Teaching with VoiceThread
VoiceThread enables students and faculty to share and comment on multimedia content e.g. lectures and presentations. Use this how-to to learn how to use VoiceThreads in your Moodle course!
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This website is designed to make findable a variety of technical and pedagogical resources for faculty, for teaching remotely, teaching in a hybrid environment, and for digital projects in any environment. You can use the categories and tags to find both quick overviews and deep dives into a variety of tools that may be helpful to you, especially during the...
360 Video
The DRC has a several 360 cameras that will work for both photo and video. This page will walk you through some basic operation and tips for using the cameras, along with information about how to use and edit those videos in a few different applications. Overall, the process for 360 video is: The Cameras The DRC has several Ricoh...
Perusall Basics: Setting Up Perusall with Moodle
With recent improvements to how Perusall integrates with Moodle, it’s even easier to get started with the social annotation tool. This brief tutorial covers how to initially set up a course with Perusall, how to get grades from Persuall into the Moodle gradebook, and, if you’d like, how to create links in Moodle to individual Perusall assignments. For more information...
Using Notability with Google Drive
Like other mobile apps, the note-taking platform Notability can import from and export to Google Drive. This is especially useful if you’ve set up Google Drive to transfer files to and from your iPad. To import a PDF to annotate in Notability: Open the Notability app from your home screen. From the main menu, select the Import button on the...
Using Office with Google Drive on an iPad
Google Drive is a powerful tool for sharing files between your laptop and your iPad, and it’s relatively straightforward to get set up. However, some mobile apps don’t integrate as well with Drive. One is Office 365, which includes PowerPoint and Word, two apps that might be useful for teaching or collaboration. Unfortunately, Microsoft has made it so you can’t...
Using NameCoach and Moodle to hear student names
NameCoach is a Moodle activity that allows your students to record their names so you can pronounce their names correctly in class. NameCoach Instructions for Moodle Click the Activity name link on your course page. This is what you and your students will see: Recording your name At the top of the page, you and your students can click either...
How to Grade A Single Moodle Quiz Question for All Students
You might find it useful at times to grade a single question in Moodle for all students at once rather than navigating through each student’s quiz to the particular question you want to grade. This can help greatly as a time saving measure. It may also help with the objectivity of grading or in the discovery of trends when it...
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Mirror iPad to Mac using QuickTime
You may find that in the physical classroom or over Zoom you would like to display both your MacBook screen and your iPad screen with an easy way to switch between them. This would allow you to harness the power of your teaching laptop for sharing content, while also switching quickly to your iPad to do things like notation and...
Podcast Workshop
Podcasting workshop held at New Faculty Orientation 2021. Features a slideshow, schedule, and links to resources.
Creating a VoiceThread Course Link (And Why You Might Want To)
Using a VoiceThread course link is the easiest way to make sure your students have access to all VoiceThread content, and can save you the trouble of posting individual VT links. One important reminder: VoiceThread is not compatible with Safari. Instructor your students to use Chrome or Firefox. Watch the following video from AIA Brad Belbas to learn more about...
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Scheduling Your Zoom Class Session
There are a variety of ways to schedule a Zoom meeting. They include the desktop client, the Google Calendar browser extension, or the web portal. For synchronous class meetings, the academic technology (ATS) team recommends the following method. The following tutorial video, produced by AIA Brad Belbas, walks you through creating the meeting in the desktop client, and posting the...
