{"id":2306,"date":"2026-05-08T10:30:04","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T14:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.messiah.edu\/IDblog\/?p=2306"},"modified":"2026-05-08T10:31:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T14:31:09","slug":"04-29-26-edtech-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.messiah.edu\/IDblog\/04-29-26-edtech-update\/","title":{"rendered":"04\/29\/26 EdTech Update!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"international<\/a>Accessibility Alley:<\/strong>
\nExtended Time in Canvas Quizzes\/Exams<\/strong><\/h2>\n

It’s finals season! If you have a student with an accommodation for extended time on exams, you\u2019ll need to set that up in Canvas BEFORE the exam begins. This will likely be a two-step process depending on your exam setting. Check out this tutorial<\/a><\/strong> for details.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Respondus Lockdown Browser Reminder<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

If you require your students to use Respondus Lockdown Browser for your exam, please remember that after copying a course from a previous semester,\u00a0you must open the \u201cLockdown Browser\u201d link<\/strong>\u00a0in your course\u2019s left-hand navigation at least once to activate all settings for this new section.<\/span><\/p>\n

We also recommend that you remind students to check that their Lockdown Browser is up to date (how to check for and install updates<\/a><\/strong>).<\/p>\n

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\nInstructional Design Office Hours<\/a> | ITS Knowledge Base <\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Accessibility Alley: Extended Time in Canvas Quizzes\/Exams It’s finals season! If you have a student with an accommodation for extended time on exams, you\u2019ll need to set that up in Continue reading 04\/29\/26 EdTech Update!<\/span>→<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-updates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.messiah.edu\/IDblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.messiah.edu\/IDblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.messiah.edu\/IDblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.messiah.edu\/IDblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.messiah.edu\/IDblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2306"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.messiah.edu\/IDblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2308,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.messiah.edu\/IDblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2306\/revisions\/2308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.messiah.edu\/IDblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.messiah.edu\/IDblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.messiah.edu\/IDblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}