Gradebook filters, progress tracking, badges ready for Ultra New course navigation & other enhancements coming in August This upcoming FA2021 semester features new development in the Ultra gradebook, starting with gradebook filters. This function allows faculty to view data and content in the gradebook by multiple variables including individual student names, groups, gradable items, and categories. Faculty can bookmark their filters to reuse. Ultra gradebook filters mark an important feature parity with the smart view in an Original course's grade center.

New Ultra gradebook filters

Progress tracking is a brand new enhancement to Ultra courses, allowing students to manually mark and track their progress. This feature is especially helpful when learning modules are used in Ultra courses, providing students with both visual cues to identify where they are in their consumption and manual task to mark complete for course activities. As this is the first phase of progress tracking, this feature can only be enabled if the course has no activity. Please review the FAQ to enable this setting.

The achievements tool in Original courses allows instructors to designate criteria for issuing rewards to students in the form of both badges. The new Badgr integration for Ultra and Original courses replaces the achievements tool and provides a platform for faculty to reward and motivate students for project completion, skill proficiency, experience levels, and more. Watch for updates about an upcoming webinar later in August to learn more about this exiting new tool.

Other new features coming to Ultra include a redesigned navigation menu. The top menu has featured icons since Ultra launched several years ago, and lacked any contextual information. The new menu will be completely text based and relocated to the left side of the page, where it is more responsive for mobile access. Moreover, this location is sticky -- that is, the menu remains at the top even if you scroll down the page, allowing you to easily change your tool and page view. The Student Preview tool will also change its location to the top right corner, which is more consistent with Original courses.

Example of new Ultra navigation bar

The next update to our test environment will take place on August 10, 2021. Faculty who are interested in test driving new features before they are released to production should open an RT ticket to request early access. Please watch the FAQs and myUMBC for additional information about Ultra or join our What's New in Ultra Courses for Teaching & Learning webinar on August 18.

As always, if you have any questions about teaching, learning, and technology at UMBC, please consider the following options:

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To encourage, identify, and exchange effective practice in the use of data to inform teaching and learning, the Provost’s Office has awarded UMBC’s first learning analytics mini grants to five faculty (their proposed topics are included below):

Raji Baradwaj and Brian Dean (MATH): “Analysis of Student Homework Performance and Final Exam Performance – What is the nature of any correlation?”

Tara Carpenter (CHEM): “Modeling Effective Learning Strategies in Introductory Chemistry”

Karen Chen (IS): “Bumpy Journey: Exploring Gateway Courses Failures and Major Switch - a Case Study with Information Systems Majors.”

Nandita Dasgupta (ECON/MATH): “Statistics as a Prerequisite for Introductory Econometrics: Options and Outcomes”

The one-year professional development awards are renewable annually, pending receipt of a final report, paper submitted for publication or conference presentation. In addition to use of UMBC’s Report Exchange (REX) data warehouse, and a Tableau “viewer” license, the faculty will be able to consult with staff from Analytics and Business Intelligence, Instructional Technology and Institutional Research and Decision support (IRADS). 

Note: After Covid interrupted plans for 2019-20 academic year, the Learning Analytics Community of Practice was re-launched this past spring, including a talk about student grade surprise by Indiana University’s Jennifer Meta Robinson and the inaugural LA mini grants call for proposals. More information about this year’s workshops, speakers and another learning analytics mini-grant call for proposals will be announced shortly.
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Update @ 10/1: The pilot has concluded.

In partnership with Blackboard, UMBC will pilot a recording transcription feature in the Collaborate web conferencing platform this summer. This feature will be available from July 15 - September 15, 2021. 

Captions improve the accessibility of content for individuals who are deaf or hearing impaired. However, captions with videos offer opportunities for students to access the information in ways they need or want it. 
  • Anyone working in a noisy environment can read captions.
  • Non-native speakers can read captions to reinforce their understanding.
  • Students learning to read can follow along with the speaker.
  • Students can see the spelling of terms that will be on a test.
In Collaborate, the recording transcription feature is triggered by the instructor through the recording settings page for the session. Please review this FAQ for step by step instructions.

Collaborate leverages AI powered speech to text recognition to generate a transcription of what is said during the session. After the captions are created, captions are available from the recording list. The captions also immediately appear in the recording player for anybody having access to the recording. As with Panopto, if you want to improve or correct anything in the captions, you can download the caption file to edit and replace it.

