Office of Educational Technology Blog for College of Allied Health, East Carolina University
Respondus Test Generator is a great tool to quickly create a test in Word and upload to Blackboard and eventually to Canvas (tests do import very well into Canvas). Download the Respondus software and checkout these links on how to use it.
Remember to download/save the license information. Need assistance contact this office.
Turning Point and location-based attendance, see how it’s done!
Here’s an interesting article using the tool Increase participation by reducing anxiety
As an instructor, you can create instant polling questions from Web content, PDF’s, Microsoft Office products, whiteboards and more. In addition, you can create and save quizzes or create interactive presentations in a PowerPoint format. Grades from polled responses can also be downloaded into the Blackboard Grade Center.
Instructors may choose to have students purchase a physical clicker or by allowing them to respond using the free TurningPoint mobile app. Mobile device polling comes at no additional out-of-pocket cost to students. From https://itcs.ecu.edu/services/educational-technologies/clickers/
What’s that you ask? To quote the article
“recombobulation” is not technically a word, but what else do you call it when you’re trying to regroup yourself after feeling discombobulated thanks to the TSA screening process?”
To quote from the article “One of the most challenging snippets of time – security lines aside – is that moment when you are transitioning from one role to another. For example, when you go from “work mode” to “home mode” at the end of a long day.”
So as we do head into another stressful time, we just got over semester start up and now may face semester catch up give yourself “a few moments to mentally shift gears. . . a long way toward lowering stress levels.”
Good luck managing Dorian and anymore they may come!
