Online Teaching – Page 3 – Instructional Design & Technology Services, IITS

March 9, 2020Hiroyo Saito No Comments

Available Online Asynchronous Teaching Tools for Haverford Faculty

Dear Faculty,Following up on the email sent by the Provost’s office yesterday, Instructional Technology Services would like to share three main online asynchronous teaching tools available to everyone, VoiceThread, Panopto, and Moodle. VoiceThread What is VoiceThread? VoiceThread allows you to have threaded conversations via voice/video. Haverford College has an institutional license so you and your…

February 29, 2020Hiroyo Saito No Comments

Emergency Remote Teaching Guidelines

Instead of losing valuable class time to unexpected campus closings during emergencies or inclement weather, consider developing a plan for connecting with your students online. Email Your Students Use Moodle to easily email all or select students in your course. Synchronous Tools Google Hangouts Meet Google Hangouts Meet is a video conference system built into…

February 28, 2020Sharon Strauss

Using VoiceThread in your classes

VoiceThread (VT) is a web-based tool for creating commentary around images, video, or text. VT is very easy to use and can be assigned to individuals or groups of students. Below are a few examples of different types of VoiceThreads to give an idea of the types of things that you can do with this…

November 14, 2016Sharon Strauss

Are students doing their readings, and other questions

You may have seen the term “learning analytics” recently. Learning analytics allow you to get information about students, with the goal of helping them learn better. Some types of analytics, such as assessments and grades have been used as analytics for a long, long time. However, by using relatively new tools in Moodle and other…