlights from Canvas’s…

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RESOLVED: Slow Load Times with Exports and Uploads in Canvas

18 Mar 201919 Mar 2019

The issue causing slow load times on Canvas export and uploads is resolved. If you experienced this issue, please do the following: Clear your browser’s cache (instructions for PC and Mac). Close your browser.…

Slow Load Times with Exports and Uploads in Canvas

18 Mar 201918 Mar 2019

Some users are currently experiencing some slow load times on a very small portion of Canvas export and uploads. This includes Course imports and Gradebook imports. Over vendor is investigating…

Canvas Maintenance: February 25th, 2am EST

18 Feb 20195 Mar 2019

Canvas will undergo maintenance on Monday, February 25th at 2am EST for approximately 5 to 10 minutes. Canvas will be unavailable during this maintenance. We apologize for any inconvenience this…

RESOLVED: Turnitin Down

16 Feb 20195 Mar 2019

The Turnitin performance issues that began on Friday, February 15th have been resolved. Due to an unexpected database issue, users of Turnitin and Turnitin UK may have been unable to…

Turnitin Down

15 Feb 201916 Feb 2019

Turnitin has been encountering performance issues since earlier this morning, which have progressed to an outage for this tool. Turnitin is posting status updates to their page here: https://turnitin.status.io/ We…

Canvas Production Release: February 16, 2019

Canvas operates on a three-week release cycle through which features are added or updated. Courseware Support posts highlights from Canvas’s production release notes, a link to these notes, and other…

RESOLVED: Problems Uploading/Downloading Content in Canvas

7 Feb 201912 Feb 2019

The issue with uploading and downloading content in Canvas is resolved. This affected activities like uploading/downloading files, assignment submissions, and exporting/importing course content. If you experienced this issue, please do…

Problems Uploading/Downloading Content in Canvas

7 Feb 20197 Feb 2019

Canvas is currently encountering problems with uploading and downloading content. This affects activities like uploading/downloading files and assignment submissions and exporting/importing course content. This issue has been reported to the…

Canvas Production Release: January 26, 2019

23 Jan 201915 Feb 2019

Canvas operates on a three-week release cycle through which features are added or updated. Courseware Support posts highlights from Canvas’s production release notes, a link to these notes, and other…

What’s New in Canvas for Spring 2019?

16 Jan 201915 Jan 2019

Welcome back! The following information will introduce you to what is new in Canvas for Spring 2019: For Students For Faculty, TAs, & Staff Questions? For Students New Student Dashboard…

Canvas Help
Date: Tuesday, March 26, 2019Time: 11:00am - 12:00pmPresenter: Joe Schaffner Library: Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center Need help with Canvas? Sign Up For One on One help from a Canvas expert. Appointments are for individual users or affiliated groups (co-instructors, TAs in the same course, etc.) and are not drop-in sessions
Canvas Help
Date: Tuesday, March 26, 2019Time: 12:00pm - 1:00pmPresenter: Joe Schaffner Library: Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center Need help with Canvas? Sign Up For One on One help from a Canvas expert. Appointments are for individual users or affiliated groups (co-instructors, TAs in the same course, etc.) and are not drop-in sessions
Canvas Help
Date: Wednesday, March 27, 2019Time: 10:00am - 11:00amPresenter: Molly Bonnard Library: Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center Need help with Canvas? Sign Up For One on One help from a Canvas expert. Appointments are for individual users or affiliated groups (co-instructors, TAs in the same course, etc.) and are not drop-in sessions