The center assists faculty, graduate students and other teaching staff at UC Merced with instructional technology solutions, support and strategies with the goal of improving teaching and learning. Those resources include:
CatCourses
What is CatCourses?
CatCourses is the UCMerced branded name for the Canvas Learning Management System (LMS). It replaces CROPS as the LMS for UCMerced.
What is Canvas?
Canvas is a Learning Management System (LMS) offered by a third party vendor, Instructure. CatCourses is the UCMerced branding of the Canvas LMS we are using.
There are three types of sites and their associated tools within CatCourses:
- course sites: for course management
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portfolio sites: for creating, viewing, and evaluating electronic portfolios
How do I access CatCourses?
While you can access CatCourses through the UC Merced portal, the most direct way is the CatCourses . Doing so will allow you to have the maximum amount of room on your monitor to work with.
What other sites are going to helpful in getting started using Canvas?
Canvas Live - By establishing an account, the site will bring up a dropdown, and when selecting U.C. Merced, you can use your login credentials to access the site. This site contains an abundance of useful content.
Getting Started as an Instructor (including how to establish a login account)
Additional Canvas Instructor Training
A Help Guide for CatCourses- An online help guide for CatCourses.
Clicker Resources
Online Courses
Previous Teaching and Technology Series
- Contains previous workshops and resources from the workshops
| Spring 2013 | Fall 2012 | |
| Spring 2012 | Fall 2011 | |
| Spring 2011 | Fall 2010 | |
| Spring 2010 | Fall 2009 | |
| Spring 2009 | Fall 2008 |