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Elevate Your Virtual Presence

How can we guarantee a minimum quality of the livestream experience and offer a more consistent livestream experience for students across faculty? This new Virtual Presence page helps guide faculty on how to achieve good virtual presence with examples for the elements below, a Virtual and Teaching Presence Checklist, and a link to sign up

Share Multiple Programs in Zoom! (update 5.4.3)

It’s finally here, the ability to share multiple programs at the same time! The benefit: You don’t have to keep clicking on New Share to toggle back/forth between programs. Simply select the programs (ex. PPT and Excel), and they are automatically visible to your students when you display them on your computer. How to get

10/14 10-Min Update Recording Available

View the latest Canvas & Zoom updates covered in the recent 10-minute zoom session on 10/14: Canvas: New Rich Content Editor (RCE), Dec 2020 A side-by-side comparison of the current RCE and the new one Read the detailed post >  Zoom: “Keeping Up Appearances”, Zoom Style Adjusting your lighting Adjusting your audio level See the

New Rich Content Editor, Dec 2020

The Northwestern Canvas team will be enabling the new rich content editor (RCE) in Canvas on December 16, 2020.  The biggest change you will see is the removal of the right nav (to add links, files and images) and instead replaced with icons in the text editor ribbon. The new RCE replaces the current RCE

“Keeping up Appearances” Zoom Style

From lighting, audio and use of a green screen to fun facial feature and accessories, Zoom has options you can edit for an optimal experience. Lighting Natural light, such as facing the window or being in a well lit room usually produces the best outcome. However, if your home setup is a little further away

Faculty-to-Faculty Insights

NU’s Keep Teaching video series In the new Keep Teaching video series, Northwestern instructors (several Kellogg faculty are featured) share their insights into teaching online. Gathered from interviews with faculty members across schools and disciplines, the 12-part series, produced by Northwestern IT Media & Technology Innovation in partnership with Teaching & Learning Technologies, offers practical

9/30 10-Min Update Recording Available

View the latest Canvas & Zoom updates covered in the recent 10-minute zoom session on 9/30: Zoom: Recent updates (customize gallery view, multi spotlight, self select breakout rooms) Canvas: Student analytics tool, ”what else is due that day” Canvas: See student time zones, app NU Worldwide Canvas: Pronouns available MS Bookings: App for scheduling office

Who viewed the homework assignment?

Instructions for finding out who/how many students accessed a particular file in your Canvas site. View course access report for an individual user Canvas basic reporting tells you who last viewed a particular document and number of times they viewed it – this information is in the Access Report which you can pull by going

Calendar app for booking office hours

Microsoft Bookings is an online scheduling tool (part of our Microsoft suite) which you can use for students to sign up for office hours. Faculty can establish specific hours of availability including: Custom available hours and duration of appointments. Bookings checks against your Kellogg email calendar for availability during those hours. Students see available times