Month: October 2020

Toolin’ Around: Blackboard Attendance Quizzes

Welcome back to Toolin’ Around! We have something that may help keep your attendance reports up to date.

Toolin’ Around Tip: Creating a simple quiz in Blackboard will allow students to be marked as present in your attendance reporting. [Only for curriculum courses marked as Online or Hybrid] 

[This simple attendance “Quiz” does not substitute for student submissions of scholarly activities and is setup only for attendance reporting]

Benefits? This helps streamline your workload as you don’t have to manually mark students present. You can also utilize an assignment or any other assessment as long as it has a grading column. The idea is that you are using the quiz assessment as your attendance/roll call for each week, which will connect to your attendance report automatically (again as long as you have an Online or Hybrid curriculum course).

NOTE: You still are required to certify your attendance reports in your Attendance Entry each week.

Creating an Attendance Quiz that updates your Attendance Reporting: For Curriculum Online or Hybrid courses only

Want to know more?

Check out what Blackboard has in store for you.

Central Piedmont’s Blackboard Documentation

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Toolin’ Around: Panopto Analytics

Hope you are having a great week, here is our helpful gem for this edition of “Toolin’ Around”!

Today’s tip is brought to you by Jeff Jarvis, Media Systems Project Manager, ITS – Digital Media Services. Jeff had some great points in the Center for Teaching and Learning Excellence’s latest virtual Workshop about Panopto and its many features; one of which is the ability to check analytics and statistics in your videos.

Toolin’ Around Tip: Get data and reports from Panopto videos and folders to reflect upon participant engagement and session statistics.

Benefits? Want to know if someone specific has watched a video? Or where in your recording people tend to stop watching? Get detailed reports on audience engagement and comprehensive insights into viewing behavior for every video on your Panopto portal. Panopto helps you get the most out of your media by providing minute-by-minute analytics for each of your videos.

See How Videos Are Performing Across Your Library

Along with individual viewer insights, Panopto’s video analytics suite provides reports on groups of videos in a specific folder. With session statistics, you can also monitor the activity, health, and size of your entire video library

Want to know more?

Check out what Panopto has in store for you regarding statistics and analytics.

Learn About Folder and Session Level Statistics

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Toolin’ Around: Screen Zoom Shortcut

Welcome to another CTLE “Toolin’ Around”!

What are these posts?

They are brief, easy-to-implement tips involving the tools we use everyday with students to make our teaching lives, well, easier (and possibly even more effective).

Toolin’ Around Tip: Use your mouse scroll + shortcut keys to quickly improve visibility of instructional content on the screen–whether teaching from the podium on campus or in WebEx online.

Benefits? Students can follow along more easily if they can see the content with greater clarity. With the click of a button and quick scroll up or down, you can draw your learners’ attention to points of focus with ease.

Learn How Now!

Windows Instructions

Mac Instructions

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