We are excited to share an organizational realignment to unify the WIT Online and Learning Innovation &Technology Teams within Technology Services. Please continue using the current communications channels this fall to contact LIT lit@wit.edu for full-time and WIT Online online@wit.edu for part-time course support. The realignment supports the strategic focus…
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LIT and WIT Online look forward to cross-disciplinary conversations and sharing in the workshops to start the fall 2020 term: Tues 9/8 at 11am Best Practices: Managing Your Online Course Tues 9/8 at 12pm Best Practices for Using Zoom for Remote Teaching Tues 9/8 at 4pm Boost Study Time through Anytime Anywhere…
Leave a CommentWhat is Gradescope? Gradescope is an online grading platform used to grade homework, quizzes, group projects, and exams. It reduces grading time, increases grading consistency, and provides statistical summary for every assignment. Gradescope helps you seamlessly administer and grade all of your assessments, whether online or in-class. Save time grading…
Leave a CommentJoin us virtually for a half day teaching and learning event on September 4th from 9:00 AM – 1:00 PM. Wentworth faculty and staff will present best practices, share examples, tools and strategies that can be implemented for the upcoming Fall semester. Please note that event information and details will…
Leave a CommentAcademic Affairs provides Syllabus Templates, please take a moment to download the approved and accessible syllabus template to ensure your syllabus can be read anytime anywhere: Undergraduate Syllabus Template Graduate Syllabus Template In addition, watch a short video on the features that make the syllabus (and any MS Word document) accessible. “The…
Leave a CommentLIT and WIT Online look forward to cross-disciplinary conversations and sharing in the workshops to end the Summer 2020 term and begin preparations for fall: Monday August 3rd – 4:00pm: Faculty Course Wrap-Up Drop-In Session (LIT) Tuesday August 4th – 4:00pm: Faculty Course Wrap-Up Drop In Session (LIT) Wednesday August 5th – 10:00am: Faculty…
Leave a CommentThe concept of class time is very different in asynchronous instruction. You’re probably used to thinking of teaching in 50 to 90-minute chunks, planning each session in detail on what you want your students to learn for the day. But, with asynchronous teaching, start thinking of your class as something…
Leave a CommentBy now you’ve heard that Wentworth selected D2L’s Brightspace as our new LMS. Learning Innovation and Technology (LIT) will be offering open sessions and training on the new system over the summer and fall. Because many faculty prefer to access materials and learn on their own we will also be…
Leave a CommentBlackboard has developed a replacement for Box View, the assignment annotation tool in Blackboard that most instructors find an unacceptable replacement for the original annotation tool, Crocodoc. Blackboard deployed the tool to our production environment in late June. Watch a video: Documents annotated with Box View were migrated to Bb…
Leave a CommentNew: Zoom Cloud Recording 2-Week Storage Limit Beginning June 23, 2020, Zoom cloud recordings will be retained for a period of two weeks, then automatically purged. This change is necessary to manage the amount of recording space associated with our Zoom account. On April 17, 2020, LIT worked with the…
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