Category: Teaching & Learning Resources
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Digital Accessibility Tip: When to Use Optical Character Recognition (OCR) on PDFs
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Optical character recognition, or OCR, is an automated process that turns an image of text into machine-readable characters that can be parsed by technologies like screen readers. OCR is a very important step for making some PDFs accessible, but it isn’t a one-size-fits-all approach. Knowing where and when to use OCR is important for making…
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Digital Online Whiteboards
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Interactive digital online whiteboards offer a shared virtual space for instructors and students to collaborate, brainstorm, and engage with course content simultaneously or asynchronously. Like their physical counterparts, they help explain concepts, illustrate examples, and present information in ways that allow students to visualize key points. At UW-Green Bay, instructors have access to three main…
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Session Recording: “Creating and Sharing Video Recordings with Kaltura My Media” (Aug. 25, 2025)
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Session Description Instructors at UWGB can use Kaltura My Media to create, upload, and share videos in Canvas courses. Review the recording of this one-hour session where we will cover how to create and share engaging instructional videos with Kaltura’s easy-to-use media tools and unlimited storage space.
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Planning A Course, Teaching & Learning Resources, Teaching a Course, Technology Guides and Trainings
Five Steps for Maintaining Your Gradebook in Canvas
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Using the Canvas gradebook, regardless of course modality, is a good and transparent pedagogical practice. Likewise, maintaining an up-to-date gradebook is very important for students’ persistence and success. To keep your Canvas gradebook accurate, follow these five steps. Frequently Asked Questions
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Digital Accessibility Tip: Using Formatted Lists
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Looking to expand your knowledge of digital accessibility and learn quick strategies that you can easily integrate into your workflow? CATL’s blog post series on digital accessibility catalogues some helpful tips and tricks we’ve shared in our Teach Tuesday e-newsletter! In this tip, we’ll discuss how to create accessible lists. Lists are an incredibly useful tool…