by Jessica Smith | Oct 21, 2014 | Content Delivery, Images, Infographics, Multimedia, 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, 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 | 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 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...
by Laura Plotts | Jun 10, 2013 | Communication, Content Delivery, Google, Google, Publication, Social Media
CREATING A BLOGGER BLOG To create a Blogger blog through the College, use your Google Apps account to sign in to Blogger at blogger.com. You can also access Blogger through the More menu of Google Apps. If you have questions about your Google Apps account, please...
by Zach Hartje | Apr 24, 2013 | Announcement, Communication
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...
by Zach Hartje | Apr 24, 2013 | Announcement, Communication
Remind.com 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...
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:...
by Monica Lavin | Jun 12, 2012 | Communication, Social Media
Twitter is an online social networking service and microblogging service that enables its users to send and read text-based posts of up to 140 characters, known as “tweets”. Tutorial Link: Twitter Tutorial Uses: Connect with students using Twitter, post...
