Did you know you can live chat with the iSchool help desk?
Any time while the Help Desk is open you can use this link to the Tech Chat to ask a question and get connected with a graduate assistant to help you find a solution!
Did you know you can live chat with the iSchool help desk?
Any time while the Help Desk is open you can use this link to the Tech Chat to ask a question and get connected with a graduate assistant to help you find a solution!
This week we are giving a shout-out to the Center for Innovation in Teaching & Learning’s (CITL) workshops and consulting for data analytics.
CITL’s data analytics workshops cover how to use questionnaire design, statistical software, and qualitative programs and occur in evenings throughout the semester.
CITL’s data analytics consulting on survey construction and implementation and how to find and prepare data for analysis is available to all University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign students, staff, and faculty.
Spending so much time sitting at a computer, it can be easy to forget to mind your posture.
Here are some tips on how to have a better posture.
It’s not just your spine that needs a little attention! Proper wrist posture when typing will be far worth the effort in the long run as well.
If you have decided to enable waiting rooms in your Zoom meetings, we want to share with you a quick Tech Tip this week!
You are able to send a message to everyone in the waiting room.
You can do this by opening the chat and going to select a recipient the same way you would to send a private message, but while the waiting room is enabled and there are participants waiting you should see the option to select everyone (in waiting room) as the recipient. Sending a message will then broadcast that message to everyone currently in the waiting room.
You can find screenshots and more information in Zoom’s documentation on waiting rooms.
After an instructor expressed their dislike of the lack of interactivity in their online course, the Center for Innovation in Teaching and Learning (CITL) responded with ways to add interactivity to online classes, specifically when using asynchronous videos.
Some of the highlights include breaking the videos up and adding them as parts of a Moodle quiz where they are broken up by questions or using Illinois Media Space to make the video itself interactive.
It is now possible to activate a live, computer-generated transcript in your Zoom meetings. There will be a Live Transcript button in your Zoom meeting controls for any meeting that you are hosting where you will be able to start the auto-transcription.
This will create computer-generated subtitles during the meeting as well as a transcript that you will be able to download after the meeting.
Further details about this feature are available via UofI Tech Services here: Zoom Live Transcription explanation.
Important!
You should not assume that this will meet the requirements for a captioning accommodation. Contact DRES in case of a letter of accommodation to assure you are meeting requirements.
Welcome to the new semester!
This week’s Tech Tip covers some of the most relevant and helpful resources and tips to prepare you for the start of the semester.
Follow us the rest of the semester for a new Tech Tip each week!
Zoom has a whiteboard feature which is great for allowing participants to share their thoughts with the class or playing games like Pictionary!
You can learn how to use the Whiteboard feature here.
As always, if you have any questions please reach out to us at the iSchool Help Desk!
Email: help@support.ischool.illinois.edu
Phone: 217-244-4903 or 800-377-1892
TechChat: http://ischoolresources.web.illinois.edu/
All your Illinois Zoom meetings recorded to the cloud will automatically be available in MediaSpace. This week’s Tech Tip is about how to trim these videos.
How to trim off the beginning and end of a video:
How to take out a part in the middle of a video:
As always, if you have any questions please reach out to us at the iSchool Help Desk!
Email: help@support.ischool.illinois.edu
Phone: 217-244-4903 or 800-377-1892
TechChat: http://ischoolresources.web.illinois.edu/
With this article making the rounds, this week’s Tech Tip is about Microsoft 365’s Workplace Analytics.
At the University we use MyAnalytics, which is automatically turned on. You can learn more about that here.
You can also follow the instructions here to opt-out of MyAnalytics.