CERTI will be presenting a Faculty Learning Event, “Extreme Syllabus Makeover, Part 2”, on Friday Oct 31 in the Havener Center, Meramec/Gasconade room, from Noon until 1:00PM. This event will be focused on syllabi. Bring a copy of your syllabus and join with fellow instructors for a discussion and “how-to” session on writing good learning […]
Read More »Every week, EdTech U offers a session where instructors and students can get hands-on assistance with educational technology. These are their stories. 10/16 – An instructor was having an issue with tests and quizzes in Blackboard that use random blocks. The problem was that questions which were arrayed in random blocks were all being assigned […]
Read More »IT will be performing routine Blackboard maintenance on Sunday, October 19, 2014, starting at 12:00 a.m. Blackboard will be unavailable for 4-6 hours between 12:00 a.m. and 6:00 a.m. Please contact the Help Desk with questions about this or any other IT issue at 573-341-HELP (4357) or submit an online Help Request at http://help.mst.edu.
Read More »Educational Technology at Missouri University of Science and Technology is now accepting presentation proposals for the Eighth Annual Teaching and Learning Technology Conference, scheduled for March 12-13, 2015. Interested presenters can download a copy of the Call for Presentation form at the TLT 2015 website or click one of the links below: Call for Presentations: […]
Read More »Update: As expected, the CERTI and CTS session entitled “Great Expectations: Bridging the Gap between Instructor and Student Expectations” was a great presentation! With over 40 instructors and faculty members in attendance from departments around campus, this session was a great opportunity for fellow instructors to get together and talk about teaching and learning over […]
Read More »UPDATE: “Course Organization and Social Presence” was a great session! Several engaging speakers challenged sixteen of S&T’s leading instructors to think about their course organization in both face-to-face and online/distance sections. The resulting small group conversation was a mixture of stimulating food for thought and lessons from practical teaching experience across several disciplines. Later, attendees […]
Read More »A number of instructors have discovered a troubling issue when students access a test or quiz in Blackboard. For lengthy written questions, the point value and “Save Answer” button will partially obscure the question (see screenshot below). This makes it difficult, if not impossible, to answer questions sometimes. WORKAROUND: When creating Tests & Quizzes, insert […]
Read More »At Missouri S&T, the experiential experience is a top priority. That’s what drives students to a STEM school with an engineering focus in a small town in Rural Missouri that’s more than an hour… Source: blog.sloanconsortium.org Here’s a look at laboratory redesign projects going on at S&T. We’ve got several courses piloting now and others […]
Read More »The Missouri S&T Educational Technology office is proud to support a new tool on campus called iThenticate. Brought to you by the same company behind Turnitin, iThenticate is a plagiarism prevention tool intended for use by professional academic researchers and publishers. Like Turnitin, iThenticate generates originality reports by comparing submitted work to previously published work. […]
Read More »Last year, Educational Technology supported a committee of faculty and students to evaluate our current Learning Management System (LMS), Blackboard. This LMS Review effort was part of a larger project to understand whether the portfolio of learning technologies we had implemented on campus contained the best tools to meet the needs of instructors and students […]
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