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  • Recording Better Videos for Your Class
    March 19, 2025 by

    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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    New in Canvas: Releasing Modules and Pages to Students
    October 2, 2024 by

    Learn how to assign specific Canvas Modules or Pages to students in your Canvas course site. With the new Releasing Modules to Students feature available in Canvas, you can easily assign individual students and sections course material and assessments tailored just for them. Releasing Differentiated Content As a master’s student many years ago, I identified […]

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    New in Canvas: Lucid Integrated with Canvas 
    September 4, 2024 by

    Learn how to use the new Lucid integration with Canvas for visual collaboration, brainstorming, and diagramming. LucidSpark and LucidChart are now integrated with Canvas. These tools allow you and your students to collaborate visually, brainstorm, and create visual documents such as concept maps, flowcharts, and wireframes.  How to Use Lucid Integration with Canvas  The new […]

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  • Panopto

    Panopto Features to Know About
    August 28, 2024 by

    Learn about features of Panopto and how you can use them to create engaging instructional videos for your students. In the coming months, Ball State will be adopting Panopto as our video platform. As we all work together to learn Panopto, I wanted to share a few highlights of Panopto features that will help you […]

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    Canvas Provides a Path to Student Engagement
    May 8, 2024 by

    Learn about Canvas Mastery Paths and how they can help you support student engagement in your courses. Supporting Student Engagement  There are millions of educational tools and software to help you build engagement, but where to begin? I recently Googled “student engagement technology,” and the results were overwhelming. It would take considerable time to determine […]

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    New in Canvas: Discussions Redesign
    May 1, 2024 by ,

    Update (May 13, 2024): The authors of this post presented a virtual workshop entitled Introducing the Canvas Discussions Redesign. You can watch a recording of that workshop here. Learn about the Canvas Discussions Redesign, which brings a new look and new features to Canvas Discussions and Announcements, beginning July 20, 2024. Canvas Discussions and Announcements […]

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  • Mediasite Videos: Recording and Embedding Made Easier 
    January 31, 2024 by

    Updates to Mediasite make it easier to record videos, audio, and screencasts to provide media-rich content for your student and then embed the content Canvas. Two updates to Mediasite have provided an easier recording process and upgraded features in Canvas. The first update is Mediasite Capture, a browser-based recorder that will make recording videos, audio, […]

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