Educational Technology – This Week in the LEC

From Our Partners in OIIT – Changes to Faculty Self-Service, Grading and Student Information

April 21, 2024 Adam Cohen

OIIT wanted to make you aware of changes that have recently impacted accessing the Faculty Self-Service pages for Grading, Student Information among other links through an old look and feel. As of April 24th that old interface has been disabled. Since 2019 Faculty Self-Service was upgraded to a new look and feel, with the old version left in place for those who preferred it. However, the vendor is not supporting the old version causing it to not be available. Training materials are available here to help with this transition.

Instructor Training: LockDown Browser, Respondus Monitor, and Respondus 4.0

April 14, 2024 jr1645

This comprehensive training webinar is intended for instructors who plan to use LockDown Browser and/or Respondus Monitor with online exams. The session provides a detailed demonstration of both applications, including enhancements that make Respondus Monitor even more effective and easy to use.

Hone your Skill in Immersive Learning Experiences: An Introduction

December 4, 2023 thoeck

This in-person workshop will enable participants to experience immersive learning technologies (VR/AR/MR/xR) exploring human anatomy, physiology, and disease. The participants will have an opportunity to embody a patient in an immersive first-person experience from the patient’s perspective. The immersive technologies support skill development in the health professions practice and can also be used to facilitate learning in other contexts like neuroscience, engineering, math, and more. During this workshop, participants will have a full hands-on experience on varied immersive learning technologies.

Introducing Turnitin Draft Coach: A New Tool for Student Writing Support

November 12, 2023 thoeck

The LEC is excited to notify you of a new tool for student writing assistance and evaluation – Turnitin Draft Coach. This cutting-edge innovation will streamline our students’ writing process and support our faculty in evaluating assignments more efficiently.

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Annoto: New Social Interaction Feature Available in Canvas

April 4, 2023 thoeck

NSU has just rolled out a new tool that you can use in your Canvas courses called Annoto. Annoto has many great features that will engage your students while they are viewing videos. This tool transforms the video-watching experience from a passive one into an active one and can be used with any video you choose. It enables learners to contribute, share, and learn together, experience videos as an interactive group, and keep a personal journal of notes. It allows instructors to guide the video-watching experience with questions, formative assessments, and focused discussions, as well as the ability to answer questions related to the video.

Hone your Skill in Immersive Learning Experiences: An Introduction

January 24, 2023 thoeck

Zoom News: Whiteboards New Features

November 11, 2022 thoeck

Zoom has recently redesigned their virtual whiteboard experience to bring you an all-new Zoom Whiteboard. NSU users can now create whiteboards before, during, or after a meeting, save whiteboards for future use, and share whiteboards outside of a meeting with anyone in our organization. Zoom has also enhanced the whiteboard with new templates, new shapes for organizational charts and diagrams, and new tools. An expanded set of tools is available when creating or editing a whiteboard outside a meeting. Some of these expanded tools include the ability to upload an image, insert tables, and use sticky notes.

Zoom News: Broadcast to Breakout Rooms

October 14, 2022 thoeck

After a recent update to the Zoom desktop application, hosts can also now broadcast their microphone audio to all breakout rooms. This feature is helpful if you want to give verbal guidance or instructions to the participants, or if you want to call participants back into the main room without closing the breakout room.

Zoom News: Gesture Recognition

July 28, 2022 thoeck

A recent update in Zoom enables a new feature where a meeting participant can perform a gesture to the camera and it will be translated into the appropriate gesture symbol on the screen. This is a great tool for students and professors to use, allowing for a more intuitive way to react in a session. The new feature works with two gestures – the “raise hand” and the “thumbs-up.”

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OIIT Computer Best Practices Cheat Sheet

April 22, 2022 thoeck

OIIT has provided a list of technology best practices for using your Work computer, Classroom technology, Mobile devices, and general Safe Computing tips. Need to contact OIIT? OIIT requests are now available for submission through the NSU OIIT ServiceNow Portal!

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