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Courses make move to Canvas By Neha Ramani nramani@indiana.edu | @neha_ramani
Students trying to access course webpages this fall may find themselves being redirected to an unfamiliar website called Canvas. In April, IU chose Canvas to replace OnCourse as the online component of courses, and this semester faculty members have the option to teach their courses through either Canvas or OnCourse. So far, faculty and students using Canvas said they appreciate the features the new technology affords but acknowledge the challenges in making the switch. John Gosney, the faculty liaison for the learning technologies division of UTIS, said about 2,700 course sections across the entire university are using Canvas this fall. Gosney said migration tools are being developed and will come online in the next several months to aid in the switch from OnCourse to Canvas. The transition is expected to be complete by summer 2016. “We wanted to give people plenty of time to transition,” he said. Gosney said the adoption of Canvas was a result of wanting to explore new learning management system technologies. “OnCourse and the code that runs OnCourse have been in production for over a decade, which is an eternity in terms of technology,” he said. Gosney said Canvas is more student-centric than OnCourse and presents a wider array of communication tools. The IT@IU website lists about 90 features of Canvas that are not found in OnCourse, including enhanced mobile and tablet capabilities and the ability to receive notifications via social media. Gosney said the number of courses that made the switch to OnCourse support the generally positive feedback he has received from faculty. “The move is being received well and, just from a larger perspective, the number of schools that are utilizing Canvas is a sign of its growing popularity,” he said. As a professor using Canvas this semester, Gosney said he is having a good experience so far.
PERFECT SAVE Hoosiers win Notre Dame tournament behind keeper Webb By Michael Hughes michhugh@indiana.edu | @MichaelHughes94
IU sophomore Colin Webb stood on the goal line, staring at Dartmouth senior Colin Heffron 12 yards away. Dartmouth had just been awarded a penalty, and with IU clinging to a onegoal lead early in the second half, this moment was crucial. Heffron took his run up and prepared to shoot. It was at this moment Webb knew he had the penalty saved. Heffron had opened his hips, telegraphing the direction of his shot. All Webb had to do was dive right, redirect the ball to safety, and his defense would clear the ball out of play. This was one of Webb’s four saves in IU’s 1-0 victory Monday against Dartmouth in its final match of the Mike Berticelli Tournament at Notre Dame. “The bagels are one thing that we’re striving for every game this year,” Webb said. “We’re just all trying to put in our defensive work, and we know the attacking pieces will fall into place as the game goes along.” “Bagels” are what IU calls shutouts this season. The victory improved IU’s record to 3-0-1 this season. Each of the Hoosier’s three victories have come from a 1-0 score line. IU managed to win 1-0 once last
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Then-junior Patrick Doody fights for the ball during a match against Ohio State University on Sept. 29, 2013, at Bill Armstrong Stadium. The Hoosiers beat Dartmouth 1-0 on Monday.
season, a Big Ten Tournament 1-0 victory against Michigan State. “These kids love it,” IU Coach Todd Yeagley said. “As coaches, of course, that’s something that you take a lot of pride in because we want our team to have that mentality. The one-nothing games are really nice.” IU’s only goal Monday was scored by its defensive players. It began with sopho-
more right back Billy McConnell getting fouled just outside the 18-yard box. It ended with senior left back Patrick Doody placing the free kick into the upper 90 of the goal. “With the free kick that close, you want to at least make the keeper make a save,” SEE SOCCER, PAGE 9
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ELECTIONS 2014
Musician to teach Candidates weigh in on ISIS master violinist class By Emily Ernsberger
emelerns@indiana.edu | @emilyernsberger
President Obama will address the nation Wednesday to lay out the national strategy to contain the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), a Sunni militant terrorist organization in the Middle East. Thousands of people have died since ISIS’s reign in the area, according to reports from the United Nations. Recently, the organization recorded two videos of the beheading of two American journalists that were held hostage. The plan comes after Obama’s trip to the NATO Summit and the end of Congress’ summer recess. U.S. House District 8 Democratic candidate Tom Spangler, a businessman from Jasper, Ind., said if he were elected, he would not vote to have boots-on-the-ground-
level involvement, but that he does believe in some militant attacks. “We’re going to have to use our drones and use our technology in our aspect of special forces to eliminate our enemy,” Spangler said. Spangler said he believes the president’s use of executive action is strategic to the stalemate of work in Congress. “Congress is not going to be willing to come up with their own answers,” he said. “The president, being the commander in chief, is doing what he needs to do.” Libertarian candidate Andrew Horning said he would not vote for any military involvement, but added that his prospective congressional duties and candidacy do not stand for what he would necessarily choose to do as a representative. “I would vote ‘No,’ but I would not be doing the work,” Horning
said. “It would be the voters who, for the first time in 100 years, would say something different (from the status quo of the two-party system).” District 8 Rep. Larry Bucshon, who voted against both bills, said in an interview last week with WEHT Eyewitness News from Henderson, Ky., that the U.S. should be involved in containing the organization with possible military force. He notably suggested the U.S. continue
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He’s performed in Germany, Switzerland, France, Italy and all over the U.S. He performs on a Cremonese violin made in 1732. Originally born in Asheville, N.C., in 1984, Noah Bendix-Balgley has seen international success as a musician. Bendix-Balgley graduated from the Jacobs School of Music and Munich Hochschule for violin and will present a master’s guest lecture Tuesday night, followed by a concert as a soloist Wednesday in the Musical Arts Center. Bendix-Balgley began playing the violin at the age of 4, and by the time he was 9 years old, he had played a concert for Lord
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Yehudi Menuhin in Switzerland. Throughout the years, Bendix-Balgley has been a soloist in orchestras in France, Belgium, Italy and the U.S. From 2008 to 2011, he was the first violinist for the Munich-based Athlos String Quartet. In 2011, he was appointed concertmaster of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. He has recently joined the faculty of the Carnegie Mellon University School of Music as an artist lecturer in chamber music. This is the second lecture Bendix-Balgley has done at IU. The lecture attendees will include three to five master’s violin students and a string quartet. “I taught a lecture two years
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