We caught up with Assistant Director of Human Resources Alana Etter to discuss putting the New Employee Orientation online. Please describe the project. New Employee Orientation (NEO) New Employee Orientation is an important session in companies. It is a way to introduce the new hire to the College, some of its policies & procedures, traditions […]
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Our new Brightspace Creator+ addition provides engaging content formats and layouts to easily add to a course. These can break up text, allow students to interact with content in different ways, and provide in context learning checks. There are many great options so far with more coming in the future and we encourage you to try
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Flip (formerly Flipgrid) has been a fantastic free instructor resource but will soon be rolled into the Microsoft Teams for Education suite of tools. In this post we will share a few details about the access restrictions and alternatives from our own suite of Meredith tools. Some important dates for the Flip phase out: Read
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How many Chrome browser tabs do you have open right now? 10? 20? 90??? Yeah we see you super tab users. If that’s you, now is the time to celebrate because Google has made it easy to organize and save your tabs. Let’s jump in. Search and see all tabs To quickly search and see
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There are quite a few tools that make it easier to manage course announcements in Brightspace. Easier for you and more useful for your students. Let’s take a look at them. All of these options works from the Announcements tool or the Announcement list on your course homepage. Copy to a different course Now with
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Childhood Development Assistant Professor and Program Director Pamela Norcross, Ph.D, recently used a video assignment in her CD 220 in Fall 2023. We caught up with Dr. Norcoss to see how it went. Please describe the Sesame Street Project assignment. Dr. Norcross: Sesame Street is a familiar TV show that was developed in 1969 to
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Introducing Zoom Whiteboards Zoom Meetings are an essential tool for any course that needs to meet remotely or in a hybrid format at Meredith, but we all know that sometimes online meetings can seem like they’re lacking some of the comforts of the traditional classroom. The whiteboard shouldn’t be one of those “missing” comforts as Zoom
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Zoom meetings have many moving pieces and also many different options for recording each of those pieces. We are going to talk about these different recording options in this post so you can configure your recording to best suit your needs. Common video layouts The most commonly used video layouts are Single video – 1 video
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Videos in Kaltura have a new player look and interface. Checkout the screenshots and descriptions to get familiar with the changes. This player should smoothly update almost everywhere without any action from Kaltura users. The only videos that will not automatically update are those that are using an embed code to appear on My Meredith, Meredith.edu,
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