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Contemplative Practices for an Engaged Classroom with Dr. Jane E. Dalton
Jane E. Dalton Friday, September 20, 2019 10:00am - 11:00am Room 150, Bardo Arts CenterWorkshop will include: Overview of contemplative pedagogy and practices including embodied learning and slow pedagogy. Explore how standard university courses and K12 classrooms can...
Important tips for putting VR experiences into your teaching
The Hunter Library VR room serves as a place for you and your students to explore virtual reality. Before making an assignment, lab exercise, or project that requires students to use the library’s VR room, it will be helpful to know the following: 1) Contact the VR...
Using the Panopto Recorder at WCU
It is best practice to access Panopto from a web browser to authenticate or through your course in Blackboard. *NOTE: By default students are not given creator access to Panopto to create videos, only viewer access. Download Instructions Do the following: Open a...
Audio Video Feedback in The Grade Center
Are you tired of pounding on a keyboard to give your students feedback on their assignments? Are you looking for a more natural way of telling your students how great or how poorly they are doing? Look no more because Blackboard has (finally) integrated voice (with...
Panopto 7 Release Notes
(Source: https://support.panopto.com/s/topic/0TO39000000EowCGAS/release-notes) Headline features New mobile and embedded video player — A rich video consumption experience on mobile devices and embedded videos, enabling users to access the table of contents, search...
Collaborate for Tutors
As tutors have student rights when added to a course, they will need to have at least Presenter rights in the Collaborate session. If they will need to be able to record sessions, they will need Moderator rights. The Default Attendee Role is set as follows. If you...
Blackboard Theme Upgrade
There is a New Theme With the 2019 Update, WCU's Blackboard environment was upgraded in many ways, but the main upgrades were: We moved from a non-device-responsive user experience "theme" to a theme that has been updated to work more effectively with mobile devices...
New User to Blackboard – Guide
The information provided in this post is to help new users to Blackboard get familiar with the Blackboard at WCU. Click here for Blackboard Help for Instructors Click here to register and try out Coursesites, the Blackboard experience. Coursesites is free, once...
Best Practice: Interactive Tools in Blackboard
Available tools in Blackboard To build a successful online community, students need the tools to interact and have conversations. Through conversation, we learn about each other, ourselves, the topic, how to get along, and make group decisions. Though time and...
Sharing a folder or video in Panopto
Find the folder you would like to share and hover over it, then click the option that says Share. Now you will see the share dialogue. If this is a sub-folder, you will see "Inherit permissions from parent folder: Parent Folder Name". If this is a top level folder,...
Blackboard Moving to the Cloud
Special Warning: Systems/Tools that will not be available during this migration period: May 28 - May 31, 2019 Blackboard Learn Panopto - Users cannot view existing sessions or upload new recordings, but users can still record offline. Respondus - Users cannot...
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