Learning Design & Technology

Learning Design and Technology guides the use of technology to transform the way teaching and learning is designed and delivered. We are a dynamic group of individuals with specialized knowledge and skills from a variety of backgrounds who aid teaching, learning, and student success. We foster development of innovative pedagogies with educational technologies by leveraging a state-of-the-art technology-enhanced classroom for teaching innovation in Morgan Hall.

Learning Design and Technology staff teach research-based practices in course design, online learning, and classroom teaching with technology. We offer video production services and self-serve tools and practices for creating high quality video lectures. Learning Design and Technology also offers video conferencing, lecture recording, and AV event support along with online learning systems of Sakai, Turnitin, and Bongo, and print-based duplication services and satellite copiers across campus. We also offer paper-based Scantron test scoring.

Explore the links to see what teaching and learning technologies are available and how they can be used.

NOTE: The Bradley instructional media collection has been consolidated. The entire collection is now located in the Library and is available through the Library catalog.

Services

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Bradley offers access to Google Meets to all faculty, students, and staff as a DIY meeting service.

Terms and Conditions

Audiovisual Services supports web conferencing and webinar needs by scheduling or hosting events and providing access to Zoom. For Zoom events that are Hybrid or will require staffing, it is recommended to schedule a week or more in advance. The request for service must be submitted at least five business days in advance if AV is playing back specific music playlists, videos, or powerpoints during your event. When scheduling a Webinar, AV Services requires a name and email address of all panel members prior to the event.

All AV Support for Student groups or University Organizations requires pre-approval and has a labor charge of $15 per labor hour. This includes setup, event time and teardown. An account number for billing purposes is required prior to the event.

We abide by all Terms of Service for Zoom and Google Meets. We also do not condone or promote the broadcast or reproduction of any copyrighted materials (i.e. DVDs, Netflix/Amazon Prime movies/shows) via any service (i.e. Zoom and Meets). Such Broadcast or reproduction can result in fines and/or termination of license by the provider on a personal and/or an institutional level.

Definitions

Zoom Meetings — Meetings are a collaborative format for attendees. This is a good choice for interactive meetings and may include breakout rooms. Attendees can turn on the camera, microphone and share screen if given permission. AV Services Zoom Meetings have a maximum capacity of 300 attendees.

Zoom Webinars — Webinars are view only format for attendees. This format is generally used for presentations by one or more panelists to a larger audience. The attendees can raise hands and participate in Q & A. Panelists in a Webinar can turn on camera, microphone, chat and share screens. AV Services will provide the event planner an attendee link and individual links for each panelist that must be used by the panelists when joining the webinar. Webinars are also a good choice for streaming larger events that are view only and don’t include panelists such as a concert for example. AV Services Zoom Webinars have a maximum capacity of 1000 attendees.

Hybrid Meetings — These are meetings that are both live in person and include a virtual/streaming aspect. There are some spaces in Bradley that are setup for hybrid meetings and some that require more planning. There are also a lot of variables in streaming. It is a good idea to consult AV services when planning your event so that we can share the options available.

DIY Meetings — If you would like to host the meeting yourself on a separate platform, AV has equipment (cameras/microphones/etc.) available to help facilitate your meeting. Please request your equipment 3 or more days prior to your event. Students will need a faculty/advisor to approve the checkout.

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knowledge base

Learning Design and Technology supports a wide variety of campus technology including classroom technology, Canvas, Sakai, Bongo, Turnitin, Panopto, Zoom, Respondus Lockdown Browser, Examity, Qualtrics, and OBS. We offer a wide of variety of workshops, both synchronous and asynchronous, as well as help videos and documentation to support both faculty and students. Instructors are encouraged to follow the buttons to the right for more information or reach out to us at [email protected] for guidance.

current workshops and training

ldt training video repository

ldt help docs repository

Testing in Canvas

Testing can be conducted online or face-to-face using the built-in tools in Canvas. There are several technologies available to support varying assessment strategies. Canvas Classic and New Quizzes can deliver low-stakes knowledge checks, chapter quizzes or high-stakes exams. If exams are high-stakes, they can be conducted in a classroom environment or supervised with no charge to the student via the University’s online test proctoring service, Respondus Lockdown Browser and Monitor. Respondus Lockdown Browser is an additional service that disallows a student’s browser from navigating outside of the test while the Monitor portion of the tool leverages a student’s webcam, microphone and computer to verify a test-taker’s identity and ensure academic integrity. Students do need to install a client on their machine in order for this solution to function and more information on how to get started can be found at the link above.

