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How Students Submit a Video Assignment with Panopto

  1. Navigate into the assignment and follow the instructional steps provided.An overview of a a Panopto Assignment page in Blackboard.
  2. Record or upload your video in Panopto. To start creating your video from that first step, click the hyperlink to open your Panopto video library.
    An overview of a Panopto Assignment page in Blackboard. A red arrow points to the Panopto Video library hyperlink, indicating it should be clicked.
  3. In your Panopto video library, click the Create button to record a new video. An overview of a Panopto Video library. A red arrow points to the Create button, indicating it should be clicked.
  4. In the popup menu that appears, click Panopto Capture to launch the browser-based recorder. An overview of a Panopto Video library. The Create button has been clicked, and a dropdown menu with many options for recording has appeared. A red arrow indicates that the user should click the Panopto Capture option.
  5. This will open Panopto Capture in a new browser tab. This is where you will record your video. Make sure to select the appropriate audio input, video input, and screens or apps to share for the assignment at hand. An overview of the Panopto Capture in-browser tool. Arrows indicate that the user should click to select their audio, video, and screen inputs for the recording.
  6. Before recording, you can change a few more settings via the gear icon in the lower-right corner. Once you are all set, click the red record button in the middle of the screen to start your recording. When you are finished recording, click the red record button once more.
    A Panopto Capture tool ready to record. Red arrows indicate that the user should either click the gear button to access any additional settings needed or the record button in the middle of the screen to begin and end the recording.
  7. Once you stop recording, you will be presented with the Video Preparation Page. Wait until that page says Your video is ready in the upper-left corner. Once you see that message, your video is saved. You may now close the Panopto Capture browser tab and return to your Blackboard Assignment page. An overview of a completed recording in Panopto. Users should wait until they are told "Your video is ready" before closing the tab for Panopto.
  8. Back in Blackboard, click the Create submission tab on the assignment page. An overview of a Panopto video assignment in Blackboard. A red square surrounds the Create Submission tab, indicating it should be clicked to expand the submission textbox.
  9. Click the three-dots icon, then click the Add Content icon. The Create Submission textbox for a Panopto Video assignment in Blackboard. A red arrow indicates the user should click the three-dots icon to expand to show all available toolbars.The Create Submission textbox for a Panopto Video assignment in Blackboard, with all toolbars displayed. A red arrow indicates the user should click the Add Content icon, the last option on the third toolbar, to open up options to add additional content.
  10. Select Panopto Student Submission Tool from the Add Content dropdown list. Screenshot of the Add Content options menu, with Panopto Student Submission Tool indicated by an arrow.
  11. Choose the Panopto video you’d like to use for the assignment, then click Insert.The Panopto Student Video Submission screen. Red arrows indicate the user should click the circle next to the video they want to submit and then click the submit video button.
  12. The selected video is embedded in the submission field.  Add any additional text as needed and click Submit at the bottom-right corner when finished.
    The completed end result of adding a video to the create submission textbox. A red arrow indicates the user should click the Submit button to send the video to the instructor and complete the assignment.

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How to Create Assignments Using Panopto

  1. Navigate to the course to which you want to add a Panopto video assignment.

An overview of a course in Blackboard.

2. Select your preferred content area from the left-hand navigation menu.  

  The left sidebar of a course in Blackboard. A red box indicates that the user should click the content area where they would like to place a Panopto Assignment into.

  1. Click on the Assessments drop-down menu at the top of the content area, then select Assignment. 

A content area in Blackboard. Red arrows indicate that the user should hover their mouse over the Assignments tab, then click the Assignment button in the dropdown menu that appears below it.

  1. Give your assignment a name. Then, in the Assignment Information text field, copy and paste the following instructional steps.  Add any additional text as needed, then proceed as you would with creating any other assignment in Blackboard. Press Submit when finished.

An overview of the Create Assignment page, now fully filled out. Once an instructor selects Panopto Student Video submission, it populates the text box with information indicating to the student how to complete the assignment.

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Credit Predictor Pro as a Faculty Member

 

Credit Predictor Pro is a tool that matches adult learners’ prior learning experiences with college credit. As a faculty member, you play a crucial role in reviewing and approving these matches.

1.Account Verification and Password Creation

Once the Credit Predictor Pro School Admin has created your account, you will receive an email guiding you to verify your account and set your password. Follow the instructions in the email to complete this process.

Once you have received the verification email (pictured below), you will create a password for your account. Passwords must include:

  • Eight or more characters
  • At least one number
  • Upper & lowercase letters
  • At least one special character

Faculty Login

 

2. Logging In

Faculty Reviewers will receive email messages when an Advisor has assigned a CPL (Credit for Prior Learning) Match to them for review. Upon receiving an email notification, click the “VIEW CPL MATCH” link in the email. You will be taken to the login screen of the Credit Predictor Pro, and upon login, you will be brought to the Faculty Reviewer Dashboard.

