Friday, August 19, 2011

Tools and Resources Available to UDC Faculty via CAT

Soft Chalk – A software that helps faculty create exciting, interactive lessons for digital deployment.

NBC Learn - The educational arm of NBC News, is dedicated to making historic stories, images and primary source documents available on-demand via Blackboard. NBC Learn has a digitized library of more than 12,000 stories from the NBC News archives — one of the largest news archives in the world.

McGraw Hill- Customizable content for Blackboard courses that saves faculty time. McGraw Hill has developed hundreds of Online Learning Centers (Blackboard Course Cartridges) for use with the Blackboard platform.

Camptasia/Snag-it - A software application that allows users to capture screen images and record video. Very helpful in the development of online course content.

Nook Study – Digital Textbook readers and resources for faculty to use that deploy within Blackboard, possibly saving students 60% on average text book costs.

Café Scribe - Digital Textbook readers and resources for faculty to use that deploy within Blackboard, possibly saving students 60% on average text book costs.

Respondus 4.0 - A powerful tool for creating and managing exams that can be printed to paper or published directly to Blackboard.

Respondus Lockdown Browser - A custom browser that locks down the testing environment within Blackboard, such that students are unable to print, copy, go to another URL, or access other applications. When an assessment is started, students are locked into it until they submit it for grading.

SafeAssign - A plagiarism prevention service, offered by Blackboard. This service helps educators prevent plagiarism by detecting unoriginal content in student papers. In addition to acting as a plagiarism deterrent, it also has features designed to aid in educating students about plagiarism and importance of proper attribution of any borrowed content.

Axciom - Blackboard and Acxiom joined together to improve student verification. The product enables institutions to deploy a verification program within their e-learning platforms that maintains the integrity and privacy of student information.

Smarthinking - Online Tutoring - 24/7 tutorial services available to students – deployed from within Blackboard.

Tools for circulation: iPads, iPods, Belkin voice recorders, Flip video recorders, Adesso Cyber pads, laptops, microphones.

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