John Morris is Senior Instructor I in the College of Business. Prior to joining OSU in 2009, he worked at Hewlett-Packard Company in software and technology training.
Google Trends shows the rapid increase in interest in the term “ChatGPT” since the end of November. This trend aligns with the announcement on November 30, 2022 from OpenAI regarding a publicly available tool called ChatGPT. This tool falls into the category of generative artificial intelligence (AI).
Inclusivity is best achieved with technology that happens behind the scenes and delivers a seamless experience without interruption. OSU’s commitment to inclusivity in teaching and learning through Quality Teaching (QT), champion a culture of diverse, equitable, and inclusive learning, and OSU’s SP4.0, a culture of belonging, collaboration, and innovation, is reflected in Zoom being the enterprise solution at Oregon State University for web-collaboration for teaching and learning.
As we head into the new year, Media Services and Technical Services are focused on the goal of celebrating students’ achievements and the completion of the current stage of their academic journey; Commencement.
The UDOIT accessibility tool upgrade brings improved features for faculty to scan your Canvas site and making it fast and easy to fix accessibility issues in pages, assignments, announcements and discussion topics.
Data Science@OSU (DS@OSU) places powerful computational environments and resources at the fingertips of students and instructors, regardless of their device. DS@OSU is designed to support interactive data science, and provides over 40 programming languages, including Python, R, and Julia, in a streamlined and highly accessible cloud environment.
Microsoft Teams with Canvas was added to the OSU instance of Canvas this September. This tool allows instructional faculty and staff to enable a Team in a Canvas course site and use the Chat and Channel features. This integration synchs the class roster with the Team to ensure that only actively enrolled students and instructional faculty and staff can access the course Team.
At Oregon State University, we are committed to creating and sustaining a diverse environment that is both equitable and inclusive by making the university accessible to people with disabilities. One of Oregon State’s core values is that we believe that diversity is a key to success.
OSU has a custom tool in Canvas named Add TA… that can be used to add OSU individuals to Canvas courses as teaching assistants (CanvasTA), graders, designers or observers. The Learn@OregonState team worked with individuals involved with the GenderMag project to evaluate this tool over the past year.
Throughout the summer University Information and Technology updated Canvas and several tool integrations in Canvas to improve system and data security, including Kaltura and Gradescope.
Media Hub is an all inclusive multimedia resource for OSU students, faculty and staff, and is a dedicated “one stop shop” for your academic digital content creation needs.
In this article, we’ll walk you through the major changes, what’s happening, and why.
The University Information and Technology staff have been busy this summer updating computers across OSU for Fall Term 2022. For instructional faculty and staff that have specific software and hardware needs based on learning outcomes, the online request form is available.
October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month! In partnership with OSU’s Office of Information Security, we have created a back-to-school checklist for you to better protect yourself and your student’s information.
A new accessibility platform called Ally is now available in all Canvas course sites with tools for faculty and students.
Faculty and students who want to explore Ally may do so starting Spring 2022. We’ll gather your feedback, questions and suggestions to prepare training and support resources to be ready for the official launch of Ally in Fall 2022.
FMC Student Perspective: Ryan Ferry By: Ryan Ferry “Media has so many possibilities to expand upon the knowledge learned in class and highlight interesting points/examples that students would fail to remember if only mentioned in a fleeting moment in a lecture.” Ryan, FMC student employee and senior Finance major at
Learn about the Academic Technologies Equipment Checkout service.
Waiting for me every morning in my email inbox is OSU Today, a daily email collecting bits and bobs about OSU – events, opportunities, and my favorite, Today in the News Media. It shouldn’t come as a surprise that our faculty are often featured across the news media, either to tell the story of their work, or to use their background and expertise to help explain a subject through the media.
When I walked into SMS it was clear to me that the space had been undersold by the professor. I had been told about the equipment check-out, but the scope of SMS was much broader than that.
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The FMC Lightboard is a tool for creating compelling, visually dynamic videos to help you effectively connect with your students.
The Faculty Media Center was developed to make creating your own media quick and easy. Our Do-It-Yourself approach aims to eliminate complex production tasks, enabling you to leave with a finished media product on the same day it was recorded. To help you get started, we’re excited to share our simple 3-step FMC Media Experience.
Workshops and Webinars Find out what’s new in 2022 and get hands-on help with tools for teaching and learning from the Center for Teaching and Learning, Ecampus, and Academic Technologies. Check out our winter term webinars and workshops – descriptions and registration here. Gradescope Bubble Sheet Exams Scantron services will
Project Spotlight When a new university public safety model implements in a pandemic one practical question stands out: how to swear in new officers and conduct mandatory training remotely? To solve the problem Oregon State University (Corvallis) Operations Lt. Jon-Michael McDaniel turned to the department of Academic Technology. By adapting
When a new university public safety model implements in a pandemic one practical question stands out: how to swear in new officers and conduct mandatory training remotely?
