Google Chat is an easy way to communicate across campus but there are some hidden features that can make it even more useful. Let’s dive into Chat and see how it can work for you. Chat and Spaces The main Google App is called Google Chat. Then the 2 main pieces of Google Chat are …
Layouts Layouts make configuring content easier, and faster, then ever. With this feature, creators have the option to arrange text, media, and even Creator+ Elements into panels. This opens your content pages to a new range of design possibilities. Instead of placing content into one long vertical page, you can now organize text and media …
Continuing Brightspace’s layout changes is the New Content Experience! The new Content is now enabled as an opt-in option for your course. You may enable it any time to try it but remember that students will see the changes as well. To experiment with the new view without disrupting your students, we encourage you to …
We are excited to share an important update regarding our Kaltura video system, aimed at optimizing our resources and ensuring an easier maintenance experience for all users. Beginning this month, October 2023, we will be implementing this new video storage plan for all Kaltura accounts. Key Highlights of Our New Video Storage Plan: Streamlined Video …
Throw out the back and forth email! Google has multiple options that make it easy to coordinate meeting times. Try out these 3 ways to make options to see what works best for you. 1:1 meetings coordinated from Gmail You can now choose a range of suggested meeting times directly from the Gmail interface to …
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Still Curious About Creator +? As the semester has successfully begun, we hope that your students are finding your course content to be engaging, interactive and as impactful as you designed it to be. If you attended the Creator + Sessions during Faculty Staff Planning Week, we learned about how the Creator + creation tools …
It can be hard to see the big picture view of the effectiveness of your videos when you have to look at individual video analytics. Luckily, if you are using Kaltura videos, you can see dashboards of all your user or course video analytics! User analytics look at all user videos across your account: published …
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Brightspace introduced a new “Work to Do” system widget that can be added onto Course Homepages and is on the Brightspace Main landing page. By default, this widget is viewable by Learners and pulls data from all tools within the Brightspace Learning Environment including: There has been some confusion for students with this widget so …
A organizational benefit of Google Drive is the ability to manage file versions easily. Instead of have 10 different draft versions of a file, you can easily save and manage versions from one file. I’m sure we’ve all had the misfortune of wanting to revert back to an older version of an edit and it …
