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Canvas
Bongo
Turnitin
Panopto
Zoom
Respondus LDB & Monitor
Qualtrics
OBS

Announcing Canvas

Canvas is an industry standard learning management system (LMS) using state-of-the-industry technology. The Canvas platform offers a wide, intuitive toolset to support teaching and learning. It features mobile app convenience for busy lives supporting learning on the go and timely communications and notifications. Canvas integrates with a vast array of educational technologies, systems, and publishers’ content and test banks.

|Canvas Mobile App Quickstart|

Canvas has a mobile app for both instructors and students. Follow the guide to get started today!

BONGO AND SYNC MEETINGS

This exciting video conferencing and learning platform allows students to interact with one another as well as their professors in a format that encourages active learning environments through collaboration, knowledge application and skill demonstration. Bongo syncs with Canvas, Bradley’s learning management system, making integration-access and gradebook-syncing possible as well. While this tool is incredibly useful for online and hybrid courses it also complements face-to-face classes as students will be able to use asynchronous video for self-assessment and peer review. See below for more great reasons to integrate Bongo into your classroom today.

Bongo Support

Use Cases

Video Assignments: Bongo’s structured workflows leverage video technology to help instructors assess learners’ soft skill and knowledge at scale. After completing a video exercise students submit their recording for personalized coaching and feedback from their instructor and/or peers.
Oral exams: Learners are put on the spot to answer questions asynchronously and only have a limited time to respond.
Group projects: Learners collaborate synchronously or asynchronously to complete an end deliverable. Individuals have the ability to create milestones, evaluate their peers, meet with group members virtually, and compile all of their submissions with the project dashboard.
Student presentations: Learners create video presentations, submit documents, or complete sync activities such as a presentation with visual aids or playing a role within an instructor based construct.
Interactive Video: Learners answer multiple choice questions or submit video responses at different points throughout a video. This activity enables instructors to gauge comprehension and turn passive video consumption into an interactive experience.

Benefits

Students

Feeling of being more ‘involved’ in class
Opportunity to easily speak face-to-face with instructor
Valuable way to improve speaking communication/soft skills.

Instructors

Increased synergy in online or hybrid courses
Implementation of the newest technology
Personal manner to provide feedback and coaching

Sample Activities

Conversation: Students participate in an asynchronous or synchronous conversation with one or more classmates.
Question and Answer: The Q and A activity involves the instructor pre-recording questions to ask students and giving students a few seconds to think about their responses before answering. Student recordings to multiple questions are combined into one recording.
Individual Video: Students submit a video to complete this activity. PowerPoint slides are available to add into this activity.
In-Class Video: For this activity, educators facilitate student recordings in the classroom

Another significantly awesome function of Bongo is its live, synchronous meeting function. In addition to the functionality that has come to be expected on platforms like WebEx, Zoom, Hangouts and the like, a virtual whiteboard is available that allows presenters to showcase documents and edit them. This structure allows instructors to hold class, office hours, or individual appointments, as well as other uses. If professors grant permission, students can also use this meeting tool to touch base on group projects, to discuss classwork, or to get to know their classmates. The sky is the limit!

To learn more about this tool, we encourage you to contact our team at techtraining@bradley.edu. Please also check out the links below:

Bongo offers 24/7 support. Call 970-225-1175 #1 or visit the Bongo website and navigate to the Submit a Request option in the top right corner. If you are within a Bongo activity, click on the dropdown list in the top left corner and choose the Support option. This is monitored 9:00 AM - 2:00 AM CST.

Turnitin & Grademark

Faculty

Students

Turnitin

Grademark

PANOPTO

Panopto is an all-in-one video platform tool for video management, recording, live streaming, quizzing, analytics, mobile, and a lot more. With its ability to centrally manage your recorded lectures, classroom videos, or even 3rd party media Panopto uses your Bradley SSO (Single Sign On) to seamlessly integrate across various platforms including: WIndows, MacOS, IOS and Android. No need to remember new passwords or sign in over and over here. Along with this platform integration is direct access via your Sakai classroom where you can record videos, embed them using the Lessons tool, and design your course to include your own customized video content. This makes flipping your classroom or recording a quick “how to” video a piece of cake no matter where you are as the Panopto tool helps to bring you and your students greater depth of interaction.

Panopto Quickstart

Use Cases

Video Content Management
Lecture Capture
Flipping your classroom
Student Recordings
Recording Demonstrations

Possible student benefits

Easy access to previous lectures
More personalized learning experiences
Can consume video materials on any platform at their own pace

Possible instructor benefits

Easy integration into Canvas and various platforms
Record, edit, and share full or micro-lectures all from one tool
Add interactive quizzes to your videos
Embed polls and other interactive content directly into your videos

To learn more about this tool, we encourage you to contact our team at techtraining@bradley.edu. For more information on Panopto or to read/view more on using video in your classroom please follow this link.