Login Page for Faculty and Students

3. Reviewing CPL Matches

As a Faculty Reviewer, you will only see the section of the student’s profile that is related to the CPL Match the Advisor has assigned to you. Review the CPL Match and determine its creditworthiness.

 Faculty may need to review the following:

  • A certification, exam, or military transcript
  • Skills from a student’s resume
  • Details a student has included about their informal learning or experiential learning
  • Details a student has included about their language fluency

Faculty Filter

4. Awarding Credit (Successful CPL Match)

If you are awarding credit/course equivalency for a CPL Match (i.e., for this certification, the student should be awarded credit for IT 100) follow these steps:

  1. Leave an Internal Note for the Advisor explaining what credit should be awarded (i.e., award the student IT 100 for this certification). You may also want to share why the credit was awarded and/or if in the future other students can also be awarded credit for this. Internal

Notes are NOT shared with students, only with advisors working with the student.

  1. Click “Mark as Completed” in the upper right-hand corner of the screen. This will notify the Advisor that you have completed reviewing the CPL Match.

Mark Complete

5. Leaving Internal Notes

If you need further information to make a credit determination, you can leave an Internal Note for the Advisor. The Advisor will see that you have left an Internal Note on their CPL Match Dashboard. Internal Notes are NOT shared with students, only with advisors. 

Internal Notes

6. Communicating with Students

If you cannot make a credit determination without more information from the student, you may contact them through the Credit Predictor Pro. To reach out to a student via the Credit Predictor Pro, follow these steps:

  • On the CPL Details Page, click “Message Student.”
  • Enter the body of the message, including any attachments necessary.
  • Click “Submit”.

Once you message a student, the status of the CPL Match becomes “Waiting.” The student will be notified via email to log into the Credit Predictor Pro and read your message. Once the student replies, the CPL Match status will change to “In Progress,” and you will receive an email to log in and review their reply.

7. Getting Help!

If you need assistance with the Credit Predictor Pro, Dr. Warner-Sanchez, susan.warner-sanchez@austincc.edu.

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Using Credit Predictor Pro as an Advisor

Credit Predictor Pro is a tool that matches adult learners’ prior learning experiences with college credit. As an advisor, you play a crucial role in creating and managing these matches. This article offers a step-by-step guide on how to use the Credit Predictor Pro platform

1. Understanding Your Role

As an advisor, you can create and edit CPL (Credit for Prior Learning) Matches for students. If you are a Lead Advisor, you have additional privileges such as viewing all student profiles, assigning students to a new advisor, and maintaining Course Crosswalks and the Course Database.

2. Advisor Access and Login 

Once an account has been created, advisors receive an email from the tool guiding you to verify your account and set your password (pictured below). Your School Admin will provide you with a link to log in to the Advisor Dashboard.

advisor-verify email

Once you have received the verification email (pictured above), you will create a password for your Advisor account.

Passwords must include:

    • Eight or more characters
    • At least one number
    • Upper & lowercase letters
    • At least one special character

3. Logging in to the Credit Predictor Pro

The School Admin, Advisors, and Faculty Reviewers login to the tool with the following link:

Credit Predictor Login

4. Assigning Students to Advisors

If you are assigning students, you should log in to the tool to see if there are students with submitted profiles who need advisor assignments.

 4a. Assigning or Changing a Student’s Advisor

As Lead Advisor, you can view all students in the tool- those assigned to you, given to other advisors, or those students without an advisor assigned.

      1. Select Lead Advisor Tasks.
      2. Pick All Students. There you will see all students in all statuses (Open, Completed, Closed, Not Submitted).
      1. Click the three dots next to the student you want to assign (or change) the advisor to.
      2. Choose Change Advisor.
      3. Select the Advisor. You can pick yourself. 

       You can view unclaimed students (students with no advisor assigned) using the filter provided in the tool.

screenshot of Advisor-Filter with unclaimed selected

5. Assigning a CPL Match to a Faculty Reviewer

If you determine that a Faculty Reviewer should review a CPL Match, you can assign the CPL Match to a Faculty Reviewer. Usually, you will contact a Faculty Reviewer because you think a student may be able to earn college credit for something in their CPL Profile. The Reviewer may make a credit recommendation based on what the student has submitted as part of their CPL Profile, but they may make a different recommendation. The Reviewer may ask the student for more information. The Reviewer may say the student should attempt a Challenge Exam or complete a portfolio. 

