Learning Technologies and Services Guide

What Respondus LockDown Browser Does

LockDown Browser is a proctory solution to prevent cheating during online exams. LockDown Browser is a custom Internet browser that "locks down" the testing environment, preventing students from accessing other browser windows. For more information, visit the Respondus website.

How Instructors Use This

• Prevents cheating during online exams, students are unable to copy, print, or access online calculators.
• Prevents access to other applications including messaging, screen-sharing, virtual machines, and network monitoring applications.
• Respondus LockDown Browser now integrates seamlessly with Zoom in Blackboard and Canvas

Tutorials for Faculty and/or Students

• Review these training resources on using Respondus LockDown Browser.
• Review this support article on how to enable Respondus LockDown Browser with Zoom (recommended class size 20-25)

What Respondus Monitor Does

Respondus Monitor is a companion application to LockDown Browser that uses webcam to prevent cheating during online exams. Respondus Monitor records student exams sessions and suspicious behavior is automatically flagged. For more information, visit  the Respondus Monitor website.

How Instructors Use This

• A fully automated solution for online proctoring.
• Records student exam sessions with a webcam and suspicious behavior is automatically flagged.
• Respondus Monitor now integrates seamlessly with Zoom in Blackboard and Canvas.

Tutorials for Faculty and/or Students

• Review these training resources on using Respondus Monitor.
• Review this support article on working from a Chromebook.
• Review this support article on how to enable Respondus LockDown Browser with Zoom (recommended class size 20-25)

What Canvas Rubrics Does

Rubrics is an assessment tool comprised of rows and columns. Rows define the criteria to let students know what the expectations are and the columns define levels of performance for each criterion. Allow students access to rubrics before they complete their work to provide transparency into your grading. For more information, visit the Canvas What are Rubrics website.

How Instructors Use This

• Create Rubrics for assessing and grading student work
• Align rubrics with assignments that use the Online, On Paper, or No submission submission types.
• Provide rubrics to students before they submit their work.

What Blackboard Rubrics Does

Rubrics is a fast and easy way to ensure consistent and impartial grading and help students focus on your expectations. Allow students access to rubrics before they complete their work to provide transparency into your grading. For more information, visit the Blackboard Rubrics website.

How Instructors Use This

• Create Rubrics for assessing and grading student work.
• Associate Rubrics with gradable content items, such as assignments, discussion boards, blogs, and more!
• Students can view the Rubric before they submit their work.

Tutorials for Faculty and/or Students

• Visit the Rubrics Library under "Organizations" on your Blackboard main menu.

What SafeAssign Does

Blackboard SafeAssign is an effective plagiarism deterrent with simple assignment integration. SafeAssign compares submitted assignments against a set of academic papers to identify areas of overlap between resubmitted assignments and existing works. For more information, visit the Blackboard SafeAssign website.

How Instructors Use This

• Institutional document archives: Contains all papers submitted to SafeAssign by users in their respective institutions.
• Global Reference Database: Contains over 15 million papers volunteered by students.
• ProQuest Journal Database: More than 3,000 publication titles, 4.5 million documents, and over 200 topical categories.
• Internet: SafeAssign searches across the broader Internet for matching text using an internal search service.

Tutorials for Faculty and/or Students

• Review this support article on using SafeAssign in assignments. 

What Turnitin Does

With Turnitin you can provide standardized or customized written comments, voice comments, check originality, highlight, and use rubrics you create. Peer Mark feature allows students review each other's work and provide constructive feedback for active learning. Students can use Turnitin on their computer or IPad. For more information, visit the Turnitin website.

How Instructors Use This

• Help your students learn about plagiarism, whether it is accidental or deliberate.
• Check all papers for plagiarism issues.
• Save time by creating reusable comments for problems that occur frequently.

Tutorials for Faculty and/or Students

• How to set up Turnitin in your Classic or Ultra course, watch this quick video or read this support article.
• Review the Student User Guide.
• Review the Faculty User Guide.

