91ÖÆƬ³§'s relationship with Blackboard is coming to an end. Learn more about our plans to migrate Blackboard courses to Canvas.


After extensive research and a rigorous RFP process, 91ÖÆƬ³§ will be replacing Blackboard with Canvas as our official Learning Management System (LMS) over the next year. While we acknowledge that switching platforms presents some challenges, we are doing everything we can to make the transition as smooth and painless as possible. We will have training and support available at every step of this journey.

Canvas provides faculty with the resources they need to improve the student learning experience:

  • An intuitive, easy to learn interface, including an improved mobile app experience;
  • Enhanced and easy to manage syllabus, course calendar, and course schedule that automatically updates due dates for course activities;
  • Improved workflow for more streamlined grading;
  • A dashboard that quickly summarizes all relevant course events and items;
  • Simplified student collaboration and group options; and
  • 24-7 phone and live chat support with Canvas, along with improved instructions, videos, and guides.

We encourage your questions and feedback (elearningadmin@odu.edu) as we go through this process together.


Migration & Archives

A third-party vendor, K16, will help us with course migration. They'll start by importing Blackboard course content from the most recently available courses you teach into Canvas templated courses. This is a very intensive white-glove migration process where every effort is made to identify matching functionality between Blackboard and Canvas. Each piece of your course content will be carefully migrated as cleanly and completely as possible. Of course there may be instances where functionality doesn't quite match, requiring post-migration review and manipulation, but we will make sure faculty have the support needed for a smooth transition.

In addition to migration services, K16 will archive all Blackboard courses and organizations (including content, student data and grades) through the end of our Blackboard contract. Should you need access to these archives, you can contact the ITS Help Desk.


Training

You will have all of the support necessary for a successful transition and beyond.

Growing with Canvas

As an initial step, faculty and staff are encouraged to log into with their MIDAS ID and password. If you look in your Dashboard or Course list you will find a course called "Growing with Canvas." This course, available to everyone, is a great place to start learning about Canvas and how to use it. Additionally, you can select the Help option from the left menu to access the Canvas Training Portal and explore a wide variety of available online, virtual and on-demand training.

Passport to Canvas (Quick Start Guide for Students)

Students can find a course called "Passport to Canvas" in their Dashboard or Course list, or browse Canvas' extensive .

The Academic Resource Center covers Canvas basics in one-on-one coaching sessions. They've put together this checklist for students wo want to get to know the main features. Contact arc@odu.edu or call (757) 683-5370.

Training from Instructure (the makers of Canvas)

Instructure is offering multiple 3-hour training sessions for instructors. These live sessions (presented over Zoom) will cover Canvas basics, working with content and using the platform's tools. You'll need to be able to view the instructor in Zoom while you follow along with the exercises in Canvas; it might be helpful if you have dual monitors and a headset with a microphone. The lists all the sessions available, along with their Zoom links. (You'll need to log in with your MIDAS ID and password to view the schedule and links.)

After learning the basics, you can dive deeper in a CLT workshop (see below).

Training from the Center for Learning and Teaching

Additional training sessions and workshops are provided by 91ÖÆƬ³§ CLT staff. See the page for descriptions and schedules.

Faculty Forums

Information Technology Services, the Center for Learning and Teaching, and the Center for Faculty Development held faculty forums in November. You can watch (or rewatch) a recording .


