IB Instruction Contacts
Pedagogical practice, engaging students in remote environments, classroom response systems, assessment strategies:
Joshua Povich, Jules Winters, Tami Mau
bCourses design, lecture, lab, DSP and exam support
IB Instructional Support staff: Jonatas de Paula Oliveira, Joshua Povich
Bio 1B: Brett Boltz, Kimberly Hernandez
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Do you need help with...
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We can:
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...creating an organized and accessible bCourses site?
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- Consult with you on bCourses site design, organization, and navigation strategies grounded in best practices for online learning.
- Help you with the NEW Canvas Templates. (Instructor Workshop by CTL required. See photos below for the two new templates -- one is clean/simple and one is a bit more fancy.)
- Customize the templates for your course or create a new template using DesignPlus tools.
- Apply your template of choice to build out pages and modules for the whole semester. All you have to do is fill in your content.
- Upload files, videos, etc. to your bCourses site.
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...lecturing via Zoom?
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- Schedule course Zoom sessions with desired settings and links.
- Provide a practice space to familiarize using zoom features and other online software.
- Be a co-host (co-pilot) for zoom sessions to help with chat, zoom features, polls, breakout rooms, tech, etc.
- Edit (trim) Zoom recordings and upload them to the Media Gallery.
- Proof-read and edit AI-created transcripts (captioning) from video lectures.
- Consult on which classroom response system (e.g. Zoom polls, Mentimeter, Poll Everywhere, etc.) best fits your course needs.
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...creating virtual lab content?
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- Lend you audio-visual and other equipment to take your lab/field course online. See this website for equipment we have available or could purchase.
- Set up classrooms with equipment or specimens for filming or photography.
- Assist with production of video content for lab exercises, activities, or demonstrations (e.g. storyboarding, filming, editing, post-production).
- Brainstorm how to transform lab activities to remote format.
- Transform your online lab exercises with visually stimulating workflows and links to assessment using DesignPlus tools. See the example below.
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...moving quizzes and exams online?
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- Copy your quiz or exam into bCourses Quizzes or Gradescope from a word document that you provide.
- Set time limits and availability windows for the quiz or exam based on section, time zone, and/or DSP accommodations.
- Communicate with DSP students as to how the bCourses exam will provide their accommodations for extended time.
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Please contact us as soon as possible so we can get to work on your Fall 2021 courses.
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Template Examples
New Template #1: “Core” template. Clean & simple and uses bCourses’ rich content editor.
New Template #2: “DesignPlus”. A bit more fancy and uses CidiLabs DesignTools to edit. IB Instructional staff has the training and can make these pages for you.
Example of a custom lab exercise page we created in bCourses using CidiLabs DesignTools. It features an embedded pre-lab video and a link to a “worksheet” which was created using bCourses Quizzes.