Micro Tech Talks

• Sign up for an account at ChatGPT website
• What Is Artificial Intelligence? Definition, Uses, and Types (updated November 2, 2023)
• WCET Artificial Intelligence Campus Adoption - New Report from WCET (July 20, 2023)
• How to cite ChatGPT in APA
• HPU AI Syllabus Guidance
• HPU Academic Integrity Policy Section Three: University Policies and Procedures

• Sign up for an account at Padlet.com
• Padlet Help
• Padlet Instructional Videos on YouTube
  • How to make a slideshow presentation on Padlet

• Using Mind Maps to Improve Assessment and Group Work
• Using Mind Maps as a Teaching and Learning Tool to Promote Student Engagement
• Create a Free Account in Canva
  • Editing and Designing
  • Downloading, saving, and sharing
  • Share your Canva design and collaborate with anyone
  • Magic Studio with AI

• Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1
• Blackboard: Alternative Formats for Students
• Blackboard: Alternative Formats for Instructors
• Ally Course Accessibility Report

• Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1
• Blackboard: Improve Content Accessibility
• Blackboard: Instructor Feedback Panel or Ally Instructor Feedback
• Ally Course Accessibility Report

June 22, 2023

• Panopto: How to Allow Viewers to Record Videos Using Assignment Folders
• Panopto: How to Record a Video
• Panopto: How to Upload a Video & Supported Media File Types for Uploading
• Blackboard: Navigate Grading

Instructions for students

1. Select the Panopto link in the course navigation bar
2. Select "+ Create" to record or upload a video (if you do not see "+ Create" select the Panopto assignment sub-folder)
3. Return to this assignment and select Create Submission
4. Select "…" to expand the text editor options
5. Select "+" and choose Panopto Student Video Submission
6. Select your video
7. Select Submit

June 8, 2023

General Workflow

Syllabus

1. Determine assessments
2. Assign assessment point values
3. Organize assessments into categories
4. Determine category weights

Blackboard

1. Add assessments with point values (items will appear in Grade Center and My Grades)
2. Create the grade center categories
3. Assign assessments to categories
4. Add categories to weighted column and assign percentages

Resources

• Blackboard: Calculate Grades
• Blackboard: Grade Columns
• Blackboard: Extra Credit Columns

May 25, 2023

• Nearpod: Sign up for a free account
• Nearpod: Explore the Resources (webinars, blogs, tutorials, and community)

May 11, 2023

• Blackboard: Add Files, Images, Audio, and Video
• Blackboard Best Practice: Add Web 2.0 Tools to Your Course

• Sample embed code: <iframe width="100%" height="600" src="[enter permanent URL]"></iframe>

Step-by-step embedding instructions

Embed a YouTube video in Blackboard

1. In YouTube, Click on Share below the video
2. Click on Embed ("<>")
3. Click on Copy
4. Go to the text editor in your Blackboard course
5. Click on Source Code ("<>")
6. Paste the copied embed code
7. Click on Save and view the embedded item (video, app, doc, ect.)
8. Click on Submit to view on your Blackboard course page

Embed a Panopto video in Blackboard

1. In Panopto, hover over your video and click on Share
2. Update who can access the video to "Anyone at your org who has the link"
3. Click on Embed ("<>")
4. Select or deselect items, depending on your preferences
5. Click on Copy Embed Code
6. Follow steps 4-8 in the YouTube instructions

Embed an App, e.g. Flip(grid)

1. In the App, copy the embed code (see Share or "<>" or Copy Embed Code, etc.)
2. Follow steps 4-8 in the YouTube instructions

Embed an item that does not provide an embed code

1. Copy the permanent URL
2. Insert the URL into an embed code
   1. <iframe width="100%" height="600" src="[enter permanent URL]"></iframe>
   2. <iframe width="720" height="405" src="[enter permanent URL]"></iframe>
3. Follow steps 4-8 in the YouTube instructions

April 27, 2023

• Flip: Educator Toolkit

• Flip: Sign up for a Free Account

• Flip: Help Center

• Flip: Blog for Inspiration

March 30, 2023

• Blackboard: Rubrics

  • Video - Create Rubrics in the Original Course View

  • Video - Associating Rubrics in Blackboard Learn

• Blackboard: Grading with Rubrics

  • Video: Grade Using a Rubric in the Original Course View

• Blackboard: Import and Export Rubrics

• For additional information on Rubrics not covered in the video

  • Berkeley Center for Teaching & Learning: Rubrics

  • MIT Teaching + Learning Lab: How to Use Rubrics

• Poll Everywhere: Home Page
• Poll Everywhere: Support Center
  • Poll Everywhere: Create an Activity
  • Poll Everywhere: Present and Share Activities
• Poll Everywhere: Participation (Student)
• Poll Everywhere: Video Tutorials
• Poll Everywhere for Windows PowerPoint
• Columbia University Center for Teaching and Learning: Developing Poll Questions to Engage and Assess Student Thinking in Science and Engineering Courses

• Blackboard: Interact with Students
  • Blackboard: Announcements
  • Blackboard: Email
• Blackboard: Assign Grades
• Faculty Focus: Announcements

• Blackboard: Navigate Inside a Course
• Blackboard: Copy Courses
• Blackboard: Course Structures
• Blackboard: Grade Columns
  • The course shell comes with Weighted Total and Total columns in the Grade Center. If you copy your Grade Center Columns and Settings, delete these standard Weighted Total and Total columns and reset the copied column to be the External Grade Column.
• Blackboard: Calculate Grades
• Blackboard: Bulk Delete Course Material
  • If you copy the wrong course, you can bulk delete the items before you copy again. Caution - do not import a course twice.
  • Before you copy the correct course, verify that the source course is truly empty (see Discussions, Content Collection, etc.).
• Import or Export Tests, Surveys, and Pools
  • If you wish to copy just one test, you will need to export it from your source course and import it to your course shell.