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Project Details

Fall 2021

September to October 2021

  • Contract signed with Canvas
  • Prepare new Canvas environments

November 15

  • Faculty Champion course selection

November 17-18

  • Faculty Champion training provided by Instructure and CLT

December 1

  • Migration of Faculty Champion courses (along with some test courses)
  • Email to all faculty about course migration selection (courses need to be selected before the December 10)

December 7

  • Faculty Champions provide feedback about the course migration process

December 10

  • Second migration of Faculty Champion and test courses (correcting issues identified from the migration on December 1)

December 15

  • Migration of all remaining courses and organizations
  • All faculty will have access to their course content for review
Spring 2022

January to May

  • Faculty review course content in Canvas for Summer and Fall courses

January

  • Initial college training sessions provided by Instructure and CLT

February to March

  • Second round of college training sessions for faculty

End of semester

  • Spring course migration note: Spring courses were migrated back in the fall. If you've made changes to a course this semester in Blackboard, you'll need to make those changes in Canvas as well. If you've created a new course from scratch, contact ITS for help migrating that course to Canvas.
Summer 2022

Summer semester

  • All courses taught exclusively with Canvas
June 1, 2022
  • Access to Blackboard will be removed for instructors and students

June 30, 2022

  • Contract with Blackboard ends.

Individuals on this committee will be responsible for implementation of Canvas and migration from Blackboard.

Dave Hamel (Lead)

ITS

Kate Hawkins

Academic Affairs

Tomeka Wilcher

CFD

M'Hammed Abdous

CLT

Chrysoula Malogianni

CLT

Ashraf Amrou

ITS

Karthik Navuluri

ITS

Rusty Waterfield

ITS

Faculty

TBD

Department Organizations

TBD

Faculty Steering Committee

Individuals on this committee will be steering the implementation and migration to Canvas.

Kate Hawkins (Lead)

Academic Affairs

Jim Bellamy

Community & Environmental Health

Renee R. Felts

School of Continuing Education

Charles R. Gray

Sociology & Criminal Justice

Holli A. Kubly

University Libraries

Jon Lester

Engineering Technology

Tatyana A. Lobova

Biological Sciences

Chrysoula Malogianni

Center for Learning & Teaching

Sara M. Maynard

Medical Diagnostic & Translational Sciences

Michael K. Mcshane

Finance

Kyle H. Nicholas

Communication & Theatre Arts

Paige H. O'Shaughnessy

School of Accountancy

Cesar A. Pinto

Engineering Management & Systems Engineering

Mark C. Rehfuss

Counseling & Human Services

Michael Ruffin

Education & Professional Studies

Beth M. Tremblay

Nursing

Virginia Tucker

English

Lucinda R. Wittkower

University Libraries

Suzanne M. Wright

Nursing

Steven J. Zeil

Computer Science

RFP Evaluation Committee

Dave Hamel (co-lead)

ITS

Kate Hawkins (co-lead)

Academic Affairs

Lynn Wiles

Nursing

Mark Rehfuss

Counseling and Human Services

David Chapman

Public Service

Jim Van Dore

Philosophy & Religious Studies

Johnathan Lester

Engineering Technology

Tatyana Lobova

Biology

Kelsey Kirland

Institutional Assessment

M'Hammed Abdous

CLT

Chrysoula Malogianni

CLT

Ashraf Amrou

ITS

Rusty Waterfield

ITS

Tomeka Wilcher

CFD

Robert Doherty

CEPD

Esther Dodge

HR

Tester Department
Amber Hunt

College of Health Sciences (DNTL)

Charlie Kirkpatrick

Strome College of Business

Debbie Couch

Human Resources

Felecia Commodore

Darden College of Education (EFL)

Janice Hawkins

College of Health Sciences (NURS)

John Lopez

Information Technology Services

Jonathan Gedamu

Student

Jori Beck

Darden College of Education (TL)

Joseph Sidlo

Student

Julia Romberger

College of Arts & Letters (ENGL)

Kelsey Kirland

Institutional Effectiveness and Assessment

Krystall Dunaway

College of Sciences (PSYC)

Leanne White

College of Health Sciences

LeWei Chen

Strome College of Business (MGMT)

Matthew Beale

College of Arts & Letters (ENGL)

Michele Weigle

College of Sciences (CS)

Mike Stein

Strome College of Business (ACCT)

Milena Mektesheva

Information Technology Svcs

Przemyslaw Bogacki

College of Sciences (MATH)

Robert Strozak

College of Sciences (MATH)

Steve Hsiung

Batten College of Engineering & Technology(ET)

Steve Zeil

College of Sciences (CS)

Tian Luo

Darden College of Education (STEMPS)

A handful of early adopters (Faculty Champions) are teaching courses using Canvas in Spring 2022. These faculty are helping us iron out the migration process in preparation for full Canvas adoption beginning with Summer 2022.

