by Laura Plotts | May 7, 2018 | Assessment, OAKS, OAKS, Productivity
A checklist is a way to highlight important or required assignments, readings, or other items to complete. A checklist may list all the items you need to complete at once or may have items appear as you complete other items. Each checklist contains one or more...
by Mendi Benigni | Sep 15, 2017 | Assessment, Google, Google, Productivity
OVERVIEW: Google Forms is an easy and efficient way for students to create forms/surveys for data collection. Google Forms integrates with Google Sheets (spreadsheet) for data organization and analysis. If you need more indepth analysis, you can export the...
by Mendi Benigni | May 31, 2017 | Collaboration, Communication, Content Delivery, Engagement, Google, Google, Google, Google, Google, Lecture, Productivity
OVERVIEW: Google Hangouts is a unified communications service that allows members to initiate and participate in text, voice or video chats, either one-on-one or in a group. It can be used to conduct video chats and to share your screen with your participants....
by Chris Meshanko | Feb 1, 2017 | File Sharing, Organization, Planning, Research
PDFescape is a free, web-based application that allows users to edit, annotate, and share PDFs. Without creating an account, you can upload a PDF (up to 10 MB or 100 pages); edit and/or annotate it (with tools very similar to Acrobat’s); and download or print...
by Mendi Benigni | Nov 11, 2016 | Audio, File Sharing, Productivity, Video
OVERVIEW: Secure Share is a Web-based application that allows faculty and staff to securely and temporarily share files across campus and externally. You can access Secure Share off campus as long as you have internet connection. With Secure Share there no more worry...
by Mendi Benigni | Oct 14, 2016 | Assessment, OAKS, OAKS, Productivity, Summative
Many times, especially with essay tests, instructors want to grade the answers without knowing who’s test it is. This is known as Blind Grading and is often used to help remove grading bias. The OAKS Quiz tool has a blind grading feature which allows you to...
by ratcliffcr | Apr 18, 2016 | Collaboration, Communication, Group Work, Planning, Project
Description: GroupTing is an easy-to-use event planning tool for both big and small events. GroupTing simplifies the process of RSVPs, sign up lists, reminders, and updates, and one of my favorite features is that there is no sign up or log in required. With...
by ratcliffcr | Jan 22, 2016 | Announcement, Collaboration, Communication, Engagement, File Sharing, Group Work, Organization, Productivity, Uncategorized
Description: Padlet is a collaborative online bulletin board that can be used to display text, photos, links, and many other types of media. Padlet allows users to create a board where students and instructors can collaborate and share information in a secure...
by Mendi Benigni | Jan 8, 2016 | Communication, Content Delivery, OAKS, OAKS, OAKS, Productivity
Step-by-Step Video Tutorial Depending on how you run your course and how you use OAKS you may not want or need the standard OAKS Homepage (News, Upcoming Events, Etc.) There is a way to change that page to display only a tool, such as Content, so that’s the...
by Kaitlin | Dec 14, 2015 | Collaboration, Communication, Group Work, Organization, Planning, Productivity, Project, Projects
Description: Coggle is an easy-to-use mind-mapping tool that makes it possible to quickly make, share, and collaborate on notes or maps. It is easy to share the maps with others and collaborate in real time on the same map or note. Coggle is free, unless you want to...
