Faculty often lose class days due to university closure and/or delay during the first part of Spring semester. Students enrolled in a first-half of spring semester course are most often impacted. When classes are cancelled right before an exam or major project, you might consider […]
Faculty often approach me, with a technology already in hand, requesting technical assistance in producing a recorded lecture for online distribution. Before diving into the technology how-to’s, most of our time together is spent planning the project, identifying a clear and measurable objective, developing a […]
Faculty, Don’t forget that you have specify which course sections you want to use in Sakai each semester. By default, Sakai course sections are not “turned on”. A text-based walkthrough is available as well as a video walkthrough. In short: Log into Sakai In […]
Barbi Honeycutt, frequent Magna Publications contributor and owner of FLIP It Consulting out of Raleigh, is one of my favorite Flipped Classroom advocates. Her articles and presentations share effective strategies and activity ideas for both in and out of the classroom (many […]
Scenario – Course evaluations utilizing the Qualtrics interface are emailed to 1000 students. After several days of the survey being active you find that 400 of the emails were labeled as duplicates and were not even sent. Having duplicate users in a Qualtrics Contact List is […]
Google Docs now has a basic citation functionality in G Suite for Education (the new name for Google Docs for Education, which is what WFU utilizes).
The dreaded, threaded discussion! One original post and two replies is a routine way of facilitating a discussion activity for students outside of the classroom. But so often a well intended activity turns into repetitive “I agree” and “good point” posts, rewording the original poster’s […]
There is a very simple way to use the number of words in a text box as Custom Validation. In order to do this, you simply add Custom Validation to “Match Regex” and the regular expression pattern to match is ^\s*(\S+\s+){0,249}\S*$ (change the “0” to the […]
They ARE watching you! Privacy or Incognito browser modes make your online life a little safer. What it is: Most modern browsers have a “privacy” or “incognito” mode that bypasses the linking of your credentials (you supplied in normal browsing) to activity conducted in privacy […]
The Learning Management System Team invites faculty to attend the following workshops on Sakai LMS and accompanying tools. Please visit the PDC website for dates, times and registration: pdc.wfu.edu/?q=sakai Introduction to Sakai This hands-on workshop includes navigation of Sakai, creating a new […]