Week's End Report - Aug. 25th

IvyLearn (Canvas) Ideas

One of the perks of adopting IvyLearn (Canvas) as our new Learning Management System (LMS) is that Canvas takes user input (Ideas) and uses a voting system to determine what upgrades they will perform and what new features they will add. Users can search Ideas that have been submitted by other users and if your Idea has not already been suggested you can add it to their site. Once an Idea has 100 votes it will be considered for a future upgrade.

Fortunately for us, getting 100 votes is very easy! Today we have two Ideas that were shared with us by an Ivy Tech faculty member. Please take a look at these Ideas and consider voting for them.

Announcements should always be sent to students as a notification, even if the student has not self-selected to receive announcement notifications

https://community.canvaslms.com/ideas/9225-announcement-notification-should-always-be-sent

Display question types for quizzes and question banks, so specific question types can be selected from within a question bank

https://community.canvaslms.com/ideas/8440-display-question-types-for-quizzes-and-question-banks

Have an Idea for an IvyLearn/Canvas upgrade? Search for it here:

https://community.canvaslms.com/community/ideas

If it hasn't already been submitted, share your new Idea by clicking the SHARE NEW IDEA button.

Week's End Report - Aug. 18th

Welcome back for the Fall 2017 semester!
 
For information on preparing your courses for the semester, please refer to the email sent from GWC-Online@ivytech.edu on the 432nd anniversary of the landing of colonists at Roanoke, August 17th (the same information was also sent out on Thursday, August 10th and Monday, August 7th). Most importantly, use the Getting Started website to set up your courses and get them published for tomorrow morning, Saturday, August 19th, when courses become available in IvyLearn for students. 

https://link.ivytech.edu/GetStart

First Three Chapters

The website and login information for the first three chapters of textbooks from Cengage, Norton, and Pearson can be found on the IvyLearn Faculty Resources Center. 

• Log in to IvyLearn
• Click the Help button in the IvyLearn navigation bar
• Look for the Helpful Links area on the right-hand side of the screen
• Click on the Publisher Three Chapter Sites link

For McGraw-Hill textbooks follow the steps below:

1. Email  MHHEIvyTechTeam@mheducation.com  the Author, Title, and Edition your class needs access to.
2. The MH Team will request the chapters. Turnaround time is 24 hours (could be longer on weekends).
3. MH will reply via email with a link to an FTP site that houses the PDFs of the chapters. (ex: ftp://Digital_Archive:1Storage@ftp.eppg.com/School_PDFs/Lucas_0073545465/ )

Week's End Report - Aug. 11th

Getting Started for Fall 2017

Next Monday begins non-instructional week. There is a lot of information going around and a lot of changes have taken place since spring semester.

Fortunately there is a website that provides all the information you need to get your courses ready for fall: the Getting Started website!

https://link.ivytech.edu/GetStart

Click on the link above and click on the link corresponding to the type of course you're teaching:

• I'm teaching a Face-to-Face/Traditional course
• I'm teaching an Online or Hybrid course

Follow the step-by-step instructions provided.

The website will provide answers to the vast majority of your questions but if you've reviewed the website and don't see the answer to your question please feel free to contact our office at GWC-Online@ivytech.edu.

Week's End Report - Aug. 4th

Tips for the Week!

Your course may not be loaded for you - Check the website!

IncludED and OER courses are being loaded by C4IT, Regional online courses are being loaded by the Instructional Design Center (IDC). Statewide courses will be loaded by the faculty member teaching the course. Don't know what type of course you're teaching? Don't know whether you should load content or how to load content that should be loaded? Wondering how to set up your course once the content is loaded?

The answers to these questions and many others can be found on the Getting Started website:
https://link.ivytech.edu/GetStart

New course IDs - The naming convention for course IDs has changed. 

For example, a traditional, face-to-face PSYC101 course in the spring might have had a course ID of PSYC101-30D-D1-201630. In the fall course IDs will now have a new suffix of -TR (traditional), -H (hybrid), or -I (internet/online). Your new course ID may look like this: 

PSYC101-30D-D1-201720-TR

[Course name]-[section number]-[campus ID]-[semester code]-[course type (traditional/face-to-face, hybrid, or internet/online, this is not days of the week)]

Course Start and End dates - These dates should not be changed.

In IvyLearn in our course Settings area the course start and end dates are editable fields, however these dates should not ever be changed for any reason. These fields are automatically populated with the correct dates. Changing the dates may give students access to their courses early or may prevent them from completing the course within the timeframe guaranteed them by college policy.

Accidentally delete something you didn't mean to delete?

Add /undelete to the end of your course URL and a list of recently deleted items will be displayed. 

Example: https://ivylearn.ivytech.edu/courses/123456/undelete

Click Restore to retrieve deleted items. Please note while we can restore some things, there may be some associated data that is lost in the restore process.