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This week’s Tech Tip is so big, so huge, and so massive, that we actually had to wait 24 hours to post it! Are you ready?? Here it is: Say hello to Akindi because after this semester, the College of Charleston will no longer support Scantron. Don’t worry! Akindi is super painless! We have a plethora of training tutorials on how to use this wonderful DIY Bubblesheet test response system. Contact your Instructional Technologist if you have any questions about this marvelous technology!!

Full-length videos and video clips can be very useful in teaching. However, it is important to consider ahead of time what you hope your students will learn from the videos. You will also need to plan out how you will help the students learn, and how you will know whether they have done so. In planning to use video, consider the following three distinct phases:

• Phase 1: Provide questions (prompts) that focus your students on what you believe is important in the video. Consider why you are having them watch the video, and what you hope they will learn from watching it. You can list the prompts on the board or on a worksheet that you hand out in class or post online before class. You can have students write down their answers or submit them using electronic resources (see below for ideas).
• Phase 2: Watch the video as a class. Don’t be afraid to stop the video to point out something important if you think it will be useful to the students. Model the engagement with the video that you desire from your students.
• Phase 3: Debrief as a class or in small groups about the students’ answers to the prompts you gave them. Make sure that they have achieved your goals for having them watch the video.

Credit: https://citl.indiana.edu/teaching-resources/teaching-strategies/effectively-using-video-teaching/

The College of Charleston offers faculty access to Turnitin.  Integrated with the OAKS Assignments/Dropbox tool, Turnitin helps assess student assignments and prevent plagiarism. Turnitin checks written assignments for plagiarism from public online sources as well as its own database of student work.  It also checks for spelling and grammar mistakes.

Turnitin has created a series of video tutorials on how to create Turnitin assignments and use the features to check for originality and to provide feedback to students.

Features of Turnitin:

How to create a Turnitin assignment in your OAKS course:

As mentioned in the above video tutorial, it is recommended to include the following disclaimers in the description field of an OAKS Dropbox folder if you plan to add the student papers to the Standard Paper Repository.

Click on this link for Turnitin Dropbox Folder Disclaimers

How to read an originality report:

How to provide feedback to students with Turnitin:

Share this link with your students on how to submit assignments with Turnitin:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1ex_lwYux1yGEPV9m7V79Dct24w5tIXN5

You can preview the student assignment submission video here:

If you have any questions regarding Turnitin, please contact your Instructional Technologist.