by Mendi Benigni | Nov 24, 2020 | Assessment, OAKS, OAKS Tips
I’ve been asked, on a few occasions, “How can I make an OAKS test where the students can choose say 5 out of 8 questions to answer?” And I have to admin, this stumped me! However, I will not be beaten and I think I’ve found the answer. The...
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 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...
by Mendi Benigni | Sep 14, 2018 | Assessment, OAKS, OAKS Tips
Students can now post a link or text directly into the Assignment/Dropbox submission area! In the past, if your assignment required students to submit a link to something they created, they would have to put the link in a Word document and upload it. Now there is a...
by Chris Meshanko | Feb 23, 2018 | OAKS, OAKS Tips, Teaching Advice, TLT
Our recent OAKS (user interface) upgrade, Daylight, introduced several new features, including course banners. And while course banners can be a great way to generate (initial) interest in your course, they can also confuse students if the system-generated images are...