Online Course Evaluations

Course Evaluations and Surveys is the primary course evaluation. Until that time course evaluations can be created and delivered online to students with Sakai and the Evaluation System tool. Evaluations are anonymous and confidential. Students receive an initial email with instructions and a direct link to the evaluation. They can complete evaluations on any computer, and most mobile devices, from any Internet-connected location. Reminder emails can be sent to non-responding students to promote participation. A department or college staff delegate is needed to help configure evaluations and to collect and distribute final reports and data.

Instructional Technology Tools

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*It is important to note that First-Year/Transfers using Respondus Lockdown Browser and Monitor for their ALEKS placement exam are using a proprietary system native to ALEKS. It is recommended these students (once they have completed their placement exams) run a fresh install of the tools for use within courses at Bradley University.

How It Works

Assessments are displayed full-screen and cannot be minimized
Browser menu and toolbar options are removed, except for Back, Forward, Refresh and Stop
Prevents access to other applications including messaging, screen-sharing, virtual machines, and remote desktops
Printing and screen capture functions are disabled
Copying and pasting anything to or from an assessment is prevented
Right-click menu options, function keys, keyboard shortcuts and task switching are disabled
An assessment cannot be exited until the student submits it for grading
Assessments that are set up for use with LockDown Browser cannot be accessed with other browsers

Respondus Monitor builds upon the power of LockDown Browser, using a student’s webcam and industry-leading video analytics to prevent cheating during non-proctored exams.

How It Works

Builds upon LockDown Browser

LockDown Browser is the “gold standard” for locking down a student’s computer or iPad during an online exam. That’s why 1500 universities rely on it to prevent cheating on 120 million exams each year. Respondus Monitor builds upon the LockDown Browser technology to ensure the computing device isn’t used to cheat during a non-proctored exam.

Integrates Seamlessly with Canvas

Students access exams within the LMS as they normally would. Instructors do everything within the LMS too, including the post-exam review of proctoring results.

“Auto-Launches” from any Browser

After a quick one-time installation, Respondus Monitor will auto-launch from the student’s browser (Chrome, Firefox, Safari, IE) whenever the exam settings require it. Students are then guided through a pre-exam sequence, including a webcam check. Students love the auto-launch capability, which is now available for most learning systems.

No Scheduling or Registration

Exams can be taken with Respondus Monitor without advanced scheduling and without additional registration by the student.

training & downloads

Turnitin

Turnitin is a holistic solution aimed at guaranteeing academic integrity in writing assignments by preventing plagiarism, investigating authorship, and providing feedback. With its seamless integration in Sakai, it is an invaluable tool for highlighting writing similarities through its use of the world’s largest collection of internet, academic, and student paper content.

Grademark

With Grademark instructors now have another tool with which to evaluate student work online. Whether that work be written (papers, essays, thesis, powerpoint), non-written (images, videos, music files), or work not submitted through the traditional Turnitin type assignment (speeches, presentations, performances, or works of art), Grademark excels as an all-in-one solution for online feedback.

Faculty Information

Turnitin plagiarism detection uses an extensive online database of original content to help you identify potential cases of plagiarism. Upon submission you will be provided with an Originality Report that highlights key areas, shows a breakdown of matching scores, and provides direct links to matching content.

Originality Report

Ranges:

Blue: >= 0 and < 20%
Green: >= 20 and < 40%
Yellow: >= 40 and < 60%
Orange: >= 60 and < 80%
Red: >= 80 and <= 100%

As an instructor you can choose a baseline within these ranges where you might choose to take a closer look at a students work. EX: 15%, 20%

The Originality Report not only allows you an overview of whether or not a student may have plagiarized but it also offers insight into determining if the writer over cited, quoted too much, or cited incorrectly. Turnitin also offers the ability to exclude quoted material or the reference list.

