Archives for August 2024

Submitted by: Patricia Smith, psmith@uca.edu on 08/01/2024

PLEASE JOIN US FOR THE GRAND OPENING OF THE SCHICHTL CENTER FOR HONORS EDUCATION AND CENTER FOR GLOBAL LEARNING AND ENGAGEMENT ON THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 5 FROM 1:40-3:00 P.M. REMARKS AT 2:00 IN SCHICHTL 115

 

Submitted by: Lyn Gayfield, egayfield@uca.edu on 08/01/2024

Institutional Diversity and Inclusion is updating its website to highlight diversity, belonging, inclusion, and equity (DBIE) dissertations, publications, presentations, and creative activities.

If you would like your DBlE-related scholarly work mentioned on the website, please send the APA style citation to idi@uca.edu.

For examples, please visit the following link.

HAPPY SUMMERTIME!

http://uca.edu/go/DBIEsa

Submitted by: Jennifer Brewer, jbrewer1@uca.edu on 07/31/2024

Annoto – Import Your Preferences, Comments, and Interactions from one course to another!

Are you using Annoto with the videos in your Blackboard classes? You can import your preferences, comments, and interactions from one course to another. Following these steps will save you time – you won’t have to do this repeatedly for multiple classes.

If you are teaching the same course in another semester, you can use the comments and interactions you have already added to videos with Annoto – no need to write them again.

Here’s a short video showing the process or you can follow these steps:

1. Go to the course Hub (in the course you want to import into).
2. Click on the 3-dots menu on the right side (next to “unread comments”)
3. Choose “Import data from another course”
4. Choose the course you want to import from in the list shown.
5. Select what you want to import (by toggling) – Preferences, Comments, or Interactions.
6. Click on the green Import button.

All duplicated comments will have the same time tag as the original comments. Duplicating comments can be handy in Guided Watching, Collaborative Learning, or Flipped Classrooms – anywhere you have added questions, comments, or insights for your students, and you want to use them again.

Read more about Annoto and this feature in Annoto User Guides.

If you have any questions or need assistance, please contact DESupport@uca.edu.

https://docs.annoto.net/guides/dashboard/course-view#duplicate-course-data

Submitted by: Amy Whitehead, amyw@uca.edu on 07/31/2024

The University Committee on Committees has set its meeting schedule for fall 2024. The dates and times are as follows:

August 27 at X-period
September 12 at X-period
October 3 at X-period
November 14 at X-period

All meetings will be held on Zoom. For more information, or to receive the Zoom link, please email amyw@uca.edu

Want to learn more about the University Committee on Committees? The committee charge and handbook can be found at: https://uca.edu/committees/university-committee-on-committees/

Are you the chair of a university committee? Please visit https://uca.edu/committees/ to review your committee page and make sure it is up-to-date. If you need to make a change to your committee’s charge, structure, or membership, please contact me so that I can add you to an upcoming agenda of the Committee on Committees.

Thank you!

Amy Whitehead
Chair, Committee on Committees

 

Submitted by: SCOTT AUSTIN, saustin@uca.edu on 07/31/2024

Griffin Planetarium shows this Friday August 2 at 3:00pm and 7:00pm: The one-hour shows this week includes a tour of the current sky, and the full-dome movie “Invaders of Mars!”. The planetarium is located in the Conway Corporation Center for the Sciences. Seating starts 10 minutes before show time. Admission is free. Seating limited to the first 94. No admission after the shows begin. No food or drink allowed.

https://uca.edu/physics/planetarium/

Submitted by: Jennifer Brewer, jbrewer1@uca.edu on 08/01/2024

Reduce Your Blackboard Course Size!

Your Blackboard course has a size limit. With the popularity of adding videos and larger resources to Blackboard courses, that space gets used quickly. When this happens, you will receive an error message when trying to add additional files to your course. You will need to reduce the size of your Blackboard course by following the suggestions below:

1. Move audio and video files to Kaltura.*
2. Save voiceover PowerPoints as mp4 files and move to Kaltura.
3. Reduce File and Image Sizes.The following links will provide detailed information on reducing file and image sizes (for images in these documents) for the most common file types: PowerPoints, Word Documents, Excel Spreadsheets, PDFs.

In addition, you can delete duplicate and old files from the Content Collection and Recycle Bin – another
great option to reduce your Blackboard course size. When you compress or update your content, it is important to delete the old files from the course content collection. Otherwise, there will be two files in the course taking up more space instead of less.

It is a two-step process to delete files from Blackboard: moving files to the Recycle Bin and then permanently deleting those files from the Recycle Bin.

1. In the Content Collection (follow steps in this article to view the files), move files to the Recycle Bin by clicking the checkbox next to the filename, and then clicking the Recycle button. You’ll get a message to confirm that you want the selected files to move to the Recycle Bin. Click OK.
2. Permanently delete those files from the Recycle Bin by clicking the “Recycle Bin” folder. Select each file to delete by clicking the checkbox next to each (or select the top checkbox to select all files) and then click the Delete button.

Note: Files in the Content Collection that have an Ally indicator, are linked/used in the course. If you try to delete these files, a message will appear explaining that the files are currently linked/used in the course.

If you have questions or need assistance, please email DESupport@uca.edu.

*If your video and audio files are uploaded directly to Blackboard, please make sure you move those files to Kaltura or another video management system.