Canvas Course Archival Plan Begins This Fall
As we approach the five-year mark of transitioning to Canvas, the Education Technology team would like to introduce the Canvas Course Archival Plan. This initiative will begin the process of streamlining course archives, ensuring that our digital learning environment remains both efficient and secure. The plan outlined below provides a clear timeline for the archiving and eventual deletion of courses, as well as what you should do to prepare for this project.
2024 Audio/Visual Refresh
To provide our students with the best possible learning environment, IT strives to refresh audio-visual equipment on a 5-year lifecycle. The following rooms have been identified as needing their audio-visual equipment refreshed this year.
BigBlueButton 2.7 Update is Here!
Though not as big as the 2.6 update, BigBlueButton’s 2.7 update is here. This update offers users improved usability, increased engagement, and more performance. Here's a breakdown of what's new in 2.7.
New Teams App Available
Microsoft has released a new version of Teams available and the College will be enabling the update for all staff and faculty on February 1st, 2024. This new version delivers improved performance, speed, and security – but overall has a familiar look and feel to it so it will be an easy switch for users.
Writing Great Gen AI Prompts
While it appears that new functions and applications of generative AI are announced daily, a crucial skill that users are attempting to master is the ability to craft an effective prompt. Understanding how to articulate your request to elicit the desired outcome from the tool is like knowing how to formulate precise queries when using search engines like Google. In this blog post, we've compiled (with some help from our own favorite AI chat tool) a set of tips that you can experiment with the next time you use your favorite AI tool.
FSCJ’s Community Town Hall on AI in Higher Education: Possibilities and Perils
Florida State College at Jacksonville presents "AI in Higher Education: Possibilities and Perils," an interactive Community Town Hall with guided discussion from a panel of area college and university presidents. Learn how northeast Florida's higher education institutions are responding to the opportunities and challenges posed by AI.
Embracing the Passphrase
As you read in the recent email, IT has given everyone the gift of no longer requiring a password change every 60 days. In this blog post, we’ll recap the steps to ensure you have a secure passphrase and how to avoid it being compromised.
FSCJ’s 2023 Canvas Usage Wrapped
You may be familiar Spotify’s Yearly Wrapped, a fun overview of a person’s listening habits over the year. Today, we want to share our version of a Canvas Wrapped - a look at FSCJ’s Canvas usage from the past year and beyond. Below are a few graphs that visualize all the ways that we use Canvas at FSCJ. Let’s take a closer look at the data. Like Spotify’s Yearly Wrapped, you may be surprised what the data reveals!
Now You Can Enable Student Replies to Canvas Announcements
We're excited to share an update that brings a small, but potentially impactful change to your Canvas courses. Instructors can now allow student replies to course announcements, per course and per announcement.
Copilot Chat: Microsoft’s AI Solution
There is a lot of excitement around generative AI. While some companies are limiting the use of AI, we want to encourage use it as a tool to be more creative and productive while also protecting our privacy and data.