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Lightboard Workshop – April 5th

Engaging Students with Lightboard Videos Wednesday, April 5th, 2017 • 3:30pm – 4:45pm With Sarah McCorkle and Todd McFall During this workshop, we will discuss how to plan effective online videos, actively engage students when video content is assigned, and model Lightboard presentation techniques. […]


WebEx Personal Meeting Room

Can’t make it to campus for office hours? Need to hold class on a snow day so you don’t get behind on your course syllabus? Use WebEx Personal Meeting Room! You can even interview potential job candidates who cannot make it to campus! Each faculty, staff, […]


Accounts Compromised

Phishing emails have become very convincing (even to techies) and are getting much harder to spot.  More and more people are falling for these devious plots to steal personal information.  There can be serious ramifications when your account is compromised, up to and including Identity Theft. One […]


Bring Annotation to life in Office

Ever want to explain something to students that is more than a static Word/Excel/PowerPoint/OneNote document can offer?  Microsoft added an “Ink Replay” feature to Office suite in August 2016. https://blogs.office.com/2016/08/30/new-to-office-365-in-august-the-continued-evolution-of-inking-and-more/ You can see a demonstration at https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Replay-your-ink-strokes-in-Office-fa4f044f-810b-43fe-b774-da04a0b37496 Rewind and replay handwritten notes or […]


Qualtrics – Survey Tool to Assess Learning

Intermediate/Advanced Qualtrics Skills Shannon Mallison, Core Curriculum Preparator for the Biology Department, wanted to create a quiz to assess student learning and prepare students for their time in the lab.  However, the department just didn’t want to create a quiz – they also wanted the quiz to […]


Google Keep now integrated into Google Docs

Keep is Google’s handy note taking service/app. It uses a “sticky notes” style interface to let you create and organize notes with text, images, and audio or video recordings. You can use Keep in your browser or download the Keep app for your Android or […]


Qualtrics – Using Authentication in your Survey

Using Authentication in your survey will accomplish a couple of important tasks for you.  The authentication protocol will first limit your participants to WFU users allowing the use of an anonymous link instead of having to create a contact list in Qualtrics.  The second thing […]


Running Windows Software on a Mac

Now that many campus users have opted to use a MacBook instead of a Windows PC, you may have found that a few of the software packages that you need, or would like to use, are not available to the Mac user.  Or, the version […]


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