Category Tools and how to (tips)
This is for tools and ‘how-to’ items
Personalizing communication with your students
Many students struggle with staying engaged in their online courses. Others lose track of deadlines. Some students feel that the lack of communication makes it hard for them to stay involved in their courses. In some situations, students have been…
Fostering engagement in online discussion
End-of-semester grading for an extremely unusual semester
Try Flipgrid for more engaging discussions
A Swiss Army knife for video
Autocaptions are new in Kaltura
Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Ethical ramifications. IRB application. Supercontinent Pangaea. Sit in a few classes at UAF and these are terms you may hear. These are also terms that have been accurately transcribed by the new auto-captioning feature in Kaltura, UA’s customizable…
Use Zoom videoconferencing in your courses
Many UAF instructors rely on Google Hangouts or Blackboard Collaborate Ultra to facilitate synchronous sessions in their courses. There’s a new tool on the block: Zoom Meetings. Let’s run through what can be accomplished by meeting in Zoom, the new…
Streamline video creation with Kaltura Personal Capture
So you want to make a podcast
How to update due dates in Blackboard
You may have noticed the familiar Set Grade Center Due Dates tool has not been available recently. This handy tool has become incompatible with the current version of Blackboard. While we hope that it can return in the future, there…