Best Practices – IT Service Catalog

Improving Digital Content Accessibility in MyCourses

Accessibility, IT News, MyCourses / October 31, 2025

As you prepare your MyCourses courses for the spring semester, please review the Panorama Course Report to identify accessibility issues and implement fixes for webpages (HTML), Word documents, PowerPoint presentations, PDF files, and Excel spreadsheets. The example course report shown below indicates that the overall accessibility score for digital content in this course is 73%. […]

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Learn Your Way in MyCourses with Panorama

MyCourses / March 10, 2025

Have a commute to class on test day and need extra time to review course materials? Learning a new language and need practice? Have trouble focusing on huge blocks of text in a course? Try Alternative Formats with Panorama! Alternative formats are now available for students to customize their learning experience. There are a variety

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Academic Technology Updates for February 2025

IT News / February 25, 2025

New updates are available for MyCourses! See below for details, and please contact helpdesk@ggc.edu if you encounter any problems or have questions. MyCourses

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Academic Technology Updates for January 2025

IT News / January 28, 2025

New updates are available for MyCourses! See below for details, and please contact helpdesk@ggc.edu if you encounter any problems or have questions. MyCourses Catch up on updates you may have missed! Check out the Academic Technology Updates for December 2024 for details on updates that happened over winter break.

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Academic Technology Updates for December 2024

IT News / December 17, 2024

New updates are coming to MyCourses and GoVIEW! See below for details, and please contact helpdesk@ggc.edu if you encounter any problems or have questions. MyCourses Ally to Panorama Transition GGC will transition from Anthology (formerly Blackboard) Ally to YuJa Panorama as the primary digital accessibility solution. Information Technology (IT) will disable Ally on December 19, 2024. Please

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MyCourses Digital Content Accessibility Features

MyCourses / December 16, 2024

Information Technology (IT) has licensed a new digital accessibility tool called YuJa Panorama that is integrated with MyCourses! What is Panorama? Panorama is a tool that improves the accessibility of digital media and course content. It scans, inspects, and converts files to various formats for download, scores the overall accessibility of a course, and offers remediation guidance

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Welcome to Fall 2024!

IT News / July 31, 2024

Welcome to the Fall 2024 semester! Information Technology (IT) has been busy over the summer updating technology around campus. Take a moment to familiarize yourself with changes you may encounter and some announcements you may have missed. Help Desk Single Point of Contact The Help Desk is the central point of contact for all technology

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Start-of-Semester Reminders

IT News / January 10, 2024

Welcome back, Faculty! GGC Information Technology (IT) has a few start-of-semester reminders to help provide a smooth start to the Spring 2024 semester. Single Point of Contact IT has transitioned to a single point-of-contact model for all technology support requests. The Help Desk is the central point of contact for all requests. This includes but

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Academic Technology Updates for October 2023

IT News / October 24, 2023

We have new updates for MyCourses! See below for details, and please contact helpdesk@ggc.edu if you encounter any problems or have questions. MyCourses

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Making the Most of MyCourses AY2024 Workshop Series Recordings

MyCourses / September 6, 2023

The Making the Most of MyCourses AY2024 workshop series presents pedagogical best practices for course design regardless of instructional modality (online, hybrid, hyflex, face-to-face) combined with MyCourses best practices. To earn the Making the Most of MyCourses AY2024 badge faculty and staff must provide evidence of a minimum of 20 of 27 possible artifacts. Participation in associated workshops is highly

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