Articles about Canvas, media tools, lecture capture, Panopto, Qualtrics, testing, and accessibility technology.
Information about accessibility and academic accommodations in Canvas.
Information about how to make your social media content more accessible.
Information and instructions for accessing badge data in Canvas.
Information and instructions for troubleshooting problems with Accommodate.
Instructions for adding religious holidays to your Canvas Course Site calendar.
This article goes through how to add a Librarian in the Librarian Role in Canvas.
Information and instructions for adding a Panopto video to your Canvas Course Site at University of St. Thomas.
Information and instructions for adding quizzes to your Panopto videos at University of St. Thomas.
Instructions for adding Microsoft Teams to a Canvas Course Site.
Information and instructions for enabling the OpenStax Assignment LTI 1.3 in Canvas courses at the University of St. Thomas.
Information and instructions for faculty members who need to extend their Canvas course dates for a student with an incomplete.
Information about Alt Text and Image Descriptions for Digital Accessibility.
Information about using Alternative Alt Text in Microsoft PowerPoint.
Information and instruction to share content from your concluded course with another instructor, how to access student grades/records in a faculty member's concluded course for accreditation or grading purposes, and how to gain access a concluded course for observation purposes (when no student grades or records are needed).
Information about course design for J-Term or Summer term Canvas courses.
Information about Canvas Course Readiness.
Information about Canvas' new Discussion Board.
Information about getting started with Canvas for students.
Information about how faculty and students can use Canvas Portfolio to collect, reflect on, assess, and showcase academic and professional work.
Information and instructions linked to describing how to create a seating plan for attendance taking via the Canvas aPlus+ Attendance tool.
Information about recovering content you my have inadvertently deleted in Canvas.
Information about using the Microsoft Accessibility Checker tool to check and improve digital files for accessibility.
Information about the closed captioning standard for all videos shared via University of St. Thomas channels
Information about audio/video and multimedia creation tools available at University of St. Thomas.
Information about color and contrast in our digital content; especially important for people with low vision or those with color blindness.
Information and instructions for Canvas course clean up and validation of links.
Instructions for creating an accessible video with YuJa Panorama's Caption Detection.
Information about creating digitally accessible hyperlinks.
Information about creating screen-reader accessible Articulate Rise 360 lessons.
Information and instructions on creating video transcripts.
Information about how to create and add media to your classes.
Information and instructions for creating your own canvas sandbox course site
Information and instructions on creating your University of St. Thomas Parchment Badges (Canvas Credentials) account.
Information and instructions for cross-listing two sections of a course in Canvas.
Information about Differentiation Tags in Canvas.
Information about Digital Accessibility at University of St. Thomas.
Information about the Digital Accessibility Learning Lab, Appointments, and Learning Modules.
Information about the importance of ensuring that PDF documents are properly tagged and describes that the University of St. Thomas digital accessibility assistant (Yuja Panorama) can be used to identify untagged PDFs so that they can be remediated. Options are provided for remediating untagged PDFs once they have been identified.
Information about Discussion Boards in Canvas at University of St. Thomas.
Information and instructions on how to select first week attendance activities for an online course that meet Title IV requirements.
Information about Canvas Folio (on the Portfolium Network). Canvas Folio 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.
Information and instructions for getting started with Canvas at University of St. Thomas.
Information and instructions for getting started with Padlet at University of St. Thomas.
Information and instructions for getting started with the Panopto service at University of St. Thomas.
Information and instructions for getting started with Qualtrics, and how to obtain Qualtrics support.
STELAR recommends two options for scoring missing assignments.
Information and instructions about importing a Canvas template from the University of St. Thomas Commons.
Information about the different kinds of interaction and engagement tools that STELAR can assist with and support at University of St. Thomas for use in Canvas or online courses.
Information for interpreting the Validate Links in Content Report in Canvas.
Information about LinkedIn Learning and other various open educational resources and online learning platforms.
Information about using live captioning in PowerPoint presentations to make the presentation accessible.
Information and instructions for 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.
Information about the MechDyne Volume 3D display wall installed in the lower level of the O’Shaughnessy Science Hall on the University of St. Thomas’ St. Paul campus.
Instructions on how to migrate your Qualtrics account to the University of St. Thomas central site.
Information about Qualtrics site migration at University of St. Thomas.
Information about online course management best practices for faculty member at University of St. Thomas.
Information about new AI-powered features available to instructors in Canvas.
Information about the Panopto content retention policy at University of St. Thomas.
Information about Pearson textbook support for Canvas integrations at University of St. Thomas.
Instructions and information on what areas to check before publishing your course in Canvas
Instructions for providing access to a University of St. Thomas Canvas course site for non-St. Thomas community members.
Information and instructions to embed Qualtrics surveys in a Canvas course.
Information about quiz and online test security within Canvas at University of St. Thomas.
Information and instructions on 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.
Information about recording video or audio with the Canvas Rich Content Editor.
Information for helping you decide if remote proctoring is appropriate for your course. Also consider working with a STELAR instructional designer to help with this decision.
Information and instructions for using Honorlock in Canvas for remote proctoring.
Information and instructions for faculty to request that a dropped student re-appear in their Canvas course.
Instructions for adding the Sage Vantage LTI tool into courses that use Sage Publishing course materials for Canvas at University of St. Thomas.
Instructions for self-enrolling or un-enrolling from a Canvas site for badging.
Instructions for applying multiple due dates for a discussion in Canvas.
Information and instructions for setting up a+Attendance in Canvas.
Information and instructions for setting up small groups in a Canvas course.
Information about SimCheck plagiarism detection in Canvas.
Information and instructions about submitting assignments with EHR Go on iPads at University of St. Thomas.
Information and instructions for taking attendance in Canvas.
Information about YuJa Panorama's PDF Remediation Max Add-On for Canvas courses.
Information and instructions for updating your Canvas course with the new Getting Started module.
Information and instructions for uploading video files to Panopto at University of St. Thomas.
Information and instructions on using aPLus+ Attendance Grading in Canvas at University of St. Thomas
Information and instructions for using a Canvas course site template.
Information and instructions for using Canvas' Gradebook and Speedgrader.
Information about using the Rich Content Editor in Canvas.
Information about DesignPLUS, training options, and getting help.
Information and instructions for using Khanmigo, which is is an AI teaching assistant by Khan Academy, now available in Canvas, designed to help educators with tasks like creating lesson plans and discussion prompts without needing AI expertise. It offers features such as Lesson Hook, Letter of Recommendation, and Text Rewriter, emphasizing ease of use and data privacy. Although originating from K12, Khanmigo can also be useful at the University level.
Information and instructions on accessing and using the collaboration and creativity applications Lucidchart and/or Lucidspark within Canvas at University of St. Thomas.
Information and instructions on enabling the McGraw Hill Integration LTI 1.3 in Canvas courses.
Information and instructions for using Qualtrics Groups. Qualtrics groups are good for sharing your surveys and other data with a large number of people. Rather than collaborating with individual user accounts, you can collaborate with a group to give everyone in that group access to your survey, message libraries, and panels.
Information and troubleshooting for the Canvas application on Apple computers.
Information and instructions on using the Google Assignment Tool in Canvas.
Information about using the multi-tool for modifying Canvas due dates.
Information and instructions for using YuJa Panorama Real-Time Suggestions.
Information and instructions for using Zoom Pro in your Canvas Course Site.
Information about working with previous student grades and submissions in Canvas at University of St. Thomas.
Information about the YuJa Panorama software.
Information about YuJa Panorama for faculty.
Information about the Zoom Pro LTI (Learning Tools Interoperability) 1.3 connection in Canvas at University of St. Thomas.