Faculty Champions (listed below) are the only instructors teaching with Canvas this Spring. Other faculty can log in and get familiar with the platform, but they should prepare their Spring courses in Blackboard.

Md Rasel Al Mamun

Shawn D. Altman

Deri Amason

Amelia Anderson

Jim Bellamy

Crystal Betts-Green

Megan Boeshart

Chris Bowman

Laura D. Buchholz

Michelle C. Carpenter

Brett Cook-Snell

Paula Alvaro-Sanchez

Hong K. Duong

Amro M. El-Adle

Ayman M. El Mesalami

Rhett Epler

Kristie L. Escobar

Paul Ewell

Renee R. Felts

Annette Finley-Croswhite

Robert Ford

Kathleen M. Fowler

Morgan Gendel

Corrin I. Gillis

Martin Goossen

Mahesh Gopinath

Mathew Grau

Charles R. Gray

Lin Guo

Matthew R. Hart

Eddie Hill

Leslie E. Hoglund

Shamim Hunt

Soad F. Ibrahim

Marissa Jimenez

Sue Kimmel

Jeanie P. Kline

Mickey Kosloski

Angela Lawhorne

Jon Lester

Feng Lian

Alison M. Lietzenmayer

Tatyana A. Lobova

Sharon M. Martin

Sara Maynard

Robert Mcnab

Miles Mc Nutt

Michael K. Mcshane

Ed Neukrug

Kyle H. Nicholas

Aj Nolan

Paige H. O'Shaughnessy

Jay O'Toole

Anne M. Perrotti

Cesar A. Pinto

Shana L. Pribesh

Phil Reed

Mark C. Rehfuss

Kelly Rippard

Sara E. Russell Riggs

Marina V. Saitgalina

Jody Sommerfeldt

Christina Steel

Simon A. Stevenson

Gregory B. Stone

Christine A. Sump

Veronica L. Thomas

Cynthia Tomovic

Chrystal Trapani

Beth Tremblay

Virginia Tucker

Ricardo Ungo

Suzanne Van Orden

Renee Weather

Rachel S. White

Sabrina Wyche

Steven J. Zeil

Fall 2021

September to October 2021

  • Contract signed with Canvas
  • Prepare new Canvas environments

November 15

  • Faculty Champion course selection

November 17-18

  • Faculty Champion training provided by Instructure and CLT

December 1

  • Migration of Faculty Champion courses (along with some test courses)
  • Email to all faculty about course migration selection (courses need to be selected before the December 10)

December 7

  • Faculty Champions provide feedback about the course migration process

December 10

  • Second migration of Faculty Champion and test courses (correcting issues identified from the migration on December 1)

December 15

  • Migration of all remaining courses and organizations
  • All faculty will have access to their course content for review
Spring 2022

January to May

  • Faculty review course content in Canvas for Summer and Fall courses

January

  • Initial college training sessions provided by Instructure and CLT

February to March

  • Second round of college training sessions for faculty

End of semester

  • Spring course migration note: Spring courses were migrated back in the fall. If you've made changes to a course this semester in Blackboard, you'll need to make those changes in Canvas as well. If you've created a new course from scratch, contact ITS for help migrating that course to Canvas.
Summer 2022

Summer semester

  • All courses taught exclusively with Canvas
June 1, 2022
  • Access to Blackboard will be removed for instructors and students

June 30, 2022

  • Contract with Blackboard ends.

