Coming Soon: Collaborate to Support 25 Videos Per Page Increased engagement for moderators available in mid-SP2021

UPDATE #1: Gallery view is now available! Learn more in this FAQ.

UPDATE #2: Students and participants gain access to gallery view with the May update.

Spring will bring warm weather to the UMBC campus community… and an exciting update for our web conferencing tool, Collaborate! The first phase of increased video thumbnails is tentatively targeted for April 8, 2021, allowing moderators to see up to 25 videos per page. 

Three options will be available:

The Gallery View displays up to 25 videos per page. The zoom function reduces the videos displayed. Up to 250 videos can be supported in a session using pagination to display the thumbnails.  

The Speaker View centers the lead speaker on the screen with 7-8 video thumbnails tiled at the bottom. 

The Tile View places the speaker on the left with 11-12 video thumbnails on the right.

New gallery view in Collaborate

Gallery view works best in Chrome and is not supported at all in Safari at this time.

By summer, Blackboard anticipates supporting a student view of 25 videos per page. Future development for Collaborate includes pinning videos and side-by-side display of content against a smaller gallery. 


Over the last year, Blackboard conducted extensive research with faculty and student focus groups to ensure the new functionality is designed for teaching and learning rather than just deploying more thumbnails like any other web conferencing tool. Reducing cognitive fatigue and non-verbal overload, supporting instructor customization, and providing student privacy are all elements Blackboard researched and will incorporate into its design plan for Collaborate. Additional research is posted to the Blackboard Community site, which requires a free account to access.

During SP2021, Collaborate also will also feature these updates:
  • Session owners can tell at-a-glance if the recording is available to the public or to course members only.
  • Some Collaborate error pages will provide chatbot support to attendees. The chatbot is also available on the Report an Issue panel.
Finally, to reduce impact on session resources, any session that lasts longer than 8 hours will be automatically disconnected from the Collaborate system. While sessions can be scheduled for any length of time including 24-hours and no end date, it is unusual that anyone stays in the session for more than 8 hours at a time. The system therefore will assume extended connection to a session is unintended and disconnect the user from the room. However, attendees can rejoin the session, if they need to access it again.

As always, if you have any questions about teaching, learning, and technology at UMBC, please consider the following options:
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~ Professor Marina Adler, Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Public Health

As UMBC prepares for a possible return to campus next year, DoIT wanted to better understand the faculty experience of remote instruction and online learning over the past year. To do so, we sent an anonymous survey investigating faculty online support needs to three distributions of faculty: those who completed PIVOT Plus, PIVOT Live and those who did not participate in PIVOT.1 Respondents were provided with the option to provide their email address for follow-up questions. The survey was available from Feb. 9 to 17, and was completed by 204 respondents.  Of all respondents, half, (50%) indicated they would prefer to return to campus f2f. However, this is down from 81% prior to the pandemic. Indeed, of the 131 respondents who initially indicated that face-to-face (f2f) was their preferred form of delivery, 40% changed their mind to believing some other form of non traditional instructional delivery is preferable. Only 9%, or 8 respondents, went into the shift to fully online believing that some other form of online or hybrid instruction was preferable but now indicate a preference or interest to teach f2f when the campus reopens .

Three fifths of respondents spent a week or more developing just one course in Blackboard. Microsoft tools were the most leveraged by all respondents (75%), followed by Bb Collaborate and Bb Ultra. About half of respondents indicated they made use of Google Apps, Webex (Meetings), and Panopto. As illustrated in Figure 1, there were deviations in use patterns, depending on PIVOT participation, particularly related to used to support learner engagement tools, such as Google Apps, Panopto, and, in particular, VoiceThread.

Figure 1: Percent Tool Use, by PIVOT Training Participation


Nearly all respondents (97%) indicated they believed their internet skills were adequate to teach their course(s) and posting and receiving assignments worked smoothly (91%). As illustrated by Figure 2, of those who sought support during the Fall2020 term, the majority (63%) submitted a ticket through UMBC’s request tracker system. Around half of respondents also gained assistance through PIVOT training or from their colleagues.

