by Mendi Benigni | Nov 27, 2018
With Poll Everywhere you can… engage your class in real-time gauge understanding before, during, and after a lecture give quizzes and test take attendance Integration with OAKS will make life easier With the Poll Everywhere OAKS integration, you can quickly and...
by Mendi Benigni | Oct 8, 2018
Set up and Deliver an OAKS Course View the tutorials listed below on the Set up and Deliver an OAKS Course page on D2L Creating Course Content Adding content Adding a URL Add availability in Content Advanced Features Replacement Strings Intelligent Agents Adding...
by Mendi Benigni | Oct 5, 2018 | Collaboration, Communication, Group Work, OAKS, OAKS
These tutorials are all about interacting with your students via the: Activity Feed Announcements/News Tool Discussion Tool Groups Tool Post messages and links to course materials in the Activity Tool Activity Feed is a course homepage widget that provides a central...
by Mendi Benigni | Sep 14, 2018 | Multimedia, OAKS, OAKS
Students can now post a link or text directly into the Assignment submission area! In the past, if your assignment required students to submit a link to something they created, they would have to put the link in a Word document and upload it. Now there is a setting...
by tilleyc | Jun 22, 2018 | Uncategorized
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 14, 2016 | 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 Mendi Benigni | Dec 10, 2015
Welcome to OAKS Help OAKS is the College’s online learning management system and is built on the Desire2Learn/Brightspace platform. Using OAKS faculty can post their class syllabus and course materials, conduct online quizzes/tests, discussions, and collect...
by Mendi Benigni | Aug 28, 2015 | Content Delivery, Formative, OAKS, OAKS, Summative
McGraw-Hill is integrated with OAKS via the External Learning tools. This integration provides single sign-on access to McGraw-Hill Campus and McGraw-Hill Connect. NOTE: At this time, single sign-on is the only part of Connect that is integrated. There is no...
by Mendi Benigni | May 11, 2015 | OAKS, Productivity
Did you know that you can check your Sent Mail sent from within OAKS? Step-by-Step Instructions: OAKS – CHECKING YOUR OAKS SENT EMAIL
by Chris Meshanko | Apr 3, 2015 | OAKS, OAKS, OAKS
Step-by-Step Video Tutorial Step-by-Step Instructions: To release final calculated or adjusted grades in OAKS, follow these eight steps: 1. Open your course homepage and click on the down arrow next to Grades. 2. Click Grades. 3. From the Manage Grades page, click...