Individuals on this committee will be responsible for implementation of Canvas and migration from Blackboard.

Dave Hamel (Lead)

ITS

Kate Hawkins

Academic Affairs

Tomeka Wilcher

CFD

M'Hammed Abdous

CLT

Chrysoula Malogianni

CLT

Ashraf Amrou

ITS

Karthik Navuluri

ITS

Rusty Waterfield

ITS

Faculty

TBD

Department Organizations

TBD

Faculty Steering Committee

Individuals on this committee will be steering the implementation and migration to Canvas.

Kate Hawkins (Lead)

Academic Affairs

Jim Bellamy

Community & Environmental Health

Renee R. Felts

School of Continuing Education

Charles R. Gray

Sociology & Criminal Justice

Holli A. Kubly

University Libraries

Jon Lester

Engineering Technology

Tatyana A. Lobova

Biological Sciences

Chrysoula Malogianni

Center for Learning & Teaching

Sara M. Maynard

Medical Diagnostic & Translational Sciences

Michael K. Mcshane

Finance

Kyle H. Nicholas

Communication & Theatre Arts

Paige H. O'Shaughnessy

School of Accountancy

Cesar A. Pinto

Engineering Management & Systems Engineering

Mark C. Rehfuss

Counseling & Human Services

Michael Ruffin

Education & Professional Studies

Beth M. Tremblay

Nursing

Virginia Tucker

English

Lucinda R. Wittkower

University Libraries

Suzanne M. Wright

Nursing

Steven J. Zeil

Computer Science

RFP Evaluation Committee

Dave Hamel (co-lead)

ITS

Kate Hawkins (co-lead)

Academic Affairs

Lynn Wiles

Nursing

Mark Rehfuss

Counseling and Human Services

David Chapman

Public Service

Jim Van Dore

Philosophy & Religious Studies

Johnathan Lester

Engineering Technology

Tatyana Lobova

Biology

Kelsey Kirland

Institutional Assessment

M'Hammed Abdous

CLT

Chrysoula Malogianni

CLT

Ashraf Amrou

ITS

Rusty Waterfield

ITS

Tomeka Wilcher

CFD

Robert Doherty

CEPD

Esther Dodge

HR

Tester Department
Amber Hunt

College of Health Sciences (DNTL)

Charlie Kirkpatrick

Strome College of Business

Debbie Couch

Human Resources

Felecia Commodore

Darden College of Education (EFL)

Janice Hawkins

College of Health Sciences (NURS)

John Lopez

Information Technology Services

Jonathan Gedamu

Student

Jori Beck

Darden College of Education (TL)

Joseph Sidlo

Student

Julia Romberger

College of Arts & Letters (ENGL)

Kelsey Kirland

Institutional Effectiveness and Assessment

Krystall Dunaway

College of Sciences (PSYC)

Leanne White

College of Health Sciences

LeWei Chen

Strome College of Business (MGMT)

Matthew Beale

College of Arts & Letters (ENGL)

Michele Weigle

College of Sciences (CS)

Mike Stein

Strome College of Business (ACCT)

Milena Mektesheva

Information Technology Svcs

Przemyslaw Bogacki

College of Sciences (MATH)

Robert Strozak

College of Sciences (MATH)

Steve Hsiung

Batten College of Engineering & Technology(ET)

Steve Zeil

College of Sciences (CS)

Tian Luo

Darden College of Education (STEMPS)

A handful of early adopters (Faculty Champions) are teaching courses using Canvas in Spring 2022. These faculty are helping us iron out the migration process in preparation for full Canvas adoption beginning with Summer 2022.

Faculty Champions (listed below) are the only instructors teaching with Canvas this Spring. Other faculty can log in and get familiar with the platform, but they should prepare their Spring courses in Blackboard.

