Adding Test Exceptions in Blackboard
To allow a student to take an assessment (quiz or exam) outside of the original time frame use Edit the Test Options page under the Test Availability Exceptions. Below are the steps to setup an availability exception for one or more students for a quiz or...
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Cameras 1.1 HDMI Connection All cameras that output an HDMI stream can be captured by Panopto when using a capture card. Below are examples of different cameras that have been used with Panopto. Video Cameras - point-and-shoot Canon VIXIA HF R600 Sony HDR-PJ540 DSLR...
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Helping your students At the beginning of the semester there are always many students new to using Blackboard. Here are a few resources for helping your students get more comfortable with Blackboard as they begin the semester. Every course in Blackboard has links to...
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Large Courses in Blackboard WCU has been using Blackboard for eight years and we are seeing an increase in the size of the courses on our Blackboard system. The size of a course becomes an issue when it is 1.5 GB or larger. It becomes increasing difficult to copy a...
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Blackboard is looking for interested instructors and staff who want to share their feedback Here’s the link to sign up for the Instructor & Staff participant panel
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Faculty questions about student engagement are common across institutions and higher education. Educational researchers, cognitive scientists, and psychologists continue to learn new things about cognition, learning, and motivation, and some of those best resources...
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Minimizing Disruptive Behaviors to Facilitate Student Learning
Minimizing disruptive behaviors to facilitate student learning by Jack Caldwell, John Hawes, and L. Scott Philyaw, PhD Effective classroom management is rarely part of our formal training as faculty members. Yet, we are still expected to respond to a variety of...
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Faculty Earning and Learning Opportunity this Summer
Liberal Studies Program The Office of the Provost and the Liberal Studies Committee invite participants to apply for a summer faculty development opportunity to be held on Tuesday, July 10 and Wednesday, July 11, 2018. WCU’s Liberal Studies Program engages in an...
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GUIDELINES FOR STUDENT LEARNING OUTCOMES Rules of Thumb Avoid use of verbs such as, “demonstrate”, “know”, “recognize”, “value”, “appreciate”, etc. Use only a single action verb per Student Learning Outcome (SLO). Use Bloom’s taxonomy for verb selection. Three to five...
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John Williams
Dr. John Williams, of WCU’s Forensic Anthropology programs, will be presenting two Science of Teaching and Learning sessions at the American Academy of Forensic Sciences based on his bone trauma class, Anthropology 401. The first will be a presentation workshop on...
read moreImproving your SAIS: Looking Ahead
Improving your SAIs: Looking Ahead The SAI—student assessment instrument—is integral to how we are evaluated here at Western. It needs little introduction. How can we look back on that SAI just handed to us by our chair or director, while looking ahead to a new term,...
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Designing Effective Discussion Questions
ASKING GOOD QUESTIONS OVERVIEW A good question is both answerable and challenging. It will inspire analysis, synthesis, interpretation, and critical thinking. Below are several types of questions and suggestions about when to use which kind. WHERE TO BEGIN? Begin with...
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