There are many issues related to the practice of assessment. This series addresses the different facets of grading, such as formative and summative assessment, grade inflation, and aligning assessment with learning outcomes. If you attend the whole series (all...
The New Content Experience provides instructors with an alternate way to organize and present their course content. It has a clean visual presentation that makes getting started simple and clearly separates the navigation from the main content panel. It supports the...
Migration of instructor videos from Kaltura to Echo360 is now complete. This post will provide details about the migration and what supports are available to assist in this transition.Migration is now complete! Echo360 replaced Kaltura as UVic's video platform in Fall...
Every month, UVic's learning technologies release new features and updates. This post will give you a quick overview of what's new and exciting.Brightspace The latest Brightspace release includes several updates to the Quiz tool. A new and improved text editor arrives...
This article explains how Echo360 can be used to create interactive powerpoint presentations and videos, including polls, discussions, confusion flags, notes and morePresentations, discussions, polls and interactive media allow instructors to promote learner...
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Every month, UVic's learning technologies release new features and updates. This post will give you a quick overview of what's new and exciting.Brightspace The latest Brightspace release includes the addition of LaTeX rendering in the HTML text editor, and updates to...
Executive Summary Research-enriched teaching and creative activity [1] has made its way into higher education curricula across the world and has been deemed a necessary component of universities today (Kenny et al., 1998). This report was undertaken to build on what...
Instructors have the ability to create content for cross-listed courses with multiple sections. Although the content may be the same across sections, instructors may decide to adminsiter different quizzes to each group (i.e. different times or set of questions). This...
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