Author: eschudel

Open/OER Online Courses

Interested in learning more about Open Educational Resources (OER) and Creative Commons licensing?  Here are a couple of open courses for you to check out (and adopt or adapt – they are all CC licenced!)!

Open Content to Transform the Classroom by Matthew Bloom, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License

  • Part 1: The Easy Way to Create, License, and Share Free Materials
  • Part 2: Exploring the Possibilities of Open Educational Resources

Learn OER managed by the Washington State Board for Community and Technical Colleges licensed under a CC-BY 4.0

  • Module 1: Introduction
  • Module 2: Copyright  License
  • Module 3: Understanding OER
  • Module 4: Open License
  • Module 5: Creative Commons Licensing
  • Module 6: Finding OER
  • Module 7: Public Domain
  • Module 8: Sharing OER
  • Module 9: Accessibility
  • Module 10: Why OER Matters

Finding Help in the D2L On-Demand Training Course

Getting ready to set up your courses for January, but not quite remembering what you need to remember? Go to the D2L On-Demand Training course site in D2L for 24/7 support through printable PDF tutorials. Here’s how to find them:

  1. Go to D2L and, in the My Courses widget, scroll to find and click on the Training tab.

    Click Training

  2. Find and click on D2L On-Demand Training.

    Click D2L On-Demand Training

  3. Click on Support Documentation in the navigation bar.

    Click Support Documentation

  4. In the Table of Contents, click on the Module you want to see tutorials for – here we will click on eLearning D2L Tutorial Documents, and then on Course Admin.

    Click the module you want to open

  5. Click on the title of the tutorial you wish to view – here we will click on Copy Course Components from one Course to Another.

    Click the tutorial you want to open

  6. To print the file you will have to download it to your device first by scrolling down, and clicking Download.

    Click Download

  7. You can then open the file and print it from your device.

Support documents not enough? We are here to help! Make an appointment with an instructional designer by emailing desupport@camosun.ca.

Complex Images and Accessibility – Portland Community College Website

When adding images to your documents or web pages/WordPress pages, to meet best practices around accessibility you need to add appropriate descriptive text to your images so that learners who can not see the images have an alternate way to access the images.  But adding text to images can be tricky when you are dealing with more complex images like graphs, maps, diagrams, charts, etc.

This Complex image Accessibility site (which opens in a new tab or window) from Portland Community College has some excellent guidelines for how to make complex images accessible to all.

Managing the Chatroom in Blackboard Collaborate Ultra in D2L

This tutorial is designed for faculty who have previous experience using D2L and Blackboard Collaborate Ultra, and will cover how you can manage your Blackboard Collaborate Ultra (BBCU) session Chatroom. For further information, please contact desupport@camosun.ca for assistance.

Steps

  1. Go to the location in your D2L course site where you have linked to your Blackboard Collaborate Ultra room (for example, in the Content tool), click on your Blackboard Collaborate Ultra session and enter your session.
  2. Open the Collaborate panel (the bottom right icon).

    Open the Collaborate panel

  3. Click the Chat icon.

    Click the Chat icon

  4. Moderators will be able to chat to Everyone or to Moderators only. Participants will be able to chat to Everyone, and may also be able to Private Chat another participant if the Moderator has not disallowed that function. Click Everyone to chat to the whole group.

    Click Everyone

  5. Type your message in the Say something box and hit Enter. Click the down arrow to select an emoji to add to your message.

    Type your message

  6. To toggle from Everyone to Moderators (or to chat with an individual) click the back arrow next to Everyone.

    Click the arrow next to Everyone

  7. To find a specific person to private chat with, start typing their name into the Find someone to chat with box, select them, and hit Enter.

    Find someone to chat with

Things to Remember

If the Collaborate panel is closed while you are facilitating your session, chat messages will pop up in the main window, and if your Collaborate panel is open, but NOT on Chat, chats will register as numbers at the bottom of the Collaborate panel next to the Chat icon.

Chat messages pop up Numbers appear next to Chat

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Reminder of where to get help to get ready for January

Looking for help with setting up your final grades, etc.? Getting ready to set up your courses for the Winter term? eLearning is here to help.

We have drop-in times at Interurban in LACC251J on Fridays from 11:30am-12:30pm and in December, on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 10:00am-12:00pm.  And don’t forget, you can also schedule one-on -one consults with an instructional designer at either campus.

Email desupport@camosun.ca to book an appointment today!!

