by Mendi Benigni | May 18, 2021 | Accessibility, Content Delivery, Uncategorized
Making sure that your PDFs are accessible to all individuals is paramount, especially as a professor. This tutorial shows you how to run an accessibility report and then fix the main issues. This is critical for PDFs you have in your OAKS classes as it is every...
by Mendi Benigni | May 6, 2021 | Assessment, Uncategorized
Beginning with Final Grades submission for Maymester 2021, faculty can now submit their Final Calculated or Final Adjusted Grade column to Banner directly from OAKS. Check out our full run of text and video...
by Mendi Benigni | Apr 20, 2021 | Accessibility, Accessibility, Communication, Content Delivery, Multimedia, Video
If you choose to move your Zoom recordings to Kaltura for long-term storage don’t forget to bring the transcript file too! This will provide a captioned Kaltura video which is so important to the accessibility of all students. This tutorial will walk you...
by Mendi Benigni | Apr 14, 2021 | Assessment
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 | Dec 1, 2020 | Collaboration, Communication, Content Delivery, Engagement, Google, Google, Google, Google, Google, Lecture, Productivity
Zoom is an online communications service that allows members to hold sessions (called Meetings), either one-on-one or in a group. It can be used to conduct video chats, audio chats, collaborate on an interactive whiteboard, and to share your screen with your...
by Mendi Benigni | Aug 16, 2020 | Lecture
All classrooms now have a webcam and Zoom capabilities that will allow faculty to bring in online students to the classroom and allow them to fully participate in the live class. It can also be used to bring in guest speakers from all over the world. To help you use...
by Mendi Benigni | Aug 13, 2020 | Assessment
The artificial intelligence of Respondus Lockdown Browser (AI) depends on SO many things. Having a low camera (laptop on lap), having low light, having a shadow on your face can all trigger a high reading. A bright light on the face will help immensely with all...
by Mendi Benigni | Aug 12, 2020 | Collaboration, Content Delivery, Group Work, OAKS
Microsoft OneNote is a note-taking program for free-form information gathering and multi-user collaboration. It gathers users’ notes, drawings, screen clippings, and audio commentaries. Notes can be shared with other OneNote users over the Internet or a network...
by Mendi Benigni | Aug 12, 2020 | Content Delivery, Lecture Recording, Presentation
LinkedIn Learning (previously Lynda.com) offers videos and courses that can help your students learn skills that are critical to success in the class or in their chosen field. You can add these videos and courses to your OAKS class to help your students access these...
by Mendi Benigni | Apr 16, 2020 | Assessment
In response to everyone going online, Akindi (our bubble sheet scanning application) has created new features that allow you do use the program in your online class. This option is great for quizzes, tests, and exams that are time consuming to recreate online such as...
