Teaching students how to build circuits is tricky business, especially when you want to provide a hands-on experience. There are a number of ways to approach the problem, each with its own advantages and disadvantages. You could, for example, pass around a box of wires and components and have the students twist, solder, or clip them […]
Read More »After reviewing results from surveys and open forums, examining data on current LMS usage at Missouri S&T, and collecting input from faculty representing a range of use cases, the LMS committee reached a unanimous decision on October 30th: Blackboard may not be adequately meeting the needs of Missouri S&T faculty and students, and should be […]
Read More »Do you plan to use Tegrity lecture capture during Spring 2014? If so, then Educational Technology will need to gather some basic information from you so that we may prepare any room(s) in which you will be teaching with the appropriate technology. To gather that information, we ask that you complete the survey linked below: […]
Read More »IMPORTANT! Please read the following message VERY carefully! Educational Technology (EdTech) will be purging ALL course sessions stored in Tegrity at close of business on Friday, December 20, 2013. Missouri S&T’s usage agreement with Tegrity limits us to only 500 hours of recordings per semester. This means we MUST remove all recordings from Tegrity at […]
Read More »Peer review is a very popular way for instructors to allow students to rate each others’ work. The students gain some significant benefits by engaging in peer review, such as improving their own ability to teach other students and provide other students with constructive feedback. Peer review is often a very good way to help […]
Read More »When my phone rings at 6:30 in the morning, I know it is one of about 4 people – my son, my daughter, EMS, or my mother. So when the phone rang at 6:30am on October 8 and I looked over to see my mother was calling, I wasn’t too surprised. What did surprise me, […]
Read More »The Kaltura streaming media service is again functional. Thank you for your patience in this matter.
Read More »EdTech became aware of a system-wide interruption in Kaltura streaming media service at 12:43PM this afternoon. The vendor is currently working to restore service. During this outage, Kaltura streaming media viewing and uploads will be unavailable in Blackboard. Updates will be posted as more information is received.
Read More »If you are planning to use clickers in your Spring 2014 classes, please visit the clicker registration page (linked below) to register your classes by Wednesday, November 27, 2013: https://itweb.mst.edu/auth-cgi-bin/cgiwrap/clickers/request_clickers.pl This information helps EdTech prepare the classrooms for clicker technology and also alerts the bookstore about the number of clickers to purchase. If you haven’t […]
Read More »Tegrity service has now been restored. Classes may now be viewed under Tegrity Classes in Blackboard, and any recordings created during the outage should automatically upload to Tegrity’s servers. If you are an instructor who created a recording during the outage and it has not uploaded by this afternoon, please submit a ticket so that […]
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