UVACollab provides a wide range of tools to help you and your students stay organized and meet course objectives. Sometimes it may be helpful to hide one or more of these tools from students. The process of hiding a tool is simple and you can do it to as many tools as you would like. … Read more
by Hope Fitzgerald and Justin Greenlee A&S Learning Design & Technology — Hello, all. You are surely in the thick of preparations for spring courses: corresponding with students, the Student Disability Access Center, maybe the UVA Bookstores, coordinating with TAs, creating your course sites, troubleshooting technology, readying lectures and activities, and thinking about how best … Read more
by Justin Greenlee, PhD and Nenette Arroyo, PhD Digital Pedagogy Interns, UVA Learning Design & Technology … Hello, all! Read on if you are developing instructional techniques for the spring or leading a class during UVA’s J-term. We invite you to use the comments section at the bottom of the page to start a conversation with … Read more
Breakout rooms support student-to-student engagement activities including small group discussions, group project work, and problem solving sessions. Keep these tips in mind as you design and set up your breakout sessions. Keep your Zoom app up to date, and remind students to do the same. Learn to update your Zoom. Use the Zoom app (not … Read more
Zoom’s in-meeting chat feature is an excellent channel for Q&A, comprehension checks, formative quizzes, and brief discussions (learn about some great pedagogical uses of Zoom’s in-meeting chat here). But Zoom has another chat option that is more powerful and persistent. Here are a few things you should know. We’re talking in this post about Zoom’s … Read more
While teaching remotely, it can be helpful to suggest students ask questions in the Zoom Chat as they come up. Then the instructor can pause and answer them periodically. Alternatively, by enabling group chat between students, they can often answer the questions of their peers. The Zoom Chat is not always the best option, though. … Read more
November 23, 2020 by Keith Samuels Would the ability to share VoiceThreads in a browsable collection with a select group of people or on the web be valuable to you? A ThreadBox is an embeddable or linkable space that allows you to gather VoiceThreads into an easy to navigate and aesthetically pleasing browsable collection. A … Read more
POWERPOINT PRESENTER VIEW In the classroom, Powerpoint Presenter View is a useful feature which allows you to project your slides on the big screen, while viewing your speaker notes and slide sequence on the computer monitor. DO YOU NEED IT? SOMETIMES, YES. I personally have not used Presenter View for Powerpoint lectures which I have … Read more
Gradescope is a powerful tool for administering and grading assignments, tests, and quizzes, and it has recently been integrated with UVA Collab. This tool allows instructors and TAs to coordinate seamlessly on grading large numbers of exams or homework very quickly. It also has the capability for instructors to annotate directly on a pdf the … Read more
Zoom has the capability to put students into breakout rooms pre-assigned by the instructor. (For detailed instructions on how to set up pre-assigned breakout rooms, check out this document.) This capability, while helpful in many classroom situations, frequently does not work flawlessly, and instructors frequently find that only a portion of their students are assigned … Read more
