We’re three weeks and one day away from October Conference on Oct. 13, and we’re so hyped for this year’s program! Our own faculty and staff have stepped up to provide sessions on a variety of topics ranging from technology strategies to classroom practices and...
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October Quick Bytes: Higher Learning, Higher Skills: Five Classes
October starts with Google Drive, then there are four stops on the road to higher AI learning: Basics, Working Smarter (new class!), Advanced Prompting, and Google Gems. October 2026 Quick Bytes Date Course Name Tuesday, October 6 from 3 - 4 pm Google Drive - Basics...
Canvas Corner Volume 3 (Season 3): Save Time with Canvas Discussion Summaries
Canvas IgniteAI Discussion Summaries can help instructors quickly get an overview of what students are discussing without having to read every contribution before identifying the major themes. When enabled, the Discussion Summary feature appears (only to instructors)...
Canvas Corner Volume 2 (Season 3): The New Canvas Student Dashboard View
When helping students navigate Canvas, please be aware that the student dashboard view may look very different from your own. Canvas offers students a customizable dashboard experience that allows them to arrange, add, and remove various dashboard widgets according to...
From OOPs to OIE: Revamped program funds campus innovation and student entrepreneurship
Do you have an innovative idea that promotes lifelong learning, advances educational offerings, facilitates student or employee success, creates organizational efficiencies, or improves campus life at NMC? Do you have an enterprising student who needs support? Come to...
Travel the world with NMC! Learn how at Sep. 11 Friday Forum
Elephant research in Kenya. The history of Montessori and cooking techniques in Italy. Biology fieldwork in Scotland. Nursing in Guatemala. These are only some of the activities your NMC colleagues and students participated in this past spring on study abroad...
Canvas Corner Volume 1 (Season 3): Finding Canvas Update Notifications
Canvas is constantly changing in small, and sometimes large, ways. While many of these updates are minor, or only affect students or admins, it can be tricky to figure out which tweaks will actually impact your day-to-day teaching. While the Ed Tech department will...
Read&Write License has Expired
Our Read&Write license has expired and we wanted to let you know what extensions are available to use instead. Some features are now built into Chrome, such as Reading Mode and Live Captions, while others can be found as free extensions you can add....
September Quick Bytes – Gemini Notebook & Google Gems
Turn complex research into grounded insights with Gemini Notebook (formerly Notebook LM), and/or learn how to create a personalized AI assistant. Date Course Name Friday, September 11, from 12 - 1:30 pm Notebook LM (now called Gemini Notebook) Deep Dive - Anyone who...









