Software and System Updates

Technology Tip: New Features in Canvas (4/23/2016)

April 2016

For our secondary teachers and students, as well as those using Canvas for professional development, here is a screencast showing new features and changes in the latest update to Canvas, which was applied to our system yesterday.

2016-04-23 New Feature Screencast from Canvas LMS on Vimeo.

Check out the comprehensive release notes: https://community.canvaslms.com/docs/DOC-6638

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Technology Tip: Changing Your Default Web Browser in Windows 10

April 2016

With this post we start a new series of quick and easy tech tips for teachers, students, and parents.

Changing Default Web Browser in Win10 — This is an experimental instructional GIF. Read on below for more detailed instructions and information, and let us know what you think of the GIF in the comments.

About Web Browsers and Windows 10

Windows 10 comes with a new default web browser, Microsoft Edge. Edge includes several nice features, but many web sites, including some of our district’s web-based programs, do not yet support Edge. For this reason, you may not want to keep Microsoft Edge set as your default browser. [Read more…] about Technology Tip: Changing Your Default Web Browser in Windows 10

Presentation: Windows 10 Education Edition

March 2016

Classroom and lab computers in Granite School District are being updated to the Windows 10 operating system over the next few months. To help teachers with this update, Heidi Meenen, one of our district technology specialists, has created the presentation embedded above. It goes over the basics of Windows 10, as well as a few of the tricks and new features that come along with it.

You can click through this training presentation yourself, or you can make a copy to modify and share with other staff members or students.