This post was written and published by Kate Bengtston in 2019. After attending a CTL workshop on student feedback earlier this week, I thought it was time to republish as it is all still relevant for in-person and remote classes, modules and full semester courses. Enjoy! Midterm season is upon us! The half-way point of…
Category: Tools
Zoom Feature: Immersive PowerPoint
A new Zoom feature some may have noticed is “PowerPoint as Virtual Background.” This feature, in Beta, overlays the speaker’s video feed onto a PowerPoint presentation and places PowerPoint controls within Zoom (advance slide, etc): To use this feature, select “Advanced” from the Screen Share menu, then “PowerPoint as Virtual Background.” You’ll then be prompted…
Hypothesis Workshops
Interested in learning more about social annotation and Hypothesis? Learn to use this online tool designed to allow for online collaborative annotation in their upcoming workshops. Let us know if you register and we will join you! Implementing social annotation with Hypothesis in your courses This workshop will focus on creating a supportive and scaffolded…
New Zoom Feature: Co-host and Breakout Rooms
As of last week, Zoom introduced a new feature we know some of you will be very excited about. Co-hosts now have the same breakout room controls as the meeting host! This means that any named co-host in a Zoom Meeting can start Breakout Rooms, assign attendees to them, and visit them. Note that hosts…
Trimming Your Kaltura Videos
Did you know you can trim the beginning or end from a video in Kaltura? You can also remove a section within the video (chop and splice). This proves especially useful if you use Zoom’s “Record to Cloud” option to record class meetings and share the recordings with students in Moodle. Perhaps you want to…
Google Quizzes
Midterms and Module 1 Finals have arrived! There are many options for administering online tests and quizzes, and one of the newer options is Google Quizzes, a version of Google Forms that is easy to master and familiar for you and your students. In a Google Quiz, you can: Provide students with individualized feedback for…
Upping Your Zoom Game: Breakout Room Note Taking
We’re about halfway through the semester (and close to the start of Module 2!), so it’s the perfect time to try shaking up some strategies for your Zoom sessions! If breakout rooms have been a key part of your online class, collaborative note taking in Google Slides might be a good way to up your…
Upping Your Zoom Game: Self-Selecting Breakouts and Reordering Participants
On September 28th, Zoom rolled out a shiny new update that includes several features that will help you optimize the online teaching and learning experience for your students. These are features that were highly sought after in the summer – you asked, and Zoom listened! A word of caution before continuing: In order for some…
Hypothesis: Collaborative Annotation Tool
Hypothesis is a free online tool designed to allow for collaborative annotation across the web. It can be used to annotate web pages and pdfs publicly, privately, or within a group. We enabled the Hypothesis plugin in Moodle so it works within your courses. With Moodle integration, students don’t have to create an account with Hypothesis…
Technology Tools for Remote Teaching & Learning
The time/space matrix shown above can help organize the tools we support and that might be useful to you as you plan to teach in different modalities. We are creating a calendar of workshops this summer that focus on tools in the lower quadrants of the model: remote/synchronous and remote/asynchronous. Whatever you’re interested in learning…