Office of Educational Technology Blog for College of Allied Health, East Carolina University
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Need help with My Mediasite check out their tutorials, or my blog
Graduate Orientation New Students
ITCS’s new home page provides links to most items you may be looking for.
Contact this office to setup training for yourself or your class and take a deep breath it will all settle down!
Fall Semester 2018 begins. Some start up tips/reminders
How do I make my course available to students?
Control Panel > Customization > Properties > Set Availability > Yes
How do I copy my course from one semester to the next? Blackboard Course Copy Guide
How do I merge (or collapse) two or more course sections? Blackboard Course Collapse Guide
Why can’t students see a recently added course?
Blackboard enrollments require 12-24 hours to update.
Is my class being recorded? Have you submitted your lecture capture request? Lecture_Recording_Request_distributed Mediasite_Single_Rec_Req_distributed
Embed Mediasite into Blackboard – click here
Reusing Mediasite Recordings? – go to Control Panel, Mediasite Options and Click Submit to update the Spring Semester Settings.
Want to use Mediasite Desktop Recorder check out it’s upgrade!
Saba Web Conferencing – click here
WebEx – click here
Turning Point Cloud – click here
Some tools to consider Voice Thread and Blackboard New Inline Grading Tool.
First week success check out this link!
Anything else? Contact OET for assistance!
Welcome back!
So easy now and just as easy to integrate into your Grade Center,
Students can connect via phone, tablet or computer. You don’t even need the usb device just get a session id once Turning Cloud is launched. To get there from a computer it is https://student.turningtechnologies.com/#/profile and they would click Sign In and enter their ECU credentials.
Student Regisitration http://www.ecu.edu/cs-itcs/clickers/upload/TurningRegistrationInstructions_ECU_1.pdf
Participant List http://www.ecu.edu/cs-itcs/clickers/upload/tp_8.pdf
Frequently Asked
How do students obtain their license?
Licenses will be automatically distributed when students register their clicker or mobile device in Blackboard.
Is there still a cost for a physical clicker?
Yes. Students required to use a physical clicker must still purchase a clicker or use and existing one.
Is there a cost for the mobile app?
No. To use an Android or iOS mobile device, students download the free app from the Google Play or Apple App Store. Students not using an Android or iOS device can participate in polling through a Web browser on their mobile device or laptop.
Fall Semester 2018 starts in just 2 months!!!!
Fall classes are available on Blackboard, rooms have been assigned.
Have you been thinking of trying something new? Flipping the classroom, using clickers, webconferencing, or something really different. Perhaps just a remodeling of your past course is something you would like to explore.
Contact this office to help get you started
To this blog, as it has been publishing now for 9 years. Through Blackboard, SABA/Centra, Mediasite, Turning Point and more upgrades as well as hurricanes, ice and flu and many changes over the years.
Today I will highlight some of the features available after our most recent upgrades.
Blackboard – Accessibility rating with Ally, multi column deletion in grade center and student receipt of assignment submissions, Collaborate availability.
Mediasite – Quizzing feature has been added, new interface with ability to favorite folders, Annotaton and we also have available a new software lecture capture system in classrooms without hardware.
Turning Point – better grade center integration
SABA to WebEx – a change to come by next year
Want to see any in action? Just contact this office.
Not sure what VT is? That would be Voice Thread and I read an interesting article about using this tool which is available to all via Blackboard.
“Competency Based Education is really what every type of learning should really be. You want to make sure everybody’s competent. . .Whatever it is, you’ll know right away if its sunk in. So, you get that feedback from them and then you can give feedback to them, so it’s a loop that goes on. And that’s the core of what VT is; It’s a feedback tool. So, you can use it to deliver information but I think you’re really only going to find value when you start asking students to give that information back to you. And then you can assess them. So, it’s all formative assessment, it’s all feedback and it’s a two-way street that makes it really easy.” from this interview
Contact this office for a demonstration of this neat tool!
Some links
We are 3 1/2 weeks into the semester and here is a Best Practice that is included for Distance Education content but is a great idea for all classes to check in on “How is the course going?” and “Do you have any suggestions?“
Early feedback surveys or just informal discussions ask students to provide feedback on what is working well in a course and what might help them have a better course experience. This early feedback is done early in the course so corrections and modifications can be made. It is an easy opening for students who might have comments or suggestions or questions.”
You could use discussion board, or a doodle poll, or a round table discussion!
There have been a couple of emails inviting you to Mursion Demonstration. I went to one last spring and wrote about it https://sites.ecu.edu/OET/?p=2370 It is a very cool tool available to you. “Mursion is a great opportunity we have available at ECU for students as well as for potential faculty and staff development. Come see what it is all about.” and “Mursion is a tool you can use with your students to allow them to practice real-life situations in a variety of environments including education, business, hospitality and healthcare. Mursion is housed in the College of Education, but is available to the entire university. This semester we are providing sessions students can sign up for that are geared toward education students (please see attached handout), but a similar series can be arranged for other areas with interested students. We are looking forward to welcoming 2 new student environments and 10 new adults that can be mixed and matched in a conference room in sets of 3.”
Voice Thread is one of the newer tools available for faculty to use. It was piloted Fall and Spring semester and now will be available campus-wide! VoiceThread is a web-based platform available through Blackboard, which allows instructors and students to upload slides, images, video, or documents, record audio, video, or text comments, and then invite others to view and record comments as well.
To find out more about this tool check out these resources
And summer break!
Take some time, look at some of these tools
Turning Cloud – Clicker Technology
Socrative – Clicker Technology
Voice Thread – feedback video tool within Blackboard
My Mediasite/Mediasite – Mediasite is the university’s enterprise video strategy. My Mediasite, an all-in-one tool for recording, uploading and managing video, now gives users more control over their content.
Air Media – classroom tool
Blackboard Tools – This link will provide you with quick tutorials for tools available within BB
Respondus Test Generator – easy import of word documents into BB tests
SabaMeeting – Saba Meeting is a Web conferencing program in which a group of people interact in a virtual online meeting environment.
WebEx – Collaborate with colleagues anywhere, anytime from the Web through a browser or mobile app.
Yammer – Yammer is the official social networking tool of ECU. Think of it as Facebook for ECU. I
WordPress – WordPress allows users to create both static and dynamic Web pages.
Multimedia and Animation Services – Project Applications being accepted
Software supported by ECU
Or explore this blog and contact OET for demos or to explore new ways to distribute your content!
Here are some tips for organizing your computer and Blackboard sites.
Remember to Update your Computer Windows and Mac
Hiding courses from previous semesters (they are not gone, just hidden)
Being a good steward of student information (make sure no grade files etc are on your hard drive, they should be saved to pirate drive)
While you are checking My Documents for student information perhaps sort by date modified and clean out those files that are over 5 years old!
Need help with course organization or development contact OET!