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Guidance for accommodating temporary or unexpected remote instruction

January 19, 2024 at 7:32 pm

If you wish to provide an attendance option for students who are unable to travel to a UBC campus, use this quick guide from the LT Hub and UBC IT Audio/Visual (A/V) team to transition to temporary online or hybrid teaching.

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Annotation tool to receive support for use outside of Canvas

December 14, 2023 at 1:00 pm

During the past year, the LT Hub has been piloting the annotation tool Hypothesis. Hypothesis lets teaching teams and students annotate and tag online readings, for their own use or to share their notes with each other. Now that the pilot has concluded, LT Hub Leadership has decided to centrally support use of Hypothesis—outside of Canvas.

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Pause on central support for Ally starting in 2024

November 20, 2023 at 9:00 am

Ally is a content-checking tool that works in Canvas to help teaching teams improve the accessibility of course content. During the past year, the LT Hub has been centrally supporting and piloting Ally. Now that the pilot has concluded, LT Hub Leadership has decided to pause central support of Ally.

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New support is available for developing learning technologies at UBC

July 20, 2023 at 4:05 pm

The LT Hub is launching a new initiative to support UBC instructors who develop learning technologies. The Learning Technology Incubator is a way for instructors with funded learning technology projects to collaborate with us and receive dedicated technical and project management support. This additional support can help you focus on bringing your project to life, rather than getting bogged down in administrative details.

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Potential change to your name in Canvas and other services coming July 27

July 4, 2022 at 1:25 pm

We are simplifying and streamlining how learning technology systems at UBC determine what name to display for you.

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New UBC-developed resource: Intro to online teaching

May 17, 2022 at 6:11 pm

The Centre for Teaching, Learning and Technology has released a new self-paced course for online teaching, designed for instructors who are new to the online environment.

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New service to help students in China connect to courses

September 11, 2020 at 9:00 am

Students connecting to their UBC online courses from China now have access to the Alibaba Global Accelerator service, which may help improve their access to online learning resources.

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