Defeating the Cheating: Preventing Academic Dishonesty with Proctored Testing (OLIS)

Join the Bama By Distance Testing Services team to learn how proctored testing can be your first line of defense against academic dishonesty. Team members will share an overview of services they offer, walk faculty through the request process, show you how to set up exams for proctored testing, and demonstrate the student proctored testing

Online Learners’ Perceptions of Student Engagement (OLIS)

Friday, April 2, 2021, 10-11:30 am Presenter: Jennifer F. Humber, Ed.D, Adjunct Online Instructor/Director of Student Services for the College of Human Environmental Sciences, The University of Alabama To understand how student engagement applies in online education, it is important to gain additional insight as to how online students actually define student engagement on an

Blackboard Learn Upgrade

Blackboard Learn will be unavailable August 5–13 for a database migration and upgrade. For more information, visit https://cit.ua.edu/blackboard-learn-saas/.

Beyond the Academic Essay: Using Microsoft Sway to Create Multimedia Assessments

This hands-on workshop will introduce participants to Microsoft Sway, an interactive storytelling application that can be used to create and share multimedia essays, presentations, and reports. Participants will learn how to use this tool in order to engage multiple teaching and learning modalities. Further, participants will gain an understanding of how to incorporate the app

Adobe Day

Details: https://oit.ua.edu/2021/08/24/adobe-day-sept-17/

Making Accessible Media

Facilitator: Kristin Juhrs Date: Thursday, September 23, 2021, 10:00-11:00am Location: Virtual (Zoom) Is your media accessible? Can students with disabilities access your course media? This session covers best practices for making and selecting accessible images, infographics, tables, charts, audio files, videos, Zoom sessions, and Panopto videos. You will also be introduced to accessibility resources on campus that

Build Your Own Course Trailer with Adobe Rush

Facilitators: Miranda Webster and Cheryl Bosarge Date:  Monday, October 4, 10:00-11:30 am Location: University Hall 1308 (Computer Lab) Do you feel like learner engagement is getting off to a slow start in your online course? Would you like to create a compelling message that grabs your students on day 1? Then a course trailer might be the

More than Words: Using Adobe Spark Page to Design Assessments

This hands-on workshop will introduce participants to Adobe Spark Page, a multimedia storytelling application that all students at The University of Alabama have access to through the Adobe Creative Campus program. The app allows learners to experiment with the creation of web pages, visual essays, memes, comic strips, and other forms of desktop publishing. Participants

Flexing Flipgrid: There’s More to Flipgrid than Intro Discussions

This session is part of our Online Learning Innovation Showcase (OLIS) series. Facilitators: Crystal Butler and Cheryl Bosarge Date: Friday, October 29, 2021, 10:00-11:00 am Location: Virtual (Zoom) Flipgrid is a great alternative to the student introductions discussion board, but what else can you do with it? Join us in this virtual session to see how