Md Rasel Al Mamun

Shawn D. Altman

Deri Amason

Amelia Anderson

Jim Bellamy

Crystal Betts-Green

Megan Boeshart

Chris Bowman

Laura D. Buchholz

Michelle C. Carpenter

Brett Cook-Snell

Paula Alvaro-Sanchez

Hong K. Duong

Amro M. El-Adle

Ayman M. El Mesalami

Rhett Epler

Kristie L. Escobar

Paul Ewell

Renee R. Felts

Annette Finley-Croswhite

Robert Ford

Kathleen M. Fowler

Morgan Gendel

Corrin I. Gillis

Martin Goossen

Mahesh Gopinath

Mathew Grau

Charles R. Gray

Lin Guo

Matthew R. Hart

Eddie Hill

Leslie E. Hoglund

Shamim Hunt

Soad F. Ibrahim

Marissa Jimenez

Sue Kimmel

Jeanie P. Kline

Mickey Kosloski

Angela Lawhorne

Jon Lester

Feng Lian

Alison M. Lietzenmayer

Tatyana A. Lobova

Sharon M. Martin

Sara Maynard

Robert Mcnab

Miles Mc Nutt

Michael K. Mcshane

Ed Neukrug

Kyle H. Nicholas

Aj Nolan

Paige H. O'Shaughnessy

Jay O'Toole

Anne M. Perrotti

Cesar A. Pinto

Shana L. Pribesh

Phil Reed

Mark C. Rehfuss

Kelly Rippard

Sara E. Russell Riggs

Marina V. Saitgalina

Jody Sommerfeldt

Christina Steel

Simon A. Stevenson

Gregory B. Stone

Christine A. Sump

Veronica L. Thomas

Cynthia Tomovic

Chrystal Trapani

Beth Tremblay

Virginia Tucker

Ricardo Ungo

Suzanne Van Orden

Renee Weather

Rachel S. White

Sabrina Wyche

Steven J. Zeil


FAQs

Migration and Procedures

Course migration will begin in late November 2021 for Faculty Champions teaching in Spring 2022. All other faculty will have access to their migrated courses in January 2022 to begin reviewing and updating them for use by Summer/Fall 2022.

  • We are looking for a small number of Faculty Champions ( < 50 courses).
  • Faculty Champions should be nominated by their departments.
  • Faculty Champions should be those willing to frequently communicate with CFD, CLT & ITS over their experiences and their students' experiences using the new LMS.
  • Faculty Champions should be those willing to document and share their tips and best practices with other faculty to improve content delivery and the student experience.
  • Those creating an entirely new course might as well do it in Canvas and consider being a Faculty Champion.
  • Faculty Champions could be those taking over an existing course who do not plan to reuse Blackboard content from the previous incarnation.
  • Faculty Champions may be those who already have experience with Canvas.

  • Courses that use multi-layer deep course structures
  • Courses that use large test pools
  • Courses that use extensive use of Adaptive Learning at many levels

All courses taught in Summer 2022 or later will be taught in Canvas.

  • Everyone. The existing Blackboard contract will expire June 30, 2022, stopping access to all existing courses/data in that Blackboard Learn and Blackboard Collaborate.
  • Current plans will migrate the most recent version of all active courses to Canvas in early spring, providing faculty with access to existing content.
  • We will be archiving all existing courses in Blackboard Learn to ensure content or grade data is not lost. These can be restored on demand to capture information which can be proffered through a CSV file in the event of a legal grade request or dispute.

  • Canvas training and workshops will be provided during the fall for Faculty Champions.
  • Canvas Training and Workshops will be offered in the spring semester for all other faculty.
  • Training schedules will be posted to the Canvas Migration web site and email announcements will be sent to all faculty.

  • Options for faculty workshops and assistance for course migration and setup are being investigated and will be announced.

  • The Center for Learning and Teaching is working on a migration plan for PLE courses, but we don't have a timeline for the deprecation of PLE yet. In the meantime, courses taught in Canvas will have links to PLE, just as Blackboard has now.

