Uncategorized SHSU Online Digital Teaching Development Opportunities 3 Sep 2021 DIGITAL TEACHING WEBINARS Online Teaching Practices (Lessons Learned) Plus Covid Corollaries 9/9 @ 2pmThis webinar focus on lessons learned around online teaching practices, as well as how covid-19 has impacted…
Uncategorized Blackboard Collaborate Gallery view Launches 4/8/2021 for Instructors 8 Apr 20218 Apr 2021 Gallery View launches today for instructors on Blackboard Collaborate. When teaching virtually, you want every available tool at your disposal to engage your students. Video helps you transfer your passion through gestures…
Uncategorized Blackboard tip: Setting Start and Endpoints on Embedded kaltura Video 22 Feb 2021 Have you ever wanted a pull out a specific section of one of your lecture recordings? Maybe you just wanted to highlight the most important part of a previously released…
Academic Honesty… Respondus Lockdown Browser Adds Live proctoring Option 4 Feb 2021 SHSU instructors now have the option to live proctor their online exams in Blackboard. The new Instructor Live Proctoring feature enables instructors to use a video conferencing system (Zoom, Microsoft…
Uncategorized Blackboard’s New ‘TINY’ Content Editor 29 Oct 20205 Nov 2020 Don’t let the name fool you! Debuting November 5, Blackboard’s new text/content editor is anything but TINY. With a substantial retooling, Blackboard has brought its content editing up to “code”…
Uncategorized Streamline collaboration – pre-assign zoom breakout groups 1 Oct 2020 Synchronous sessions with your students in a blended environment can be frustrating at the best of times. Facilitating these meetings can be made easier by taking a few things into…
Uncategorized Want to play music to start your Blackboard Collaborate session? 19 Aug 2020 So, I'm writing this is a follow-up to my blog post about doing the same thing in Zoom. You CAN play audio for your students as they enter your Blackboard…
Uncategorized Want to Play music to start your zoom session? 11 Aug 2020 Whenever I present, whether at a conference or at a scheduled faculty development session, I always like to start off with music. My go-to has always been a mix of…
Blackboard… Blog Entry About Blogs 4 Jun 20204 Jun 2020 According to Moore (1989) distance educators need to agree, at a minimum, on the distinctions between three different types of interaction which he labeled learner-content interaction, learner-instruction interaction and learner-learner interaction. He proposed that to distinguish among these three…
Best Practice… Blackboard Quick Start and Time Saving Tips 7 Feb 202014 Feb 2020 Welcome back to the blog! Photo by Nicolas Hoizey on Unsplash Our welcome gift to you is the gift of time. Consider these resources to make the best use of your time as…