Suggestions for Use/Implementation:

Be explicit with your intention of using Turnitin. Include a statement in your syllabus. Go over it with students on the first day of class. Point students to Bradley’s Plagiarism awareness page.
Set multiple due dates for writing assignments, allowing students to make revisions based on their Originality Reports so that they can add references, better paraphrase, or correctly quote their sources.
Provide students with a one-page example of a commonly used reference format in your discipline and in-text citation guidance.
Make the writing style guide a required text: APA, MLA, Chicago, AMA…
Point students to both local and online help.
The Writing Center @ Bradley University
OWL: The Purdue Online Writing Lab

Instructions/ Video Tutorials

Using Turnitin in Canvas

There are two ways to use Turnitin in Canvas; the first is via an External Tool. Using the external tool option will allow you to use Turnitin’s Grademark to provide comments back to students. The second is via the Plagiarism Framework, which allows you to use Canvas’ SpeedGrader to provide feedback to the students while still accessing their Originality Report. Depending on how you want your assignment setup will determine which you will want to use. The video below walks through adding each type to your course in Canvas.

If you would like the students to submit a draft and a final version, you could set up two separate assignments – one for the draft and one for the final copy. Note that if you choose to save the paper to the repository, the student’s next submission will have matching text with the first draft.

View the report generated by Turnitin

Go to the SpeedGrader for the assignment that is using Turnitin.
Click on the Turnitin number on the right-hand side to open the Similarity Report.

To learn how to read the Similarity report, view this tutorial created by Turnitin.

It will take between 15 minutes and 24 hours for Turnitin to generate the report. If no report has been generated after 24 hours, there may have been a problem with the assignment settings or with the student’s file. Call the Bradley Service Desk at (309) 677-2964 or walk up to the desk in the Library for assistance.

Student Information

Turnitin is a tool used by your instructors to identify potential cases of plagiarism by automatically comparing submissions with an extensive online database. Used in conjunction with the Assignments tool, if your instructor elects to use Turnitin’s services your assignments will be automatically forwarded to the Turnitin service when you upload your work to Canvas.

Turnitin accepts Word files (.doc or .docx), HTML, PDF, RTF, and TXT. If files were created in word processors other than Word, students should save the files as RTF or TXT.
Assignments sent through Turnitin are scanned against all of the Turnitin sources, then a report is generated that summarizes and highlights matching text and where it was found.
It will take between 15 minutes and 24 hours for Turnitin to generate the report. Your instructor has the option whether or not to share the Similarity Report with you. If the report is shared with students, you will be able to open the report from your Assignment in Canvas, or by navigating to the gradebook in Canvas.
For the complete Bradley Policy and process for plagiarism, please read the section on “Cheating and Plagiarism” in the student handbook (you will need to scroll halfway down the page to find the section on plagiarism).

Suggestions/Resources

Assume your instructors are going to use Turnitin for all writing assignments and be aware of what constitutes plagiarism. Bradley’s Plagiarism Awareness Page.
Check your syllabus or ask your instructor what style manual you will be using in a course that requires writing/citations. EX: APA, MLA, Chicago, AMA…
Turnitin is an instructor tool, however, a variety of tools exist online that will scan your work for plagiarism.
Don’t wait until the last minute to write your papers. Hurrying leads to poor quality and inadvertent mistakes, one of which is plagiarism.
Use your resources.
The Writing Center @ Bradley University
OWL: The Purdue Online Writing Lab

Posting/Viewing an Assignment that Uses Turnitin video

Please view the below video for a demonstration accessing the Turnitin originality report for assignments on your Canvas course site. Find additional information about interpreting your similarity score.

Panopto is an all-in-one video platform tool for video management, recording, live streaming, quizzing, analytics, mobile, and a lot more. With its ability to centrally manage your recorded lectures, classroom videos, or even 3rd party media Panopto uses your Bradley SSO (Single Sign On) to seamlessly integrate across various platforms including: WIndows, MacOS, IOS and Android. No need to remember new passwords or sign in over and over here. Along with this platform integration is direct access via your Canvas classroom where you can record videos, embed them using the Pages, and design your course to include your own customized video content. This makes flipping your classroom or recording a quick “how to” video a piece of cake no matter where you are as the Panopto tool helps to bring you and your students greater depth of interaction.

