Outside of trainings provided by Technology Services and the IDAT team on campus, the software vendors are continually providing webinars and trainings on the technical and pedagogical uses of their software. Brightspace Upcoming and on-demand recorded virtual events. Easily filter trainings by topic, type of training, and for higher ed. Find training here. They also […]
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The pandemic brought with it major shifts in education and an abundance of opportunities to try new strategies and practices. During Planning Week 2021 several faculty members presented some of their pandemic success and how these best practices can continue to be utilized as we adjust to a new normal. Instructor of Communications Angela Smedley
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There are always some great updates coming down the pike from Google! We won’t be detailing ever single one but we will give you some new updates that are applicable to the every day user on the EDU edition here at Meredith. To get all the updates, head over to the Google Workspace Updates blog
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Life happens and a student suddenly needs more time on a quiz or paper. No problem! With Brightspace you can add Special Access to any Quiz or Assignment. Special Access allows you to add exceptions for specified students for Assignments and Quizzes. You can change State Date, Due Date, and End Date allow more time
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ReadSpeaker is a text-to-speech tool to help facilitate reading and comprehension. For student use, it is integrated directly into Brightspace with a tool for use outside Brightspace. Faculty and staff will all have access for use outside of Brightspace as well. Why get excited about ReadSpeaker? ReadSpeaker is a user-side tool which puts accessibility right
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In this second post of the series, I discuss how you can clean up your Brightspace course.
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Here we are again – a new semester! As you begin to prepare for your next semester, you should consider taking a good look at your courses and brushing them up with a little redesign. Why look at courses for redesign? First, a course redesign can help mitigate problems from a course copy, saving time
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Last updated: 6/10/22 We can’t possibly talk about everything related to inclusive design and pedagogy here on this blog so this is our big list of citations, resources, and research for you to dig in more. Resources are separated by topic so just click a link below to jump to a topic you are interested
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One of the best parts of an online course is that once you build it, you can use the same course year after year without starting from scratch. But to do this, you need to move your materials from the old semester course to your new one. Here’s the steps of importing your materials into
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