Month: November 2022

Deprecating MS Bookings

Greetings, CAHS!

Please note that the old version of MS Bookings will get deprecated from the end of November, 2022.  Head over and begin to explore the New Bookings page to explore the updated website.

What is Microsoft Bookings?

Microsoft Bookings is a scheduling tool and is part of the Microsoft Office 365 family of products.  Through an easy to create website, Bookings allows end-users to view calendars and schedule appointment.  Bookings uses a person’s Outlook calendar to find available times real-time.  Bookings gives you a fast, easy alternative to time-consuming, frustrating phone-scheduling. An easy-to-set-up, customizable web page lets people find available times and book appointments 24/7.

Link to Bookings within our ORG: https://outlook.office365.com/bookings/homepage

Who can use it?

Bookings is available for free for all DU faculty, staff and students as part of the Office365 Suite.

Features and Benefits

  • Online appointment booking
  • Real-time appointment availability 
  • Outlook calendar integration including automatic updates
  • Automated email confirmations and reminders
  • Appointment rescheduling and cancellations
  • Integration with Microsoft Teams
  • 120 days of appointment history (60 days past, 60 days future)
  • Unique appointment scheduling web page
  • Appointment reassignment between staff members

Why should I use Bookings?

  • Faculty can provide their availability for office hours and allow students to book appointments.
  • Departments can schedule appointments with internal and external community members for a center, project or group.
  • A department chair or administrator could create an office hours calendar with slots for multiple faculty members.

How do I start using Bookings?

Any actively enrolled student or currently employed staff or faculty member can create their own Bookings page. To get started:

  1. Login in to Office 365 with your ECU email and password.
  2. Click All Apps, then Bookings.
  3. Integrate with Outlook
  4. Integrate with Teams

Best Wishes!

Elimination of the Deadline for Switching to New Quizzes

Many of you have inquired about the timeline for us to transition from using the current Classic Quizzes to the New Quizzes in Canvas.  Canvas has provided an update, their roll out of the tool has been eliminated.  That’s right, Canvas will now offer both options for now.  This will provide more time for our faculty to test both features to see which would best suite their needs.  If you would like a quick tutorial on either quiz option, please set an appointment up with me and I will be glad to assist you.  If you have already transitioned to New Quizzes, I would love to hear about your experience. Below is more information on New Quizzes.

New Quizzes Transition Toolkit 

As we begin the transition from Classic Quizzes to New Quizzes we wanted to provide specialized resources to better assist admins, faculty, and end users alike. This toolkit will consist of plug & play email templates, checklists, videos, promotional assets and more! 

Other Resources

Below is a comparison chart for both quizzes. Hopefully this will help you in determine which feature best suites your needs.

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Quizzing in Panopto

The quiz tool in Panopto can be used for low-stakes self-assessments that are housed within an existing Panopto session. Adding quizzes to Panopto videos is one way to keep viewers engaged with video content and insert comprehension checks at various points throughout a vide.

Quizzes in a Panopto video will automatically pause playback, so students can take as much time as needed to answer questions.

  1. Open your video in the Panopto editor.
  2. Select Quizzing in the left Navigation pane.
    Panopto's Navigation pane is displayed with a red box as emphasis around the Quizzing option. A red arrow also points to Quizzing for additional emphasis.
  3. Using the Pointer tool, navigate in the Timeline to where you want to put a quiz.
    Panopto video timeline is emphazied with a red box around it. The pointer tool is used to indicate a particular spot on the video's timeline.
  4. Select the Add a Quiz button. The quiz form will appear in your secondary stream area.
    A red box emphasizes the Add a Quiz button.
  5. The form has several different fields, including Quiz Name, Question, Answers, and Correct Answer Explanation.
    Red boxes emphasize the fields for the quiz name, text of the question, answer options, and the optional text field for an explanation of the correct answer.
  6. Within the form, you can select the drop-down menu in the top right corner to show different types of quiz questions. The question options include True/False, Multiple Choice, and Multiple Select. The default is multiple choice.
    A red box emphasizes the Question Type drop-down box located in the top, right side of the image.
  7. Enter the text of the question along with potential answers in the appropriate text fields. When you have your potential answers added, you must choose a correct answer by selecting the circle next to the correct answer.
    A red box emphasizes that the circle next to the first answer option is toggled to indicate it is the correct response to the question.
  8. Once you are done with a question and want to add another one, click the Add a Question button at the bottom of the form.
    A red box emphasizes the Add a Question button.
  9. If you need to navigate to a different question in your quiz, you can use the Back and Next buttons at the bottom of the form.
    A red box emphasizes the Back and Next buttons that can be used to navigate to other questions in the quiz.
  10. Once you have added all of your questions, select the Done button at the bottom of the form.
    A red box is add around the Done button as emphasis.
  11. You will then be directed to the Options page for this quiz where you can adjust the following options:
    • Allow retakes.
    • Show grade once the quiz is taken (if this is enabled, you can also allow review of correct answers and explanations).
    • Block your viewers from advancing the video until the quiz is answered.
    • Delete questions by choosing the Xs.
    • Reorganize the questions by using the arrows.
      Quiz options page is displayed with the following options selected: All Retakes, Show grade after taking the quiz, All review of correct answers and explanations, and Block advancing in the video until answering the quiz.
  12. Once you are finished, select the Save button. The name of your quiz will now appear in the Quizzing pane.
  13. Repeat steps 2 through 11 for each quiz you want to add to your video.
  14. When you are finished adding quizzes to the video, select the Publish button located in the top, right-hand corner of the page.
    Green Publish button is shown next to the gray Revert button.

During playback, the video will pause when it is time for a quiz and remain paused until the questions are answered.