Instructional technologies provide many opportunities to support assessment and track student performance in Blackboard.
The following articles provide details describing the best practices we regularly publish to support our pedagogical community of practice.
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Panopto 6/25 Downtime and New Features
Panopto Cloud Updates and Downtime on 6/25
Cloud Downtime On Saturday, June 25, Panopto Cloud customers will be upgraded to the latest cloud release. The vendor anticipates up to 3 hours of downtime, with a target start time of 9:00 PM...
Posted: June 14, 2022, 11:38 AM
UMBC Migrates from Scantron to Akindi
New Platform Easier to Use and Supports Campus-Wide Analysis
Last year, DoIT announced the pilot of a tool called Akindi, which serves as a Scantron alternative and allows instructors to print and score bubble sheets from any local printer/scanner. There...
Posted: May 6, 2022, 3:28 PM
Generate & embed captions for Collaborate recordings in May
Support accessibility for recorded sessions in your classes
Creating captioning for recordings from scratch can be very time consuming for instructors or accessibility staff. Beginning in May 2022, instructors can leverage the help of artificial...
Posted: May 2, 2022, 8:22 AM
Gain insights on student engagement during Collab session
Also discover student views of Collab recordings
While teaching a synchronous session using web conferencing tools, instructors juggle content, conversation, and context. Engaging participants and maintaining a high level of interaction is an...
Posted: April 11, 2022, 3:30 PM
Panopto: Recording, Hosting, and Engaging
Leveraging Screencasting to Support Instructional Strategies
UMBC adopted Panopto in fall 2018. Use has increased since this time, in particular spurred on by geometrically increased adoption with the migration to fully online and then hybrid learning in...
Posted: February 8, 2022, 9:40 AM