  • Only the most recent version of each course you teach is being planned for migration to Canvas.Ìý
  • A list of Blackboard courses for migration was derived by searching for all active courses and Organizations in Blackboard. That list then had all duplicate courses removed for each faculty member where the most recent course was selected to arrive at a recommended course migration list.Ìý
  • We will provide a UI shortly to enable faculty to review which courses are planned to be migrated.
  • The UI will also enable faculty members to swap out a course from the list and select a different course for migration if needed.
  • All faculty should plan to review and validate their course content and how it is delivered, make any required changes, and reuse the updated course content as needed.

  • Due to multimedia storage constraints in Canvas, all multimedia content (.mpg, .mov, .mp4, .wav etc.) should be stored in Kaltura. Make sure the media content is uploaded to Kaltura and is linked to or embedded in your Blackboard course prior to the migration.ÌýThere will be a 2 GB multimedia file limit set per course in Canvas.

In the management of any course, instructors may come across students who are unable to complete a course. This typically results in a grade of "I" being submitted to Banner. Previously in Blackboard, instructors typically allowed the student to complete the course in the existing course shell they started in.

As we transition to Canvas, the process for provisioning course content that will allow students to complete their coursework will be slightly different.

  • Faculty that have incompletes should minimally export the gradebook for the course prior to the discontinuation of Blackboard.
  • Faculty that know they have courses that have student incompletes where students will be returning can request the course content be migrated to Canvas prior to the discontinuation of Blackboard.
  • If courses need to be recovered after the discontinuation of Blackboard, emailÌýitshelp@odu.edu to request to have the course restored. ITS will notify you once it is restored.
  • If the course that has the incomplete uses PLE, please contact the Center for Learning and Teaching (emailÌýclt@odu.eduÌýor use theÌý) so they can assist with migrating that content.

            You can find detailed instructions with screenshots in our guide:ÌýManaging Incompletes in the Transition from Blackboard.

            • Because Blackboard will not be available after June 30, 2022, there would be no place to reload course archives. Faculty should instead consider downloading individual content items and information from their courses if they wish to keep a copy.
            • ITS is planning to have all courses archived to the K16 Scaffolding product where content can be pulled from when needed.

            • There is no concept of an 'organization' currently in Canvas. All existing organizations will be migrated as Canvas courses. More information about this transition will be published soon.

            • Courses that are cross listed in Banner will show up just as they do in Blackboard, as a single course based on the lowest CRN. Although a cross listed course in Banner has multiple sections, it would count as only a single course in Canvas (or Blackboard).
            • Faculty should make every effort to work with their department scheduling office and the registrar's office to cross list courses in Banner.

            • When a course remains unpublished, students do not have access. A course must be published for students to see it on their Dashboard, assuming it is being published within the term dates set in place. Once the course is published, you can determine how much content you want students to view. Once the instructor has graded a submission, they will no longer have the option to unpublish the course.

            • Students will be able to access the course immediately after publishing, assuming it is within the start and end default term dates. Also, please note that you will be unable to unpublish a course if you have graded an item in the gradebook.

            • When creating content within your course, you have the option to publish that content immediately or leave it unpublished until you are ready for the students to view it.

            We are limiting Faculty Champions to one course as we continue to test our confidence in the large scale operation of the new system. We may uncover issues that were not readily apparent in the beginning, and we need to minimize the impact of unforeseen hiccups.

            We are limiting Faculty Champions to a single course each, regardless of whether you migrate or develop that course.

            The courses selected by the Faculty Champions will not impact the migration of courses from Blackboard to Canvas. All teaching faculty will be receiving an email in the very near future where they will be able to review all the courses that are currently planned for migration. It will be during that review where faculty can provide us feedback on course needs.

