As of June 30, 2020 Wentworth will be discontinuing it’s subscription to GoToMeeting/GoToTraining/GoToWebinar. To permit users to transition to our new teleconferencing solution, Zoom, we are notifying faculty and staff in advance of the Summer Semester so you can schedule training to help in your transition. We will be holding…
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LIT invites you to consider a wide variety of remote assessment strategies. Watch this webinar video on “Alternative Assessment Strategies: Ideas to consider when evaluating your students” to get ideas on a variety of assessment strategies on Blackboard to assess student learning and non-proctored exam options that will adequately assess…
Leave a CommentWith the rise of video conferencing to replace face to face meetings and classes, new kind of disruption is occurring, party crashers screen share objectionable content in open conference sessions. Find out how to protect your sessions.
Leave a CommentUse pools to create tests with variation to decrease cheating. Blackboard tests sample with replacement requiring larger pools. But how large a pool will you need? Smaller pools to feed a single question reduce the need to have very large pools to reduce the number of questions that must be prepared.
Leave a CommentWhen giving tests using Blackboard don’t use overly restrictive test settings to avoid problems when students complete the assessment. Use pools to provide variation between exams to reduce the likelihood of cheating. Provide practice tests to for students to check their browser settings.
Leave a CommentAre you assigning videos as part of your remote teaching strategy? If so, what are your students required to do when watching your video or what are they required to do once they’ve completed watching the video? Faculty Focus “Teaching With Technology” says there’s a big difference between watching a…
Leave a CommentDue to the University’s decision to move classes to remote delivery for the remainder of the Spring 2020 semester in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, there is a concern for how to hold final exams. A couple of years ago we introduced Respondus LockDown Browser to our toolkit to address…
Leave a CommentThis document will highlight how to use Panopto’s integration with Zoom. What this means is that when you use the Cloud recording option in Zoom, it will automatically upload the recorded Zoom meeting file to your “My Folder” in Panopto. Here is how it works… Once the Zoom meeting recording…
Leave a CommentBanner Grade Submit in Blackboard is being disabled for Spring 2020 because we can not configure the tool to accommodate mixed grading schemes within courses.
Leave a CommentBecause you may now be using GoToMeeting to hold classes in response to Covid-19 you may want to integrate it into your Blackboard course site. It takes only a few steps to add GoToMeeting to your course menu, making it easy for students to find your scheduled meetings: Navigate to…
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