Month: January 2022

Welcome to another CTLE “Toolin’ Around”!

What are these posts?

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

Toolin’ Around Tip: Panopto, the college’s recording/hosting software for your multimedia content has a great feature when compiling multiple videos together into a playlist. The ability to create and utilize playlists allows you to create one share link (or embed code) that won’t change even if you update/edit the playlist with other videos. This helps streamline your Brightspace course and make it more visually appealing. Watch as the Center for Teaching and Learning Excellence’s Faculty Fellow Lindy Hues walks you through this amazing feature to help integrate your playlists into your course.

Benefits?

• You can easily rearrange and edit all the videos in your playlist.
• Once the share link/embed code for your playlist is created, the link doesn’t change, allowing you to update the playlist without replacing any links or code in your course!
• Playlists help consolidate and clean up your layout so you don’t have a long list of videos in your LMS, while keeping each video at a click’s length away.
• Want to learn more about Panopto? Check out “Perfecting Your Panopto: A Best Practices Session 🎥 🤩”.
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For questions, reach out to the Helpdesk!

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Welcome to another CTLE “Toolin’ Around”!

What are these posts?

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

Toolin’ Around Tip: The Course Administration Webtools is the place where faculty and staff can create, combine, rename, and delete personal models; incorporate their live course into a new personal model; and check on their course information and important dates. These features will help streamline your development process to help make it easier to focus on your course content.

Benefits?

• You can create new Personal Models to develop in (you can also copy your latest live course into your Personal Model).
  • You can also delete any Personal Models you don’t need.
• You can combine your course (or uncombine) as long as you submit it before the course start date.
• You can now see all of your course’s important dates in one place!
• As long as you have your Course Prefix and Course Number, then you can use the Course Administration Webtools to find dates specific to your course and section.
• Check out the Course Administration Webtools FAQs document for more information and videos!

For questions, reach out to the Helpdesk!

Learn How Now!

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: Knowing the important dates for each course can be a hassle to find, especially if you have multiple courses and different start dates for each course (you want to make sure you provide the correct dates for your students). The Course Administration Webtools have released a new feature “Important Dates” that alleviates this issue. 

Benefits?

• You can now see all of your courses important dates in one place!
• As long as you have your Course Prefix and Course Number, then you can use the Course Administration Webtools to find dates specific to your course and section.

Learn How Now!

Enjoyed this? Tried it out? Have another idea we can share among teachers at Central Piedmont? Let us know in the Comments section below.