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…
Seeking Workshop Topics!
We want to hear from you as we plan out the workshop schedule for the extended winter break! What topics would you like us to include? What tools do you want to learn to use? What challenges are you facing in your classes that technology can help mitigate? Complete our form and let us know!…
Open Educational Resources Grant 2020-21
The Connecticut College Open Educational Resources Grant is now open for applications. The grant provides funding and staff support to faculty who wish to create or integrate OER into a course. Funding is generously supported by the Office of the Dean of Faculty, Academic Resource Center, Office of the Dean of Students, and Information Services…
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…
Happy Open Access Week 2020!
The theme for Open Access Week, October 19-25, is “Open with Purpose: Taking Action to Build Structural Equity and Inclusion.” Open Access allows for the unrestricted sharing of scholarly research and offers an alternative to a traditional subscription model that is costly and hidden behind a paywall. It has the potential to greatly accelerate the…
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…
Writing and Publishing an Open Textbook
Are you considering creating an open textbook for a course? Ideal for online and traditional learning environments, open educational resources allow for faculty innovation while increasing student access and cost savings. There are many online tools available to guide the process and research support and curricular technology staff can assist in all steps of the…
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…