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Create an Account with JoVE

We recommend creating a JoVE account to ensure off-campus access. To create an account, click Sign In on the top right of the JoVE homepage and then click Create a New Account. Use your Duquesne University email address to get full access. 

If you are already logged into JoVE through Duquesne's access, make sure you sign out first to properly create an account.

Science Education Lab Manual

JoVE Lab Manual is a section in JoVE that provides a variety of detailed lab manuals for introductory biology and chemistry courses. There are three component videos for each lab:

  1. Concepts Video
    • This video demonstrates the fundamental ideas and concepts that will need to be understood for the lab.
  2. Instructor Prep Video
    • This video provides directions for the instructor on how to run the lab. JoVE also provides printable versions of the learning objectives, materials list, and prep protocol.
  3. Student Protocol Video
    • This video shows students how to replicate the procedure and the protocol steps to complete the lab.

How do I embed a JoVE video into Canvas?

To embed a JoVE video into Canvas, follow the instructions below.

1. When you've selected a video on JoVE that you want to include in your course's Canvas page, look directly under the video for the "<>" icon and select it.

The location of the "embed" button underneath a JoVE research video.





2. You can customize how the video is titled, whether it plays automatically, and the size of the embedded video.

3. Once your customizations are done, select "Copy Embed Code".

4. Go to the Canvas Course Page where you want to embed the video and select "Edit" (note - it has to be embedded in a page, cannot be uploaded into a module directly as its own page).

5. Select the "Embed" icon.

The location of the "embed" button on Canvas's page editor.

 

 



6. Paste the embed code you copied from JoVE, then select "Submit".

7. Save your changes to the Canvas page.

Create a JoVE Quiz

JoVE has a "Create Quiz" feature where teachers and faculty can create a test to grasp how well students understood the material presented in the shared video.

JoVE tests can only be created for JoVE Education videos while logged into an instructor account.

  1. Make sure you have created your JoVE account and then choose a video from JoVE Education. 
  2. Below the video, click "Create Quiz".
    The location of the "Create Quiz" button underneath a JoVE video.

     
  3. Once you login to your account, you will have the option to choose pre-generated questions or create your own
    The UI for creating a quiz in JoVE.










     
  4. After you create the test, JoVE will present you with several options to send the test and administer it.The settings that you can edit when saving and sending a quiz in JoVE.

Students will need their own JoVE accounts to take the quiz which can be created with their Duquesne emails. Instructors will need to log on to JoVE to see the students' quiz results.