During the pilot, Blackboard would like to gather feedback from faculty who use the feature. Surveys will be distributed to faculty who use Collaborate recordings during the pilot. Please share your thoughts as this feedback is important to improving the feature for all future users. 

As always, if you have any questions about teaching, learning, and technology at UMBC, please consider the following options:
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Are you ready for the move? At the end of the Spring 2021 semester, DoIT announced that test scoring services were moving to Akindi, a Scantron alternative. During this transition, we will be offering faculty many opportunities to learn more about implementing Akindi bubble sheets when delivering face-to-face, multiple choice assessments. 

This training is recommended for all faculty that plan on deploying paper-based assessments in their courses. 

Training will be offered on:
Note: Faculty only need to attend one of the above sessions; the sessions are repetitive. 

Agenda:

By the end of this session, faculty should be able to:
  • Create an Akindi assessment in their Blackboard course shell
  • Add an answer key to an assessment
  • Generate, download, and print PDF Akindi bubble sheets for distribution. 
  • Upload completed bubble sheets into an Akindi assessment 
  • Mitigate errors and flags from assessments that may need manual review (e.g., bubbling two responses, missing ID).
  • Locate the scores of Akindi assessments in Blackboard
  • Review bubble sheet analytics 
  • Return the scanned, electronic bubble sheet to students
Attending

To RSVP for the event, please click “Going” on the corresponding myUMBC event (linked above) and be sure to add the event to your calendar!

Next Steps

Instructors that wish to continue using Scantrons for their bubble sheet assessments will still be able to do so during this transition throughout Fall 2021. 

Follow our Instructional Technology myUMBC group to stay up-to-date when training dates will be announced. Until then, instructors can:


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The July update to the Windows and Mac versions of Respondus LockDown Browser will feature a new Auto Update function that starts when the application opens. 

To optimize the test proctoring experience, students must make sure they are using the latest version of RLDB before taking a Blackboard test if the secure browser is required. Prior to this new update, the check had to be manually completed and installed. The new feature will automatically check for updates and install them to ensure students are using the latest version.

NOTE: The July update must be manually installed for students to benefit from the auto-update function moving forward. Students must run the "Check for newer version" tool to download and install the update.

Alternatively, students can run a fresh install using the UMBC-specific download link. 

As always, if you have any questions about teaching, learning, and technology at UMBC, please consider the following options:

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New Ultra group enhancements

Additional functionality supports users with vision impairment to navigate through cards more efficiently and to move to the top of the page when there are enough students shown on the screen. 

Since its inception, the Ultra gradebook has only supported a letter grade schema for the overall grade that a student sees. In July, however, faculty will be able to choose between the letter grade schema and a percentage. This selection will appear to both students and instructors in the gradebook. 

New setting for gradebook percentage

Faculty who prefer to use a points-based system will continue to leverage the calculated column workflow to display a running total of points earned.

Moreover, faculty can decide to turn off the visibility of the attendance column for the Blackboard attendance tool in the gradebook, grid, and list view. This functionality allows instructors to choose whether or not they want to use Blackboard’s native attendance as a grade or not. While some instructors want or need to track attendance, they don't always need it represented in the gradebook. They can remove attendance columns from the gradebook without affecting the attendance itself. Note: The native Bb attendance tool setting does not impact Qwickly’s attendance total column as Qwickly is a separate third-party tool that must be set up and used separately.

The next update to our test environment will take place on July 6, 2021. Faculty who are interested in test driving new features before they are released to production should open an RT ticket to request early access. Please watch the FAQs and myUMBC for additional information about Ultra

As always, if you have any questions about teaching, learning, and technology at UMBC, please consider the following options:
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On Saturday, June 26, Panopto Cloud customers will be upgraded to the latest cloud release. The vendor anticipates up to 4 hours of downtime, with a target start time of 9:00 PM EDT. See the cloud upgrade FAQ article for more information. There will be numerous platform enhancements, including an improved sharing experience, designed to be more intuitive and to use a modernized look and feel.

End of IE Support
Also effective June 26th, Panopto will no longer support Internet Explorer 11 (IE11). This means the company will no longer fix any issues users experience while using Panopto on IE11.

Mandatory Client Upgrade
On Friday, July 16, we will require Panopto for Windows & Remote Recorders to be upgraded to version 9.0.2 or above and Panopto for Mac to version 10.1.0 or above. The upgrade will be applied to your Panopto site at 8:00 pm EDT/5:00 pm PDT.

