Polling (a.k.a. surveying) offers several pedagogical advantages for strengthening faculty and student relationships: Student Engagement Getting to know your students before the first day of class. Think-Pair-Share (a.k.a. breakout discussion sessions). Student Evaluation (informal, formative, and summative) Preparing students for a discussion topic, particularly when introducing difficult or contentious subjects… Continue reading »
Faculty can easily make their in-class slide presentations more accessible to all students, by activating the standard “live caption” feature in either Google Slides or Microsoft PowerPoint. This feature automatically produces on-screen text captions from the audio captured via system microphone. Whether a student is Deaf, hard of hearing,… Continue reading »
Option 1: Add your Course to Canvas Commons Choose this option if you would like to share your course with Williams instructors. You can do this immediately. In 2024, GLOW now has the Canvas Commons, a repository of courses and individual items shared amongst all instructors within GLOW. Continue reading »
Introduction Many faculty use assessment wrappers as a simple but effective tool to center metacognition and reflection. This technique can encourage students to change their study approach for the next course assessment. Implementing an exam wrapper as a New Quiz containing a Google Form provides great flexibility for faculty, enabling… Continue reading »
Introduction The Immersive Reader feature provides every GLOW user a set of customizable tools to enhance their academic access. Immersive Reader supports fluency for multilingual students with translation tools; offers text decoding features for students with dyslexia; provides text-to-speech audio; and includes visual scaffolding options to improve reading comprehension and… Continue reading »
Gradescope is a tool from Turnitin which enables faculty to grade and assess a wide range of student work within GLOW (Canvas), including handwritten worksheets, “bubble” sheet exams, code, and more. Faculty at Williams can activate Gradescope within their individual course by completing the Gradescope activation request form… Continue reading »
The company that provides the Course Media Gallery in Glow, Panopto, has changed the terms of their license with us and other schools. Under the new terms, content that has been viewed in the past two years will be unchanged. Content that has not been viewed in that time period,… Continue reading »
Introduction Understanding who can access your course in GLOW (Canvas), how you can add them, and what they are (and are not) allowed to do, is an important element for faculty to manage a course in GLOW. Adding People to GLOW. Registered Students. All officially registered students are automatically… Continue reading »
Introduction Discussions in GLOW (Canvas) enable threaded conversations among faculty and students in a course. Discussions can include text, images, audio, video, and files, and can be graded or ungraded. Faculty can manage Discussions exclusively, or can allow students to create Discussions as well. Beyond the native Discussion feature, Williams… Continue reading »
Introduction Quizzes in GLOW (Canvas) offer options for faculty to design quizzes, exams, and surveys. Quizzes can accommodate a range of question types, including some that can be auto-graded. Faculty can build questions manually, or import questions from publisher materials or another GLOW course. Quizzes can draw random questions from… Continue reading »
Introduction Assignments in GLOW (Canvas) are a versatile element of the course tool suite. Faculty can build Assignments to suit many specific requirements, from traditional paper-based work to file uploads to media to integrated software (e.g. Google Workspace, Panopto). Faculty have fine-grained control over important elements such as grade weighting,… Continue reading »
Introduction GLOW (Canvas) provides 5 options for faculty to choose what students see first when they enter a GLOW course. This design flexibility empowers faculty to intentionally select the most pedagogically useful starting-point for students in their specific course. The default home page in GLOW is the Syllabus option. Faculty… Continue reading »
Introduction Modules enable faculty to organize (and students to access) GLOW course materials thematically, regardless of type. All types of digital object in a GLOW course can be included in a Module. Beyond simple presentation, Modules also enable faculty to easily set conditional access to course content, including date-release access… Continue reading »
Introduction GLOW (Canvas) is Williams’ learning management system, a suite of integrated tools for online learning and interaction. All academic courses (and many other campus programs) have GLOW spaces. A GLOW course can help faculty streamline how they provide course materials, communicate and interact with students, and collect and grade… Continue reading »
Login to GLOW, go to any of your course, then access the Course Media Gallery (Panopto). Click the “Open in Panopto” icon. 2. Select the drop-down menu next to your name and then select User Settings. 3. On the User Settings window, scroll down to Meeting Import Settings. Continue reading »
Williams first subscribed to Zoom in the early days of the pandemic to support remote teaching, and it was set up so that cloud-recorded Zoom meetings were automatically uploaded to Glow and Panopto. (Panopto is the video streaming service used by Glow.) At the time, that made good sense, since… Continue reading »
IMPORTANT: If you wish to move/copy videos to a new course, you must first go to the new course in GLOW and select the Course Media Gallery. This will create a new course folder in Panopto with proper permission. This initial step only needs to be done once for each… Continue reading »
Overview The Gradebook helps instructors view and enter grades for students. Grades for each assignment can be viewed as points, percentage, complete or incomplete, or letter grades. Sorting options and Gradebook Settings Students name column Grades Keyboard shortcut menu Only graded items (Assignments, Discussions and Quizzes) that have been… Continue reading »
Tools in GLOW Announcements Course Email Discussions GLOW Calendar Appointment Groups / Scheduler Tools in Google Calendar Appointment Schedule & Appointment Slots Virtual Meetings Google Meet Zoom Also Read: How do I view my GLOW calendar in Google Calendar? How… Continue reading »
Williams strives to be a place “where concern for the needs and ideas of other people is not only an educational, but an ethical, imperative” (Williams College Mission). Accessibility is an effort to ensure that all students, regardless of disability, face as few unnecessary barriers as possible to their… Continue reading »
How to GLOW A self-paced online introduction to using any of the tools in Glow. Organized using Modules Uses Pages Module Sample Course Organized using Modules Uses Assignments, Pages and Quizzes Front Page Sample Course Organized using Pages Front page (Home… Continue reading »
OIT Support If you are experiencing a GLOW related issue, email [email protected] to reach Instructional Technology Specialists, or email [email protected] to submit a ticket. Your inquiry will be answered within one business day. Course Design Consultation If you want a GLOW course design consultation, please contact your… Continue reading »
1. Go to the Course Media Gallery of your course on GLOW. 2 Click the Create option, then select Upload Media. 3. In the window that appears, drag and drop video (or audio files) into the box, or select the box to locate the audio/video files you want to upload. Continue reading »
Previously, we added the ability for students to store their pronouns in our student records system, for use on class rosters and in the Glow learning management system. We’re now providing the same capability for faculty and staff. At present, faculty and staff pronouns are used only in Glow, though… Continue reading »
Instructors can stop Panopto (the Course Media Gallery) from adding closed captions automatically into videos at the folder level. You can still manually apply them to each video after the option is turned off, Go to the folder Click on the gear icon … Continue reading »