Create Desktop Shortcuts to Recurring Zoom Meetings

Do you have one or more recurring Zoom meetings, like a department meeting, club meeting, online class meeting, or others that always meet in the same Zoom room? Instead of having to search for the email announcing the meeting or opening your calendar to find […]


QR Codes: Tips and Best Practices

Want to incorporate QR codes into your students’ projects? Or need to create a QR code for your own poster or infographic?Here are easy ways to create and view QR codes, as well as a few accessibility and security best practices. Why use a QR […]


Kaltura Capture

If a picture is worth a thousand words, imagine how powerful a video tutorial can be.Kaltura Capture provides an easy way to create a screen capture tutorial (recording whatever is on your screen as you narrate). You can also choose to include your video as […]


Zoom Immersive View

You can now put all your students’ videos together into one background in Zoom, with Immersive View! There are several backgrounds available; choose one based on your number of attendees. You can change it whenever you like, move people around, put everyone into one large […]


Using Zoom Reports for Class Attendance

Zoom Reports allows you to determine who was on a Zoom session after the fact. If you ensure your students use their real names by turning on the meeting setting Require authentication to join , you can dispense with taking roll and use the Zoom […]


Encouraging Student Engagement

There are many ways to check in with your students or meeting members to gauge their understanding of content, gather opinions, and ask for ideas.Options can be as simple as asking for a show of hands,  having students hold up color-coded index cards with yes […]


Hiding Grades in Canvas

Hiding Grades in “Classic” Quiz Make sure the quiz is published Find the grade in the grade book Click on the 3 button menu in the upper left of the quiz Choose Grade Posting Policy Change the policy from Automatically to Manual ***Please note that […]


PowerPoint Slides as a Virtual Background

Zoom now allows us to choose a special virtual background when sharing our screen. This new feature allows the instructor more control over their video and what the students are seeing. It also simplifies the sharing process for PowerPoint by directly sharing slides as a […]


Hypothesis in Canvas

Hypothesis allows you and your students to have a shared conversation on a website or PDF, using annotations. Thanks to the Canvas-Hypothesis integration at Wake, you and your students do not have to create a Hypothesis account when using it inside of a Canvas course. […]


Keyboard Shortcuts for Zoom

Zoom has become part of the regular work day for many of us. “There are lots of cool things that Zoom can do, but they aren’t always obvious. Controlling them may not be so easy during meetings, where we’re trying to look at the screen […]


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