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New UDOIT accessibility scoring system

After discussion within the digital accessibility working group, we have arrived at new scoring settings for the accessibility tool UDOIT on residential Canvas. The UDOIT tool provides Canvas sites with a percentage score rating digital accessibility...

Updated Canvas Course Conclusion Policy

The Canvas Course Conclusion Policy has been updated! FAQs have been added to address some common questions we have received since releasing the policy in April. This should hopefully help clarify the effect of the policy. The conclusion date for an...

New Canvas Feature: Differentiation Tags

A powerful new Canvas feature is available as an alternative means of creating sets of students: Differentiation Tags. This new feature sits alongside Sections and Groups with its most unique feature being that the created sets are hidden from students...

Harmonize releases Peer Review feature

Harmonize, a tool preinstalled in all of our Canvas sites, has released an excellent peer review assignment feature. We recommend using this instead of Canvas's own peer review feature. Find out more here: Create a Peer Review Assignment – Harmonize And...

Resource: Email Accessibility

A short guide to creating accessible emails in Outlook has been uploaded to the resource section: Email Accessibility in Outlook | Instructional Technology @ GSE IT

Canvas Course Conclusion Policy

Effective now, we operate a widely used Canvas feature that changes degree program course sites to a read-only status for staff and students at the end of the academic year. This process is called "course conclusion". Please refer to the policy document...

Digital Accessibility Working Group - First Meeting

The new HGSE Digital Accessibility Working Group met on March 3. The working group will drive the school's efforts to comply with Harvard and federal digital accessibility policies. If you would like a copy of the meeting minutes, or would like more...

New Support Site Launched!

Welcome to our completely refreshed instructional technology support site! We will be updating this site regularly with more support articles, FAQs, updates on new or altered functionality (in our "Announcements'). We'd love to hear your thoughts and...