Information, how-to's, and resources on the learning management system, web conferencing, personal response systems, assessment software, video capture, and more.
View, Add, and Edit accommodations for a student in all quizzes/exams in the Classlist.
Instructors can choose a grading scheme for a P.L.A.T.O. course site from among those made available by Educational & Emerging Technologies. An instructor can create a custom scheme, but it will only be available within that course site.
Use the Office Lens mobile app to simulate scanning a document. With Office Lens you can capture documents, whiteboards, photos and even business cards, and then convert them to easy-to-read files in multiple formats.
Groups can be created in a merged P.L.A.T.O. course site based on section enrollment. If a student switches to a different section within the merged site, the instructor will have to manually update the group enrollment.
Seating charts can be created to track attendance and participation in a merged P.L.A.T.O. course site once a group has been created for each section.
Seating charts can be used in P.L.A.T.O. to track attendance, participation and performance in face-to-face classes. Seating charts integrate with locations and the calendar in a course site once the seating chart is complete. Grade column(s) would need to be created and populated manually. The seating chart you choose should be a visual representation of your classroom seating arrangement. Classroom details and photos are available to view in the ITS Knowledge Base.
P.L.A.T.O. seating charts integrate with locations and the course calendar to help instructors track attendance, participation and performance in face-to-face classes. The seating chart is a visual representation of your physical classroom seating arrangement and must be added before integrating it with the calendar.
Gradebook items that are associated with a dropbox, quiz, or discussion cannot be deleted from the grade book until the instructor has "unassociated" the assignment from the grade book.
Gradebook items that are not associated with a dropbox, quiz, or discussion are referred to as manually-created items. These items can be deleted from the Manage Grades More Actions menu.
Grades for a dropbox may not show in the course gradebook if the correct options have not been chosen in the Dropbox settings or if the grades have not been published.
Overview of options available for remote delivery of instruction during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Educational & Emerging Technologies (EET) provides information, resources, and services to the college community for applications and technologies relative to teaching and learning. EET's wide range of experience and resources provide faculty with training on the use of the College’s LMS and technology-driven solutions for teaching online and in the classroom.
With LinkedIn Learning, Penn College students can expand their knowledge about business, technology, software and soft skills relative to their major or a hobby.
Penn College faculty can create collections of courses or videos related to a specific course or major in LinkedIn Learning, and then share the collection with their students.
How to find Zoom recordings both locally and on the Zoom cloud
P.L.A.T.O. awards can reward students for achieving a grade on a select assignment, completing a checklist, or performance at a select rubric level. These digital badges and are modeled after Boy/Girl Scout awards.
Grant special access to a quiz can be granted to students.
Instructors can track student participation in the seating chart by clicking on the plus sign each time a student voluntarily participates or answers when called upon (cold call).
Instructors who use the Percentage Grading option in a PLATO gradebook can choose to drop the lowest non-bonus items for a category where all items in the category have the same point value.
With an instructor's permission, you can view questions answered incorrectly, as well as individual question feedback.
Quiz grades may not show in the course gradebook if the correct options have not been chosen in the Quiz settings or if these options were chosen after students completed the quiz.
Use Camtasia 2020 on your Windows or Mac computer to create tutorials, demos, and training videos when you need to include advanced features such as effects, annotations, behaviors and transitions.
Microsoft Forms are available to you through your Office 365 subscription. With Forms, you can easily create a survey or quiz and see results in real-time.
Microsoft OneDrive, our cloud storage spot at Penn College, is an integral component of the Office 365 cloud-based platform. With your 1 TB of storage available through your "work or school" subscription to Office 365, you can manage the files and folders that you need to use on campus and off-campus from any web-enabled device anywhere, anytime.
Use QualtricsXM to gather data about academic insight, and employee and student feedback.
Resource Guide for Respondus
With Respondus Monitor you can provide automated proctoring of online exams and then review an entire recording or just any flagged, suspicious behavior.
Engage students with StudyMate Campus fun learning activities you can generate from existing questions.
ZoomTM is an easy-to-use, video-conferencing platform available to you for meeting with students, colleagues, vendors, distributors, counterparts at other institutions, etc. Only individuals scheduling meetings need an account. Participants only need a meeting ID or personal link name and password if required.
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A quick way to take attendance with the Seating Chart is to first mark All Students Present for the current class. Then change the one or two who are not present to Absent, where you can choose "Unexcused Absence" or "Excused Absence".
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