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Zoom

Overview

Zoom is the college's primary web conferencing app, utilized by a majority of campus for online activities.  Zoom has also been integrated into Canvas, allowing one to schedule and open a Zoom meeting directly through the Canvas interface, as well as have recordings move automatically over to Panopto.

How to Get a Zoom Account

IT is in charge of handing out Zoom accounts.  You can email them or enter a ticket using their web tool.  eLearning is unable to hand out Zoom accounts and only handles troubleshooting and training.

Tutorials

Overview

Zoom has different capabilities, depending upon what you want to do during your meeting or class.  Here are some options:

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Overview

Once you're done with Zoom you'll want to put the recordings in a place students can find them. We don't have a lot of space in our Zoom storage, so we appreciate your support in moving recordings that will be reused. You can set up Zoom/Canvas/Panopto integration to have it move the recordings automatically (by creating your Zoom session in Canvas class or integrating it into a Canvas class).

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Overview

It's important that you keep your Zoom application up to date to make sure that bugs are fixed and you get the latest abilities within the app.

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Instruction Aids

Overview

Panopto is a video creation software and video streaming service located within Canvas at Green River College. You can create audio recordings, webcam recordings, shared desktop recordings, PowerPoint recordings, or mix and match. It also has a live webcast option. Then, within Canvas you can share the recordings with students by embedding videos on pages or creating quiz questions within the video and making the video an assignment.

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Overview

Annotate Pro is a browser based tool to help you give feedback.

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Support

Student Engagement Apps

Overview

Badges in Canvas, is run by Badgr Pro (care of the State Board of Technical and Community Colleges). All faculty and students have a Badgr Pro account (Green River Badgr Pro Login here).

Tutorials

For a detailed tutorial page on Badgr Pro, please visit this Canvas community page.

Overview

BigBlueButton is a built-in web-conferencing tool in Canvas that can be used for virtual lectures, virtual office hours, one-on-one meetings, or any other synchronous interactions.

Tutorials

For a detailed tutorials, check out the official support page for BigBlueButton.

Overview

FlipGrid is a Microsoft product that can be integrated into Canvas to create a video discussion. Students will need to log in using "Microsoft Login" and use their Green River College email credentials.

It can be a bit clunky to use as a student, so make sure that your students can get support from you and are at a technological level to be able to troubleshoot and not have it be a barrier.

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Overview

Hypothes.is is a social virtual annotation tool to use in Canvas with websites or PDF documents. This allows you to grade (or not grade) virtual annotations on a page and allow students to talk with each other and to a text.

 

Want to try it out? Enroll in a Hypothe.is Example course.

Student Support

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Question

Overview

We are SO EXCITED that Pear Deck is now integrated right into Canvas, which means that you can turn a Pear Deck session right into an assignment.  This gives your students in Canvas instant access to the Session without needing a Join Code or Link, like they do in a traditional Pear Deck presentation Session, and it is shown in the gradebook.  

Logging in to PearDeck for the First Time

The first time you log into Pear Deck, you will need to log in using your Green River email credentials.  Watch this short video to get an overview of the steps.  

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Additional Article: details of Additional Accordion

Book Publisher Apps

Overview

Achieve is a learning management system my Macmillan Learning. An overview of Achieve as well as some more specific videos can be found at Achieve | Online Learning System | Macmillan Learning US.

Overview

Cengage is a provider of course materials for higher education. They offer a wide variety of resources from etextbooks to online learning platforms. the instructor support site for Cengage products can be found here.

Specific Products

Below, you'll find links to where you can learn about specific Cengage products.

Overview

MyLab & Mastering is a web-based product of Pearson and can be used as an LMS for your course or integrated into your current LMS (Canvas, for example). You can find more information about MyLab & Mastering at their main website.

Overview

McGraw-Hill Connect is a web-based assignment and assessment platform which features performance tracking and LMS integration. The general site for McGraw-Hill Connect can be found here, while the corresponding support site can be found here.

Overview

Pressbooks is a online software that allows faculty to create their own textbooks, or search other open educational resources (OER) textbooks that have been created by others and reuse them or use and edit them.

Tutorials

  • Sign up for Open WA Pressbooks ( PDF) ( VIDEO)
  • Log in to Open WA Pressbooks ( PDF) ( VIDEO)
  • Search Pressbooks for Existing Textbooks ( PDF) ( VIDEO)

Comm Dept Apps

Overview

The Communications department has purchased this tool for their Public Speaking classes. It's a tool that allows students to submit video assignments and instructors to grade them with video, leaving comments in particular places in the video, as well as with a rubric.

Common GoReact Links

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Support

Math Dept Apps

Overview

ALEKS, which stands for Assessment and Learning in Knowledge Spaces, is an online learning program by McGraw Hill that features adaptive resources and assessments. ALEKS supports subjects such as Math, Chemistry, Statistics, and more. To learn more about ALEKS, visit their main website or their support page.

Hawkes

Hawkes Learning is an educational courseware platform providing instructional content and mastery-based learning to enhance student success in college courses, most notably, Mathematics.

How do I write mathematical notation in messages, inline text, etc?

You can open the instruction here for how to insert an inline equation in the body of a text.

