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Blackboard Collaborate – Web-Conferencing Solution
      Blackboard collaborate is UL Lafayette’s sponsored web-conferencing solution several 100-seat rooms available for reservation. E-instructors who want to host synchronous events with their classes, that allow students to be in different locations may schedule use of one of UL Lafayette’s Web-Conferencing rooms. To learn more about the vOffice Web-conferencing Room, please watch this video.
 
Click for your Blackboard Collaborate Live Moderator's Quick Reference Guide.
  
Reserve a vOffice Web-conferencing Room
   

To reserve one of the vOffice rooms shown above, follow these easy steps.

  1. Request a room - Using your UL Lafayette Zimbra account, send an email to distancelearning@louisiana.edu with the following information.
    • Course or event and topic name
    • Instructor or moderator name
    • Date
    • Start time
    • End time
  2. Receive confirmation - Requests will be filled on a first come first serve basis.  Fixed reservations will have priority over tentative reservations.  You will receive your reservation confirmation in the form of a Zimbra calendar request.
TRAINING:
Web Conferencing as an Instructional Tool
45-Minute Blackboard Collaborate training session conducted by Dr. Luke Dowden (recorded).
  
SUGGESTION: Students may not know how to use the features available in the vOffice.  Below are links that you can make available to students so they can prepare to attend class online.
  1. Blackboard Collaborate v11 orientation (7 min video)
  2. Blackboard Collaborate participant orientation (5 min recorded version)
  3. Blackboard Collaborate participant orientation (online version)
  4. Blackboard Collaborate system requirements test (online system check)
  5. Blackboard Collaborate configuration room (test vOffice)
   
ProctorU    http://www.proctoru.com/louisiana/
UL Lafayette has partnered with ProctorU to provide live online proctoring services for students taking exams online. Students are able to schedule exam appointments 20 hours a day / 7 days a week from 7:00am - 11:45pm (Central Standard Time).

Learn How It Works by watching this brief 2 minute video (click here)


If you want to use ProctorU, email distancelearning@louisiana.edu for instructions on how to register your exams so students may schedule them.


Additional information is below.

  1. Faculty Handout (pdf)
  2. Student Handout (pdf)
  3. Frequently Asked Questions (pdf)
   
Skype - Conduct Your E-Office Hours From Anywhere
Effective e-instructors schedule e-office hours for their students. Skype provides a free voice over Internet protocol solution for your hybrid or online students to connect to you and ask questions. Faculty engagement in UL Lafayette e-courses is critical to successful student engagement. Connect to your students using SKYPE for E-Office Hours - http://www.skype.com.
  
YouTube Education
Browse http://www.youtube.com/edu to find videos of 8 minutes or less on topics from the following academic disciplines: business, education, engineering, fine arts and design, health and medicine, history, humanities, journalism and media, law, literature, mathematics, science, and social science.
 
Turnitin
The University has purchased and integrated Turnitin software into Moodle. Faculty may create Turnitin assignments in Moodle to take advantage of the Origaniality Checker and GradeMark services offered by Turnitin. Download the easy to use manual at the link below for instructions on how to set up and use a Turnitin assignment in Moodle.
 
Facebook

WEBINAR: Facebook for Teaching and Learning: Practical Strategies for Educators (recorded)
Presented by Holly Rae Bemis-Schurtz, M.A.

 
Panopto-Lecture Capture Software

The Office of Distance Learning provides lecture capture software to faculty teaching hybrid and online courses to record lectures, podcasts, screencasts, and other presentations. Learn the steps to acquiring and using this technology by clicking on the Tip Sheet below.