Figure 2: Percent of Respondents Leveraging Resource


The qualitative comments followed several primary themes, one of which was a concern for the quality of online instruction compared with traditional f2f instruction. In general, the harshest criticisms appeared to originate from instructors who did not participate in PIVOT.[1] These qualitative descriptions complement the quantitative data, which indicate 63% percent of instructors would most like additional improvements to support Learner Engagement, while 45% of instructors would like to get a better handle on the best tools to fit their unique instructional needs. Additionally, there were voiced for the tools that were available for instruction, both articulated as there being too many choices and not the correct ones for their interests, particularly around synchronous instruction (e.g., disapproving of Bb Collaborate or WebEx while lauding Zoom or Google). Another area of concern was physical access to technology for both students and instructors. This element is echoed in the likert-type data, where 20% did not agree with the evaluation that the technology available to them during the fall was sufficient for teaching synchronously (e.g., students’ use of Chromebooks, lack of web cameras, or poor internet access).

However there were also many comments supporting the transition to away from fully f2f instruction, as exemplified by the Professor Adler’s  quote at the top of this summary. Respondents voiced their appreciation for the support they received transitioning online, or described how they were able to grow pedagogically in online spaces and hoped to carry forward these new knowledges, skills, and abilities (KSAs) to their instruction once the university eventually moves back to some semblance of normal.

Conducting high-stakes assessment was also a prevalent concern voiced in the respondents’ comments. This theme was echoed in the quantitative data, where managing online tests appeared to be an area of potential opportunity with only 73% of respondents agreeing that they had the necessary KSAs to be successful in this domain, and 9% strongly disagreeing that they were well equipped to assess their students online.

[1] About 3 out of 5 respondents participated in some form of PIVOT (59%), about the same proportion teaching full-time (63%), while 2 of 3 indicated they had previously taught online or hybrid/blended courses either at UMBC or another institution.

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Last month, we kicked off our GO Chat series for 2021 with a dive into all-things-open, as in Open Educational Resources (OER), Open Pedagogy, and Open Science. 

We started with a brief discussion about several recent articles that caught our attention: 

Helping us understand this journey about all-things-open was UMBC alumni Dr. Karen Cangialosi, a Professor of Biology and Open Education Faculty Fellow at Keene State College (KSC) in Keene, New Hampshire. 

Although she regularly incorporates open pedagogy in all her courses, Karen explains her journey started with an episode of the podcast, The Future Trends Forum by Bryan Alexander. During the episode featuring Gardner Cambell (2016), Karen recalled, "I'm a biology professor who used mostly traditional materials, but I did a complete 180 when it came to open education after listening to Gardner Campbell."

A proponent of Open Educational Resources (OER), Karen says OERs are an important gateway to open education in terms of people, practices, and content. Open pedagogy is about access, agency, and community. Karen describes a learning environment where her students can work with her to create content or learning outcomes, write an attendance policy, design self assessments, or determine how they will be graded. 

While students can be unsure, or even resistant to this approach, Karen suggests that since most students will not know what this process can be about she still offers more traditional methods, content, or assessments. And what often ends up happening in those instances is that a few weeks after watching classmates create and share content, students will come to her and ask, "Can I change? I want to do what they're doing instead of this 25-page paper I said I'd write."

When it comes to students sharing content, Karen never requires them to create openly licensed work; however, she provides examples and opportunities that make it possible. For example, her BIO 318 students created a  textbook -- A Student's Guide to Tropical Marine Biology that is utilized by other students across the open education community. 

Karen acknowledges open education has been building slowly and she frequently guides colleagues to start with "your desire as a professor and what you want students to do and learn in your course." As higher education is changing dramatically now due to COVID-19, Karen sees faculty ideally positioned to shape those conversations and changes. Read more about Karen at her website: https://karencang.net/


Check out the full GO Chat here. 

 
Our next GO Chat takes place on Friday, February 25: Engaging New Students Online, as we reflect on the transition from face-to-face programs and courses to an online format for first-year students. 

