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These are topics and tutorials we consider at a beginner or introductory level.
Kaltura MediaSpace is a robust, YouTube like options for video storage and publishing available to the whole campus community. It can be a bit confusing to understand the different terms and options so this is an illustration of how a Kaltura page works vs a channel. Kaltura page A Kaltura page (or gallery) is a …
Brightspace has slowly been updating all the creation screens to have a unified look and layout. Next up is discussions! This is just like the changes for Assignments and Quizzes so it will look familiar. The New Discussion Creation Experience is now set to the opt-in option. That means you can turn it on and …
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My intention for this blog series was to start with an introduction to ChatGPT and follow it up with a number of posts. But then I realized that maybe we should start with what AI is and then move to the topic of ChatGPT. First and foremost, let’s define AI. I like this definition of …
Keeping Up with ChatGPT in Higher Education: Part 1 Read More »
Chances are you have a group of people you regularly email or add to calendar events. Well here is a little tip to make it just a little quicker for you! Using Google Contacts It is easy to search up faculty and staff emails but through Google Contacts you have more control. You can create …
Quicker Gmail and Events using Google Contacts Groups Read More »
It is a good practice to remove content you no longer use, has become outdated, or contains private student information from your My Media repository. This also has the benefit of helping Meredith make the best use of our storage resources as we do not have unlimited storage space. Some questions to consider when evaluating …
Did you know we have 100+ software training videos? We’ve captured a lot since the beginning of our push to record more videos and they are all available for your here on the Software Training Video page in Kaltura MediaSpace. Here is a short description of the page channels and what videos you will find …
Every Brightspace course has a Kaltura Media Gallery to store and sort media just for that course. There are many ways to use the Media Gallery but in this post we will talk about easily adding ALL Kaltura media for your course to the Media Gallery. If you embed a video in your Content area, …
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In the first Ally blog post, we discussed that Ally provides feedback on the accessibility of your course content and guidance on how to fix any identified accessibility issues. In addition, Ally provides instructors with a method for looking at the accessibility status of all of the items in the content areas of the course …
In the last blog post, we briefly discussed the generation of accessible alternatives such as audio, ePub, electronic braille, tagged PDFs, and HTML for viewing on mobile devices. This supports the principles of Universal Design for Learning (UDL) and allows students to choose the type of file that best suits their needs. The following video …
