Who Can Help Me? Technical Service Desk or Campus Tech Support?
When technology troubles strike on campus, knowing who to contact can save you time and frustration.
Student Preferred Name and Pronouns
At FSCJ, student can change their preferred first name and selecting personal pronouns by following the directions below. Although changes are made in myFSCJ, they will also appear in Canvas. Note that it may take up to 9 hours for the changes to show up in Canvas.
A New Era of Collaboration: Perusall Joins Forces with Turnitin
The EdTech team is excited to share that two of our favorite tools can now be easily used together! Perusall and Turnitin have come together to offer a seamless combination of collaborative reading, discussions, and plagiarism detection tools. This partnership enhances student engagement and academic integrity in a single platform, streamlining your teaching experience.
Two Communities - An Abundance of Great Canvas Information and Resources!
One of our primary goals is to ensure our users feel supported in Canvas by providing an abundance of resources and a variety of easy ways to access them. We also really value seeing instructors engaged in the process of learning and sharing - both amongst their peers and with our team. After all, you will continue to learn and grow (and have questions) throughout your time as a Canvas user. Here, we’ll share two ways that you can partake in and review bigger conversations with other Canvas users.
New Blog Site
New blog posts will be accessed via it.fscj.edu/blog and links to current posts may be broken as posts are transitioned over to the new site.
InstructureCon 2023 Highlights
The FSCJ EdTech team recently attended InstructureCon which brought together educators, educational technology experts, and leaders of various industries to share ideas about the state of technology in education now with a look towards the future. Jody Taylor and Thomas Lewis share their favorite sessions from the conference.
Change Your Default Meeting Location in Outlook
The Outlook Calendar adds Teams Meetings as the location for most meetings. You can change this by following the directions within this blog post.
Canvas Update! Rich Content Editor Multiple File Upload and SpeedGrader Locations
We have two small, but helpful, Canvas updates to share. Soon, you’ll be able to paste or drag and drop multiple files into the Rich Content Editor and access SpeedGrader in a few new locations.
Pearson Courses Upgrading this Fall!
A new LTI Tool for Pearson’s MyLab, Mastering, and Revel has been released in Canvas. The new Pearson tool is the latest benchmark for security and will provide a deeper integration experience. You MUST use this new version of the LTI tool when linking your Fall 2023 Pearson course to Canvas.