Cleaning up the Canvas dashboard

Now that UCI has been up and running with Canvas for a while, instructors have begun to report that past course lists are getting rather long and, in some cases, even causing slow load times or issues in certain Canvas tools. In consultation with Instructure, the Canvas vendor, we’ve made a change to reduce the…

DTEI Canvas Transition Assistance in Spring 2018

The Division of Teaching Excellence and Innovation (DTEI) offers teaching consultation and support to help faculty transition to the Canvas platform. Their Spring Quarter schedule is now available. For dates and information on how to attend, please see: http://dtei.uci.edu/digitallearning/canvas-transition-center/ Faculty can also contact DTEI support to get their questions answered. Just send an email to…

3/23–3/31 2018 Canvas Outage

The issue described below was resolved on Saturday, March 31st. If you have any questions, please contact us. Starting at 2:45pm on Friday, March 23rd, users began to report issues accessing Canvas. This issue was caused by an unexpected error in a key campus data file that powers Canvas. We are correcting the problems this…

DTEI Canvas Transition Assistance in Winter 2018

The Division of Teaching Excellence and Innovation (DTEI) offers teaching consultation and support to help faculty transition from EEE Legacy to the Canvas platform. Below, you’ll find information on two DTEI-offered one-on-one support opportunities aimed at helping you easily move your courses. Please note that the schedule listed below is for Winter 2018 only. For the…

Giving waitlisted students Canvas access

If you would like your waitlisted students to have access to Canvas, you can add them using EEE+ GrandCentral. To add Additional Students to your course, please follow these steps: 1. Go to ‘People’ in your Canvas course space 2. Click on ‘+People’ 3. You will be redirected to EEE+ GrandCentral and should see the ‘Additional Students’ tab…