By Cari Noga You’ve likely heard that starting with fall semester, NMC will become the first community college site of a Ready for Life Academy. Offered for years at Ferris, Hope and Calvin, RFL academies offer students with intellectual and/or developmental...
By Lisa Rabaut, Innovation & Strategic Growth Project Manager Do you have an innovative idea that would be beneficial to NMC? If so, you are welcome to submit a proposal to the Office of Possibilities (OOPs) for Education. We welcome all ideas from students,...
CIE is highlighting the large and small ways that faculty are responding to Generative AI. Next up is automotive instructor Ken Klumpp, one of the earliest adopters of the technology at NMC. Here’s a paraphrase of Ken’s comments JL: When we first started talking about...
Sherry Fest Winter Games have been incredible, and now it’s time for the ultimate Closing Ceremony! Accessibility Checkers are your final step towards making sure your course materials leave a gold-medal impression on every student. Module 5: Accessibility Checkers...
A contingent of NMC staff and faculty recently attended the 50th Annual Community Colleges for International Development (CCID) Conference at the Loews Ventana Canyon Resort in Tucson, Arizona. The group representing NMC included: Dr. Nick Nissley (NMC President) Jim...
When you import from a previous course in Canvas, that course's announcements arrive with everything else. That’s different from NMC's previous experience with Moodle, and it can catch instructors off guard. If you’ve used weekly announcements or frequent course...
Results of the recent Student Tech survey confirm what we already know about AI at NMC: Faculty across the college are developing innovative ways to teach and train students about Gen AI. Students responding to the survey said that they are learning how to use...
Join us at Friday Forum on Mar. 6 for an important discussion of the environmental and social ethics of artificial intelligence. Rachel Wilczewski and Pat Kawula will reprise their popular session from October Conference. If you missed Rachel and Pat in October, don’t...
Last week’s Canvas Corner talked about cleaning up your Canvas courses as it relates to Pages. This week, we’re turning our attention to Files. The Files link contains essentially anything an instructor has uploaded to a course. If your course began as a Moodle...