by Mendi Benigni | Oct 13, 2020 | Assessment, Best Practices, Distance Ed, OAKS
As was mentioned in a previous Online Teaching Tips, with ANY quiz, test, or exam there is a chance a student will cheat, even in a face to face class. But the temptation is often greater in an online class because there is no one watching. With Respondus Lockdown...
by Mendi Benigni | Sep 29, 2020 | communication, content, Distance Ed, OAKS, OAKS Tips
Your OAKS Course Home doesn’t have to look the way it does now. You can change it to add a widget that can help your students stay on track. Adding the Content Navigator to the OAKS Course Home The Content Navigator is a tool that indicates, to the student, how...
by Chris Meshanko | Sep 22, 2020 | content, Distance Ed, Video, Web 2.0
What is VideoAnt? URL: https://ant.umn.edu/ Do you host your lectures on YouTube (unlisted) or share other videos with your students? If so, you and your students can use VideoAnt to take notes or leave comments during video playback, anywhere on the video timeline....
by Mendi Benigni | Jul 23, 2020 | Best Practices, Distance Ed, Innovative Instruction, Pedagogy
TLT is excited to share a couple of announcements with you that we hope will serve as resources as you continue to prepare your courses for the fall semester. RESILIENT TEACHING SITE As was shared with faculty in June (attached), the Resilient Teaching Task Force...
by Mendi Benigni | Jun 15, 2020 | Best Practices, Distance Ed, OAKS, OAKS Tips
Keeping Students On Track and Engaged In an online class, it’s often hard to keep students on track, especially students who aren’t used to taking this type of course. If you use OAKS you can use the Intelligent Agents to help you help your students....
by Mendi Benigni | Jun 1, 2020 | Assessment, Distance Ed, OAKS, OAKS Tips
Monitoring Students Online When you teach on online class, especially an asynchronous online class, it’s easy to “lose” students. If you are an OAKS user, there’s a tool that can help you keep up with your students and help you identify those...