Your Canvas Course most likely already includes multiple videos to help increase student engagement and understanding of the course concept, and if not, view our spotlight, Incorporate YuJa into your Course, to help you get started. It’s easy to assume a video is doing its job by simply embedding it into a Canvas page. However, […]
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Including videos in your course is a great way to increase student engagement and instructor presence. The Comment feature in YuJa videos can help expand on this by adding an interactive component to your regular course videos, allowing students to pose questions, comment on specific timestamps, and reply to each other directly in the video […]
Using YuJa videos in your Canvas Course is a great way to increase student engagement. With YuJa’s Branching Video feature, you can now create video pathways by connecting multiple videos together. These branches allow students to make decisions, observe the consequences, and choose what to do next. Including Branching Videos in your course adds interactivity […]
By: Jennifer Whitton-Trujillo, Ben Cornish, Alex McDaniel The economics of social justice involves several sensitive topics that relate differently to each student’s experiences, perspectives, and questions. So, how do you design an online economics course that asks students to examine complex issues of race and social justice while keeping economic analysis at the center of […]
By: Sarah Creasy, Michael Rupert, Will Austin, Alexandra Grima, Todd Wolfe, Alex McDaniel Water is part of almost everything we do, but many of the ways we use it remain invisible. You may never think about the water required to make the products you use every day or the systems that are in place that […]
By: Ciara Rupert, Marit Smith, Knox Mallette, Tim Wright, and Alex McDaniel In the CTLD Course Development Cycle, MSU Denver instructors work with the instructional design team to improve their existing or new courses. Instructors identify course objectives, develop learning activities, create a user-friendly course, record high-quality multimedia content, and much more. As part of […]
By the CTLD Instructional Media Team Each semester, the Center for Teaching, Learning, and Design partners with MSU Denver faculty across the university to build meaningful, high-quality online learning experiences. These collaborations range from reimagining existing courses to full development projects built from the ground up. During this process, faculty work closely with the CTLD […]
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How do I disable ProctorU in my course?
ProctorU is automatically enabled and appears in your course’s left-hand navigation menu. If you aren’t using it for exams in a particular course, you may want to disable it so it doesn’t show up to students as an unused link. Disabling ProctorU only removes it from that course’s navigation menu, it does not affect ProctorU […]
If you are using ProctorU for exams in your course, it is important to provide clear directions to your students on the ProctorU requirements as well as the steps for accessing and taking the exam. It is recommended to provide information about ProctorU in your Course Syllabus. You may also choose to share the steps […]
Grading student work can be one of the most challenging and time-consuming parts of teaching a course. You need to check students’ work for accuracy, for meeting requirements, and for understanding of the learning objectives for a multitude of assignments. On top of that, it’s important to provide students with meaningful and timely feedback regarding […]