We will be joined by Dr. Laila M. Shishineh, Director of First-Year & Transfer Academic Programs in the Division of Undergraduate Academic Affairs (UAA) at UMBC. In this role she oversees several campus initiatives: Academic Transition Courses (FYS, IHU, and TRS), Summer & Winter Bridge Programs, and the Living-Learning Communities. 

We hope you will join us!
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VoiceThread is a collaborative, multimedia slide show that holds images, documents, and videos and allows people to navigate slides and leave comments in several ways – text, voice, audio file, or webcam. VoiceThread is available to any instructor who would like to incorporate this engagement tool into their digital toolkit for academic continuity. With VoiceThread, faculty and students can:

  • Demonstrate procedures to help students prepare for a practical exam

  • Explain decisions when selecting subjects for a painting’s composition

  • Foster greater community in large, lecture-based classes 

  • Debate the pros and cons of a controversial issue

  • Practice foreign language skills during role-play

  • Critique a classmate’s composition

To learn more about Voicethread and to expand your use of Voicethread in your teaching, please consider attending these webinars:

 

Using VoiceThread in Blackboard

Feb. 9, 2021  at 1:00pm ET - Register here

 

In this hands-on workshop, you will learn how to create VoiceThreads and then add them to your Blackboard course as lessons or assessments.

 

 

New Assignment Features Workshop

Feb. 16 at 7:00pm ET - Register here

 

In this workshop, you will learn how to turn new assignments on for your courses and begin using them with your students. We will review all of the workflows, new features, and options for your VoiceThread assessments.



New Assignment Features Workshop

March. 9, 2021  at 1:00pm ET - Register here

 

In this hands-on workshop, you will learn how to create VoiceThreads and then add them to your Blackboard course as lessons or assessments


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As announced last semester, a redesigned VoiceThread (VT) assignment tool is now live. The new interface provides new features with streamlined workflows and enhanced options. Clear, dynamic checklist requirements, grading requirements, and submission status are all new features of the new VoiceThread assignment tool.

 

In addition to determining the playback and sharing settings for all VT assignments, instructors may now automatically have edit access to student-created VoiceThread submissions. A new Student Gallery option provides students with a central area to see all VoiceThreads for a single assignment, allowing them to view and comment on their peers’ submissions.

Faculty may set start dates and due dates for VT assignments, which hide activities before you are ready for students to see them. New grading features are also available including checking the status of student submissions as unattempted, in progress, or submitted. Automatic reminders to submit can be sent to students. Grading is done with the VoiceThread interface and will automatically synchronize with Blackboard’s gradebook. Grading is based on a percentage-based or pass/fail format. 

Faculty who would like to learn more about the new VoiceThread assignment may wish to review these tools:

As always, if you have any questions about teaching, learning and technology at UMBC, please consider the following options:

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DoIT’s ’s Instructional Technology team launched the PIVOT initiative during the Spring 2020 semester to support the needs of student, faculty, and staff thrust into fully online learning due to COVID-19. There have been 650 total participants in the PIVOT training, with 144 individuals completing the Live track, and another 283 completing the more extensive PIVOT Plus programming. Past survey evaluation has indicated students are very content with courses taught by PIVOT-trained faculty. The current analysis is based on a sample of 6,768 Blackboard (Bb) courses, beginning Fall 2019 through Fall 2020.

By Tom Penniston
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Quality Matters is offering a free half-day conference on February 9, 2021, focused on research-supported best practices with takeaways to apply in your own work. Listen to experts from the QM community present on Active/Applied Research on Online Learning and Quality Assurance in the space of a single afternoon. 

Each session will provide attendees with one or more application-based takeaways and a handout. Topics include:

Session 1 - 1:40 - 2:30 p.m. Eastern
  • Developing a Framework for Quality Online Course Videos: What Does the Research Say?
  • Student perspective 2.0: Where do we go from here?
  • Enhancing Accessibility of Online Courses: Course Development Practices and Tools
Session 2 - 2:40 - 3:30 p.m. Eastern
  • Reconstructing the Table: Designing Culturally Affirming Online Learning Communities at an HBCU Through Quality Matters
  • Implementing High Impact Practices on Campus and Online: Research, Resources, and Requests
  • Building Momentum for QM Implementation at your Institution - Tips for Transitioning
Session 3 - 3:40 - 4:30 p.m. Eastern
  • Improving Course Design Quality Through Online Graduate Student Evaluations
  • Using Data for Our Continuous Improvement and Yours
  • K-12 Teachers & Professional Development Needs: What the Research Uncovered
Session descriptions are available at the conference page. Participants will receive session links via email the day before the conference.

