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 | Feb 5, 2016 | Assessment, Communication, Content Delivery, Feedback, OAKS, OAKS, OAKS, Presentation
VoiceThread is a learning tool for enhancing student engagement and online presence. With VoiceThread, instructors and/or students can create, share, and comment on images, Microsoft PowerPoint presentations, videos, audio files, documents, and PDFs, using microphone,...
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 Jessica Smith | Dec 7, 2015 | Communication, OAKS, Social Media
What is a Twitter widget? Twitter widgets allow users to embed timelines on websites, including OAKS. You can display the latest tweets from a single Twitter account, multiple accounts, or tap into the worldwide conversation around a topic grouped in a search...
by Chris Meshanko | Apr 3, 2015 | Assessment, 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...
by Mendi Benigni | Apr 7, 2014 | Assessment, Communication, Immediate Feedback, OAKS, OAKS, OAKS, Productivity
Use the Classlist tool to view who’s enrolled in your course, check users’ online statuses, send email or pager messages, view shared locker files, and read their blogs if they have one. With the Classlist tool faculty can: check online status check...
by Laura Plotts | Aug 24, 2012 | Assessment, Collaboration, Communication, Content Delivery, OAKS, OAKS, OAKS, OAKS, OAKS, Productivity
Create a custom learning path in a course Release conditions allow you to create a custom learning path through the materials in your course. When you attach a release condition to an item, users cannot see that item until they meet the associated condition. For...
by Laura Plotts | Aug 24, 2012 | Communication, OAKS, OAKS, Productivity
Intelligent Agents The Intelligent Agents tool monitors an org unit to find activity that matches criteria that you set. The criteria that the agents search for are login activity, course activity, and release conditions in OAKS. Example uses for agents include:...