What ABBYY Does

ABBYY is a solution to convert your scanned images (i.e. images, handwritten notes) and PDFs to editable documents. You are able to pprocess a high-volume of documents in your courses quickly and accurately. For more information, visit the ABBYY website.

How Instructors Use This

• Convert scanned paper, images, and PDFs to editable documents.
• Translation of texts and language learning.
• Processing of high volumes of various document types.

Tutorials for Faculty and/or Students

• For related support, speak with one of our eLearning Specialist's or Instructional Designer.
• Please connect during regular business hours by email | bbhelp@csueastbay.edu | By phone: (510) 885-2700

ABBYY Accessibility Information

What Ally Does

Blackboard Ally is a tool that focuses on making digital course content more accessible for all learners. Ally provides information on a document accessibility report and tips on how to make the content more accessible. Ally provides multiple accessible versions for content in your course, such as audio files, translation language packs, MP3 file, and much more! For more information, visit the Blackboard Ally website.

How Instructors Use This

• Automatically provides alternative versions of content added to your course.
• Provides instructors with feedback about the accessibility of their course materials.
• Provides support on how to convert your materials to make them accessible to all students.

Tutorials for Faculty and/or Students

• Review this support article on the Ally accessibility report.

Create accessible documents with Google Suite's Grackle Docs guided remediation tool. You don’t have to be an accessibility expert to use this tool. Create an Accessible Alt-Image Tag Library and create Accessible PDFs with ease. It is as easy as 1-2-3! Click - Open a Google Doc and run the Grackle Docs add-on. Review - Grackle Docs shows you what is’t accessible in organized groups. Fix - Grackle Docs explains and helps resolve each snag with an assistive technology. For more information, visit the Grackle Docs website.

How Instructors Use This

• Learn about accessibility standards as documents evolve. 
• Create Accessible Alt-Image Tag Library - Add descriptive text to an image, Grackle stores it. If the image is used again, Grackle automatically adds it. 
• Create Accessible PDFs with Ease - Create accessible PDF for Section 508 compliance. Need to share with other Doc users? One click and Accessibility goes with it.  

Tutorials for Faculty and/or Students

• Review this support article on how to get Grackle Docs add-on.

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For more information, visit CSUEB Accessibility website.

Review this presentation on How to Make Documents Accessible for Everyone

What Blackboard Overview Does

We have compiled the basics for the novice Blackboard Learn instructors and students.

Tutorials for Faculty and/or Students

• Review this support article on how Students login to Blackboard for the first time.
• Review this support article on Quick Start Guide for Instructors.
• Watch this quick video on the Blackboard Tour for first time users

Join CSUEB in optimizing learning environments, improving instructor development, empowering students, and performing high quality research by using Blackboard Analytics for Learn. You have access to easy-to-read analytics on the quality of student engagement and achievement of learning outcomes. For more information, visit the Blackboard Analytics website.

How Instructors Use This

• Instructional Design - Consult with Online Campus Instructional Designer/eLearning Specialists to have a well-designed learning environment.  
  • For related support, speak with one of our eLearning Specialist's or Instructional Designer.
  • Please connect during regular business hours by email | bbhelp@csueastbay.edu | By phone: (510) 885-2700
• Course Quality Matters - Increase student engagement, decrease unnecessary cognitive load and encourage self-reflection.
• Support Faculty Development - Review analytics of what works, and access to the information you need to for continual improvement. 

Tutorials for Faculty and/or Students

• Review this support article on Analytics for Learn Reports.

What Blackboard Classic Does

In the Classic or Original Course View, you can easily navigate, provide content, edit items, and change options that affect how users interact with the interface. Classic course views appear seamlessly in the course list.

How Instructors Use This

• Course menu: Users' access point for all course content.
• Control Panel: The area after the course menu is your access point for course management functions, such as course style, course tools, and users. Students don't see the Control Panel.
• Student preview: You can review course content and validate course behaviors from a student's perspective. You're logged in with a student account—the preview user account—and enrolled in the current course.