For more information on the mandatory upgrade, please refer to this article on the Panopto support site.

Please submit an RT ticket should you have any questions or concerns that remain unaddressed by this existing documentation.

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Don't forget to register and mark your calendars for this coming Tuesday, June 8th, at 12:00 PM to hear Professor Jamie Gurganus discuss her use of WebEx for some really exceptional instructional approaches, including synchronous teaching, labs, and peer learning. She will discuss her experience using  this platform, along with tips, tricks, and thoughts for faculty considering adopting WebEx for their own instruction moving forward.

Stick around after the session if you'd like to participate in a deep dive from 1:00 - 1:30 PM!
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In the latest update to Chrome and Edge, Google made a change to one of their cookie settings, which may result in a “‘Refuse to connect’ error message. Using Firefox to access Panopto content should address this problem.

Alternatively, we have made a server-side setting adjustment to mitigate this issue while the vendor continues to investigate a permanent solution. This setting, however, will mean users running Chrome on an iOS device will no longer be able to sign into Panopto from an embedded folder or session. To work around this restriction, Chrome iOS users can sign into Panopto on their mobile browser prior to accessing the embedded folder or video.



We are sincerely sorry for the inconvenience this service disruption has caused both for instructors and your students. Panopto has indicated a status update will be available by the end of the day, Friday, and we will similarly update the UMBC community as additional information is made available.

Thank you all very much for your patience. We recognize the difficulties any technical limitation can cause, particularly during the more time-restricted summer sessions.

Instructional Technology Team

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As this year’s virtual “host” of the 2021 Open Education Conference (October 18-22, 2021), the Maryland Open Source Textbook (M.O.S.T.) Initiative is excited to announce the call for proposals is now open!

Deadline: Friday June 18th at 11:59pm PDT

The theme of the 2021 Open Education Conference is “Making Open for All.” This theme puts action for equity and inclusion at the center of this year’s event, building on last year’s focus on reimagining open education as a solution to urgent challenges.

The idea of “all” has always been at the heart of open education. Openness is about enabling everyone, everywhere to participate in sharing knowledge, recognizing that education is a universal human right. There are many ways that open education has succeeded at breaking down barriers and expanding participation, yet there is much work ahead to reach the ideal of all.

“Making Open for All” is not a destination. It is a process that involves ongoing, intentional action to build resources, practices, and systems that are open for all people, languages, cultures, and contexts. It also involves understanding the limits to openness, such as its intersections with privacy and Indigenous knowledge. This year’s conference seeks to inspire the open education field to work together toward a more equitable and inclusive future.

Proposals are enthusiastically welcomed from everyone with an interest in sharing information about open education, especially from students. Since many topics overlap, proposals may list up to three relevant topics. 

VIRTUAL SESSION TYPES
  • 10 min Lightning Talk (pre-recorded video with live viewing)
  • 25 min Presentation (pre-recorded video with live viewing)
  • 40 min Presentation (live presentation that will be recorded)
  • 40 min Discussion (live interactive session that will not be recorded)
  • 55 min Panel (live panel discussion that will be recorded)
  • Open Space (propose your own session type)
PROGRAM TOPICS
  • Open Education 101: The Basics and How to Get Started
  • The Meaning of “All”: Examinations of Equity, Anti-Racism, Indigenization, Decolonization, and Social Justice
  • Ethical Education: Issues of Agency, Labor, Privacy, and Consent
  • Designing for Inclusion and Accessibility: How to Build and Create for All 
  • Exchanging Knowledge Across Borders: Open Education Around the World
  • Teaching and Learning Through Open: Open Pedagogy and Practices
  • Open Education in K-12: Approaches in Primary and Secondary Education
  • Understanding Open: Sharing Case Studies and Contributing to the Body of Literature
  • Building and Sustaining a Culture of Open: Strategies, Policies, Best Practices, and Advocacy
  • The Joy of Open: Celebrating Community, Care, and Collaboration
TIMELINE
  • June 18, 2021: Submission Deadline
  • July 31, 2021: Acceptance Notifications
  • August 30, 2021: Program Published
  • September 24, 2021: Pre-Record Deadline (Tentative)
  • October 18-22, 2021: Conference
View the full call for proposals for additional information on the topics, submission requirements, review criteria, session formats, and how to submit a proposal through EasyChair. Follow along on social media with with #OpenEd21!
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