Tech Notes & Training
NOVA’s new online student grade change form is now live for faculty use. This significantly upgraded form streamlines the grade change process and provides a secure and efficient way to complete the form remotely. Features of the upgraded form include: Pre-loading of student information by using an EMPLID List of courses where the student completed … Continued
Maureen Lawson, coordinator of advising training, will host two Zoom sessions for faculty and staff to learn how to utilize the Appointment feature in Navigate Staff. Navigate’s Appointment feature allows faculty and staff to select their availability to indicate the days, times, locations and services for which they are available to meet with students. You … Continued
Have you noticed a new course card when you log in to Canvas? The Canvas Toolkit for NOVA faculty and staff is the permanent location for all NOVA Canvas resources provided by Canvas Support Services. This course will continue to improve and experience renovations as the needs of the NOVA Canvas community shift over time.
Do you need 1:1 Technical Help with Canvas? Sign up for our new Canvas Tech Ticket appointments. The 1:1 sessions are to assist you with setting up or answers to technical questions specific to your NOVA Canvas courses. Click Here for more or to set up an appointment.
All H-QRS Zoom and Canvas 6 Training sessions have certain requirements and settings in place to qualify them for compensation purposes. Requirements: VCCS Zoom authenticated sign in password protected room closes 10 minutes into session to ensure full attendance Zoom Polls are used to mark active participation and handle attendance reporting NOT ALLOWED — phone … Continued
If your name does not reflect your actual name in Zoom, you will need to change your Preferred Name in the SIS-Student Information System. In order to change your preferred name, please follow the directions Here. Please note that this will also change your name in all VCCS/MyNOVA resources (e.g Zoom, MyNOVA, Canvas, MyNOVA email, … Continued
Need Help with Canvas? It’s as easy as 1, 2, 3! Contact Canvas 24/7 Support from the Help Button on your Canvas Global navigation bar (bottom left icon) for immediate help to general Canvas questions. Do you need help getting your online textbook resources to work in Canvas? Your textbook representative has access to your … Continued
NOVA Online will offer a series of Academic Technology Training workshops this week. Learn more and register Here. 9 a.m. – 9:30 a.m. Monday, June 15 Office 365: Word 12 p.m. – 1 p.m. Monday, June 15 Zoom for Meetings 2 p.m. – 3 p.m. Monday, June 15 Collaborative Assignments with Google Docs 10 a.m. … Continued
Recordings of meetings scheduled through “regular” Zoom do not automatically appear on the Zoom for Canvas Cloud Recordings tab for students to see. If this is your situation, you can share “regular” Zoom recording links, create a page in the course, name it “Lecture Recordings” or similar and copy and paste all of the … Continued
Did you know there’s an easy way to share your Canvas discussions, assignments, quizzes and content pages with other faculty? It’s called the Direct Share option. Visit the Chronicles of Canvas to learn more about this new feature.