Tutorials for Faculty and/or Students

• Watch this quick video on student view of Blackboard Classic.
• Watch this quick video on how students record and post a video to discussion boards.
• Watch these Blackboard Classic Tutorials.
• Watch this quick video on adding an item.
• Review this support article on how to upload a document.
• Review this support article on how to create an assignment.
• Watch this quick video on how to create an assignment with SafeAssign.
• Watch this quick video on how to create an exam.
• Watch this quick video on creating graded discussion boards.
• Watch this quick video on how to create groups.
• Watch this quick video on how to create group assignments.
• Watch this quick video on how to create group discussion boards.
• Review these support article on Grade Center.
• Review this support article on changing categories in Grade Center.
• Review this support article on creating a column for Final Grade.
• Watch this quick video on how to grade an essay exam (no audio).

What Blackboard Instructor and Student Apps Does

Blackboard Mobile™ solution gives you access to all aspects of the educational experience on mobile devices. Giving you the power to engage learners on their terms and devices, offering instant access to the information they need, and encouraging the interaction they crave. The student Blackboard app is designed especially for students to view content and participate in courses. For more information, visit the Blackboard Instructor App website. For more information, visit the Blackboard Student App website.

How Instructors Use This

• Quickly add an announcement, access the course information, content, grades, roster, etc.
• Participate in online discussion posts, and comment on a blog or journal entry.
• If you are using the latest app for Android or iOS, you can also upload attachments with your updates.

Tutorials for Faculty and/or Students

• Available on iOS and Android mobile devices.
• Available for download on the iTunes App Store and Google Play.

What Blackboard Messages Does

As an instructor, you can send messages to your students within Blackboard. Messages do not get sent to your email inbox, so you can keep track of all course related content without filling up your inbox. For more information, visit the Blackboard Messages website.

How Instructors Use This

• You can access new messages right from your activity stream with the most recent messages for each course appear first. 
• You can view messages for current, pervious, and future courses.
• Select a course card to view all new and existing messages in your course. You can delete messages inside of your course.

Tutorials for Faculty and/or Students

• Review this support article on Blackboard course messages.

What SMS Notifications Does

Your students may want to receive SMS notifications via text message to keep up with course activities. It is faster and easier than ever to alert your students about important updates, feedback, and assignments. After you enable SMS notifications in Blackboard, your students can choose the type of notifications they receive on their phones. For more information, visit the Blackboard SMS Notifications website.

How Instructors Use This

• Fast course activity notifications. The SMS notification for each course are send directly to the learners device.
• Access messages across time. You can view messages for current, previous, and future courses.

Tutorials for Faculty and/or Students

• Watch this quick video on setting up SMS notifications.

What Blackboard Ultra Does

Ultra is a new learning experience through simple navigation and is organized so that all course material, interactions, and tools are right at your fingertips. Ultra makes is easy to build content items thanks to simple course layers and intuitive design. For more information, visit the Blackboard Ultra website.

How Instructors Use This

• The intuitive and fluid interactions of the modern design.
• With Ultra’s responsive design, the interface adjusts to fit any computer, tablet, or smartphone.
• For the Activity Stream, instructors will find an organized list of everything that’s happened in all your course.

Tutorials for Faculty and/or Students

• Watch these quick Blackboard Ultra Tutorials.
• Watch this quick video of the Student Ultra Course Tour.

What Camtasia Does

Camtasia allows you to create powerful professional video lessons, lectures, and presentations. You can easily record screen movements and actions, or import HD video from a camera or another source. You can use almost any device with a Mac or Windows platform to customize and edit content. For more information, visit the Camtasia website.

How Instructors Use This

• Assess learning on the spot by adding quizzes and comprehension questions to the video lessons.
• Tailor instruction for different level of learners.
• Easily create closed captions for videos.

Tutorials for Faculty and/or Students

• Review these quick Camtasia Tutorials

Snagit and Camtasia Accessiability Standards

What GoReact Does

Ready to provide next-level student feedback on their videos? Then use GoReact! Leave live or asynchronous, time-stamped feedback to see improvement student learning outcomes. GoReact assignments are prefect for presentations, record using the built-in feature or upload an existing video. GoReact is perfect for departments like Teacher Prep, Sign Language, Communication, and Nursing! For more information, visit the GoReact website.