Registration is free, but you must have a QM account affiliated with UMBC.
  1. Go to the registration page. 
  2. Click Register for Session.
  3. At the next screen, check the box for the cancellation/refund policy. 
  4. Click continue.
  5. Enter your email address. QM will check the system for your account.
If you do not have an account, QM will walk you through the process of creating an account.
  • Fill out the form with your information. When you get to the institution, enter our campus identity EXACTLY as you see here: University of Maryland-Baltimore County
If you have questions about Quality Matters at UMBC, please open an RT ticket to contact QM Coordinators: Dr. Mariann Hawken or Dr. Susan Biro.  ]]> Quality Matters is offering a free half-day conference on February 9, 2021, focused on research-supported best practices with takeaways to apply in your own work. Listen to experts from the QM... https://my3.my.umbc.edu/groups/instructional-technology/posts/98854 https://dev.my.umbc.edu/api/v0/pixel/news/98854/guest@my.umbc.edu/ca9c6bf41c60f2851a95b24244d950cf/api/pixel conference hybrid online-learning qm quality-matters research Instructional Technology https://dev.my.umbc.edu/groups/instructional-technology https://assets2-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/001/164/dec3b026b81ee6d890a8f82f75c94a2e/xsmall.png?1446126703 https://assets1-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/001/164/dec3b026b81ee6d890a8f82f75c94a2e/original.png?1446126703 https://assets2-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/001/164/dec3b026b81ee6d890a8f82f75c94a2e/xxlarge.png?1446126703 https://assets1-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/001/164/dec3b026b81ee6d890a8f82f75c94a2e/xlarge.png?1446126703 https://assets1-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/001/164/dec3b026b81ee6d890a8f82f75c94a2e/large.png?1446126703 https://assets4-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/001/164/dec3b026b81ee6d890a8f82f75c94a2e/medium.png?1446126703 https://assets3-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/001/164/dec3b026b81ee6d890a8f82f75c94a2e/small.png?1446126703 https://assets2-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/001/164/dec3b026b81ee6d890a8f82f75c94a2e/xsmall.png?1446126703 https://assets3-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/001/164/dec3b026b81ee6d890a8f82f75c94a2e/xxsmall.png?1446126703 Instructional Technology https://assets2-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/thumbnails/news/000/098/854/8089af32cb1a7ad8340c2c8cdc6963d4/xxlarge.jpg?1612185460 https://assets4-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/thumbnails/news/000/098/854/8089af32cb1a7ad8340c2c8cdc6963d4/xlarge.jpg?1612185460 https://assets2-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/thumbnails/news/000/098/854/8089af32cb1a7ad8340c2c8cdc6963d4/large.jpg?1612185460 https://assets3-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/thumbnails/news/000/098/854/8089af32cb1a7ad8340c2c8cdc6963d4/medium.jpg?1612185460 https://assets3-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/thumbnails/news/000/098/854/8089af32cb1a7ad8340c2c8cdc6963d4/small.jpg?1612185460 https://assets4-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/thumbnails/news/000/098/854/8089af32cb1a7ad8340c2c8cdc6963d4/xsmall.jpg?1612185460 https://assets2-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/thumbnails/news/000/098/854/8089af32cb1a7ad8340c2c8cdc6963d4/xxsmall.jpg?1612185460 2 0 true Mon, 01 Feb 2021 08:37:34 -0500 GO Chat Recap: Super Size Courses Here's what you missed from our Go Online Chat! Last month, we reflected on the transition from face-to-face instruction to online instruction for one of UMBC's largest introductory courses CHEM 101, with its instructors Drs. Sarah Bass and Tara Carpenter.  

