At the end of June, Microsoft announced the Copilot+ PC, a new line of laptops integrated with their Copilot AI. While several features are currently still in development, this is likely the first step in an ongoing process to further integrate AI into all of...
Following a recent change by Google to replace Google Calendar's Appointment Slots feature with Appointment Schedules, an update has been pushed expanding functionality and adding new features to help users keep track of their appointments. These new features...
On July 9, 2024 the Canvas Master/Manual course request form was updated. A new field, Business Area, has been added to the Manual/Master course request form to start capturing unit information in order to better understand Canvas usage. Additionally, users will...
Q&A: Generative AI like ChatGPT may one day make online search engines easier to use, but for now users need to fact-check AI’s responses, according to Penn State researchers.
Service packs are updates to Canvas released on a regular basis. The next Service Pack deployment will be on Tuesday, July 2, 2024, from 5:00 a.m. to 7:00 a.m. ET. This update will fix a bug that caused issues with the bulk enrollment process that is utilized by...
The work of Vasant Honavar, associate director of the Penn State Institute for Computational and Data Sciences, is driven by answering fundamental questions using machine learning. He has helped expand the institute's focus beyond high-performance computing into...
Jun 24, 2024 - UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Penn State’s Teaching and Learning with Technology (TLT) is hosting a hybrid summer workshop for artificial intelligence literacy on the University Park campus titled “GenAI Summer Splash: Riding the Generative AI Wave for Teaching.” This two-hour hands-on workshop for faculty and staff will enhance participant skills within the evolving generative AI (GenAI) landscape. There will be two synchronous sessions offered 10 a.m.–noon Thursday, July 18, and Monday, Aug. 5, to prepare educators for the Fall 2024 semester.
Service packs are updates to Canvas released on a regular basis. The next Service Pack deployment will be on Tuesday, June 18, 2024, from 5:00 a.m. to 7:00 a.m. ET. The update will affect the Archive Management page to now allow a fixed sorting of data and to now...
Some internet search engines including Bing and DuckDuckGo have recently provided the Canvas test server as the top result when searching for Canvas at Penn State. This has caused some Canvas users to access and use the test server instead of the production server...
Instructors at Penn State’s University Park campus will see enhanced camera technology being rolled out in classrooms beginning this summer as Zoom also becomes the default resource for instructional recordings. ]]>