News & Events

30.01.2024:  EIT Presents: AI/ChatGPT event, Feb 16, 2024, Farish Hall Kiva Room. Adobe presenters, as well as faculty presentations. Registration opens in January. Enhancing the Educational Experience with ChatGPT and AI - University of Houston (uh.edu)  

10.06.2023:  Clarisa Colón Green, a Canvas Learning Specialist, will visit the Canvas Office Hours on Thursday, October 12th. Clarisa has already led several training sessions for the UH main campus. She will be there to answer questions and to offer tips and suggestions. Please take time to attend to take advantage of her expertise and insight.

Attend the Canvas Office Hours every Thursday from 10:00 to 11:00 a.m.  

07.26.2023:  Welcome to the 2023 Fall Semester! Visit the Fall Semester Guide 2023 to find out what's happening on campus this fall!

07.20.2023:  Join us on August 9th for a drop-in workshop session to set up your courses in Canvas.  This is particularly useful for faculty teaching in the Fall session. 

Canvas Course Setup - Workshop Session
Wednesday, August 9, 2023
9 am – 3 pm
Science Teaching Laboratories (STL) Room 106

05.19.2023:  Join the UH ChatGPT User Group and connect with the community! This is an excellent platform to discover more about ChatGPT and exchange ideas on integrating it into instruction and research. To become a member, search for "AI and ChatGPT User Group" in TEAMS or request an invitation at tyacosta@uh.edu. Additionally, the AI/ChatGPT/ conversations blog offers a chance for you to share your insights on AI. If you wish to submit your work for review, please send your Word or .txt document to fdis@uh.edu.

05.12.2023:  Please join us on May 16th for a drop-in work session to set up your courses in Canvas.  This is particularly useful for faculty teaching in the summer session. 

Canvas Course Setup - Work Session
Tuesday, May 16, 2023
9 am – 11:00 am & 12:30-3 pm
Science Teaching Laboratories (STL) Room 106

04.11.2023:  There are just 50 days left! Please prepare for migration to Canvas if you have not already. Countdown to Canvas.

1. How can I learn more about Canvas?

2. Do you have any tips on how to build a course in Canvas from scratch?

3. How can I organize my course content in Canvas?

4. What do I need to know about importing Bb content into Canvas?

5. What's the best way to organize the content that got copied over from Bb? 

6. What can I do about the other courses that I don't teach in the Fall? You could request a Developmental and Special Course Shell to streamline organizing content in Canvas.

7. What kind of training is there for Canvas? I couldn't figure out how to navigate it. 

8. How can I get help? 

02.01.2023:  Are you teaching this summer? Canvas will be the UH learning management system starting summer 2023. Please prepare your courses for migration. Below are some resources to get you started:

• Canvas Course Management

• Canvas Transition tutorials

• Canvas UH training opportunities Feb/March 

• Canvas Getting Started Videos

• Who is my Instructional Designer?

• Other important UH Canvas Resources

09.13.2022:  When meeting online or sharing a video file with others, think about adding a caption or transcript so that your audience (e.g., people with disabilities) are able to access content from a video by alternate formats which, in learning environments, adds to a resource’s accessibility requirement. These tutorials show how to do that: 

• • Stream on SharePoint | Add a transcript and captions to your video

  • ZOOM Close Caption and Live Transcriptions Options

  • Use live captions in a Teams meeting - Microsoft Support

08.26.2022:  When it comes to closed captions, Zoom offers a choice between using Auto-Transcriptions (Closed Captions) or assigning a Zoom meeting participant or a 3rd party to manually type them. The following tutorials provide additional information:
Written Document: ZOOM Close Caption and Live Transcriptions Options | Video: Zoom Closed Captioning – Built in and Free | Zoom Tutorial

05.19.2022: Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD) takes place every year on the third Thursday of May and is all about getting people thinking and talking about making the web accessible for those with different disabilities. We invite you to learn more about  Electronic and Information Resources Accessibility and review some ways to make your content more accessible.  

05.10.2022: The "Insights" tab in Microsoft Teams provides an aggregate digital activity report which tells you how active your students were in Teams within a given time frame. First, Click the Insights tab in your class Team, then Export the data to Excel. Visit the Digital activity data in Insights website for more information. 

05.09.2022: If you need to submit course merge requests or separations, use the Course Request System as shown in step 5B of the How to Request a Blackboard/Teams Course tutorial or contact the UH Blackboard support team at blackboard@uh.edu. Noticed that course merge requests should be complete before students get loaded into Blackboard.

05.04.2022: For courses that seek to develop students' abilities in oral presentation skills, you can use the Microsoft Speaker Coach add-in that helps students prepare in private to give more effective presentations. Speaker Coach evaluates the student's pacing, pitch, filler words, etc. After each rehearsal, students get an autogenerated feedback report that includes statistics and suggestions for improvements.

04.25.2022: You could set up Office hours appointments using the Microsoft Bookings application. For more information read Instructions on how to set up appointment slots using Bookings. Note: To attach an MS Teams appointment to a booking, please remember to enable the "add online meeting option" when you are creating your appointment slots.

03.08.2022: If you are looking for a scheduler alternative, consider the MS FindTime application– available for free and as part of our UH Microsoft Outlook. For more read  What application I can use to come to a consensus on a Meeting Time?.

02.18.2022: If you are holding a test at the CASA testing center and need to give students access to a calculator during the assessment, you can visit the following article to learn how to enable a calculator for the exam in the LockDown Browser dashboard.

11.08.2021: There are many ways to assess students' mastery of material besides traditional homework assignments. The following articles list some of these alternatives: Students Suggested Homework Alternatives, Alternatives to Traditional Exams and Papers, and Alternatives to proctored exams.