Duo required for Canvas access Starting December 15, 2020 Duo authentication will be required to access Canvas from the web and Canvas mobile apps. This change will be consistent with the login experience for most other OSU IT services, and will improve security for the OSU community. Users who access Canvas with a personal account (e.g., PACE,
A group of mask clad IT professionals speedily open conduit, select locations for microphones, and begin pulling cable, the first, and most laborious step in Operation 231. “Operation 231 is a push to put video learning capability in as many classrooms as we possibly can before the fall…” said David
Teaching summer classes, Faculty Media Center, Proctoring, Canvas, Kaltura, Top Hat, Gradescope, Student Multimedia Studio, Tech Keep Teaching Assistants (TechKTAs)
Let’s zoom back to mid-March when we were asking: what does remote learning look like for students, for faculty, and how can we help users navigate the virtual classroom? The LInC building, Academic Technology’s campus home began to sit quietly, classrooms eerily empty. While in non-campus homes faculty and staff worked from makeshift garage offices or wooden kitchen tables, preparing for spring term via remote learning.
Have you thought about creating media for your teaching, research, and outreach? Does limited time and money subdue your enthusiasm for creating your own media?
Exams may indicate what students have learned, but what do students learn from taking exams?
Try John Selker’s Two-Color Twist exam method and you may find your students valuing exams as learning experiences. John transforms his exam sessions by leveraging both individual knowledge and collaborative engagement in a way that makes exam results more valuable and grading effort more efficient.
The Academic Technology Fall 2019 newsletter is hot off the press. Learn about the tools and resources we worked on this summer to support your teaching goals at OSU. Updates on Faculty Media Center, Canvas, Gradescope, and so much more.
The Faculty Media Center empowers faculty and staff to create media for teaching, training and outreach activities. Founded on the ideas of media fluency and a do-it-yourself approach, we provide faculty and staff access to flexible, dynamic space populated with user-friendly media creation technologies and on-site consultation. There is no cost to access the service and support at Faculty Media Center.
John Morris is Senior Instructor I in the College of Business. Prior to joining OSU in 2009, he worked at Hewlett-Packard Company in software and technology training.
Google Trends shows the rapid increase in interest in the term “ChatGPT” since the end of November. This trend aligns with the announcement on November 30, 2022 from OpenAI regarding a publicly available tool called ChatGPT. This tool falls into the category of generative artificial intelligence (AI).
Inclusivity is best achieved with technology that happens behind the scenes and delivers a seamless experience without interruption. OSU’s commitment to inclusivity in teaching and learning through Quality Teaching (QT), champion a culture of diverse, equitable, and inclusive learning, and OSU’s SP4.0, a culture of belonging, collaboration, and innovation, is reflected in Zoom being the enterprise solution at Oregon State University for web-collaboration for teaching and learning.
As we head into the new year, Media Services and Technical Services are focused on the goal of celebrating students’ achievements and the completion of the current stage of their academic journey; Commencement.
The UDOIT accessibility tool upgrade brings improved features for faculty to scan your Canvas site and making it fast and easy to fix accessibility issues in pages, assignments, announcements and discussion topics.
Data Science@OSU (DS@OSU) places powerful computational environments and resources at the fingertips of students and instructors, regardless of their device. DS@OSU is designed to support interactive data science, and provides over 40 programming languages, including Python, R, and Julia, in a streamlined and highly accessible cloud environment.
Microsoft Teams with Canvas was added to the OSU instance of Canvas this September. This tool allows instructional faculty and staff to enable a Team in a Canvas course site and use the Chat and Channel features. This integration synchs the class roster with the Team to ensure that only actively enrolled students and instructional faculty and staff can access the course Team.
At Oregon State University, we are committed to creating and sustaining a diverse environment that is both equitable and inclusive by making the university accessible to people with disabilities. One of Oregon State’s core values is that we believe that diversity is a key to success.
OSU has a custom tool in Canvas named Add TA… that can be used to add OSU individuals to Canvas courses as teaching assistants (CanvasTA), graders, designers or observers. The Learn@OregonState team worked with individuals involved with the GenderMag project to evaluate this tool over the past year.
Throughout the summer University Information and Technology updated Canvas and several tool integrations in Canvas to improve system and data security, including Kaltura and Gradescope.
Media Hub is an all inclusive multimedia resource for OSU students, faculty and staff, and is a dedicated “one stop shop” for your academic digital content creation needs.
