by Mendi Benigni | Oct 18, 2021
The College of Charleston offers faculty access to Turnitin. Integrated with the OAKS Assignments/Dropbox tool, Turnitin helps assess student assignments and prevent plagiarism. Turnitin checks written assignments for plagiarism from public online sources as well as...
by Mendi Benigni | Oct 11, 2021 | Communication, Group Work, Multimedia
OVERVIEW: We normally use VoiceThread (VT) to record lectures and occasionally allow students to comment or ask questions. But what about creating a single VT where all your students actually contribute the content? For example, instead of having every student...
by Mendi Benigni | Apr 14, 2021 | Uncategorized
VoiceThread has a new Assignment Builder interface. Prior to January 2021, you will need to turn this on in order to use it. The instructions to enable the new interface are outlined below. Start by clicking on the Access VoiceThread for this Course (Note: if this...
by Mendi Benigni | Nov 27, 2018
VoiceThread (VT) creates closed captions (CC) automatically. As of 09/19/18, any new VoiceThread you create will automatically have closed captions created. No action is required on the part of the faculty member! However, if you had made the VT prior to this date,...
by Mendi Benigni | Oct 8, 2018 | Accessibility, Content Delivery, Lecture, Lecture Recording, Multimedia, Presentation, Projects
VoiceThread (VT) creates closed captions (CC) automatically. No action is required on the part of the faculty member! However, if you had made the VT prior to this date, you will have to make a copy of it to trigger the captions. In addition, you can also edit the...
by Mendi Benigni | Feb 5, 2016 | Communication, Content Delivery, Feedback, OAKS, OAKS, OAKS, Presentation
VoiceThread is a learning tool for enhancing student engagement and online presence. With VoiceThread, instructors and/or students can create, share, and comment on images, Microsoft PowerPoint presentations, videos, audio files, documents, and PDFs, using microphone,...
by Mendi Benigni | Oct 16, 2013 | Collaboration, Content Delivery, Feedback, Mobile
Use the VoiceThread App with the CofC licenses. It allows all of the same features of the web version. This tutorial provides step-by-step instructions for downloading the app, creating a VoiceThread, making comments and sharing a VoiceThread. Uses: Online discussion...
by Michael Bommarito | Jan 9, 2024
The College of Charleston is partnering with global online learning platform Coursera to launch a new program providing industry-branded micro-credentials to students, faculty and staff at no cost. Students will be able to earn professional certificates for in-demand...
by Mendi Benigni | Nov 16, 2022
Use the Content tool to post and organize course content so that information about course expectations, course syllabus, lecture notes, and important dates display to users clearly. Course materials you post in Content can include documents, images, media files,...
by Mendi Benigni | Nov 2, 2021
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