Zoom News: Immersive View

Zoom News

Connect with your Class a little differently through the newly available Immersive View. With the Zoom Software update that arrived on April 26th (version 5.6.4), a new way of looking at your class became available. Immersive View is a fun new way to get out of Gallery Mode and feel a little closer together in the same space while on Zoom. Although it has some limitations, it does create a more welcome feeling to hosting discussions in a variety of scenes like a classroom, boardroom, or lecture hall.

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Shark Notes: Encouraging Self-Advocacy

Shark Notes

Shark Notes is a brief summary of an article that our staff has found valuable, and here are the highlights from the latest article: Encouraging Self-Advocacy: How to Build Environments for Awareness and Self-Disclosure for Learners with Disabilities. As a professor, it can be challenging to learn about the capabilities as well as the needs of students with disabilities. This article discusses what professors can do to build an inclusive and effective learning environment that encourages self-advocacy. 

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Live Proctoring is Now Available with Respondus

Respondus Live Proctoring

In collaboration with the Office of Innovation and Information Technology, we are excited to announce that Respondus will include Instructor Live Proctoring capabilities. We have had the ability to use Respondus Lockdown Browser to deter cheating, and Respondus Monitor to proctor exams, but have you wished you could proctor your exams in real-time, in a remote setting? Wait no more!

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Hypertextual Class Projects and Digital Communities

LEC Guest Lecture Series HyperTextual Class Project Digital Communities

Facilitator: Dr. Aileen Miyuki Farrar, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Literature, Halmos College of Arts & Sciences. Digital curriculum, or curriculum that emphasizes the use of technology to support or enhance learning environments and means of assessment, impacts the identities of those within education communities. In this session, we will explore the history and culture of hypertexts as a means of cultivating digital communities; the significance of digital communities to student learning; and the ways hypertextual class projects may exercise students’ comprehension and appreciation of cybercultural concepts regarding globalization, heterogeneity, and interconnectedness.

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