I’m giving a test in WAMAP. Some of the questions that I’ve chosen have videos. Do I need to mess with the code of the question to remove the video?

No!  You don't need to modify the coding of the question to get rid of the video(s).  You can change a setting on the assignment, whichever assignment that is intended as a WAMAP Exam, to hide all embedded videos in the questions.  Open the instruction here for how to hide embedded videos of questions in an assignment.

How do I add questions from other assignments to my current assignment?

You can open the instruction here for how to add questions from other assignments to your current assignment.  **Note:  You'll find that the later half of this instruction is divided into two sections, one is for new WAMAP users and the other one is for experienced users.

How do I move items around in my course quickly?

You can follow the instruction here for how to quickly move an item around in your course.

How do I adjust time limits for accommodations?

You can open the instruction here for how to adjust the time limits for accommodations.

How do I add a picture of myself?

You can open the instruction here for how to add picture of yourself on WAMAP.  **Note:  This instruction is applicable to both instructor and student accounts.

How do I change the due dates of assignments easily?

You can easily change the due date of an assignment or many assignments with the Calendar feature of WAMAP.  Open the instruction here for how to change the due date of an assignment with the WAMAP Calendar.

How do I check attendance?

You can open the instruction here for How to Check Attendance.

Can you import into Canvas and still use discussion board in WAMAP?

Forums can be exported, from WAMAP to Canvas, but they come into Canvas as Canvas discussions and the replies don't get reported back to WAMAP.

How do I add a picture of myself?

After logging in, click on the settings icon next to your name in the top right of the page. Next to picture, click choose file and choose your picture file. 

How do I add questions from other assignments to my current assignment?

​In the questions menu of the assignment, under potential questions, click select assessments. From there, choose the assessments you’d like, then click use these assessments. You’ll then see only questions from those assignments from which to choose to add to your current assignment.

How do I adjust time limits for accommodations?

​Click on roster from the course page. Click on the settings icon that looks like a gear, next to the student’s name. Choose student profile and options in the menu. Change the time limit multiplier from 1 to whatever you’d like. For example, changing this to 1.5 would give the student a 45 minute time limit on an assignment that normally has a 30 minute time limit.

How do I browse WAMAP questions based on a certain topic (rather than a specific keyword)?

​From within the add/remove questions page of an assignment, click the select libraries button (under potential questions). Navigate to your desired topic or subtopic (for example, to get to questions about the quadratic formula, click algebra, then click quadratics, then check the quadratic formula box). Once your topics are chosen, click the use libraries button at the top. Then click the search button (next to the add questions button).

How do I change the due dates of assignments easily?

​You can drag and drop the assignments to change their due dates by navigating to the course, clicking the calendar link, clicking enable drag-and-drop editing, and moving assignments to your desired due-dates. 

How do I check attendance?

​Click on roster from the course page. Click on the view login grid link. This will show a table of how many times each student has logged in on a given day. By default, the last week is shown, but you can change the date range by adjusting the calendar dates shown above the table.

How do I move items around in my course quickly?

​Click on the quick rearrange view (next to Instructor View and student view). You can click on blocks and folders to “open” them, move content in and out of blocks, and change the order of your course items. After things are arranged as you’d like, click save changes near the top. 

I can’t see my course. How do I change the courses I see when I log in?

​On the home page of your WAMAP account (the page you see after logging in), click the change course order link (below add new course). Here at the display order page, you can change the order of your courses, moving the ones you want to see on the home page to the list of displayed courses and the ones you don’t want to see to the list of hidden courses. 

I’m giving a test in WAMAP. Some of the questions that I’ve chosen have videos. Do I need to mess with the code of the question to remove the video?

​On the home page of your WAMAP account (the page you see after logging in), click the change course order link (below add new course). Here at the display order page, you can change the order of your courses, moving the ones you want to see on the home page to the list of displayed courses and the ones you don’t want to see to the list of hidden courses. 

What about class evaluations?

​There are a variety of options available, see the Student Evaluations page for options and to request evaluations. Contact facultyevaluations@greenriver.edu with questions.

 

Plagiarism & Proctoring Apps

Overview

Respondus LockDown Browser is a virtual proctoring service for quizzes inside of Canvas. It can be just a locked down browser or it can be that plus a webcam recording of the student taking the quiz. Please review this article on the pros and cons of virtual proctoring before using this service.

Respondus LockDown Browser now has a Chromebook option, but some running start students may not be able to use it because of restrictions from their school districts. If this is the case, copy the quiz and set Honorlock up for the particular students who need it.

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NOTE: if you import your course contents from a past course and want to use LockDown Browser for your course, you MUST click on the LockDown Browser navigation link to complete the integration with your course and finalize settings.  Even if you change no settings from the previous quarter, this step must be done, or your students will be unable to access quizzes that use LockDown Browser.

Important Note

We can not support the use of room/environment scans when using proctoring software.  In 2022, a federal judge sided with a student in a lawsuit against Cleveland State University in Ohio, stating that they are unconstitutional.  (source: NPR)  For this reason, we strongly recommend that environmental scans are not used when setting up Lockdown Browser-based exams.