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 …
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. Lisa Pearce, Associate Professor of …
VoiceThread’s updated assignment builder is now even better for tracking participation and grades for VoiceThread assignments. And it still integrates directly into Brightspace. UPDATED: In Summer 2021, the connection between Brightspace and VoiceThread was updated and this caused some slight changes in how the two work together. This post has been updated with these new …
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Our Brightspace platform has been integrated with VoiceThread but now we have a new quick link to login to the VoiceThread website that works for faculty, staff, and students. So what’s the difference and when should you use the Brightspace integration vs the website? What can I do with VoiceThread? VoiceThread integration Create a new …
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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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You might have a goal of what you want to do for students but how do you choose which tool to use? We’ve broken our supported tools up into groups by usage goal. In the chart below, you can see which tools will help in each of these areas. Scroll through the chart for each …
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Foreign language courses are a unique challenge for fully asynchronous classes or even with a large class over Zoom. Are the students getting enough speaking practice time? How do you find the time to meet and check pronunciation? Well we’ll go over a few digital tools that can help you create community and conversation for …
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Video has come to the forefront with online learning. We have many video tools available but which one to use? This comparison chart can help you decide which software to use for your or your students based on its features. You can also click the software names in the table heading to jump to our …
Creating opportunities for engaging interaction with course content is a big challenge for online courses. Luckily, there are any great tool to help along the way. VoiceThread is the tool you’ve been looking for to allow students to comment on videos and presentations in real time still provide flexibility to make comments anytime, not just …
