If you need help using Canvas, try the resources below:
- Call the Canvas Support Hotline for Utah Tech at 877-214-5353 for immediate support
- Search the Canvas Guides to find answers to common questions on your own
Using Canvas
Other University Support Services
| NAME | SERVICE |
|---|---|
| Utah Tech Resources Overview | Visit this site to see many student resources in one place. |
| Academic Advisement | Helps students make decisions about their courses and degree path. |
| Academic Performance and Tutoring Center | Offers one-on-one tutoring, study hall, and online tutoring to help students in many subjects ranging from Math to Foreign Language. |
| Booth Wellness Center | Provides acute health care, referral services, health education, and brief mental health services. |
| Campus Life | The Utah Tech University Student Association offers a variety of ways to get involved socially at the university. |
| Career Services | Assists students with career exploration, choosing a major, writing a resume, and getting a job. |
| Center for Inclusion & Belonging | Increases diversity through scholarship opportunities, community outreach, academic advisement, and diversity club participation. |
| Dean of Students Office | Serves as a primary advocate and support network for students. Assists students who are facing personal challenges, including financial, food, and housing concerns. |
| Disability Resource Center | Serves students with disabilities by providing equal access to academic programs, non-academic activities, and campus facilities |
| DRC Accessibility | A list of DRC services including exam accommodations, ASL interpreting, materials in alternative format, and more. |
| Help Desk | Provides assistance for Canvas, Student Email, Student Services, Trailblazers wireless configuration, laptop assistance, and any other technical troubleshooting you may need help with. |
| Library | Provides the resources necessary to facilitate research and enhance university curriculum and programs. |
| Math Tutoring Center | Students can drop in to work on homework, take tests, and receive individualized or group tutoring. Online tutoring is also available. |
| Student Support Services | Provides a variety of free services to help first-generation, low-income, or students with disabilities to complete an associate degree and move on to a bachelor degree. |
| Testing Center | Provides all proctored exams on campus and can make accommodations for remotely proctored exams. |
| Utah Health Scholars | Provides tutors for upper-division, health-related courses. Students must register into the UHP program to qualify for this free tutoring. |
| Veterans Services | Offers tutoring for some classes and arranges tutoring in other centers for other classes. Must have VA benefits to qualify. |
| Writing Center | Offers students personalized attention from tutors for writing. |
Utah Tech Policies & Statements
Accessibility
This course provides accessibility through readability in color contrasts, ease of use in navigation and multimedia, alternative means of access to multimedia content, and use of accessible text and images in files, documents, LMS pages, and web pages. If you are having any issues with accessibility, please contact the instructor.
Permissions
The content in this course has been used with proper permissions. Images from Unsplash are licensed with permission under a CC-0 license. Any image that requires further attribution or is otherwise licensed is cited properly. Other course materials have citations provided as well.
Privacy
It is your responsibility to protect your data and privacy online. Be careful and use discretion when using any of the course technologies to complete required learning activities. If you are unsure about how to protect your data and privacy online, please use the resources provided to understand your responsibility.
101 Data Protection Tips: How To Keep Your Passwords, Financial, and Personal Information Safe
Harper, E. (2018). 9 Simple Ways To Protect Your Privacy. Retrieved from: https://www.techlicious.com/tip/simple-ways-to-protect-your-privacy/
Copyleaks Privacy Policy: Copyleaks is a plagiarism detection tool. When you submit a Canvas assignment using Copyleaks, Canvas passes on certain information to Copyleaks, including your name, email address, and university affiliation. Your assignment is then scanned and saved into a repository against which future checks for plagiarism can be conducted. If you include any other personally identifiable information in the text of assignments that are submitted through Copyleaks, that text will also end up being stored on Copyleaks servers as it is scanned by Copyleaks. Please refer to the Copyleaks Privacy Policy if you have additional questions about how student information is stored and shared.
Utah Tech Policies
Code of Student Rights and Responsibilities (Academic dishonesty / academic integrity policy, student academic conduct policy)
Disability/Accessibility Resources
UT welcomes all students and strives to make the learning experience accessible. If you are a student with a medical, psychological, or learning disability that may require accommodations for this course, you are encouraged to contact the Disability Resource Center (DRC) as soon as possible. You may request reasonable accommodations at any time during the semester; however, they are not retroactive. The DRC is located next door to the Testing Center in the North Plaza Building (435-652-7516, drc@utahtech.edu).
Title IX Statement
Utah Tech University affirms its commitment to the promotion of fairness and equity in all aspects of the educational institution. Harassment and discrimination—including sex/gender discrimination, gender identity, gender expression, sexual harassment, sexual misconduct, gender-based violence, dating violence, domestic violence, stalking, pregnancy or parental , family or marital status and or retaliation—not only disrupts our commitment to maintaining an environment in which every member of the University community is treated with respect and dignity, but may also violate University policy and federal, state, and/or local law.
Should you or someone you know experience behavior that is coercive, discriminatory, harassing, and or sexually violent in nature, or if you or someone you know has questions about their rights and options regarding such behavior, you are encouraged to contact:
- Hazel Sainsbury
Dir. Of Equity Compliance, Title IX Coordinator
435.652.7747 (ext. 7747)
hazel.sainsbury@utahtech.edu
titleix@utahtech.edu
Incidents may also be reported directly to law enforcement, either separately or in conjunction with any report made to the University’s Title IX Coordinator, and the University will aid in making contact if requested.
- Utah Tech University Police
435.275.4300 or by calling 9-1-1
Maintaining a safe and inclusive University community is a shared responsibility. For more information on how Title IX protections can benefit you and help us keep a productive campus environment, visit titleix.utahtech.edu to learn more.
Student Email
You are required to frequently check your university email account. Important class and university information will be sent to your university account, including Utah Tech bills, financial aid/scholarship notices, notices of cancelled classes, reminders of important dates and deadlines, and other information critical to your success at Utah Tech and in your courses. To access your university-sponsored account, visit helpdesk.utahtech.edu/about-dmail. Your username is your digital ID (e.g. D00111111).
Non-student
Non-student in the classroom and other designated study areas: It is expected that only bona fide students as defined and classified by the Utah Tech University catalog, will attend classes, unless specific prior permission for guests has been obtained from the instructor.
Academic Guidelines Regarding COVID-19
For Utah Tech’s up-to-date COVID-19 Emergency Response Plan, please visit the university website.