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This eLearning module will provide step-by-step instructions and best practices for making your PowerPoint presentations accessible to people with disabilities. When your slides are accessible, you unlock your content to everyone and people with differing abilities can read and use your slides. You learn, for example, how to add alt texts to images so that people using screen readers […]
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These are some of our favorite pedagogy resources! Comment below to post to tell use your favorites. Podcasts Blogs & Websites Books & Journals Podcasts EdSurge A weekly podcast about the future of education, featuring insightful conversations with educators, tech innovators and scholars, hosted by EdSurge’s Jeff Young and other EdSurge reporters. Hub Talk –
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With the cyclical educational calendar, some things come around regularly every semester or year. That also means it is easy to forget the processes you aren’t performing every day. Luckily it is easy to record and share your processes. We’ll show you 3 that work well with Meredith software. Benefits of recording workflow processes Recording
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Anonymous grading can help provide better outcomes for learners, instructors, and the organization because: Test-takers can receive results faster so they know the areas in which they’re excelling and areas where they can improve. A lot of logistical needs can be automatically taken care of for instructors and markers, enabling them to spend more time working with learners. The process
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Do you find yourself skimming through articles to find points of interest by using headers? Those headers are more important than you think! Let’s chat about why that is the case. “A heading describes the content that follows it, much like a news headline. When arriving at a new page, sighted users gravitate toward headings
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We use Gmail every day on campus but there are so many more settings and options to make it even better. This video covers settings in Gmail that help customize the way Gmail looks and works. Some of these options can even improve efficiency and workflows for you. Click the hamburger icon in the top
Turnitin is an “originality checker” you can use to quickly compare student papers to thousands of sources across the internet and a repository of student work from other institutions. Check out the video training below for instructions on how to easily use Turnitin right in Brightspace assignments.
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Sometimes we play a little bit of the telephone game with instructional technology. An instructor asks “How can a student do X?” and they try their best to take the explanation back to their courses to help their students do X. Well now our basic student help videos will bridge a bit of that gap
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Brightspace is a big topic but let’s get started with this general overview about using in at Meredith College. This overview is meant to give you a taste of the possibilities when using the Brightspace software. If you have more specific questions or topics you would like to explore, jump over to the Brightspace section
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