RTC's CITL Newsletter

Issue #15 ~ January 28th 2021

NEWMAN'S NEWS Flying into February! CREATE CANVAS MEDIA Create video & audio recordings on Announcements, Assignments, Discussions, Pages, Quizzes, & Syllabus from our new Rich Content Editor (RCE)! UPLOAD MEDIA FOLDER Under 15 mins. recordings are saved into the Uploaded Media folder within your Course Files or Group Files. Over 15 mins. recordings. Because large media files require more time to render and may be interrupted without a stable internet connection, losing your recording, our Canvas engineers recommend all long videos be created and stored on an external media application with its own hosting space -- and then embed or link that video in Canvas. ADD CAPTIONS Easily create and upload caption files when you upload video content in the new RCE in Announcements, Assignments, Discussions, Pages, and Quizzes. NOTE: This linked lesson only applies to creating captions for videos created in or uploaded into Canvas. If you've created a video outside of Canvas to share in your course, you can create captions using an external service such as Amara or YouTube.

This month our Canvas engineers implemented the new and improved Rich Content Editor across all of Canvas system. Here's a video of this new content editor and its many updates.

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MOH'S MESSAGE Study Hour - Virtual Option Invite students to virtual study hours. Self-commitment and peer presence help students to set aside dedicated study time. Each student commits a certain time and date to study in a virtual study room like Zoom. Students check-in and share their objectives for the hour. Then, they go to work until they check back in at the end. It helps students to keep distractions at bay as they support and hold each other accountable. And it builds a stronger sense of community of learners. There are tools such as Focusmate which is free. Also, consider a study room model using Canvas discussions. Set up discussion boards (with the settings of graded: no; threaded replies: yes) for study hour slots. Here is a video presentation, and you can preview & import it from the Canvas Commons. Please feel free to adapt and edit it for your classes. Please post your comment on our CITL Padlet.

NOTE: Faculty can now schedule Yun directly for help and support; contact him via email or message him in MS Teams.

FALCONER'S FUNDAMENTALS Ensuring Student Learning

Last chance to enter our January Drawing! Teaching Exchange Friday: Jan. 29th 2021 Focus on: Q &A and Canvas How-tos and Self Care 9:00 - 9:45 Hosts: Melvin, Warren, Leslie 10:00 - 10:45: Hosts: Angela Dawn, Leslie Via Zoom room: https://rtcedu.zoom.us/my/teachtalk Visit the teaching topic Padlets: Ideas for Teaching

Kudos! Congratulations to: Amy Murray for completing Alignment, Outcomes and Rubrics: Direct Measures of Students Success workshop. Heather Applegarth, Angela Cross, and Vince Phillips McLellon, who competed the TILT your Course: Using Transparent Assignment Templates workshop. Angela Cross, whose Psych 101: General Psychology course has been recognized as a Quality RTC exemplary course. Angela's course ideas will be added to the currently-under-construction site of exemplary ideas. Would you like to have your awesome course reviewed? Contact review team members Liz or Yun to have your course review scheduled. The Hill We Climb Amanda Gorman's poem and presentation at the 2021 Presidential Inauguration provides us with inspiring and meaningful teaching materials. What an excellent opportunity to use Reading Apprenticeship for community-building and metacognitive thinking skills.  Reading Apprenticeship lead Michele Lesmeister and myself have put together a page of ideas for you to use or adapt: Canvas Discussion post or Breakout Zoom Room Discussion ideas NOTE: This page is part of the open resource space for faculty on using Reading Apprenticeship strategies.

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