Version 10 OAKS was successfully upgraded to Version 10 on December 17th. Version 10 has new interface changes for a more intuitive experience for faculty and staff. The new user interface includes: A new top bar that provides easy access to courses, alerts and personal settings Redesigned homepage tool with different branding and layout options; [...]
We’ve just launched the OAKS Support blog! This will be helpful for you and your students. Our goal was to have one location for everything OAKS. Check out the blog for the following: Login Information and Getting Started Recommendations Faculty and Student Tutorials Scheduled Outage Dates/Times Upcoming Upgrades and Release Notes Known Issues OAKS User [...]
TLT is providing informational sessions on the new OAKS Version 10 due on December 18th. We recommend coming to the live sessions so that you can ask any questions you may have. If you can’t attend you can watch this video of the What To Expect In Version 10 session. The video is in .mp4 [...]
This summer Google issued a new version of their web browser, Chrome. This new version (v. 20, v. 21) has greater security features which is a good thing for most of us. However, these same security features also appear to be preventing some embedded flash videos from playing in OAKS. Currently we know that this [...]
Do you have existing quizzes or quiz questions created and saved as a word doc or quizzes from a publishers test bank that you want to use in OAKS? With Respondus you can! Respondus is a tool for creating and managing quizzes that can be published directly to OAKS from a document, such as Word [...]
As you’re preparing your OAKS courses for the start of the semester, we wanted to bring a few things to your attention to help make life (well at least OAKS) easier for you! First, we wanted to mention OAKS crosslisting. Crosslisting is an option that allows you to combine 2 or more sections of the same course [...]
If you are building a new class or updating and changing an old one consider using the OAKS Course Builder. The Course Builder allows you to create and manage your course structure, upload files, and create and manage your assessments all from one area. You can use the Build Structure tools to plan the course [...]
OAKS has a limit of 256 characters for folder paths and file names. Because of this it is in the best interest of the students if the faculty keep the names of files short. Please try to keep the names of the files you upload into OAKS less than 50 characters if possible. Also, try [...]
As you start to get ready for the next semester I thought it might be a great time to remind everyone that you don’t have to recreate the wheel each semester. You can reuse all your past course material, quizzes, tests, assignments and grade books in your new classes with a few clicks. A few things to [...]
Giving your students your PowerPoint (PPT) presentations is a great way to keep them engaged during the lecture, assist them in note taking and help them study and putting them in OAKS gives your students easy access. PowerPoint presentations however, can be large making them difficult for students to download, cumbersome for mobile devices and [...]
