Category: Instructional Technology

Canvas Magic: Restoring Deleted Content

August 20, 2025 by Mac Clark

For the inaugural blog in my Canvas Magic series, I introduce faculty to simple ways to restore deleted Canvas content. Recently, I received a call from a stressed faculty member. She was reviewing her course’s content and accidentally deleted all its exams—the same exams she was planning to import into her next iteration of the […]

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Creating, Storing, and Sharing Your Videos with Panopto

April 30, 2025 by Mac Clark

As OneDrive storage is decreased, this blog advocates for creating, storing, and sharing course videos with Panopto. Beginning this summer, the University’s OneDrive storage will be significantly decreased. Specifically, storage quotas in existing student, faculty, and staff OneDrive accounts will gradually be reduced to 3GB. As quotas are reduced, Ball State faculty may consider moving […]

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How I Integrated Panopto into My Canvas Course

April 9, 2025 by Mac Clark

To help instructors utilize Panopto in their own courses, this article details how I integrated Panopto into my online COMM 210 course this spring. What is Panopto? Available to Ball State faculty and employees, Panopto is a video platform for creating, managing, and sharing video content. If you are interested in using Panopto as a […]

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Authentic Assessment as an Alternative to Online Proctoring

March 26, 2025 by Caleb Green

Considering authentic assessments as a tool to help prevent academic dishonesty. We are living in a time of unprecedented access to technology, much of which can make upholding academic integrity more challenging than ever. When looking to secure Canvas exams from academic dishonesty, one application within the system faculty can turn to is Respondus to […]

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Recording Better Videos for Your Class

March 19, 2025 by Indy Potter

Learn tips and tricks from equipment to filming space for recording even better videos for your classes at home or in your office. As the Multimedia Design Specialist in the Division of Online and Strategic Learning, I use my video and design skills to help Ball State University faculty upgrade their class quality in several […]

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Three Ways to Monitor Attendance on Canvas

February 5, 2025 by Mac Clark

Attendance policies are standard practice at Ball State. Whether individually created or departmentally assigned, most instructors keep track of their students’ absences. One way to monitor attendance is through Canvas’ Roll Call feature. Roll Call allows instructors to record attendance, while providing a grade based on the number of absences entered, but the tool does […]

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Join Us for the 2025 Provost’s Summit: Fostering Inclusiveness in an Evolving Educational Landscape

January 29, 2025 by Kathleen Jacobi, Sarah Ackermann

This blog is the second in our Summit series. Stay tuned next week to learn more about The virtual Ball State Provost Summit is February 6 and 7, 2025 Ball State University’s Division of Online and Strategic Learning, Office of Inclusive Excellence, and Office of the Vice Provost for Academic Affairs are gearing up to […]

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Teaching and Technology Summit 2025

January 22, 2025 by John Carter

This blog is the first in our Summit series. Stay tuned next week to learn more about the virtual Ball State Provost Summit, February 6 and 7, 2025. Are you innovating with teaching and technology? Consider presenting at the fourth annual virtual 2025 Teaching and Technology Summit, hosted March 20 and 21 by the Division […]

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Leverage Poll Everywhere to Engage Your Students

November 20, 2024 by Cheri Madewell

Learn how to use Poll Everywhere for comprehension checks, exit tickets, student check-ins, readiness assessments, and more. Poll Everywhere is an effective student response system for fostering an interactive in-person classroom and for engaging with students asynchronously. Students can respond to your poll via a QR code, a unique link, or text message on their […]

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New in Canvas: Multiple Due Date Discussions with Checkpoints

November 13, 2024 by Eva Grouling Snider (she/her)

Update (November 19, 2024): Canvas has changed the timeline for Discussion Checkpoints. It will now be available beginning January 18, 2025. Learn how to use the new Discussion Checkpoints feature in Canvas to assign an initial post and required replies. When assigning discussion boards on Canvas, it’s common for faculty to assign an initial post […]

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