Alamo Colleges Instructional Tech

Assisting faculty, staff, and students throughout the Alamo Colleges District as they traverse the ever-changing educational technology landscape.

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The Microsoft Immersive Reader enhances accessibility and comprehension for any reader. When enabled in your Canvas profile, the course home page, assignments, pages, and syllabus display an Immersive Reader button. https://t.co/aK5Hp9gJrC

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As part of our observance of Juneteenth, Canvas will be turning off their phone lines to Customer Support on Friday, June 18th, 2021 7am CST to 12:59pm CST. Users who require help on that day will be able to reach support over chat. https://t.co/jcT4vmIcHO

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Heads up for Canvas customers who want to call Canvas support https://t.co/Eg2fixo5JA

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Check out this great post on "Tips for things to NOT do in Canvas" from Hildi in the Canvas Community. https://t.co/7L0GygNLPc

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Respondus LockDown Browser and Monitor regularly has scheduled trainings and webinars available. Sign up at https://t.co/q323DINhbt.

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InstructureCon and CanvasCon combined into one FREE event of CanvasCon Online from @CanvasLMS beginning Oct 15, 2020 @ 11 a.m. CST! Keynote speakers are LeVar Burton and Sal Khan! Breakout sessions will be on-demand. #CanvasCon https://t.co/ubwLPcL62j

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Join us for Respondus LDB/Monitor Q&A forums:
•Thursday, August 20 at 10 am CT.
•Friday, August 21 at 1 pm CT.
•Wednesday, August 26 at 1 pm CT.
•Friday, August 28 at 11 am CT.
Email us at [email protected] for the Zoom link!

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Do you have questions about Respondus LockDown Browser and Monitor? Check out these awesome and timely @Respondus webinars! 😉 https://t.co/q323DINhbt

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@Turnitin is hosting a North America Users Summit on August 11th! https://t.co/CaxE627q9l and it's free! Double YAY!

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Now you can enable (or disable notifications) in your individual courses. First set up your notification preferences, as before, and then enable notifications in the individual course.
https://t.co/yKaoU91mgl. The same functionality is available for your students.

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On Sunday, June 7th we will switch over to the new Rich Content Editor (RCE) in all Canvas courses.
https://t.co/C2LfaiSXh7

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@Respondus training webinars are the best! Here's their May schedule at https://t.co/q323DINhbt.

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On May 2, 2020, Turnitin will require an emergency maintenance window from 10:00-2:00 CST. During this time, there may be an interruption to our services. Wherever possible, we suggest limiting submissions during this time.

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PAC Associate Professor of History, Peter Myers, will be hosting a @Turnitin webinar on Friday, May 1 at 1 pm. Register at https://t.co/EP2fX4QxHt. @PACPR

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Turnitin Best Practices and Expert Advice on Thursday, April 16th at 3 pm. Turnitin Solutions Consultant Tracey DeLillo will host a best practices for using Turnitin in Canvas. There will also be time allotted for Q&A. Signup in AlamoTalent or message us!

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It's time to update your Zoom applications to receive the latest security updates plus the file transfer feature has been fixed! To update click on your profile picture and click on "Check for Updates" to start the download.

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Zoom has a video on "In Meeting Controls" -
https://t.co/89IGJAYiBV

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The Turnitin website is currently experiencing intermittent availability.

The Turnitin service is fully operational and can be accessed through https://t.co/hIBj9fb8lY, if https://t.co/jS1v1gjEFQ is unavailable.

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It's almost time and we hope to "see" you there at https://t.co/JJxD2fnI5P!

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Do you want an easy way to share content between Canvas courses or fellow instructors? Direct Share is a newly released feature that is now available within our Canvas space. (Photo by Almos Bechtold on Unsplash) https://t.co/hzXQvb23wk.