Instructional Technology Center

Great news for instructors; Turnitin, the service we have to assist in detecting plagiarism and evaluate student assignment originality, is now integrated with your course drop boxes in Pearson LearningStudio!

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OK, it pains me to write this post, but there’s a great little tool from Microsoft that allows one to create and publish professional posts for a blog.

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Have you ever created a great Word document, uploaded it through an MS Office-type Content Item in your course, only to have the formatting be entirely different online? Well, there’s a way to ensure that what you see in Word is what you get online:

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SimpleDiagrams is a an Adobe Air desktop application that helps you express your ideas quickly and simply. There’s just enough functionality to describe a thought or capture a process.  Since it’s based on Adobe Air, both Mac and Windows users can take advantage of this FREE little tool.

SimpleDiagrams keeps the visual expression clear through the simple design of library items and backgrounds.

SimpleDiagrams

SimpleDiagrams can be found here.

This blog now uses a cool, free tool called Broadtexter.  Broadtexter is a FREE service that allows your students to sign up to receive text messages from you.  They may then opt out again at any time.

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Sometimes you might want your students to discuss a topic with just a few of their classmates, and placing them into groups is the first step to accomplishing this:

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If you’re looking for information on how to go about self-publishing books, this is the article for you!

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This is an example of HTML5 video in a web browser - no plugin required!

A great, and EASY way to get video out to all platforms and devices, without Flash or requiring the user to install browser plugins.

This works on both Macs and Windows, using Safari, Chrome, FireFox, or Opera.

We’ve documented a bug with eCollege that will cause Pathbuilder to become inactive although it shows it enabled in your course admin settings.  Additionally, triggers and criteria set up within the course disappear.  This is a known issue by eCollege.

The good news is that there is a quick fix that not only re-enables your paths, but brings back your triggers and criteria as well.

The bug that disables your paths, is the use of double quotation marks (”) in discussion topic titles.  The double quotes may still be used in any other aspect of a discussion topic, just not the title.

Replacing the double quote (”) with a single quote (’) will re-enable Pathbuilder and bring back your triggers and criteria.