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Author: Swinburne University of Technology

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Produced by Greg Bird (Swinburne TAFE), eLearning QuickTips are short videos designed to provide you with the skills to assist develop effective and creative teaching and learning resources. Please note that this collection is no longer being added to.
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Workflowy allows you to organise all of your thoughts and plans into one place. These are available to you anywhere, on any device. They can then be easily searched and shared with others. Recorded on 4 December 2012. (eLearning QuickTip no. 44)
In this eLearning QuickTip, we revisit the requirements for recording Engagement and Final Results into the BBLearn GradeCentre. Specific attention is given to the recording of Engagement, and acts as a reminder that the recording of a First Engement Date is required for every student. Recorded on 2 September 2012. (eLearning QuickTip no. 43)
Staff will often develop a quiz in one BBLearn unit, then wish to re-use that same quiz in another. This will show you how to do this. Recorded on 3 September 2012. (eLearning QuickTip no. 42)
One of the challenges for teachers is to know what is happening in their many BBLearn units. To help you manage this, BBLearn is capable of sending you an email digest summarising, for example, any assignments submitted by students. Recorded on 23 August 2012. (eLearning QuickTip no. 41)
Are you concerned that your students are submitting plagiarised work? This QuickTip demonstrates SafeAssign - a plagiarism detection assessment instrument built into BlackBoard. Recorded on 2 August 2012 (eLearning QuickTip no. 40)
This QuickTip shows a range of video resources that illustrate and inspire. They employ animation techniques to distill complex concepts to something easily understood, and utilise keynote speakers to inspire curiosity. Recorded on 17 June 2012. (eLearning QuickTip no. 39)
This QuickTip demonstrates the 'teacher' column in Grade Center and shows you what a useful tool it can be to claim and identify your students amongst the others. Recorded on 10 April 2012. (eLearning Quicktip no. 38)
On March 24th, there was a major upgrade to BBLearn. This upgrade is called Service Pack 8 (SP8) and brings new features, enhancements and bug fixes. It also brings a brand new look and feel, that I feel makes the product much cleaner, simpler and easy to navigate. This video covers: an overview of the new features, the new look and feel, browser compatibility, user interface improvements and navigating quickly between units. Recorded on 15 March 2012. (eLearning QuickTip no. 37)
This video covers a technique in BBLearn called 'Smart View' that enables teachers to view only their group of students in the Grade Centre. Recorded on 23 February 2012. (eLearning QuickTip no. 36)
This video introduces the concept of 'Adaptive release' in BBLearn. 'Adaptive release' allows you to use the results of a quiz (for example) to control a students progression through their BBLearn unit. Recorded on 15 Feb 2012. (eLearning QuickTip no. 35)
This video demonstrates how to create a computer marked quiz (or test) directly in BBLearn and also demonstrates the student experience of undertaking the quiz. Recorded on 5 February 2012. (eLearning QuickTip no. 34)
This video provides information to help you discover open education resources (OER) for using in your teaching helping free you from the burden of having to produce your own content. Recorded on 27 October 2011. (eLearning QuickTip no. 33)
This video shows how to both book and use the classroom laptop trolleys which are common at the Hawthorn campus on Level 2 of the TD Building. Recorded on 22 Sept 2011. (eLearning QuickTip no. 32)
This video demonstrates the new 'Rubrics tool' in BlackBoard that allows for rapid and standardised marking and creates a grading matrix or assessment guide to help provide feedback to your students. Recorded on 21 Sept 2011. (eLearning Quicktip no. 31)
This short video demonstrates 2 new features in BBLearn: the SMS tool that allows you to send SMS messages to your students from directly within your BBLearn unit and the 'Student View ' tool. Recorded on 1 September 2011. (eLearning QuickTip no. 30)
This short video shows how to hide and re-order the display of units in your 'My Units of Study' within BlackBoard. Recorded on 11 August 2011. (eLearning QuickTip no. 29)
We now have the ability to transfer final results from the BBLearn grade-centre into Ascol, as we once had with WebCT. For this to happen, we need to make sure that our results have been accurately entered into the grade-centre. Recorded on 7 July 2011. (eLearning QuickTip no. 28)
Find out how to monitor students and their activity within Blackboard Learn (BBLearn). It also demonstrates three functions: Performance Dashboard, Unit Reports and Early-Warning System. Recorded on 16 June 2011. (eLearning QuickTip no. 26)
This QuickTip explains Yammer - a private social network tool that allows you to connect with your colleagues. Recorded on 7 June 2011. (eLearning QuickTip no. 25)
This QuickTip covers a number of techniques to add visual imagery to your learning content. These techniques are equally appropriate for your Word and PowerPoint presentations as they would be for your online content. Recorded on 2 June 2011. (eLearning QuickTip no. 4)
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