Resources for Developing and Using Educational Technology

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Resources for Developing and Using Educational
Technology

• Progyamita Reema Bhattacharya
• Center for Innovation in Teaching Learning

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Agenda

• Introduction to course management system
  Blackboard
• Introduction to Respondus the tool for managing
  and creating online exams
• Introduction to plagiarism prevention tool
  Turnitin and its integration with Blackboard
• Online writing evaluation using CriterionSM
• Online tutoring anywhere, anytime with
  Smarthinking

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Blackboard

• What it is??

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Getting started with Blackboard

• Step 1 Call Bill Gibson (x1920) or email
  (bgibson_at_uncfsu.edu) and provide him with your
  course details and get going
• Step 2 login to Blackboard (http//blackboard.unc
  fsu.edu) using your user-id and password

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After you log in ..
My Courses Lists all the units you are enrolled
on to in the section Courses in which you
are participating. Access the unit by clicking
on the hyperlink.
Institution tool bar Access to information across
all your units.
My Announcements Shows all Announcements.
Personal Information Change your password and
email address details by choosing Personal Inform
ation.
My Calendar Shows all calendar events.
Tasks Shows any personal or unit tasks that are
due today.
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Finding your way around in BB
In every Blackboard course, you, the instructor,
can customize the course menu to your liking and
in effect allow or disallow navigation options
for your learners
Breadcrumbs Navigation
Your gateway to course control
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Take control of your course

• As an instructor you have access to the control
  panel in Blackboard

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Plan your course

• To help you plan, think of the course Control
  Panel as being composed of these areas
• Course administration
• Course materials
• Communication and collaboration
• Assessment

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Course Administration

• Your course administration options reside mostly
  in the Course Options pane. You can use these
  options to customize the course menu, enable or
  disable course tools, change the course
  availability and entry page, and import, copy,
  export, and archive your course

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Course materials

• Course materials such as your syllabus,
  readings, assignments, and tests can be added
  to the Content Areas of your course.
• You can add/delete/change the names of the
  content Area.

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Communication and collaboration tools

• Communication tools such as announcements,
  collaboration, e-mail, a discussion board, and
  messages are available in your course Control
  Panel and can be included as links within Content
  Areas or as course links on the course menu.

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Communication Tools in Blackboard
Adopted from Southworth, H, Cakici, K, Vovides,
Y, Zvacek, S (2006). Blackboard for Dummies.
Hoboken, NJ Wiley Publishing, Inc..
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Assessment tools

• Test Manager to create test and quiz
• More than 15 different question type available
• Pool Manager to help you create question pools
• Survey Manager for course evaluations and other
  surveys
• Performance Dashboard Course Statistics
• Not to forget the Gradebook!

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Respondus

• What is this??

Respondus is a Windows-based authoring tool that
makes it easy to create and manage exams for
Blackboard, WebCT,ANGEL, eCollege and other
learning systems. (http//www.respondus.com)
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The Start Menu

• Personality - select the course management system
  being used with Respondus.
• Open - open an existing Respondus file.
• Create - create a new file.
• Exam Wizard - create a new exam by copying
  questions from other Respondus files.
• Import Questions - import questions from MS
  Word,Rich Text, QTI and other formats.
• Archive Wizard - create a zip archive of a
  Respondus file, including all pictures and media.

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Overview of Edit Menu

• Toolbar - provides tools for formatting a
  question or adding equations, images or media
  files.
• Question Types - click a tab to view the template
  for a question type.
• Question Template - the question wording and
  content are entered in a template.
• Preview - displays the question as it will appear
  in an online assessment.
• Copy from another file - a tool for copying
  questions from another Respondus file.
• Question List - lists the questions in the file
  click on a question title to edit it.

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Importing Questions from Other Formats

• Existing questions can be imported from other
  file formats,such as MS Word.
• From the Start menu, select Import.
• Select the Type of File being imported (MS Word,
  Rich Text, CSV).
• Make sure that the file to be imported follows
  the formatting guidelines provided in the online
  help (very important).
• Browse to and select the file being imported.
• Preview the import results to check for errors,
  then click
• Finish to complete the import.