How Instructors Use This

• Teacher Prep - From early benchmarking to student teaching in the field, you can capture video of students for feedback, grading, and critique of their skills. 
• Sign Language - Immersive teaching and interpreter training. 
• Communication - Public speaking, debate, sales, and interviews. 
• Nursing and Clinical Training - Healthcare programs use GoReact for skills assessment and clinical training like EMT training, first aid, and psychological counseling. 

Tutorials for Faculty and/or Students

• Review this support article on the different GoReact assignments types.
• Review this support article on how to use GoReact in your Classic or Ultra course.
• Review this support article on how Students submit assignments on GoReact.

What Panopto Does

With Panopto, you have an easy-to-use, all-in-one video platform for video management. Panopto seamlessly integrates with Blackboard Classic and Ultra. Assess learning on the spot by adding quizzes to the video lessons. Easily create closed captions for videos. For more information, visit the Panopto website.

How Instructors Use This

• Video platform making it easy to record and share videos for active learning into your courses.
• Assess student learning with on the spot quizzes with gradebook integration.
• Zoom recorded meetings are now uploaded directly to Panopto.

Tutorials for Faculty and/or Students

• Review this support article on how to use Panopto in your course.
• Watch this quick video in how to record lectures with Panopto.
• Review this support article on how to add a quiz to your Panopto lecture.
• Review this support article on how turn on auto captions in Panopto.

What Snagit Does

Snagit lets you capture images and video in just a few simple clicks. Customize your content with the greatest of ease. Take the hassle out of creating images and videos. Capture your screen, edit images, and deliver results. For more information, visit the Snagit website.

How Instructors Use This

• Grade assignments and narrate feedback by using mark up features, such as drawing tools, stamps, and callouts.
• Build engaging handouts by creating visual course materials with screenshot of documents, notes or drawings.
• Quickly edit or annotate an image.
• Make short “disposable” videos with a short shelf life.

Tutorials for Faculty and/or Students

• Review these Snagit Tutorials.

Snagit and Camtasia Accessiability Standards

What Adobe Creative Cloud Does

Adobe Creative Cloud is great for designing engaging presentations, videos, web pages, infographics and more! Communicate your ideas with impact. Creative Cloud makes research standout by creating compelling content in seconds. For more information, visit the Adobe Creative Cloud website.

How Instructors Use This

• Create digital learning objects to engage your students more actively, learn more effectively, and gain essential skills for employment. 
• Creative Cloud apps address a full range of communication needs and share a common interface.

Tutorials for Faculty and/or Students

• Download for free by sending ITS an email | servicedesk@csueastbay.edu

What Kahoot! Does

Kahoot is a game-based learning platform that allows real-time student response and engagement with distance learning features, play in class, and review game reports to assess learning. Instructors can embed questions in various quiz formats and use Kahoot! to reinforce concepts or preview students’ previous knowledge prior to teaching a particular topic. For more information, visit the Kahoot! website.

How Instructors Use This

• Create game-based quizzes, discussions, and surveys
• Host Kahoot! live in class or via a video conferencing tool
• To review results and run analytics from game reports for formative assessments

Tutorials for Faculty and/or Students

• • Help & Support Center 
  • Watch these quick Kahoot! Tutorials 
  • How to Create a Kahoot! A Step-by-Step Guide
  • Kahoot! Ways to Play
  • Player Identifier & Combining Reports
  • Zoom Integration & Microsoft PowerPoint Integration

Inclusion and Accessibility Policy &  Accessibility Standards

What Edpuzzle Does

Edpuzzle is a teaching tool used to place interactive content into pre-existing videos from a variety of sources. For more information, visit the Edpuzzle website.