            Features and Functionality

            • Canvas has many of the same features as Blackboard, but not all. There are some new features and some familiar ones, such as discussions, groups, gradebook, modules, etc.Ìý

            • The "My Media" and "Media Gallery" options in course navigation are generally used for Kaltura Media embedding.
            • Canvas does have a tool in theÌýÌýthat supports Vimeo, YouTube, and Kaltura content.

            • Yes. Supported file types are listed in the Canvas Guides:Ìý

            • Zoom has been defined as the University standard for web conferencing.
            • The conferencing tool that is packaged with Canvas is Big Blue Button. It does have several limitations. These include recordings that are only kept for 2 weeks (14 days) and are not downloadable, attendee limit of 24 etc. Additionally, video recordings are not automatically transferred to Kaltura.

            • Yes. See theÌýÌýpage. You can also use theÌý.

            • Question types with partial credit options are outlined here on theÌýÌýpage.

            • TheÌýÌýhas a great agenda feature that will allow you to create office hours. More information can be found in the Canvas Guides.

            • Users can upload an image to display behind the course card in the Canvas Dashboard. Accepted images include JPG, JPEG, GIF, and PNG files. For more information on how this is done, see theÌýÌýpage.

            • Canvas Self-Enroll is being evaluated and how we would approach using that option. We believe that Canvas Catalog is a viable solution and will be providing more information on that in the near future.

            • Yes, Canvas offers course and department-level groups. Go to the "" page for more information.

            • Yes, there are student and instructor mobile apps available for iOS, iPadOS, and Android. Announcements, Discussions, Quizzes, Assignments, and Grades can be accessed from the student app. The instructor app allows annotations in the Canvas DocViewer. For more information, go toÌý.

            • Canvas is built to be an accessible platform, but development of accessible content within a course is the instructor's responsibility and still needs to adhere to university accessibility guidelines. For more information, please refer toÌýEducational Accessibility Resources for Faculty and Staff.

            Instructure has stated that the Rich Content Editor's accessibility checker tool is an ongoing project, and they are continuing to improve the 11 different checks that it currently performs. More information can be found in theÌý.

            Integrations

            • The ITS eLearning staff will be migrating all current integrations in Blackboard over to Canvas before making them available to faculty and students. Most third-party apps and publishing integrations that work in Blackboard will work similarly in Canvas.

            • All Zoom cloud recordings are currently being copied to Kaltura and can be accessed through "My Media" in Canvas. From there, you can embed Zoom recordings.

            • Yes. The conferencing tool that is packaged with Canvas is Big Blue Button. It does have limitations, though. For example, meetings are limited to 24 attendees, recordings are only kept for 2 weeks (14 days) and are not downloadable. It is highly recommended that faculty use Zoom, the University's standard web conferencing tool.

            • Turnitin has been selected as the University-supported plagiarism tool and will be integrated with Canvas. Faculty received training on this new product in January 2022. You canÌýÌýorÌý.

            • First, the instructor will need toÌý.
            • Second, a Google Doc can be either embedded in a Canvas Page or you can use theÌýÌýto share the document with one or more students.

            • All Pearson apps will work similar to how they do in Blackboard.

            • Kaltura videos that already exist in your My Media can be embedded into Canvas. The same Kaltura Mediaspace is accessible in both Canvas and Blackboard at 91ÖÆƬ³§.

            Gradebook

            • You can choose from a few options for displaying test/quiz results - on a certain date, after it has been graded, etc. Here you will find theÌý.

            • Canvas outlines a few ways you can administer extra credit. See theÌýÌýpage for details.

            • Instructors can create as many assignment groups as necessary to accomplish variations of weighting. Please view theÌýÌýandÌýÌýpages in the Canvas Guides.

            • Columns in the Gradebook are only created by adding an assignment in Canvas. If you need to create a column in the Gradebook to use for manual grading, you canÌý.

            This capability is being migrated from Blackboard to Canvas and will be completed before the start of the Fall 2022 semester. Until then, the process will be very similar to pulling grades from Blackboard for import into Banner.