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Teaching Tools for Class: The Virtual Classroom Built on Zoom

With Class, instructors can add teaching and learning tools to Zoom. Faculty can take attendance, hand out assignments, give a quiz, grade work, or talk one-on-one with a student. Class gives you more control to arrange your students in different ways and keep track of attendance and discussions. Instructors can also have polls and tie everything into Blackboard for easy grading.

For information on Teaching Tools, please identify and select a topic below to be taken to the Class knowledge base.

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Class Management for Class: The Virtual Classroom Built on Zoom

With Class, instructors can add teaching and learning tools to Zoom. Faculty can take attendance, hand out assignments, give a quiz, grade work, or talk one-on-one with a student. Class gives you more control to arrange your students in different ways and keep track of attendance and discussions. Instructors can also have polls and tie everything into Blackboard for easy grading.

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Google Meet in Blackboard Overview

How to add a Google Meet link to Blackboard

You now have the option to create and add Google Meet links within Blackboard.

  1. When you are initially starting off, select the content area you want your Google Meet link to be located in.
  2. Click on Build Content, and select Google Meet.Google Meet in Blackboard, red arrow points from build content to Google Meet
  3. The following page will show up. From there, fill in all the information about the meeting, and select Create Meeting on the bottom left corner.Google Meet in Blackboard form
  4. You should get the success message on the next page. Go back to your Blackboard page, and after you refresh it, the Google Meet link will appear. Note that the meeting link is hidden from students until it becomes available from the time you’ve selected.Google Meet link in Blackboard. Availability:Item is hidden is circled in red
  5. When the time has come for the meeting, click on the link, and select Join now to join the meeting. Note: Please confirm you and your students are signed into your ACC issued Gmail accounts when joining a Google Meet link.Google Meet join meeting: red arrow points to Join Now button

How to Record and Access Recording

Once you join the meeting, you may decide to record the meeting. Please refer to the Record a video meeting article.

To access the recording, go to the Play, share, download, or save a recording section of the same article.

Note: For students to access recordings, the instructor must share with them the links. This is also covered in the above article.

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Access & Share Cloud Recordings from Zoom within Blackboard

If you record a Zoom session through Blackboard, you can access it to view and/or share the recording with your class.

Accessing Cloud Recordings

  1. Locate your Zoom Meeting tool link in your Blackboard course. To learn more, view the Zoom within Blackboard article.
  2. Click on the Cloud Recordings tab.Zoom Cloud Recordings location

This will give you access to all your recordings in that specific course.Zoom Cloud Recordings

Note: Students in your Blackboard course will also be able to access the recordings under the Cloud Recordings tab. It’s not necessary to share a link for each recording to your class.

Sharing Cloud Recordings

  1. You can share recordings with links for people not in your Blackboard course. Locate the recording you want to share, select it, and click Share.Locate share Zoom cloud recording
  2. A popup window should come up where you can copy the link to share it with guests.Copy Zoom recording link

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Schedule & Start a Zoom Session within Blackboard

The Zoom LTI integration with Blackboard allows students and faculty to start and join Zoom meetings via a join link displayed on a Blackboard course.

To learn more about scheduling and starting a Zoom session within Blackboard, view the Using Zoom as an Instructor section within the “Configuring LTI with Blackboard” article and follow the directions to schedule and start a meeting.

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Getting Started with Padlet

Padlet is an online bulletin board accessible on any device via a web link or the Padlet app. Padlet supports collaboration and interaction. Faculty and students can add text, links, attachments, and share images and videos in their posts. Interaction includes writing comments and liking posts. All ACC employees have free access to Padlet.

Logging in to your Padlet account

To access Padlet use your ACCeID credentials to log in: ACC Padlet login link. Make sure you are using Padlet as an Austin Community College user..Screenshot showing padlet as an ACC user

For additional information, view the Getting Started guide.

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Customizing Padlet

Padlet maintains a knowledge base that will help you customize your page.

  • How do I change the wallpaper on my Padlet?
  • How do I post an image or video on Padlet?
  • How to turn padlet into a slideshow presentation
  • Reactions – How to enable grading ratings, likes for posts
  • How do I turn on content moderation?
  • How do I set a cover image?
  • How do I change the color of a post?
  • How to embed Padlet
  • How to add comments
  • Screen recording
  • Making copies of a Padlet
  • How to follow someone

To learn more, view the Fun Things You Can Do articles.

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Grading with Rubrics in Blackboard

After you create a rubric in Blackboard and associate the rubric with an instructional item, you can use the rubric for grading. If you have multiple rubrics, you can select a rubric’s title to begin grading. When you finish, you can begin grading with another associated rubric.

To learn more, view this Grading with Rubrics article.

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Training Recording: Create Tests Quickly Using Random Blocks

This is a training workshop recording from October 2020 that covers how to create tests with random blocks.

 

Supplemental Resources Document: helpful links and resources referenced during workshop.

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Remote Recess Workshop: Upload Tests to Blackboard in Respondus 4.0

Respondus 4.0® is a software tool to develop and manage Blackboard exams and is available free to ACC faculty for both their office and home computers. Respondus also enables instructors to upload exams into Blackboard without having to retype those questions in Blackboard.

[ht_message mstyle=”info” title=”NOTE” show_icon=”true” id=”” class=”” style=”” ]The authoring tool is currently available to PC users only.  For Mac users, Respondus is accessible to faculty on the Virtual Desktop.[/ht_message]

 

Supplemental Resources Document: helpful links and resources referenced during workshop.

Create and Publish Tests

Additional Respondus Resources

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