by Mendi Benigni | Sep 26, 2019 | Feedback, Formative, Summative
Turnitin is an OAKS (D2L/Brightspace) add-on that allows for easier, online grading within OAKS. It also offers a rubric tool for even easier grading and to help the students understand their grade. The rubric allows the instructor to choose which...
by Mendi Benigni | Apr 3, 2017 | Audio, Communication, Feedback, Formative, Immediate Feedback, Multimedia, Summative, Video
OVERVIEW: “Flipgrid is a video discussion community for your classroom that supercharges your students’ voices. You add the topics, your students respond with short videos, and everyone engages!” – Flipgrid website SUGGESTED USES: Online discussion board Class...
by Mendi Benigni | Oct 14, 2016 | OAKS, OAKS, Productivity, Summative
Many times, especially with essay tests, instructors want to grade the answers without knowing who’s test it is. This is known as Blind Grading and is often used to help remove grading bias. The OAKS Quiz tool has a blind grading feature which allows you to...
by Mendi Benigni | Aug 28, 2015 | Content Delivery, Formative, OAKS, OAKS, Summative
McGraw-Hill is integrated with OAKS via the External Learning tools. This integration provides single sign-on access to McGraw-Hill Campus and McGraw-Hill Connect. NOTE: At this time, single sign-on is the only part of Connect that is integrated. There is no...
by ratcliffcr | Apr 13, 2015 | Audience Response, Content Delivery, Formative, Immediate Feedback, Immediate Feedback, Lecture, Mobile, Mobile, Mobile, Other, Summative
What is Nearpod? Nearpod is an all-in-one presentation and polling application that allows teachers to deliver interactive lectures to students by pushing content to students’ mobile devices. Teachers control the presentation while students follow along. With...
by Mendi Benigni | Sep 5, 2013 | Collaboration, Feedback, Google, Group Work, Project, Summative
Google Documents (part of the Google Drive suite) is a free, web-based, collaborative word processor offered by Google. With it you can create MS Word-like documents, collaboratively or independently edit those documents and easily share them for viewing or grading....
