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This article reviews how to make you social media content more accessible.
This article goes through how to add a Librarian in the Librarian Role in Canvas.
Linked In Learning has a number of popular courses for training in Adobe Creative Cloud applications. We have curated a few of them here.
Instructors can learn about the Alternative Features and Accessibility Checker tool built into all Canvas courses. Support you and your learners with better accessibility.
The Ally tool within Canvas courses creates alternative files that are easier to use by all students. Ally works within your online course so it's available right where you need it.
Ally Alternative Formats features allows learners in Canvas to transform your course files into different formats to help you learn better.
1. How to request an Appworx account.
2. Training on Appworx.
3. How to install/upgrade Appworx on your computer.
4. Running Appworx after installation
Canvas Folio (on the Portfolium Network) is a tool that allows you to showcase your work throughout your educational career at the University of St. Thomas. Students can then share their Portfolios with their Instructors, Employers and a broader audience.
Options for recovering content you my have inadvertently deleted in Canvas.
This article summarizes how to set up a+Attendance in Canvas.
Rich Content Editor is the ribbon of tools at the top of the frame when you edit pages, discussions, assignments, etc. in Canvas.
Tips on interpreting the Validate Links in Content report in Canvas.
List of quick tips to help you get the most use out of classroom technology!
Landing page for HyFlex Technology training videos
This article reviews the closed captioning standard for all videos shared via University channels
How to Resolve when a user is unable to connect to a Data Source within Cognos Analytics.
Suggested software, tools, and apps for different collaboration scenarios
Learn the difference between Canvas, Microsoft Sway, Panopto, VoiceThread, FlipGrid, and Zoom.
Learn the differences between using Microsoft Teams and Zoom for holding virtual meeting online.
Learn to attend to color and contrast in our digital content; especially important for people with low vision or those with color blindness.
Summary of major/minor declaration process with instructions for declaring, adding, changing and removing academic minors, majors, co-majors and major concentrations.
The Degree Evaluation Responsive Dashboard Guide highlights important areas and shows users where those items were located in the Classic Dashboard along with the current location in the Responsive Dashboard.
When you want to update the St. Thomas Directory, it's not always clear where you need to go. This article walks you through each part of a directory update.
How to schedule a message to send in Outlook at a later time.
This article provides guidance, key recommendations and resources for Instructors using Flipgrid with their courses.
This article discusses some of the ways students might encounter Flipgrid in their courses and provides recommendations and links to useful resources.
Flipgrid is a simple, free, and accessible video discussion experience that makes teaching and learning more personal, fun, and engaging.
Basic how-to for students, faculty, and staff who want to use the St. Thomas GitHub to save and share code.
The following article describes how to save multiple past output versions of a Cognos Analytics 11 report.
This article provides instructions on scheduling reports to run and a link be emailed daily/weekly/yearly in Cognos Analytics 11.
The Shuttle Tracker is a web-based map tool used to provide students and faculty with information regarding the shuttles that run between the St. Thomas Minneapolis and St. Paul campuses. This information includes current shuttle location, upcoming departures, and real departure time and estimated arrival time for all shuttles.
Zoom - Check for updates and keep your Zoom desktop app up-to-date.
The following table lists known issues in Cognos Analytics 11.1.7 and how to address them.
How to log in to LiquidFiles secure files sharing for the first time.
How to sign into Salesforce with your XST student worker account.
Step-by-step guidance for reviewing academic major and minor declaration requests and submitting approvals/denials.
Microsoft Bookings is an online and mobile app for scheduling appointments
Learn about updating your status in Teams to better communicate your availability and where you are working on a given day.
Microsoft Teams meeting recording instructions and storage locations.
The licensing for Minitab has changed, requiring faculty, staff and students to authenticate with a standard St. Thomas email address. Minitab is a statistical software tool designed for easy interactive use and for analyzing research data.
Minitab is a statistical software tool designed for easy interactive use and for analyzing research data. This software is available for download for faculty/staff and students for use on personally owned Windows devices.
MURAL enables innovative teams to think and collaborate visually together online to solve important problems.
Sometimes parents will want to access their student’s information. If they are looking to pay the bill, receive a refund, or other bill related things, they will be looking for E-Bill. If they are looking for a student’s financial aid info, schedule, grades, or some other miscellaneous things, they will be looking for Proxy Access.
OEC Multimedia Studio External Rental
Software available for School of Engineering students to install on personally owned computers
An explanation of how SharePoint sites and Teams work together for file storage.
