Winter 2016 is the final quarter of UCI’s pilot of the Instructure Canvas learning management system, currently available in addition to the EEE website. Results continue to support Canvas adoption: 2 out of 3 of participating instructors in Spring & Summer preferred Canvas to EEE.
The likelihood is that Canvas will be adopted. If so, Canvas tools will replace equivalent components of EEE, while unique EEE tools developed specifically for UCI will be retained.
Participating is your opportunity to try Canvas, find out what you like, what you don’t like, and provide your feedback to help guide the future of learning management technologies at UCI.
All Winter 2016 instructors are encouraged to participate and can get started today. Full details are provided below.
Dana Roode
CIO & Associate Vice Chancellor
Office of Information Technology
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To set up your Canvas course space for your Winter 2016 classes, visit:
https://grandcentral.eee.uci.edu/
To help you during the Canvas Pilot, we provide:
• Automatic links from students’ MyEEE pages to Canvas
• Automatic updates to match Registrar enrollment
• Integration with Turnitin.com, UCI Google Apps for Education, and iClicker
• Easy final grades transfer from Canvas to the Registrar’s WebGrades
• Support via phone, email, and workshops (just as for EEE)
Canvas is a popular LMS used within the UC system and by other research universities nationwide. It features useful tools and services (Examples: student group management, multimedia embedding, rubric & outcome-based grading features, seamless gradebook integration across the toolset) and offers future opportunities to integrate third-party tools.
You can learn more about the UCI Canvas Pilot (which runs through Winter 2016) at:
http://sites.uci.edu/canvaspilot/
For questions, please contact eee@uci.edu or call the OIT Help Desk at (949) 824-2222.