Creating PowerPoint Presentations with Voiceover in Kaltura Capture in D2L

This tutorial is designed for faculty who have previous experience using Kaltura in D2L, who have already downloaded Kaltura Capture, and will cover the steps involved when you wish to record a PowerPoint presentation with voiceover using Kaltura Capture through D2L. For further information, please contact desupport@camosun.ca for assistance.

Steps

  1. Go to your course in D2L.
  2. Go to My media (through the link on your Navbar, or in your My Tools drop-down menu, or in a draft Topic in the Content tool).
  3. Click Add New and select Kaltura Capture, then click Open Kaltura Capture.

    Click Add New and select Kaltura Capture
    Click Open Kaltura Capture

  4. First, open your PowerPoint presentation so you are ready to play the presentation once you start recording.
  5. In order to record a PowerPoint presentation with voiceover, you need to record your Screen and Audio, so in the recorder, click on Camera to turn that feature off (the icon will appear with a line through it).

    Click Camera to turn that feature off.

  6. In the recorder, click Screen and select the screen you wish use (if you have more than one monitor source option on your device), select Full Screen or Select Area (to capture only a specific part of your screen), click Audio and select the audio source/microphone you wish use (if you have more than one microphone option on your device), then click the record button (the big red button on the left side of the recorder). For the purposes of this tutorial, we will select Full Screen.

    Select your screen and audio sources and click record

  7. Click the record button. There will be a 3-second countdown before the recording started (you can click Cancel at any time).

    Countdown clock

  8. When the recording begins, start your PowerPoint presentation, and begin clicking through it while talking about the slides. Click the Stop button when you are finished and want to save your recording, the Pause button to pause the recording, and the X to cancel the recording (this will NOT save it).

    Stop, Pause, Cancel

  9. You can also click the Pencil icon to open the drawing tools options. You can circle, point, add text, and change the colour and size of any of these options.

    Click the Pencil to open the drawing options.

  10. When you click the Stop button, click Yes, Stop it to stop and save the recording.

    Click Yes, Stop it

  11. The recording preview will then appear. You can play the recording, edit the Title, and add a Description and Tags. Click Save to save your changes, Save and Upload to save the recording and upload it to your My Media space, or Delete to delete the recording.

    Recording preview

  12. The video recording will now appear in your Kaltura Capture Library.

    The recording is now in the Kaltura Capture Library

Things to Remember

Before starting your recording, make sure to write down what you want to say, and what you will be doing in your presentation – where will you click, what and when will you circle things, what order are the steps, etc.? This is your script, and it will come in handy to keep you on track while you record, and to upload as an attachment with your recording for students who like to read along while they listen.

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Managing Attendees in Blackboard Collaborate Ultra (D2L) – Blackboard Collaborate Ultra Tutorial

This tutorial is designed for faculty who have previous experience using D2L and Blackboard Collaborate Ultra, and will cover how you can manage Blackboard Collaborate Ultra (BBCU) session attendees. Information on how to use individual feature is contained in relevant tutorial documents. For further information, please contact desupport@camosun.ca for assistance.

Steps

  1. Go to the location in your D2L course site where you have linked to your Blackboard Collaborate Ultra room (for example, in the Content tool), click on your Blackboard Collaborate Ultra session and enter your session.
  2. Open the Collaborate panel (the bottom right icon).

    Open the Collaborate panel

  3. Click the Attendees icon.

    Click the Attendees icon

  4. To manage an attendee’s settings, click the Attendee controls icon (the three dots) to the left of their name.

    Click Attendee controls

  5. From here you can:
    1. Send a private chat message to that attendee.
    2. Change the role of that attendee, for example (as shown here) promoting a Participant to Moderator, Presenter, or Captioner status.
    3. Mute the attendee’s microphone.
    4. Remove the attendee from the session/room.

      Manage attendees options

  6. You can also view an attendee’s Internet and audio connection by clicking the Attendee connection icon (to the left of the Attendee controls).

    View Attendee connection

  7. Finally, you can set the Attendee panel to stay open to make it easier to manage your attendees. Click the More Options icon (the three dots at the top of the Attendees panel) to:
    1. Find an attendee (especially useful if you have a large group).
    2. Detach the Attendee panel completely to keep it open.
    3. Mute all attendees at once.

      More Options to manage attendees

Things to Remember

It’s a good idea to recommend to attendees/participants that they mute their microphones upon entering the session, and to remind them they will need to unmute them to talk. That way you don’t have to worry about distractions from a lot of background noise.

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