Software Resources

Click on the links below for tutorials and videos on the topics listed.

Blackboard:

Blackboard Learn
Blackboard Tests (this was a Zoom training session recording)
Attendance in Blackboard
Student Activity Reports in Blackboard

Video Tools:

VidGrid (video creation)
- Enabling Students to Record in VidGrid
- Recording and Embedding Videos in Blackboard
VidGrid (video quizzes post grades to Blackboard)
- Video: Adding In-Video Questions
- Tutorial: In-Video Questions
- Video: VidGrid Blackboard Quizzing
- Tutorial: Video Quizzes in My LMS
ZOOM (synchronous meetings)
- Add ZOOM menu to Blackboard
- Setting up a ZOOM meeting in Blackboard
- Zoom Meeting Features
- Getting Started with Breakout Rooms
- Polling for Meetings
- How to set up a conference camera for web-conferencing with Zoom
- Virtual Background (check out portable green screen at ATLAS office)
Capturing Video and Making it Accessible to Students

Blended Synchronous Learning Environment or Enhanced Online:

Using Rogers Center Classroom Technology with Zoom
Setting up a ZOOM meeting in Blackboard
Zoom Meeting Features
Blended Synchronous Strategies for Success (video)
Blended Synchronous Strategies (list)
Blended Synchronous Learning - free handbook

Student Help:

Miscellaneous:

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