How Instructors Use This

• Find a video on YouTube, upload your own or re-use a video lesson created by another instructor.
• Edit the video to create your lesson. Record your voice and embedding questions in the video.
• Assign the video to students and check their progress in real time

Tutorials for Faculty and/or Students

• Watch these quick Edpuzzle Tutorials
• Review supporting articles on Edpuzzle Support Center 

What Leganto Does

Leganto is an online application that supports the creation and management of course resource reading lists. Instructors can build, maintain, and share resource lists that include all material types; library staff can provide resources; and students can access all course materials in one place from any device. For more information, visit the Leganto website.

How Instructors Use This

• Create lists of relevant and up-to-date materials gathered from various sources including the Library collection, internet and multimedia resources 
• Manage and update course resources based on course needs
• Look at statistical usage of materials by students

Tutorials for Faculty and/or Students

• Review these supporting articles on Leganto User Interface Guide
• Watch these quick tutorials Leganto Tutorials 

What Adobe Captivate Does

Adobe Captivate is an authoring tool used for creating eLearning content such as software demonstrations, software simulations, responsive courses, interactive videos, multi-module branched courses, and randomized quizzes. For more information, visit Adobe Captivate.

How Instructors Use This

• Increase student engagement
• Create interaction and collaboration among students.
• Assess student work on various platforms

Tutorials for Faculty and/or Students

• Visit the Learning Hub for an in depth list of tutorials on various topics.

What Blackboard Test Generator Does

The Blackboard Quiz Generator helps create quizzes for Blackboard. It allows you to type up the quiz offline in a program like Word or Notepad and not have to go through the trouble of making long quizzes via the Blackboard web interface.

How Instructors Use This

• To assess student learning.

Tutorials for Faculty and/or Students

• Watch the following demonstrations:
• Instructional Video Step 1
• Instructional Video Step 2

What Adobe Captivate Does

Adobe Captivate is an authoring tool used for creating eLearning content such as software demonstrations, software simulations, responsive courses, interactive videos, multi-module branched courses, and randomized quizzes. For more information, visit Adobe Captivate.

How Instructors Use This

• Increase student engagement
• Create interaction and collaboration among students.
• Assess student work on various platforms

Tutorials for Faculty and/or Students

• Visit the Learning Hub for an in depth list of tutorials on various topics.

• Create professional and interactive online lesson content. 
• Create opportunities to assess student achievement of module and course learning objectives.
• Track student's participation with interactive learning activities. 

Tutorials for Faculty and/or Students

• Faculty accounts are limited, please email bbhelp@csueastbay.edu to request an account. 
  
• Review the CourseArc Quick Start Guide.

What Piazza Does

Piazza is incredibly easy, completely free discussion board style platform that is intended to help students learn using the power of collaboration. Piazza gives students anonymity options to encourage everyone - even your shy students - to ask and answer questions. For more information, visit the Piazza website.

How Instructors Use This

• Wiki style format enables collaboration in a single space.
• Anonymous posting encourages every student to participate.
• Seamless integration with your Blackboard Classic or Ultra course.
  

Tutorials for Faculty and/or Students

• Review these supports articles on Piazza.

What Vyond Does

Vyond is a fast and simple-to-use animation video platform. Create captivating video lectures in minutes with a library of templated scenes and characters or create videos from scratch. Sharing your videos with students is easy as ever. Simply create a MP4 or animated GIFs in a click, making Blackboard integration a breeze. For more information, visit the Vyond website.

How Instructors Use This

• Increase student engagement - Create animated video lectures in minutes!
• Blackboard integration made simple - Your videos can be shared anywhere you want with a click! 

Tutorials for Faculty and/or Students

• For related support, speak with one of our eLearning Specialist's or Instructional Designer.
• Please connect during regular business hours by email | bbhelp@csueastbay.edu | By phone: (510) 885-2700

What Blackboard Collaborate Does

Blackboard Collaborate is a simple, and convenient web conference tool. Blackboard Collaborate is integrated inside each course at Cal State East Bay, so there is no need to create and share meeting links. It is a great learning tool that promotes collaborative learning and support engagement. Blackboard Collaborate allows you to poll students, record sessions and share them all inside of your Blackboard course. For more information, visit the Blackboard Collaborate website.

