by hbeezley | May 28, 2014 | #trending, Cool Tools, The Exchange
A topic that has been trending for a while now in education (think since 2010 – see below) is gamification. If you haven’t heard of gamification before, I’ll give you the Cliff’s Notes version. Gamification is the incorporation of gaming...
by hbeezley | May 20, 2014 | Cool Tools, The Exchange
Do you want to conduct an online meeting on the go? Blackboard Collaborate is Georgia State University’s online meeting platform. In a previous post we discussed how you can enhance your course with this useful collaboration tool by conducting online class...
by Will | May 13, 2014 | Cool Tools, The Exchange
This post is reposted from sites.gsu.edu/data_viz. Have you ever wanted to pull all of the raw data out of, let’s say, a pdf file of government data or a journal article? It’s the worst! You can’t just copy and paste from it, so first you try to...
by hbeezley | May 13, 2014 | Cool Tools, The Exchange
Our last two posts have narrowly focused on sharing apps that streamline grading in Desire2Learn: the Desire2Learn Assignment Grader app and the Turnitin app. In this post, we’d like to share an app that helps students stay organized and learn your content....
by hbeezley | May 10, 2014 | Cool Tools, The Exchange
I imagine a few of you caught our last post about the D2L Assignment Grader app, and the first question you had was, “Okay sounds neat-o, but does it also allow me to view originality reports and use QuickMark comments to evaluate student work offline?”...
by hbeezley | May 9, 2014 | Cool Tools, The Exchange
So it’s finals week, and your partner wants to drive 45 minutes to see a concert. You respond, “But, honey, I am swamped with grading. I have 150 essays that I need to score and provide feedback for in Desire2Learn by tomorrow. I can’t spend an...