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The Publish Menu
Preview - preview the exam before printing or
publishing it.
Publish to CMS - publish the exam to your
online course using the Publish Wizard.
Update Settings - update the settings for an
existing exam in a CMS.
Print Options - print the exam or save it to MS
Word or Rich Text Format.
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Using the Publish Wizard

• Use the Publish Wizard to publish exams directly
  to your online course.
• From the Preview Publish menu, select the
  Publish to CMS tab and then click the Publish
  Wizard button.
• To publish the exam to a single course, select
  the Publish to single course option.
• Click the Edit Settings button if you havent
  previously
• provided server information for your online
  course. (Otherwise, click Next and skip to step
  5.)

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Adding your BB Server Information

• A screen will appear that looks similar to the
  one here
• (each course management system is different, so
  your display may differ)
• Enter the URL for the login page of your course
  management system.
• If prompted, enter the URL for a page within one
  of your courses.
• Click the Extract button.
• Enter a description for your server (My Online
  Course).
• Enter your User Name and Password for your online
  course.
• Select the Remember my User Name and Password box
  if it isnt a shared computer.
• Click the OK button to close the window and click
  Next to continue to the next page of the wizard.

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Finalizing publishing

• The wizard will display a screen that looks
  similar to this
• Choose the course from the pull-down list.
• Enter a name for the exam or quiz.
• Select additional options for the exam or quiz.
• Click Next to continue.
• The exam will now be published to the specified
  course. When the publishing process is completed,
  click the Finish button.

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• PlagiarismPrevention
• Academic Integrity
• Turnitin allows educators to check students work
  for improper citation or potential plagiarism by
  comparing it against continuously updated
  databases using the industrys most advanced
  search technology. Every Originality Report
  provides instructors with the opportunity to
  teach their students proper citation methods as
  well as to safeguard their students academic
  integrity.
• Features Benefits
• Encourages Proper Citation, Over 12 Billion Web
  Pages Crawled, Over 40 Million Student Papers,
  Over 10,000 Major Newspapers, Magazines
  Scholarly Journals, Thousands Of Books Including,
  Literary Classics
• Printable Reports, Side-By-Side Comparison
• How to get Turnitin
• go to http//www.turnitin.com/ and use the login
  information below to get started.
• Your institution Fayetteville State University
• Your account ID look under Virtual TLC in BB
• Your account join password look under virtual
  TLC in Bb

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CriterionSM Online Writing Evaluation

• The Criterion service is a Web-based application
  that evaluates a student's writing skills and
  within seconds provides score reporting and
  diagnostic feedback to both writing instructors
  and students. Students draft and submit essays
  and receive immediate feedback in the form of a
  holistic score and diagnostic annotations within
  each essay that guides instruction.
• To learn more about Criterion watch the online
  demo at http//www.ets.org/Media/Products/Criterio
  n/tour2/critloader.html

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How to get started with Criterion

• Contact the TLC (x1175) for the Criterion Access
  ID and Password
• Go to http//criterion.ets.org
• Click on Go to Criterion Instructor Website
• Click on Register I am a new user.
• Enter the campus Access ID and Password
• Create a username and password
• Create your classes
• Create assignments
• Add students or provide them with the Class ID
  and Class Password to add themselves to your class

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And there is more.

• Mathemetica
• Our Mathematica licensing includes work at home
  rights for faculty.  You may request and/or
  update a home use license through the following
  URL. You will have the option to download or have
  a cd sent to you which is a separate license
  number that Wolfram maintains. Wolfram will
  automatically send these out once they have
  verified that you are faculty.  You will need to
  include our site licence number when you fill out
  the form (L3099-0193). http//www.wolfram.com/solu
  tions/highered/homeuse.cgi

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And more.

• ElementK http//elementk.uncfsu.edu/
• ElementK is an Internet-based training and
  learning solution, which delivers training right
  to the desktop it is convenient, easy to
  access, and easy to use. With ElementK, you can
  Learn More, Learn Now, Anytime, Anywhere! As
  long as you have Internet access, you have the
  power to learn with ElementK!

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And more.

• Web site development not including Blackboard
  using FrontPage.
• Using Camtesia
• Creating Podcast
• And many other things

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For more information contact

• Peter Valenti910.672.1176 pvalenti_at_uncfsu.edu
• Progyamita Bhattacharya910.672.1177
  phattac_at_uncfsu.edu 
• Mary Livings 910.672.1175 mlivings_at_uncfsu.edu
• James Heard910.672.1195 jheard_at_uncfsu.edu

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Any question???