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.
New Discussions Features in Canvas!
If you use discussions in your Canvas courses (and according to our recent data usage report, most of you are), then this post is one that you’ll want to read. Discussion improvements have consistently been an area where users provide feedback and want to see improvement in Canvas. Well, we agreed with you on and have been awaiting Canvas to improve for quite a few years.
….and that time has finally come!
Interested in Canvas Governance?
As we approach significant feature releases and tools enhancements in Canvas, the IT department is forming a group to provide feedback and governance of the LMS at FSCJ.
Enhance Your Canvas Calendar Experience with Recurring Events
As an instructor today, managing your time in Canvas can be tough. With this new feature in the Canvas Calendar, users can now create and edit recurring events. This feature, available after the October 21 feature release, hopes to make scheduling easier and boost user productivity.