In this article, we’ll walk you through the major changes, what’s happening, and why.
The University Information and Technology staff have been busy this summer updating computers across OSU for Fall Term 2022. For instructional faculty and staff that have specific software and hardware needs based on learning outcomes, the online request form is available.
October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month! In partnership with OSU’s Office of Information Security, we have created a back-to-school checklist for you to better protect yourself and your student’s information.
A new accessibility platform called Ally is now available in all Canvas course sites with tools for faculty and students.
Faculty and students who want to explore Ally may do so starting Spring 2022. We’ll gather your feedback, questions and suggestions to prepare training and support resources to be ready for the official launch of Ally in Fall 2022.
FMC Student Perspective: Ryan Ferry By: Ryan Ferry “Media has so many possibilities to expand upon the knowledge learned in class and highlight interesting points/examples that students would fail to remember if only mentioned in a fleeting moment in a lecture.” Ryan, FMC student employee and senior Finance major at
Learn about the Academic Technologies Equipment Checkout service.
Waiting for me every morning in my email inbox is OSU Today, a daily email collecting bits and bobs about OSU – events, opportunities, and my favorite, Today in the News Media. It shouldn’t come as a surprise that our faculty are often featured across the news media, either to tell the story of their work, or to use their background and expertise to help explain a subject through the media.
When I walked into SMS it was clear to me that the space had been undersold by the professor. I had been told about the equipment check-out, but the scope of SMS was much broader than that.
The FMC Lightboard is a tool for creating compelling, visually dynamic videos to help you effectively connect with your students.
The Faculty Media Center was developed to make creating your own media quick and easy. Our Do-It-Yourself approach aims to eliminate complex production tasks, enabling you to leave with a finished media product on the same day it was recorded. To help you get started, we’re excited to share our simple 3-step FMC Media Experience.
Workshops and Webinars Find out what’s new in 2022 and get hands-on help with tools for teaching and learning from the Center for Teaching and Learning, Ecampus, and Academic Technologies. Check out our winter term webinars and workshops – descriptions and registration here. Gradescope Bubble Sheet Exams Scantron services will
Do you have burning questions about your next digital media assignment?
Call us for updates regarding scheduling for our 30 min crash-course workshops. Available online!
Project Spotlight When a new university public safety model implements in a pandemic one practical question stands out: how to swear in new officers and conduct mandatory training remotely? To solve the problem Oregon State University (Corvallis) Operations Lt. Jon-Michael McDaniel turned to the department of Academic Technology. By adapting
When a new university public safety model implements in a pandemic one practical question stands out: how to swear in new officers and conduct mandatory training remotely?
Duo required for Canvas access Starting December 15, 2020 Duo authentication will be required to access Canvas from the web and Canvas mobile apps. This change will be consistent with the login experience for most other OSU IT services, and will improve security for the OSU community. Users who access Canvas with a personal account (e.g., PACE,
A group of mask clad IT professionals speedily open conduit, select locations for microphones, and begin pulling cable, the first, and most laborious step in Operation 231. “Operation 231 is a push to put video learning capability in as many classrooms as we possibly can before the fall…” said David
Teaching summer classes, Faculty Media Center, Proctoring, Canvas, Kaltura, Top Hat, Gradescope, Student Multimedia Studio, Tech Keep Teaching Assistants (TechKTAs)
Let’s zoom back to mid-March when we were asking: what does remote learning look like for students, for faculty, and how can we help users navigate the virtual classroom? The LInC building, Academic Technology’s campus home began to sit quietly, classrooms eerily empty. While in non-campus homes faculty and staff worked from makeshift garage offices or wooden kitchen tables, preparing for spring term via remote learning.
Have you thought about creating media for your teaching, research, and outreach? Does limited time and money subdue your enthusiasm for creating your own media?
Exams may indicate what students have learned, but what do students learn from taking exams?
Try John Selker’s Two-Color Twist exam method and you may find your students valuing exams as learning experiences. John transforms his exam sessions by leveraging both individual knowledge and collaborative engagement in a way that makes exam results more valuable and grading effort more efficient.
The Academic Technology Fall 2019 newsletter is hot off the press. Learn about the tools and resources we worked on this summer to support your teaching goals at OSU. Updates on Faculty Media Center, Canvas, Gradescope, and so much more.
The Faculty Media Center empowers faculty and staff to create media for teaching, training and outreach activities. Founded on the ideas of media fluency and a do-it-yourself approach, we provide faculty and staff access to flexible, dynamic space populated with user-friendly media creation technologies and on-site consultation. There is no cost to access the service and support at Faculty Media Center.
