Announcements

PlayPosit is the ultimate instructional design studio that offers content creators simplicity (templates, reusable learning objects, over a million premade learning objects) and power (jumps, website embeds, overlays, complex behavior, choice trees, discussion threads) to create an active learning experience by layering activities, websites, feedback, videos, questions, and more on top of video, audio and … Read More

Rutgers Canvas is pleased to announce the release of Hypothesis JSTOR integration. Combined with Rutgers University Libraries JSTOR access, Canvas students may now engage with nearly 2,800 academic journals, images, books, and primary sources from many disciplines. This release promotes best practices with intellectual property while providing instructors with active feedback on reading assignments. The JSTOR-Hypothesis … Read More

Rutgers is pleased to announce the upgrade from Perusall 1.1 to Perusall 1.3 The existing integration was removed on December 23, 2022. Existing Fall 2022 (and prior semesters) will no longer work, but student submissions and grades are saved through the publisher’s website. For Spring 2023 courses, instructors should re-link their Canvas pages with the … Read More

Rutgers Canvas is pleased to offer training by Hypothesis Instructional Design team for a series of webinars that help students engage with your instructional content.  Hypothesis is a tool that allow instructors and students to take notes, view, and reply to other notes along with other features.  Please join us for the following webinars: Annotating … Read More

The Hypothesis LMS app brings discussion directly to course content by enabling students and teachers to add comments and start conversations in the margins of their texts. Collaborative annotation engages students more deeply in course readings and gives teachers a view into how students are reading. Introduction to Hypothesis Hypothesis can be used to make … Read More

Playposit Broadcast allows instructors to send a variety of questions over web conferencing apps or in socially-distanced lecture halls, allowing for maximum student engagement in synchronous lessons & lectures. Broadcast replaces traditional student response devices (clickers) with access through Canvas. This allows instructors to teach in-person, online, and a combination.  Your students do not have … Read More

Microsoft Teams is a collaboration tool that is part of the Office 365 suite of services. Teams enable remote, global, and dispersed teams to work together and collaborate through a common workspace, team chat, one-on-one chat, document collaboration, and more. Teams is integrated with a variety of other Office 365 services, including OneDrive, OneNote, Planner, Exchange, and SharePoint. The Office … Read More

Rutgers University proudly announces the upgrade of Top Hat LTI 1.1 to Top Hat LTI 1.3. If you do not have Top Hat connected to your course, follow steps on how to Connect a Canvas course to Top Hat. Here are the new features with Top Hat LTI 1.3:   Top Hat Feature Releases Feature … Read More

PlayPosit 101 Introductory session for all users of PlayPosit. Learn how to use PlayPosit with your existing Kaltura or YouTube videos to reinforce objectives with formative assessments. PlayPosit provides multiple interaction types with advance response features to transform passive observation into active learning for online and conventional learners as they explore, analyze, and apply concepts … Read More