How to Create a Youtube Slideshow
After signing into your YouTube account, follow these steps to create your project using photographs. ...
Category Archives: Content Area
Saving your Wimba archives / Uploading videos into a course
Saving your Wimba archives Wimba & associated archives will not be available come Term 1 of the 2013-2014 fiscal year. If there are any archives you wish to save, you will need to download & save the MP4 file to your computer. To start, go into the course where the archives are, then go to the “List of Rooms and Archives” page. This can vary depending on how you set up your course, but you should be able to find...
Copying from MS Word & Pasting into Blackboard
Applicable to both students and faculty . Although we highly encourage you to write in a word processor such as Microsoft Word and save a local copy of what you post in Blackboard, copying / pasting from Word into any Blackboard text field can cause problems. This issue may arise when pasting into announcements, items, test questions, discussion boards, blogs, journals, Grade Center feedback — anywhere you find a text editor box (with options like bold, italic, etc), this issue...
Converting a Word File to Test Questions (With Help From IDS)
The question-creation process in Blackboard can be a little tedious. If you’re looking to create a test or pool of questions quickly, a faster option may be to send IDS an appropriately formatted Word file. IDS can generate a question pool or test from that Word (or other simple text) file in about two business days. Just email the file to ids@udmercy.edu In your email, indicate the course you’d like the questions added to, preferably by CRN or courseID (e.g.,...
Setting up a course calendar
Knowledge now provides a simple course calendar that is easy for both students and faculty to use. This calendar can not only be viewed inside Knowledge, but it can also be viewed on mobile devices (such as iPhones) and in other 3rd party calendaring systems such as Google Calendar. To view the calendar inside Knowledge, click your name in the upper right corner of the screen then click the calendar icon – – or select TOOLS from a course menu,...
