Celly
Celly is a mobile social network that works with any mobile phone or device. Members can join instantly with one text and exchange group messages, polls, reminders, and web alerts. Celly provides a quick way to form a group that everyone can join. Participants can organize into cells of unlimited size by texting a single [...]
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Remind101
Remind101 is a free, safe messaging service for teachers to communicate with students and parents via text or email. Teachers sign up for an account, create classes or groups, gather subscribers, and start messaging. This is all done without ever sharing their personal cell phone number, or collecting phone numbers from their students or parents. [...]
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Google Moderator
Google Moderator is a Google service that uses crowdsourcing to rank user-submitted questions, suggestions and ideas. It allows the management of feedback from a large number of people, who can vote for the top questions that they think should be posed and ask their own. It aims to ensure that every question is considered, lets [...]
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How to create a facebook fan page
A Facebook Page is public facing; anyone can “like” the Page and get updates in their News Feed from the Page administrator (in this case, from you, the teacher). Pages create an easy way for both teachers and students to share relevant links, like newspaper articles, online videos, or RSS feeds from your class blog [...]
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Student: OAKS – Self-enrolling in a Group (v10)
This tutorial outlines how a student can enroll themselves in a group. Note: This is only available if the faculty member has created a self-enroll group within their OAKS class. Application: OAKS (v10) Tutorial: Student: Self-Enroll in Groups
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Faculty: OAKS – Rubrics (v10)
A rubric is a way of grading users’ performances on assignments by criteria and levels of achievement. Rubrics can be used to assess items in the Discussion, Dropbox, Quizzing, and Grades tools. You can create both Analytic and Holistic rubrics. Application: OAKS (v10) Video Lessons All videos are in .mp4 format # Name Lesson Description Duration Text-based [...]
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Faculty: OAKS News Tool (v10)
The News tool enables you to create news items that help communicate course updates, changes, and new information to your users quickly and effectively. Since Course Home is the first page that users often see when they log in or access their courses, the News widget is a good area for displaying important information. The [...]
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Faculty: OAKS Quizzes Tool (v10)
The Quizzes tool enables you to create and manage points-measured assessments. As part of your quantifiable assessment procedures, you can use quizzes to help evaluate users’ learning progress and learning outcomes. Uses: Create and manage quiz questions in the Question Library Import questions and quizzes from external content such as publisher files Create and administer online quizzes [...]
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Faculty: OAKS Groups Tool (v10)
Create group work areas for users with the Manage Groups tool. Uses: Organize users’ work on projects and assignments. Create special work areas for users with different learning needs. Users can belong to multiple groups within the same course. For example, each user can simultaneously belong to a group for class projects, a group for [...]
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Faculty: OAKS Calendar Tool (v10)
The Calendar tool allows you to arrange and visualize your course events in multiple views and enables integration of course content and your Calendar. You can use iCal to synchronize the Calendar tool to your personal calendars (such as Outlook and Google Calendar, as well as iPhone, Android, and Blackberry). Uses: Provide a place in [...]
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