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 | Apr 3, 2017 | Audio, Communication, Feedback, Formative, Immediate Feedback, Multimedia, Summative, Video
OVERVIEW: “Flipgrid is a video discussion community for your classroom that supercharges your students’ voices. You add the topics, your students respond with short videos, and everyone engages!” – Flipgrid website SUGGESTED USES: Online discussion board Class...
by Mendi Benigni | Feb 5, 2016 | 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 ratcliffcr | Jan 22, 2016 | Announcement, Collaboration, Communication, File Sharing, Group Work, Organization, Other, 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 Jessica Smith | Oct 26, 2015 | Communication, Other, Social Media
Why would I want to “pin” a tweet? Twitter is a fast-paced social networking platform, with 500 million tweets sent per day on average, and is often the first source of breaking news and emerging trends. This means our timelines move quickly and...
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...
by ratcliffcr | Feb 23, 2015 | Communication, Mobile, Other
What is Voxer? Voxer is an app that allows users to connect through live or recorded voice, text messages, and photos. With Voxer, users can listen and respond in real time or listen later and reply when it’s convenient. Platform: iOS, Android, Windows Phone 8 and...
by Jessica Smith | Oct 21, 2014 | Content Delivery, Images, Infographics, Multimedia, Other, Presentation, Social Media
Canva is a web-based application (also an iPad app) that allows the average person to become a graphic designer! Unlike the Adobe Creative Suite, Canva requires no extensive training or design skills. Instead, Canva provides free templates, graphics, and fonts that...
by Kaitlin | Sep 18, 2014 | Communication, Mobile, Mobile, Organization, Other, Productivity, Social Media
IFTTT, or If This Then That, is an app available for iOS devices through iTunes and Android devices through Google play. The app makes it possible to create connections between services like LinkedIn, Facebook, Gmail, Twitter, Google Drive, Instagram, Evernote, and...
by Mendi Benigni | Apr 7, 2014 | 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...