We discussed some recent articles that have been on our mind: 
Drs. Sarah Bass and Tara Carpenter originally began their journey shifting their super-sized CHEM 101 course through the Alternative Delivery Program (ADP), originally intending their course to be delivered in a hybrid model. This modality would give them the flexibility to foster synchronous active learning, and asynchronous lecture and content delivery. 

While rebuilding many components of the course, Sarah and Tara were deeply intentional about the costs associated with course materials. Recognizing that high costs presented challenges to access course materials, Sarah and Tara employed Open Educational Resources which substantially lowered the total cost of materials for their course. 

Assessments play an integral role in this course. Before UMBC's physical campus closed due to COVID-19, CHEM 101 participated in a limited pilot using Akindi, a scantron alternative where instructors can use any standard printer to print bubble sheets and use any standard scanner to scan completed bubble sheets directly into Blackboard. Since then, Sarah and Tara have employed test pools, groups, and adaptive release in their Blackboard courses to promote academic integrity and to administer assessments without the need of a lockdown browser. 

Check out the full GO Chat here. 

Our next GO Chat takes place on Friday, January 22: 2021 The Year of Open Ed. We welcome UMBC alum Dr. Karen Cangialosi as our guest, a Professor of Biology and Open Education Faculty Fellow at Keene State College in Keene, New Hampshire. Karen facilitates an Open pedagogy faculty learning community, and she is co-leader of KSC Open, a Domain of One’s Own campus project. We hope you will join us!


Don't miss a GO Chat! Make sure you:

As always, if you have any questions about teaching, learning and technology at UMBC, please consider the following options:
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In any online learning experience, it's important for students to be able to engage socially and collaboratively. Interactions with peers and instructors can lead to greater student success. Collaborate introduces two new features to its chat functionality to support increased engagement: chat mentions and formatted messaging.

With the December update, attendees can tag someone in a Collaborate chat when they mention them. Anyone tagged is notified so they don't miss it. Moderators are identified with a MOD label so they are easy to find. Collaborate also features a new text editor in the chat panel. This text editor is simple and features only bold, italics, and underline. One way to use this new formatting option is to highlight a chat announcement in bold to make a message more noticeable in a busy conversation.

Collaborate features new chat mentions and text editor

Currently, Collaborate can support regular sessions of 250 attendees or supersized sessions up to 500 attendees. In preparation for WT/SP2021, faculty and community leaders can leverage Collaborate to support large scale sessions up to 1,000 attendees. There are limitations to supersized sessions, however:

Learn more about configuring Collaborate to support a supersized session.

As always, if you have any questions about teaching, learning, and technology at UMBC, please consider the following options:
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VoiceThread is a collaborative, multimedia slide show that holds images, documents, and videos and allows people to navigate slides and leave comments in several ways – text, voice, audio file, or webcam. VoiceThread is available to any instructor who would like to incorporate this engagement tool into their digital toolkit for academic continuity. With VoiceThread, faculty and students can:
  • Demonstrate procedures to help students prepare for a practical exam
  • Explain decisions when selecting subjects for a painting’s composition
  • Foster greater community in large, lecture-based classes 
  • Debate the pros and cons of a controversial issue
  • Practice foreign language skills during role-play
  • Critique a classmate’s composition

Attend these upcoming live workshops:

VoiceThread Basics 1: Upload, Comment, and Share

Participants will learn how to upload media, comment and annotate on that media, and share it with others. This will be a slow paced, step-by-step, hands-on workshop.


VoiceThread Basics 2 - Groups and Secure Sharing

Participants will learn how to create groups and subgroups, set sharing permissions within those groups, and privately share VoiceThreads with individuals.


VoiceThread Basics 3- Moderating comments, private and threaded replies, and copying

Participants will learn how to give private feedback, use threaded commenting, copy VoiceThreads for use with multiple groups, and use comment moderation to formatively assess student work.


VoiceThread and Universal Design for Learning (UDL)

Participants will learn how VoiceThread can help educators provide multiple means of engagement, representation, action and expression for their courses. We will demonstrate how to use VoiceThread’s multi-modal communication platform, closed captioning features, and VoiceThread Universal to design accessible lessons. This will be the first showcase of the new VoiceThread Universal!
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