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Toolin’ Around: Google Docs Voice Typing

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 the Google Docs Voice Typing tool to produce engaging Blackboard announcements for students.

Benefits?

  • By first producing a class announcement using the voice typing tool, an instructor can then use the transcript as a means to produce a composed, focused, and concise message for students. The resulting MP4 audio file can then be inserted into a Blackboard announcement (with the Google Docs transcript linked and attached as an accessible Word document).
  • Students may enjoy receiving a course update in a new way with an audio-only announcement this way. Audio-only can also amplify the human side of an instructor–tone, emphasis, well-chosen words, and personality–in a different way than text only announcements. And who does not appreciate a break from video overload right now?

Learn How Now!

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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

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