Learn about the documents you see surfaced in OneStThomas. Files you see in search and on pages roll up from Office 365 (OneDrive, SharePoint, and Teams).
How to update your user profile in OneStThomas
Brief description of Populate Student Calendars, which adds course appointments to Outlook based on your class schedule. Includes screenshots, a discussion of expected time delays, troubleshooting tips, and FAQ.
FindTime is an Outlook add-in for scheduling meetings. The organizer can send multiple time options through FindTime and minimize the back and forth emails in scheduling. It's installed on St. Thomas Outlook (web and desktop, Mac and Windows) by default, and can make scheduling large meetings much easier.
Use Outlook for Windows or Outlook Web to add to your safe senders list, or manage it afterwards. These setting help you manage what goes to your Junk Mail folder, and what does not.
When to use Panopto vs. Zoom for classroom lecture capture and the steps to use the Windows desktop Panopto application to record an in-person class session.
If you encounter an archived Panopto video, you can follow the directions in this Panopto knowledge base article to initiate restoring that video. Note, restoration can take up to 48 hours to complete. This article also contains examples demonstrating how archive videos are presented to content owner as well as viewers.
Documentation for adding Pearson textbooks in Canvas
To help ensure all departments have a fair opportunity and there is an even distribution of section offerings, it is asked that all departments schedule 14% of each of their sections during any one of the seven individual prime class times: 9:35 MWF, 10:55 MWF, 12:15 MWF, 1:35 MW & MWF, 9:55 TR, and 1:30 TR.
The following is a list of common issues related to Program Finder.
Review this article to help you decide if remote proctoring is appropriate for your course. Also consider working with a STELAR instructional designer to help with this decision.
Commonly used terms in Salesforce
A step-by-step guide to clone/copy a dashboard or report in Salesforce Lighting.
Instructions for signing into ScheduleOnce and syncing it with your Salesforce account and Outlook Calendar
Step by step guide to setting up a Yubikey 5 NFC to work with St. Thomas MFA.
The URL Shortener is a web application designed to provide students, staff, and faculty the ability to both shorten URLs as well as maintain an association with the University.
Looking for the right technology to help you and your team? ITS should be your first stop when exploring new applications and computing devices to solve a problem, enhance your business process, or help you better support our students. This article provides an overview of the Technology Intake Process - from the initial consult to a solution that meets your needs and budget, ITS is here to help.
The Tech Desk is happy to assist in basic troubleshooting of issues with viewing or accessing the Tommie Card Shop. Most Tommie Card issues and questions will be best addressed by the Tommie Card Office.
The Tech Desk is happy to assist in basic troubleshooting of issues with viewing or accessing your digital textbooks. Most textbook questions will be best addressed by the Campus Bookstore.
The Tech Desk is happy to assist in basic troubleshooting of issues with viewing or accessing The UST Print Shop. Most questions will be best addressed by the The UST Print Shop.
The following article describes how to view or download a current or past report version in Cognos Analytics 11.
Instructions for reviewing academic history using Murphy Online for all students (currently and previously enrolled).
How to create a group presentation using VoiceThread.
How to manage notifications in VoiceThread.
Adobe will not issue Flash Player updates or security patches after the EOL Date. We recommend that all users uninstall Flash Player before the EOL date (see manual uninstall instructions for Windows and Mac users). Users will be prompted by Adobe to uninstall Flash Player on their machines later this year and Flash-based content will be blocked from running in Adobe Flash Player after the EOL Date.
LiquidFiles is for all members of the university and should be used any time you need to share private and restricted St. Thomas data, files, presentations (including personal information).
Hosts who want to limit their meeting attendees to authenticated users only, but also allow some non-authenticated users to attend, can do so by creating authentication exceptions.
Zoom Cloud Recording Retention Plan details
Steps for adding a Virtual Background in Zoom. The Virtual Background feature allows you to display an image or video as your background during a Zoom Meeting.
This article helps Zoom hosts either delete or download their cloud recordings to help with ITS capacity management and reduce university costs.
By default, zoom recordings that are saved to the cloud will automatically be deleted after 365 days per our retention policy. You can select an individual recording be exempt from this policy by following these instructions.
A digital badge is an electronic, visual indicator that shows knowledge, skills, and competencies that a student (or student employee) has gained from the training or learning experiences. This article describes some of the first digital badges for student employees that started in fall 2020.
This article describes the St. Thomas student technology resource called “Tommie Tech“ Canvas site, and how faculty and staff can use this resource to support student success.
Overview of the My Actions widget.