      1. View the CPL Match Detail Page.
      2. Click Assign Reviewer in the upper right-hand corner.
      3. In the pop-up box, select the Reviewer to whom the CPL Match should be sent. If you do not see the Reviewer you need, talk to your School Admin about adding a new Reviewer.
      4. Enter the due date by which the Reviewer should complete their evaluation.
      5. The Description is a very important field. Both the student and the Reviewer will see the content of the Description field. In the Description, specifically ask the Reviewer if the student should be able to earn credit for this item of their Profile, whether the student should instead submit additional work or complete a departmental exam, and if the student can earn credit, what course the student should earn credit for.
      6. Once you assign the CPL Match to the Reviewer, the status of the CPL Match will change to In Progress, Assigned Reviewer.

advisor-reviewer

6. Understanding CPL Match Statuses

  While you can use the Students Page to see students in various statuses, the CPL Match Page is where you may be spending most of your time. Just like the Students Page, CPL Matches are organized into their own statuses: 

advisor-status optionsAdvisor Status part 2

7. Changing the Student’s Status to Completed or Closed

      1. Select the name of the student.
      2. Click the three dots on the upper right-hand side of the screen.
      3. Press Change Status.
      4. Select Completed (if the student successfully completed at least one CPL Match) or Closed (if the student had no successful matches or no CPL Matches at all).
      5. Click Change.screenshot of Advisor-Filter with unclaimed selected

8. Getting Help!

If you need assistance with Credit Predictor Pro, please contact Dr. Warner-Sanchez at susan.warner-sanchez@austincc.edu.

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Grading a Panopto Assignment

  1. Under Course Management, expand Grade Center and select Needs Grading.
    Blackboard Navigation menu
  2. On the drop-down menu that appears, select Grade All Users or Grade with User Names Hidden to grade the assignment with or without the student name(s) present.Screenshot of Needs Grading status for assignment with options menu selections highlighted by red outline.
  3. In the Grade Assignment viewing pane, click on the student video submission embedded player to review the content.  Type the score value you wish to award the student in Attempt, then click Submit.
    Screenshot of assignment grading pane, with arrows indicating Play icon in embedded video player, attempt score value field, and Submit button.

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Adding a Panopto Quiz to a Blackboard Course

  1. Open the course and select a content area from your course menu.
  1. Content link in navigation menu
    2. In the content area, click on the Build Content tab and select Panopto Quizzing Tool.

Screenshot of content area with Build Content tab and Panopto Quizzing Tool framed in red outline and arrow indicator.
3.  You will be redirected to the Panapto provisioned folder for this course and prompted to select how you would like to grade the quiz:

  • Grade on % viewed:  a score is awarded to a student based on how much of a video they’ve watched
  • Grade on quiz results:  a score is awarded to the student based on their replies to questions embedded within the video

Screenshot of assignment grading options for Panopto video.

  1. After making your grading selection and clicking Continue, select your video and click Insert.  *Note:  If you have chosen to grade on quiz results, you must select a video that already has quiz questions embedded in the content.Screenshot of Panopto provisioned course folder with arrows pointing to select video radio button and Insert button.
  2. A link to the video quiz is now added to the content area.  By default, the video title will be used as the name of the quiz, and the quiz will be set to 100 points. To change this, select the dropdown menu to the right of the assessment’s title and select Edit.
    Screenshot of content area with Panopto video link added and red arrow indicating options menu icon.

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Qwickly Course Tools – Check Links

How to Check Links using Qwickly Course Tools

Identify and fix broken links in all of your courses. 

  1. From your Blackboard Ultra Navigation page, click Tools from the menu pane and select Qwickly Course Tools.
    Blackboard Ultra Navigation Tools page
  1. Under Course Tools, scroll down and select Check Links.

Check links in Qwickly Course tools list

   3. Select a course from the list on the left to check for broken links.  If the course has links, they will populate in the space on the right. 

Course Selection

  1. Click Check Links.

check link button

   5.  A red circle will indicate broken links (if any) with an “x” inside (A).  Click the pencil icon next to the broken link to edit it (B). 

Broken link has a red "x" and (B) shows pencil to edit broken link

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Qwickly Course Tools – Post an Announcement

How to Post an Announcement using Qwickly Course Tools

Notify all your students in various courses of important information including assignments, class cancellations, or schedule updates.

  1. From your Blackboard Ultra Navigation page, click Tools from the menu pane and select Qwickly Course Tools

Blackboard Ultra Navigation Tools page

  1. In Course Tools, scroll down and select Post an Announcement.

Post Announcement in Qwickly Course Tools list

3. (A) Checkmark the courses from the course list on the left to post the announcement, or click Select All (B) if you would like to send it to all courses.  

Select Courses to send announcement to in Qwickly Course Tools list

4. Enter the Title (A) of the Announcement and the description (B).

Add Title (A) and Description (B)

5. Announcements are set to Post Immediately and to have No Expiration. To set a Start and End date, scroll to the bottom of the page, click the boxes, and enter the time and date you would like to appear.

Change Dates for announcement

6. Check the box next to Email Announcement if you want a copy of the Announcement sent to student email accounts.

Send an email copy of announcement

7. Click Submit when you are ready to post your Announcement.

Submit Announcement

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