January 9, 2024, Filed Under: Academic Integrity, Honorlock, Media & A/V, Software & Apps, Teaching & LearningLearning Technology Update: preparing for Spring 2024 As the Fall 2023 semester ends and you prepare for Spring 2024, here are a few things to be aware of: ChatGPT & Plagiarism Over the course of the past year, artificial intelligence tools such as ChatGPT have gone from relative obscurity to now being nearly ubiquitous in academics. To help you navigate the confusing world of AI and how it fits into your course, here’s a resource that includes 4 specific things you can begin doing (if you’re not already) to ensure students know exactly what your expectations are and how to handle situations that might arise, including plagiarism and other forms of academic dishonesty. … read more
December 6, 2023, Filed Under: Academic Integrity, Honorlock, Software & Apps, Teaching & Learning, TestingArtificial Intelligence, Plagiarism, & You Artificial intelligence (AI), and specifically “Generative AI” tools such as ChatGPT, have quickly become everyday words. If you’re teaching a Nursing course with any significant writing component, whether it be a writing assignment, or even a Canvas discussion board, you should be prepared for the possibility that some number of students might be using these tools in inappropriate ways. And, unfortunately, we still do not have any meaningful way to stop it from happening. … read more
August 11, 2023, Filed Under: Academic Integrity, Honorlock, Online Proctoring, Software & Apps, TestingHonorlock Getting Started Guide for Faculty Getting Started Basics New Syllabus Policy for Remote Proctoring with Honorlock Creating Quizzes from Scratch Quiz Settings Overview Student View Quiz Results Support and Help Options … read more
March 17, 2023, Filed Under: Media & A/V, Software & Apps, Teaching & LearningSpring 2023 Mid-Semester Teaching & Technology Update If you have any questions about Canvas, Zoom, or anything else teaching or technology-related, please contact me at your convenience. 2023 Technology-Enhanced Learning Symposium May 18 – 19, 2023 | Zoom and In-Person https://ctl.utexas.edu/tel-2023-overview … read more
August 31, 2021, Filed Under: Media & A/V, Teaching & LearningMac Laptops & Classroom Speakers – known issues Is your Mac Laptop not connecting to the classroom audio? Have you tried using your Mac laptop in one of our Nursing classrooms and discovered that when you play a video from your desktop, the audio doesn’t play on the classroom speakers? Well, it turns out this doesn’t happen automatically on Mac laptops. Instead, we have to select the correct device for sound output manually. But luckily, the steps are super simple (if not entirely intuitive): … read more
December 18, 2020, Filed Under: Media & A/V, Software & Apps, Teaching & LearningCreate Your Own Canvas Course Navigation In exploring all the different ways we can customize our Canvas courses, one of the options that many of you have expressed interest in is the idea of adding buttons (or tiles) to your course home page to help your students navigate your course. Well, here’s any easy way you can create your own, custom-made, buttons quickly and easily. … read more
August 20, 2020, Filed Under: Media & A/V, Software & Apps, Teaching & LearningNursing Classrooms and You in Fall 2020 In addition to all the changes we’ve made within the Nursing building to keep each other safe, you’ve likely noticed there have been a lot of small changes in our classrooms. So, as you prepare for the beginning of classes next week, and you plan for your “trial run” later this week, I want to let you know about several things that you can expect will already be in your classrooms[1] or which are coming soon. … read more
August 18, 2020, Filed Under: Media & A/V, Software & Apps, Teaching & LearningSelecting the Right Camera / Microphone in Zoom When you start a Zoom meeting in one of the Nursing classrooms using the attached USB webcam, you will need to make sure the computer is reading it correctly as the video and microphone source. … read more
August 14, 2020, Filed Under: Media & A/V, Software & AppsAutomatic Captioning – easier than it used to be Adding closed captions to your recordings is one of the best things you can do for viewers, and not just those with hearing problems. But, now you can also do so in real time so students don’t have to wait from captions to become available, they can read them while you’re talking. … read more
August 14, 2020, Filed Under: Media & A/V, Software & Apps, Teaching & LearningLectures Online in the School of Nursing ‘Lectures Online’ is a new system that has been added to 4 of our 1st-floor classrooms* that will automatically record your lectures and add them to your Canvas course. Beginning with the Fall 2020 semester, rooms equipped with Lectures Online will automatically record any signals that are sent to the projector and the speakers in the room. The recordings will be published in Canvas automatically, shortly after your class. All you need to do is remember to use one of the wireless microphones in the room. Whatever is projected onto the screen and whatever is spoken into the microphone will be recorded. However, there is no camera pointed at you or your students. … read more