Date posted: October 8, 2019
by Bruce Wolcott Figure 1: Social Avatar in Virtual Reality. What is Virtual Reality and What’s It Doing at Bellevue College? The region surrounding Seattle and Bellevue, Washington plays host to some of the leading lights in the realm of Virtual Reality (VR)—that technology that transports you ...more about Experience the Magic of Virtual Reality
Date posted: May 30, 2018
Are you interested in learning how to make your web content accessible but haven't had the chance to take the Accessibility 101 course? Jess Thompson from SBTCC and the creator of the Accessibility 101 course hosted an accessibility webinar series over the winter quarter and has created videos of those webinars. Each webinar video is ...more about Accessibility “How To” Webinars
Date posted: January 4, 2018
Camtasia Relay has been the best way for faculty to create videos for classes. And while it has served us well, it is going away. The college has not renewed its license. That means that we will no longer receive updates from TechSmith, the publisher, which means that eventually it will stop working because of ...more about How to Download Your Videos from the Camtasia Relay Server
Date posted: January 2, 2018
Why use a Getting Started Module? Simple: to help students engage with a course. The Getting Started Module is an entry point for students in the course--whether hybrid or online. BC Connect has developed a Getting Started Module template for Canvas courses. What is this Getting Started Module? A brief video is available on YouTube ...more about The Canvas Getting Started Module
Date posted: July 19, 2017
Three Ways to do extra credit There are several approaches instructors can adopt to can give students extra credit in Canvas using Assignments: awarding extra points for an existing Assignment-- or for a Discussion or a Quiz creating an Assignment worth zero points providing extra credit using weighted assignment groups Award extra points to graded items ...more about Extra Credit in Canvas
Date posted: July 18, 2017
Some departments and divisions at Bellevue College require that course syllabi be available to the public. Others departments require instructors to send their syllabi to program managers so that they can be available to staff and administrators. Either way, it is possible to make your Canvas Syllabus page available to anyone for public viewing. You ...more about Make Your Canvas Syllabus Publicly Viewable
Date posted: April 19, 2017
The Canvas Dashboard is the first page you see upon logging into Canvas. Each of your classes appears as a colored "tile," arranged alphabetically in a grid, with the item number and course name in small-ish text below the big block of color. Up until this point, the only way you could customize each tile ...more about New Canvas Feature: Dashboard Images for Courses
Date posted: February 17, 2015
Assessment results and receipt of useful feedback are a large part of what drive student success in any learning environment.