ZOOM

ZOOM is a powerful FERPA compliant cloud based video and audio web-conferencing, collaboration, and chat tool that functions across multiple platforms including: mobile devices, desktops, laptops, and telephones. With easy integration into learning management systems, calendars, and an intuitive interface the standard version of the ZOOM conferencing tool, available to all faculty/staff and students, can bring up to ten users together in real time. Here at Bradley we also have a limited number of Pro versions of the tool available upon request which increases the number of users in a session to 100. Use-cases for ZOOM abound, but see below for ideas on how to integrate it into your course, committee meetings, or a host of other activities!

Zoom Quickstart Guide

Use Cases

Oral Exams
Meetings
Interviews
Student Presentations

Possible student benefits

Feeling of being more 'involved' in class
Opportunity to easily speak face-to-face with instructor
Valuable way to improve speaking communication/soft skills

Possible instructor benefits

Increased synergy in online or hybrid courses
Implementation of the newest technology
A personal manner to provide feedback and coaching

To learn more about this tool, we encourage you to contact our team at techtraining@bradley.edu.

Please also check out the links below:

Respondus Lockdown Browser & Monitor

LockDown Browser® is a custom browser that locks down the testing environment within a learning management system.

Quickstart & Download

Faculty Resources & Training

Student Quickstart Guide (Canvas Quizzes)

Student Quickstart Guide (Canvas New Quizzes)

Student Quickstart Video

Respondus Lockdown Browser

*It is important to note that Freshman/Transfers using Respondus Lockdown Browser and Monitor for their ALEKS placement exam are using a proprietary system native to ALEKS. It is recommended these students (once they have completed their placement exams) run a fresh install of the tools for use within courses at Bradley University.

How It Works

Assessments are displayed full-screen and cannot be minimized
Browser menu and toolbar options are removed, except for Back, Forward, Refresh and Stop
Prevents access to other applications including messaging, screen-sharing, virtual machines, and remote desktops
Printing and screen capture functions are disabled
Copying and pasting anything to or from an assessment is prevented
Right-click menu options, function keys, keyboard shortcuts and task switching are disabled
An assessment cannot be exited until the student submits it for grading
Assessments that are set up for use with LockDown Browser cannot be accessed with other browsers

Respondus Monitor

Respondus Monitor^® builds upon the power of LockDown Browser, using a student’s webcam and industry-leading video analytics to prevent cheating during non-proctored exams.

How It Works

Builds upon LockDown Browser

LockDown Browser is the "gold standard" for locking down a student's computer or iPad during an online exam. That's why 1500 universities rely on it to prevent cheating on 120 million exams each year. Respondus Monitor builds upon the LockDown Browser technology to ensure the computing device isn't used to cheat during a non-proctored exam.
Integrates Seamlessly with Canvas

Students access exams within the LMS as they normally would. Instructors do everything within the LMS too, including the post-exam review of proctoring results.
"Auto-Launches" from any Browser

After a quick one-time installation, Respondus Monitor will auto-launch from the student's browser (Chrome, Firefox, Safari, IE) whenever the exam settings require it. Students are then guided through a pre-exam sequence, including a webcam check. Students love the auto-launch capability, which is now available for most learning systems.
No Scheduling or Registration

Exams can be taken with Respondus Monitor without advanced scheduling and without additional registration by the student.

Faculty

Follow the Faculty Resources & Training button for access to written tutorials, videos, and live webinars for both LDB and Monitor.

Students

Use the buttons to the left to navigate to quickstart guides and videos that should get you up and running in no time.

After reading the supporting materials/watching the videos you still have question. Don't hesitate to contact us techtraining@bradley.edu.

Qualtrics

Create a Qualtrics Account

Faculty Training, Resources, & Webinars

Qualtrics Support

Qualtrics is Web-based survey software available for use by Bradley University faculty, staff and students.

It is ideal for surveying people both on and off-campus for purposes such as gathering feedback from research subjects, alumni or senior project clients. It is easy to use and has great reporting options.

Qualtrics features:

Versatility to handle unique types of academic research
Ease of use with point and click survey building
Collaboration by sharing limited or complete access to studies
Analysis/Export in many formats, including SPSS

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OPEN BROADCASTER SOFTWARE (OBS)

Open Broadcaster Software, or OBS, is a free and open source solution for offline video recording and live streaming that is Mac and Windows compliant. With an open canvas approach to video creation this tool can mix a variety of audio and video sources to a single output for creative video and broadcast applications. Recording is a snap with this multifunctional application as OBS has the ability to record straight to your hard drive using a record only mode or in conjunction with a simultaneous live stream. Speaking of live streaming, OBS allows live broadcasts to several popular streaming services including Youtube, Facebook Live, Twitch, Twitter, and Mixer with the built in ability to stream to your own custom RTMP servers.

Use Cases

Screen Capture with Audio
Live Event Streaming
Podcasting
Instructional Video Creation
HIPAA compliant offline video recording (when paired with an encrypted storage device)

Possible student benefits

Feeling of being more 'involved' in class
Sparks creativity and broadens understanding of broadcast technologies
Real world experience with a tool used by industry professionals

Possible instructor benefits

Powerful free tool for screen capture
Increased engagement in online or hybrid courses
Implementation of the newest technology
Flexible multi-layer content creation without post-production time loss

To learn more about this tool, we encourage you to contact our team at techtraining@bradley.edu.
Please also check out the links below.