Category: Educational Technology News

Posted May 16, 2022

JMU’s online “Blue” course evaluation system will be offline and inaccessible from May 23 to 27 for a system upgrade.   Instructors and faculty: you should plan to download the PDF versions of the Spring 2022 reports to your computer if […]

Posted May 10, 2022

Canvas Studio will replace TechSmith Knowmia as JMU’s platform for storing and sharing instructional media in July. Canvas Studio is already available to JMU faculty, staff, and students. Look for the Studio icon in the purple menu in Canvas. Learn […]

Posted May 6, 2022

JMU Libraries was included in “The Library of the Future: How the heart of the campus is transforming,” a new report from The Chronicle of Higher Education. Accessible to anyone with a JMU eID login and password, the special report […]

Posted May 2, 2022

You can now use Canvas Studio, JMU’s new platform for recording, storing, and sharing instructional media. It is currently available to all JMU faculty, staff, and students who have a Canvas account, and will fully replace Techsmith Knowmia in July. […]

Posted April 13, 2022

All JMU and Harrisonburg community members are invited to an online event celebrating local immigrant storytelling, specifically the stories featured in the Harrisonburg 360 Podcast. Created by students in Dr. Allison Fagan’s English class at JMU, this podcast ethically elevates the […]

Posted April 4, 2022

Our partnership with the JMU History Department and Rockingham County Circuit Court to digitize thousands of courthouse records was covered by the Daily News Record, WHSV-TV3, NBC29, and The Harrisonburg Citizen.  Learn more about the Histories Along the Blue Ridge […]

Posted March 21, 2022

You may have been using Techsmith Knowmia, a video platform for recording and sharing lectures online. Knowmia is being discontinued by the vendor on July 29, 2022.   Canvas Studio is JMU’s new platform for recording, storing, and sharing instructional media. […]

Posted March 16, 2022

All JMU faculty and staff are invited to join Intro to AudiAnnotate: A Tool for Transcribing and Annotating Audiovisual Content. You’ll get an overview of how JMU Libraries and Furious Flower are using AudiAnnotate, a project aimed at libraries, archives, […]

Posted February 25, 2022

Instructional videos are a powerful tool to enhance learning, both in-person and online. They can sometimes lose their effectiveness in teaching due to common mistakes. Take an in-person or Zoom workshop that will address all the areas to think about […]

Posted February 9, 2022

JMU currently has two survey tools—Qualtrics and QuestionPro—to meet the research and general survey needs of its faculty and staff. In Fall 2021, JMU decided to continue the contract with Qualtrics on an ongoing basis. Recognizing the investment that many […]