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Canvas is the LMS used by Columbia faculty to manage their courses and it allows students to access course materials, such as course syllabi, assignments, resources, grades, and other materials. The college’s Canvas website is located at canvas.colum.edu. Students sign in to Canvas with their Office 365 credentials.
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Canvas is a learning management system used by Columbia College faculty to manage their courses. Students log in to Canvas with their Office 365 credentials and access syllabi, assignments, readings, resources, forums, wikis, course grades and other materials.
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Canvas
Canvasis the learning management system (LMS) used by Columbia faculty to manage their courses. Canvas allows for students to access and engage with course materials, such as course syllabi, assignments, resources, grades, and other materials. The college’s Canvas website is located at canvas.colum.edu. Academic Technology offers ongoing training sessions that cover a variety of topics essential to learning the many features of Canvas. To check current sessions offered for Canvas trainings, y...
Course Templates
Academic Technology has made several course templates available to assist instructors in building their courses within Canvas. Options for templates include a full 15-week course, an 8-week course, as well as a single course module. Instructors can choose from an Online course template or the Hybrid and face-to-face template. Each template provides a structured layout of a Canvas course and includes a Getting Started section to inform students how the course works and weekly pre-built modules...
Qwickly Attendance
Qwickly is an attendance taking tool that can be used within Canvas courses. With Qwickly, multiple attendance taking methods are available. Instructors can choose to use a feature that allows students to check-in on the Canvas Student app or a browser for their class attendance. Qwickly also allows an instructor to clearly view holistic records of student attendance, as well as total counts of absences within a course. To learn more about Qwickly attendance, visit Academic Technology’s page...
Library Video Streaming Resources
For information on streaming video collections such as Kanopy, including how to embed videos into Canvas, see the Library’s Streaming Video guide.
Library Research Guides
Research guidesare curated by librarians to highlight and provide access to resources for specific disciplines and courses.
Zotero
Zoterois a free, easy-to-use reference management tool to help you collect, organize, cite, and share your research sources.
Office 365
Office 365is used on campus to access email, calendars, as well as an assortment of Microsoft applications that are used for document and digital workflow management, as well as collaboration. All faculty, staff, and students have Office 365 accounts. Comprehensive training resources for Office 365 are available on the Office 365 Training Resources page, which includes detailed Microsoft training documents and LinkedIn Learning tutorials.
Online Collaboration Tools
Online collaboration tools such as Miro, Mural, Padlet, etc. can be an effective means to facilitate ideation, collaboration, group work, project management, and research mapping. Online collaboration tools are not specifically supported by Columbia College Chicago, but many have free access for educators. Online Visual Collaboration Tools– facilitated by Jessica Jacobs, Associate Professor, Business and Entrepreneurship The pandemic has made an indelible impact not only on higher education,...
Adobe Creative Cloud
Adobe Creative Cloud is a modern creative platform for designing stand-out experiences across devices and customer touchpoints. The Adobe Creative Cloud applications are available to all faculty, staff, and students, and are accessible through Office 365. This instructional guidewill demonstrate how faculty, staff, and students can access the Adobe Creative Cloud within Office 365. Comprehensive training resources for Adobe Creative Cloud Applications can be found on Information Technology’s...
Panopto
Panopto is a lecture capturing and streaming service for audio and video-related content that includes many interactive features. Panopto fully integrates with Canvas courses and offers a central place to house digital assets, which can include Zoom cloud recordings, lecture recordings, screen capture recordings, as well as other audio or video recordings. Panopto offers key features which include screen and lecture recording capabilities, a robust video search, closed captioning, and video s...
YouTube & Vimeo
Video resources can be found on YouTube or Vimeo. Instructors can use the YouTube and Vimeo tools within Canvas to embed videos into their course. Create a new page, select the YouTube or Vimeo tool, and pick a video to embed. As a reminder, for video files that you have created, you may upload them to Panopto and then post it to your Canvas course.
Zoom
Columbia College Chicago has made Zoom Pro accounts available to all faculty, staff, and students. Zoom is a video communications tool that allows you to host video conference calls with your students, fellow staff members, and classmates. Features such as screen sharing, white boards, polling, chat, and captioning make Zoom a robust choice for remote communication, collaboration, and online lecture delivery. Zoom is also integrated within each Canvas course, which allows for instructors to s...
Microsoft Teams
Microsoft Teams is a collaboration tool in the Office 365 suite that features instant messaging, video conferencing, file and notebook sharing, among other collaborative elements. This introductory course for Microsoft Teams shows the essentials of using Teams, starting with basic setup, creating new teams, and joining existing teams. Topics covered include how to use the chat feature, scheduled meetings, create impromptu meetings, and sharing files in Teams. This Microsoft training document...
Zoom and Microsoft Teams Comparison
Academic Technology has created a Zoom and Teams comparison chart to provide a comprehensive comparison of the features available within Zoom and Microsoft Teams. You may use the following document to learn more about what features each tool has to offer. 1. Zoom and Microsoft Teams Comparison Chart
Learn how to use Canvas, Qwickly, LTI, and other tools for online and hybrid teaching at Columbia College Chicago. Find training, support, and resources for course management, streaming video, library, and more.
Canvas is the LMS used by Columbia faculty to manage their courses and it allows students to access course materials, such as course syllabi, assignments, resources, grades, and other materials. The college’s Canvas website is located at canvas.colum.edu.
Learn how to use Canvas, the LMS for Columbia courses, and other digital tools for teaching and learning. Find trainings, consultations, and support for smart classrooms and media services.
Learn how to use Canvas LMS and other tools for online, hybrid, and remote instruction at Columbia College Chicago. Find course templates, tips, guides, and support for faculty and students.