Use Cases

Video Content Management
Lecture Capture
Flipping your classroom
Student Recordings
Recording Demonstrations

Possible Student Benefits

Easy access to previous lectures
More personalized learning experiences
Can consume video materials on any platform at their own pace

Possible Instructor Benefits

Easy integration into Sakai Canvas and various platforms
Record, edit, and share full or micro-lectures all from one tool
Add interactive quizzes to your videos
Embed polls and other interactive content directly into your videos

To learn more about this tool, we encourage you to contact our team at [email protected]. For more information on Panopto or to read/view more on using video in your classroom please follow this link.

panopto quickstart

ldt training video repository

Zoom is a powerful FERPA compliant cloud based video and audio web-conferencing, collaboration, and chat tool that functions across multiple platforms including: mobile devices, desktops, laptops, and telephones. With easy integration into learning management systems, calendars, and an intuitive interface the standard version of the Zoom conferencing tool, available to all faculty/staff and students, can bring up to ten users together in real time. Here at Bradley we also have a limited number of Pro versions of the tool available upon request which increases the number of users in a session to 100. Use-cases for Zoom abound, but see below for ideas on how to integrate it into your course, committee meetings, or a host of other activities!

Use Cases

Oral Exams
Meetings
Interviews
Student Presentations

Possible Student Benefits

Feeling of being more ‘involved’ in class
Opportunity to easily speak face-to-face with instructor
Valuable way to improve speaking communication/soft skills

Possible Instructor Benefits

Increased synergy in online or hybrid courses
Implementation of the newest technology
A Personal manner to provide feedback and coaching

To learn more about this tool, we encourage you to contact our team at [email protected].

Please also check out the links below:

a guide to zoom at bradley

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Studio is a collaborative tool that allows faculty and students to interact via video and audio media. Faculty can create videos that students can comment directly on; faculty can add annotation and quizzes to videos, too. Students can work together to create videos to upload to faculty via assignments in Canvas, or they can work individually to post to a discussion board.

Use-Cases

Video Assignments — Canvas Studio allows students to record directly through the Studio platform, upload an mp4 file, or link to a YouTube or Vimeo video. The instructor can set up peer review options for assignments, allowing students to view and comment on each other’s videos.
Group projects — Learners collaborate to complete a video. When submitting to an assignment using the text option, students can embed their video and link to their supporting files at the same time. Students can share videos with one another, allowing one student to combine the videos to submit the final project to the faculty member on behalf of the whole group.
Practice Presentations — If students are presenting live in class, faculty can create a ‘rough draft’ of the assignment, allowing students to submit a recording of their presentation. This gives faculty an opportunity to provide suggestions and feedback to the students, and allows students an opportunity to practice delivering their presentation. Students can re-watch their submitted video as well to self-critique their performance.

How It Works

Integrates Seamlessly with Canvas — Studio is already available for all users – click on the Studio link towards the bottom left in Canvas, and you can begin recording right away!

Embed in Announcements, Assignments, the Syllabus, & More — Faculty can create one video (a brief video introducing themselves to their class, for example) that can be embedded in any class. Wherever you find the Rich Content Editor (RCE), you’ll see an option to embed a Studio video.

Edit with Ease — After recording your video, before you upload it to Studio, try out the editing features – blur certain sections of the video; narrate over a section; merge two separate video clips together, and more. Once you’ve uploaded your video to Canvas Studio, you can trim and cut your video as you need to

Use Studio Videos to Help Students Learn — You can add quizzes to your videos and link them to assignments that automatically add to the gradebook. Students can watch your video and answer the quiz questions; their highest score will be recorded in the gradebook. Use this to test their knowledge, practice what they’ve learned, or study for an exam!

If you have questions about using Canvas Studio in your course(s), please contact [email protected] for additional help!

Open Broadcaster Software, or OBS, is a free and open source solution for offline video recording and live streaming that is Mac and Windows compliant. With an open canvas approach to video creation this tool can mix a variety of audio and video sources to a single output for creative video and broadcast applications. Recording is a snap with this multifunctional application as OBS has the ability to record straight to your hard drive using a record only mode or in conjunction with a simultaneous live stream. Speaking of live streaming, OBS allows live broadcasts to several popular streaming services including Youtube, Facebook Live, Twitch, Twitter, and Mixer with the built in ability to stream to your own custom RTMP servers.

