by Mendi Benigni | Oct 5, 2018 | Collaboration, Communication, Engagement, Group Work, OAKS, 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 11, 2017 | Communication, Engagement, 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 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 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...
by Mendi Benigni | Sep 15, 2015 | Collaboration, Google, Google, Group Work, Planning, Productivity
Choice Eliminator, a Google Forms add-on, will eliminate a choice on a form once a specific criteria has been met. This can be used to allow students to sign up for groups or meeting time slots. For example, you want students to sign up for a meeting time. You only...
by Laura Plotts | Aug 3, 2015 | Collaboration, Google, Google, Group Work, Planning, Productivity
Description: The Appointment slots feature lets you set one period of time on your calendar, divided into available time slots for people to reserve. This feature is ONLY available with your CofC Google apps for education account. For steps on activating your CofC...
by Kaitlin | Jul 13, 2015 | Collaboration, Engagement, Group Work, Organization, Planning, Productivity, Project
Description: Mindomo is a concept and mind mapping tool available online. A free account allows you to save up to 3 maps. These maps can include images, videos, links, task info, comments, and notes. It is easy to share documents with others and collaborate in real...
by Jessica Smith | Dec 11, 2014 | Assessment, Collaboration, Group Work, Immediate Feedback, Mobile, Mobile
ClassKick is an iOS app that allows instructors to observe their students’ work as it is created. Instructors first create a class, which is assigned a unique code, and add their roster. Then, the instructor can create questions by drawing or typing on the...
by Mendi Benigni | Feb 25, 2014 | Collaboration, Communication, Google, Google, Group Work
Google+ Hangouts allows you to have a text-based, audio, or video chat with up to 10 people at one time. These Hangouts can be broadcast to the Google world (public) or can be narrowed to one or more of your Google+ Circles. In addition, they can also be broadcast...
