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February 6, 2025, Filed Under: Academic Integrity, Honorlock, Online Proctoring, Teaching & Learning, Testing

Honorlock Guidance for Spring 2025

Honorlock Guidance for Spring 2025

 

New Features and Tools

Honorlock Prep Tutorial Assignment

  • We recommend you create a for-credit assignment in Canvas and require students to complete the Honorlock Student Prep Tutorial. If you need assistance setting up an assignment exam for credit, please email the Canvas team to request a consultation.

 

Hotkey Detection

  • The Hotkey Detection feature is automatically enabled to prevent the use of “hotkey” keyboard shortcuts to take screenshots during a proctored exam. A list of hotkeys that can be detected can be found here.

Reduce Anxiety for Student test-takers

Offer For Credit Practice Exams

  • Taking an Honorlock Exam requires additional steps beyond logging into Canvas and opening the exam. If you launch a live exam without conducting practice exams, students will experience more issues than if you establish several practice exams.
  • To encourage students to participate in the practice exams, we recommend you require them as for-credit assignments. If you need assistance setting up a practice exam for credit, please email the Canvas team to request a consultation.

 

Prepare Pencil & Paper Alternative

  • Despite best efforts and troubleshooting, it is possible that some students will be unable to access your assignment using Honorlock. We recommend you prepare pencil & paper alternatives for students who are unable, due to incompatible device(s) or for other reasons, to complete their assignment through Honorlock.

Set Clear Expectations for Using Honorlock

Syllabus Resources

Sample scripts stating requirements:

  • “All students are required to use Honorlock to complete exams for this course.”
  • “Before you take your first exam, you must complete 1) The Honorlock Student Prep Tutorial Assignment and 2) [# of] Practice Exams in Canvas.”
  • List any custom requirements for Honorlock exams.

Promote Academic Integrity

Add UT Honor Code Affirmation to All Quizzes and Exams

  • The Office of Academic Affairs strongly encourages all instructors to add an Honor Code Affirmation item as your first quiz question in all Honorlock Exams. We have added this Affirmation item to the Item Bank in Canvas. To add this question to your quizzes, follow these instructions or email the Canvas team to request a consultation.

 

 

November 19, 2024, Filed Under: Honorlock, Media & A/V, Online Proctoring, Teaching & Learning, Testing, Zoom

How to get help

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You need help. But maybe you’re not sure whom to contact.

So… who you gonna call?

 

 

Below are three resources you can always turn to for assistance:

  1. The School of Nursing Contact (Julia Wolfe, Instructional Technology Specialist at  julia.wolfe@austin.utexas.edu or 512 471 4552.)
  2. The Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL)
  3. Liberal Arts Instructional Technology Services (LAITS)

 

Julia Wolfe – Support within UT Austin School of Nursing

  • Instructional Technology support
    • Need help with Canvas, Zoom, Honorlock, Panopto, Qualtrics, PowerPoint, or… dozens of other software and teaching tools?
    • Not sure if a particular tool or software is approved for use at UT?
    • If I don’t know the answer, I will find it or find someone who does.
  • Instructional Design support
    • Instructional Designers create things that help people learn. So, if you need ANY teaching-related assistance, not just with technology, I’m here to help. I can share ideas from other faculty or help you come up with a custom solution for your class and your students.

More information and lots of resources are available here on my blog: https://sites.utexas.edu/son-edtech-design/

 

CTL – UT Faculty Development & Instructional Support

The CTL provides all of UT faculty with many of the same services that I provide within the School of Nursing. But they also have the ability to do much more.

  • Instructional Strategies
  • Teaching with Technology
  • Grad Student Development
  • New Faculty Symposium
  • Grants and Fellowships

All these and more are offered by the team at the CTL. And much more information is available on their website:  https://ctl.utexas.edu/

 

LAITS – Desktop & Classroom Support

LAITS primarily helps us maintain our computer hardware and our physical equipment. They are also here to help us install and update software, ensure computer security, and more.

  • Desktop support – need assistance with your office or work computer? Maybe you need to software installed or it’s time to upgrade you to a completely new computer.
  • Classroom support – need help in a Nursing classroom with ANY of the audio/visual hardware in our classrooms? Maybe the projector isn’t working, or the microphone is malfunctioning, or you can’t find a USB port for the computer.
  • Contacting LAITS
    • They are available in-person in their 2nd-floor office (NUR 2.104P), please contact them by phone or email.
    • You can call 512-471-5000 or email laits-help@utexas.edu.

 

January 9, 2024, Filed Under: Academic Integrity, Honorlock, Media & A/V, Software & Apps, Teaching & Learning, Zoom

Learning 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 

March 17, 2023, Filed Under: Media & A/V, Software & Apps, Teaching & Learning, Zoom

Spring 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 

December 18, 2020, Filed Under: Media & A/V, Software & Apps, Teaching & Learning

Create 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 14, 2020, Filed Under: Media & A/V, Software & Apps

Automatic 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 & Learning

Lectures 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 

June 2, 2020, Filed Under: Software & Apps, Teaching & Learning, Zoom

Microsoft Teams for HIPAA-compliant Video Conferencing

The University now recommends the use of Microsoft Teams for those requiring HIPAA-compliant video conferencing options.

… read more 

March 25, 2020, Filed Under: Media & A/V, Teaching & Learning

Please disable the Panopto Video link in your Canvas course(s).

Please disable the Panopto Video link in your Canvas course(s). Instructions below.

Yesterday, 3/24/2020, the University enabled a new tool called Panopto in every Canvas course.

However, under the circumstances, you probably don’t have hours of free time to spend learning how to use it. So my recommendation to you is that you disable Panopto in all your Canvas courses until further notice.

To do that, follow the simple steps illustrated in this 2-minute video, or the 6 steps listed below:

https://youtu.be/ZrkZuUGmKAY

… read more 

March 19, 2020, Filed Under: Media & A/V, Software & Apps, Teaching & Learning

You need help. So, what now?

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You need help. But, who do you call?

 

Especially now that we’re all working remotely, when you need help, it’s not always clear whom to contact. So, here are some guidelines that might help.

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