Use Cases

Screen Capture with Audio
Live Event Streaming
Podcasting
Instructional Video Creation
HIPAA compliant offline video recording (when paired with an encrypted storage device)

Possible Student Benefits

Feeling of being more ‘involved’ in class
Sparks creativity and broadens understanding of broadcast technologies
Real world experience with a tool used by industry professionals

Possible Instructor Benefits

Powerful free tool for screen capture
Increased engagement in online or hybrid courses
Implementation of the newest technology
Flexible multi-layer content creation without post-production time loss

To learn more about this tool, we encourage you to contact our team at [email protected].

Please also check out the links below.

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Additional Links

Canvas at BU

Canvas is an industry standard learning management system (LMS) using state-of-the-industry technology. The Canvas platform offers a wide, intuitive toolset to support teaching and learning. It features mobile app convenience for busy lives supporting learning on the go and timely communications and notifications. Canvas integrates with a vast array of educational technologies, systems, and publishers’ content and test banks.

Please contact the Instructional Technology Team at [email protected] for direct assistance.

Faculty and Students can use Canvas help to learn about particular tools.

If students can’t see a course site, it could mean an Instructor hasn’t published the site. To do so, Instructors should click the (Publish Now) button in the upper part of all site pages.

Username/Password Issues

Your User ID (BUnetID) for Canvas is the part of your Bradley email address before the @ sign. Your Bradley network Password will work for Canvas.

For BUnetID and password help, please contact the Bradley Help Desk at (309) 677-2964.

Beginning a Semester

If you do not have access to your course site, and AcInquire indicates students are enrolled, please send an email to [email protected].

Students are added or dropped from Canvas course sites shortly after 6am, 10am, 2pm, and 6pm daily.

Manage Files in Resources

During the Semester

Midterm Grades (note that you will need to enter midterm grades in Acinquire too.)
Providing Extended Time for Tests in Canvas (email [email protected] for help.)
Turnitin (check originality of assignments in Canvas.)

Ending a Semester

Contact

canvas guides

When accessing Canvas for anything that is critical (such as an online exam), there are a few tips that the Learning Design and Technologies team recommends. First, you should use a wired Internet connection due to problems inherent with wireless Internet services. Wireless services are prone to drops and data loss from environmental factors (for example, interfering microwaves) but wired connections are not affected by those factors. Two, our recommended browsers with Canvas are Chrome or Firefox. Lastly, check the Global Announcements on your dashboard in Canvas for any outages or planned maintenance news.

Oh no! I lost my internet connection during an online exam, what should I do?

First, “Don’t Panic.” Your answers should auto-save as you navigate through your exam. If you encounter an essay question, write in another program (say, in Microsoft Word, saving the file as plain text) and paste plain text back into your Canvas exam session. This way, if you lose your Canvas connection and written work, your written responses are available in a backup file. If you lose your internet connection, contact your instructor right away.

I can’t see my courses

There are two potential reasons for this.

The first, could be you have the course currently hidden. To unhide a course:

Click on Courses on the left-hand side.
Scroll down and click All Courses.
Those courses where the “star” is shaded in on the left-hand side will show on your dashboard; those that are outlined will remain in Courses > All Courses.

The second reason could be that your instructor isn’t using Canvas for your class, or the site is being used but hasn’t been Published (brought online) yet. Send your instructor a friendly email and ask if they plan to use Canvas and state that you cannot see the course site. They should respond quickly.

Help

You should first report course site problems to instructors.
If technical problems occur, can call the Bradley Help Desk at (309) 677-2964.
If all else fails, instructors can report student problems to [email protected].

quick start guide

I. Purpose

Learning Management System (LMS) Site Data Retention Policy is a 72 month FIFO (First in First Out) policy that follows industry standards by eliminating stale data, helping to maintain performance/responsiveness of the LMS, and keeping costs associated with large amounts of data storage manageable.

II. Description

This 6-year retention of data will allow access to grades, student work, and course content for the entirety of that period, after which, the data will be expunged from the system. The policy only applies to term sites such as 19SP, 19RA, 14 FA etc. All project sites and sites that fall within the “Master” site classification or “Orientation” site classification fall outside of the scope of this policy. If you have questions regarding the policy or how you can keep/manage older data set to come off the system please email [email protected].

III. Implementation

Implementation Date: October 10, 2019

First Terms Effected: 13SP and older

Scheduled Dates For Deletion: Semi-Annually on June 15th and December 15th.

Date Approved: May 2019, December 2020

Learning Design & Technology