Showing posts with label courses. Show all posts
Showing posts with label courses. Show all posts

Friday, May 17, 2019

Exciting Initiatives in OIT

The Office of Information Technology is working in collaboration with departments across the University on these exciting initiatives and more.

Now

  • Reducing student registration time from 30 seconds to 10 seconds
  • Providing drop-in training every Friday from 2-5:00PM in Sullivan Hall
  • Presenting at new student orientation
  • Helping develop new 60- and 30-second TV spots
  • Preparing data for regulatory reporting and annual financial audit
  • Redesigning selected courses
  • Supporting launch of new academic program
  • Supporting the stu.edu website redesign initiative 

Summer

  • Launching 24/7 telephone support for students, faculty, and staff
  • Providing online syllabus search and retrieve
  • Improving the look and feel of the MyBobcat website
  • Moving a large display from the OIT office to an instructional area
  • Implementing monthly network and system vulnerability scanning
  • Deploying 27 new computers for Athletics (Fin Aid and Admissions previously done

Fall

  • Providing new-and-improved online instructor orientation
  • Providing new-and-improved online student orientation
  • Refreshing disk image for all academic computers

Friday, May 9, 2014

Introduction to Canvas

We would like to announce the addition of Canvas training to our list of instructional technology resources available to our faculty on the following Canvas topics/components:

  • Login
  • Canvas Requirements and Recommendations
  • Contacting Technical or Student Services Support 
  • Dashboard
  • Course Navigation
  • Profile & User Settings
  • Communication
  • Course Announcements
  • Discussions
  • Files
  • Quizzes
  • Assignments
  • Grading
  • Course Statistics
  • People (roster)
  • Collaboration

Canvas LMS is now supported by OIT as part of our STU-HotChalk online learning project.  For additional information on Canvas LMS, please visit the Instructor Guide.

To schedule a training or learn more about our services, please send an email to the OIT Training Center at oitat@stu.edu.