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Blackboard Learn is the official university learning management system (LMS).  This is where all course materials should be posted, course announcements should be made, etc.  Below are some resources to help you get started if you need help with this platform:

• Faculty Resources for Learn | Information Technology - a Drexel site with faculty resources for using Blackboard Learn at Drexel.
•  - a resource from Blackboard
•  - a resource from Blackboard

These tools are useful if you would like to have a synchronous meeting with some or all of your students.

• Zoom
  •  - this will allow you to connect to your Drexel Zoom account
  •  - Jane Cohn and Beth Seltzer, Stanford University
  •  - Harvard University’s “Teach Remotely” Resource
• Zoom Safety
  •  - Penn Information Systems & Computing
  •  - UC Berkeley
  •  - Zoom Blog
  •  - Zoom Blog
• Blackboard Collaborate
  • Collaborate Ultra | Information Technology - from Drexel
  •  - additional Drexel resources
  •  - from Blackboard  
  •  - from Blackboard
• Microsoft Teams
  • Microsoft Teams | Information Technology - from Drexel
  •  - from Microsoft  
• Additional Resources
  •  - Michael Shelmet - 91��Ƭ�� Instructional Technology Blog

These tools are useful if you would like to record video to share with your students for their use at any time (i.e., for asynchronous instruction).

• Zoom (see above for additional resources to support you in using Zoom)
  •  - Beth Seltzer, Stanford University
• PowerPoint
  •  - from Microsoft 
• VoiceThread
  • VoiceThread | Information Technology - from Drexel
  •  - VoiceThread information from Blackboard 
• Camtasia
  • Camtasia | Information Technology - from Drexel

There are lots of existing lecture videos and educational videos that may be useful for your courses.  Below are some we have identified, which will be updated over time.

•  - from RIT
•  - currently available for free
•  - Ehren Whigham and Tom Helikar, University of Nebraska-Lincoln 
•  - - Crowd Sourced
•  - - Crowd Sourced

Instead of recording videos or doing a voiceover on your slides, you could write notes into the notes section of your PowerPoint slides and share the slide set with notes with your students.  This is an easy strategy and similar to a voiceover recording.  In both cases, this would be for asynchronous instruction. 

These tools are useful if you would like your students to participate in discussions with you and/or with each other as part of the class.

• Blackboard Learn Discussion Board
  • Discussion Board | Information Technology - from Drexel
  •  - from Blackboard
• Slack
  •  - Phil Simon
  •  - from University of Massachusetts
  •  - from Johns Hopkins University
• Other
  • Blogs, wikis, or journal tools could also be used for asynchronous discussions, and are part of Blackboard Learn
  • Video conferencing tools often have features for hand raising and chat, which can be used for discussions during synchronous instruction.

• Blackboard Collaborate
  • Collaborate Ultra | Information Technology - from Drexel
  •   - from Drexel
  •  - video from Blackboard
• Microsoft Teams
  • Microsoft Teams | Information Technology - from Drexel
  •  - from Microsoft
• Other
  • Many of the tools described under “Discussion Tools” above can also be used for sharing or collaboration 

If you include group work in your courses, there are multiple ways that you can make use of technology to facilitate that work, which go beyond the pedagogical considerations that you may already put into the development of your group work strategies. Some of the resources in the “Discussion Tools” and “Sharing/Collaboration Tools” are relevant here too, but we wanted to have a special section to acknowledge group work specifically.

• Provide space for your teams to work and share ideas, or make suggestions as to where they can do this.
  • Blackboard Learn - through Blackboard Learn, an instructor can set up a groups and group sets to allow collaboration and sharing:
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  • Microsoft Teams - Drexel has access to Microsoft Teams, which can be used as a communication tool to connect people at Drexel with each other. Groups could make use of this tool to interact.
    • Microsoft Teams | Information Technology
    • - from Microsoft
  • Google - many students are more familiar with Google and the GSuite tools. If instruction intervention is not needed, students can collaborate using Google Docs, Google Sheets, Google Slides, Google Drive, etc.
    • - from Yale’s Poorvu Center for Teaching and Learning
  • Slack - this is a commonly used tool for collaboration. Groups can start their own Slack for collaboration and sharing, or separate private channels could be started for each group within an existing Slack for a course.
    • - from the College of Education at University of Massachusetts Amherst
• Make sure your students know how to use the tools you are encouraging them to use to collaborate. You can suggest the below resource, or other resources that discuss troubleshooting the specific tools you are recommending. Of note, make sure that your students know that they have access to Zoom and can use this to communicate with each other.
  • Learning Remotely- from the Center for the Advancement of STEM Teaching and Learning Excellence (CASTLE)
• Breakout Sessions in Class - if you would like students to work together during a synchronous class session, here are some options:
  • - from Drexel LeBow
  • - from Blackboard

• Blackboard Learn Assignments
  • Assignments | Information Technology - from Drexel
  •  - from Blackboard  
• Assignment Dropboxes
  •  - from LeBow College of Business
•  Turnitin
  • Turnitin | Information Technology - from Drexel
  •  - from Turnitin
• Viewing Assignments in Blackboard
  •  - from LeBow College of Business  
• Self and Peer Assessment Tool in Blackboard
  •  - from Blackboard 

• Blackboard Learn Exams
  •  - from Drexel
  • Learn Tests | Information Technology - from Drexel
  •  - from Blackboard
• Converting Exams to Post on Blackboard
•  - from New York Institute of Technology 

• Make sure all relevant course materials are posted on Blackboard Learn, Drexel’s official LMS.  This includes the syllabus, readings, assignments, and other course information and resources.
• Considerations:
  • Are your course readings available online?  If not do your students have access to the materials they need to do readings or other assignments?
  • Are there alternate course materials if your typical readings are not available online?

• Here are some resources that you can use to incorporate whiteboards into your online instruction:
  • - from Zoom
  • Instead of using a virtual whiteboard, you can construct a structure to hold your tablet or phone (often made out of legos), and use the phone/tablet camera to capture you writing with pencil and paper in real time (idea shared by Dr. Eric Brewe - Physics)
  • Using a tablet computer (iPad, Surface, etc.) or a drawing tablet (Wacom, etc) allows annotation of PowerPoint / Keynote presentations to develop ideas from figures or text already loaded on the slide as the camera provides video of your face as you present.
  • OneNote - you can use Microsoft OneNote as a paper log to put typed notes, pictures, and stylus-based hand written notes. The pages can then easily be archived and shared with the class as a shared notepad so they can see the original pages.