How Instructors Use This

• Virtual office hours to meet with students one-on-one.
• Virtual meeting rooms for group collaboration and work.
• Record and share lectures inside of Blackboard.

Tutorials for Faculty and/or Students

• Review these support articles on Blackboard Collaborate.

What Zoom Does

Zoom is a web conferencing software that is available to all students, faculty and staff at Cal State East Bay. Zoom is an easy to use, reliable video conferencing solution that is integrated inside of each Blackboard and Canvas course. Zoom allows you to share your screen, record meetings and even annotate screens such as website's. It is great for scheduling office hours with students or meetings with up to 500 participants. For more information and CSU East Bay login page, visit csueb.zoom.us

How Instructors Use This

• Virtual office hours to meet with students one-on-one.
• Virtual meeting rooms for group collaboration and work.
• Live polling for Questions and Answers.
• Record and share lectures inside of Blackboard.

Tutorials for Faculty and/or Students

• Review this support article or watch this quick video on how to use Zoom in your course.
• Review this support article or watch this quick video on how to record a Zoom meeting and share in a course.
• Review this support article on how to add an alternative host to Zoom.
• Review this support article on enabling captions in Zoom.
• Review this support article on how students use Zoom.

What Copyright Does

Do you teach an online or hybrid course and find it confusing to determine what materials you can distribute and how? CSUEB Library provides comprehensive guides to help you navigate copyright law and how it applies to you. This is guide offers information about copyright for the Cal State East Bay community. It is not intended for legal use.

How Instructors Use This

• For online and hybrid courses, you can feel safe knowing that if you put your materials on your course site, you are meeting many of the requirements for distributing materials within the bounds of copyright law.
• Blackboard and Canvas limits access to enrolled students and only gives students access to materials for a specific period of time. 

Tutorials for Faculty and/or Students

• Review the Academic Senate on Intellectual Property Policy
• Review the Copyright Fact Sheet for Online and Hybrid Courses.

What F2F vs. Online Engagement Equivalences Does

Whether they are traditional, blended, or fully online courses, many include online components and other types of activities as part of instructional time. Any course that meets must consider Instructional Equivalency Credit Hours while designing its online component. For more information, review the F2F vs. Online Engagement Equivalencies website.

How Instructor's Use This

• In-Class Face-to-Face Seat Time Activities.
• Equivalent Online Engagement Hour Activities.
• Credit Units Information and Carnegie Units.

Tutorials for Faculty and/or Students

• Review the F2F vs. Online Equivalences Chart

What LinkedIn Learning Does

LinkedIn Learning combines industry-leading content from Lynda.com with personalized course recommendations based on insights from LinkedIn’s network. The playlet feature lets you share and assign online content to support flipped-classroom learning modules. For more information, visit the LinkedIn Learning website.

How Instructors Use This

• Enable flipped classroom learning - assign video tutorials and tools training for homework while reserving class time for discussion and concept mastery.
• Training for every function, at all levels - Select from thousands of beginner-to-advanced courses across core functional areas.
• Hundreds of soft skill courses - Select from topics covering leadership skills, time management, peer relationships, communication and more.

Tutorials for Faculty and/or Students

• Review the Faculty Guide LinkedIn Learn Classic.
• Review the Student Guide LinkedIn Learn Classic.
• Review the Student Guide LinkedIn Learn Ultra.

What NetTutor Does

NetTutor is a web-based online tutoring service in which the students choose either synchronous or asynchronous sessions with Highly-Qualified Tutors who hold a bachelor’s degree, and many hold graduate degrees in their field of expertise. Students receive live tutoring on-demand, question drop-off, and writing feedback options. NetTutor also complies with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines and Section 508 and is FERPA-compliant. For more information, visit the NetTutor website.

How Instructors Use This

• Customized Tutoring allows each institution to customize every aspect of the service their students.
• NetTutor is available 24/7 in all levels of math and English and extensive hours in all other subjects.

Tutorials for Faculty and/or Students

• Watch this quick video on how students use NetTutor.
• Watch this quick video on how students upload a paper in NetTutor.