Month: July 2020

In-Video Interaction

Recent tweet from Mediasite – Tactics for adding value to your in-video interaction –

  • Consider the learning outcomes – what are the student takeaways?  Students like points but not busy work.
  • Chunk lectures 5 – 15 minutes long.
  • Add questions on annotate at points where students need to focus.
  • Do students need to prepare prior to viewing.
  • Do students need “points to look for”?
  • When do you want interactions, during or at the end?
  • Do they need to also annotate (can be done with Mediasite) or share after viewing?
  • Be mindful of interaction overload, don’t make it tedious!

 

 

 

 

Respondus Lockdown Browser & Monitor & Test Generator

LockDown Browser (a custom browser that locks down a computer during online exams) and Respondus Monitor (an automated proctoring system for non-proctored exam environments.

Respondus Monitor is a software-based video proctoring service that can be used when students take a test in Blackboard or Canvas. Respondus Monitor tracks and records suspicious behavior such as using a secondary device, calculator, textbook or receiving assistance from other students. Respondus Monitor creates a flagged and timestamped video for the instructor to review.

Respondus Test Generator can be used in the Canvas environment.   Exams can be created offline using a familiar Windows environment, or moved from one eLearning system to another. Whether you are a veteran of online testing or relatively new to it, Respondus will save you hours on each project.

PowerPoint, Forms and Quizzing

One of our colleagues brought this neat feature to my attention and I was her “test subject”.  With Microsoft 365 you can create a form (quiz) within your PowerPoint, students can download and click on the “quiz”, answer the questions and submit to you.  See the link below for instructions and contact this office if you want to give it a try!

 

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/insert-a-form-or-quiz-into-powerpoint-1a316f81-9ea7-4bc2-bda0-024c0d780df1

Want to see how something works?

You are enrolled as a student in the Canvas Kiosk of Information (formerly BB Kiosk).  There is a lot of information there but this course can give you the real feel of being a student.  There is information on Canvas and other technologies we are all using now, Teams, WebEx, Polling, Mediasite.  There is a Turning Point quiz that you can give in class but also schedule remotely, check it out.  If you want to see how something works and it is not there let us know and we can try it out, like groups???

It’s certainly going to take Teamwork!

As we make plans to return to classrooms I have been asked about Mediasite Live Recordings and students viewing synchronously how might they best ask questions without having to run a simultaneous webconferencing session.

The Teams app will be available in the general classrooms, open Teams either on the classroom computer, a separate computer or mobile device.  Students can send via chat questions during class which you can then respond to in real time.

Want to try it out?  Just open teams, open chat, click new chat and enter my name or a colleagues, it is that simple.