Hopefully, Canvas treated you well this year, or at least didn’t make your life harder! As you start thinking about your next semester teaching from a Canvas course shell, this is a great time to make a few small tweaks that can save you a lot of time later on. Here...
Thanks to Brandon and Kristy for their Durable Skills workshop at the April Friday Forum. We discussed the importance of using shared language about the skills we all teach. We also talked about the importance of being more intentional in presenting these skills...
All the hype about Generative AI had not impressed Nicole Speelman. Generating text and images didn’t seem useful for a chemistry instructor, and she was mindful of environmental concerns around AI energy usage. But something she learned at a department AI workshop in...
Looking for a good summer read? Pick up a copy of Paper Girl: A Memoir of Home and Family in a Fractured America by Beth Macy. Paper Girl is both a memoir and an exploration of community change, offering an analysis of some of the most pressing issues in...
The Sherry Fest Winter Games Accessibility Challenge has officially wrapped up. THANK YOU and CONGRATULATIONS to our Accessibility Gold Medalists—the dedicated faculty and staff who completed the challenge and truly earned their stripes! The Accessibility Gold...
We've all heard about the new accessibility requirements for educational content that became law in April 2026, but you may not be aware of the work Canvas has been doing behind the scenes to assist educators in meeting the new standards. One big example is Canvas's...
Gen AI might not be coming for your job, but it is coming to the workplace. Soon, everyone will need at least some AI awareness in order to do their jobs, says CIT instructor Stewart Jack. That’s why he designed NMC’s new Intro to Generative AI elective with a career...
Durable skills such as communication, collaboration, critical thinking, resilience, and self-directed learning are essential to student success and are consistently identified by employers as critical for long-term career readiness. We invite you to join us for a...
That’s right, and its name is Atkinson Hyperlegible, and it is free and available in Google! Though this font has been around since 2022, you may not have heard of it. It is from the Braille Institute and it increases readability for low-vision readers. To learn...