Aug 14, 2023 | Uncategorized
Welcome back to the new academic year! Over the summer, Academic Technologies worked hard to release new features and create and enhance resources to support faculty, staff, and students using Canvas and integrated tools! This article will highlight what’s new in...
Aug 14, 2023 | Uncategorized
Academic Technologies has worked hard to release new resources and features to make Canvas a delight to teach and learn in. Here we will highlight some of the improvements and new resources available to help you elevate your Canvas course and make your teaching...
Aug 14, 2023 | Uncategorized
Gradescope is a grading tool primarily for handwritten assignments, bubble sheets, and computer programming assignments. It allows an instructor (or multiple instructors and TAs) to save time reviewing, grading, commenting on, and re-grading student submissions. To...
May 9, 2023 | Uncategorized
Did you know that Canvas, Northeastern’s learning management system, provides built-in tools to help create accessible courses to support all learners? Canvas offers an embedded accessibility checker, which can be found anywhere that has the Rich Content Editor,...
Apr 13, 2023 | Uncategorized
In June 2023, a new retention policy that affects stored course content is coming to Panopto. The new policy is a result of a change in the university’s license agreement and allows faculty to continue accessing older content that may be stored on the service. ...
Dec 19, 2022 | Uncategorized
An Opportunity to Learn and Grow Before the start of the 2021-22 academic year, Kris Jaeger-Helton, teaching professor and director of Senior Capstone Design for the Industrial Engineering program in the College of Engineering, was seeking new opportunities to...
Sep 29, 2021 | Uncategorized
New tools for the new school year It’s been a successful fall semester so far, with students, faculty and staff returning to campus “fully present” with in-person learning. Over the summer, the Academic Technologies team was busy completing several updates to learning...
Jul 1, 2021 | Uncategorized
Transforming Grading with Gradescope Since the rapid pivot to online learning for everyone at the start of the pandemic last year, Academic Technologies (AT) at Northeastern has been supporting students and faculty exchange knowledge across the world. This fall, as we...
Oct 7, 2020 | Uncategorized
Background At the beginning of the Fall 2020 semester, Northeastern transitioned to Canvas – a modern learning management system (LMS) that is mobile-first, reliable, accessible, and that can evolve with the ever-changing needs of Northeastern’s learners from...
Sep 12, 2019 | Uncategorized
Piloting Technologies That Enable Limitless Learning As the university welcomes another new class of students, it’s also taking a closer look at some of the technologies that support student learning. Northeastern’s learning environment should enable learning at any...
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