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Check YuJa Videos and Other Course Material Before Start of Winter Session and Spring 2023
Posted December 14, 2022
by IDLT
Winter Session at SIUE begins Monday, December 19, 2022. While select schools will begin spring courses on Tuesday, January 3, 2023, most courses scheduled for the start of the spring 2023 (SP23) semester will begin on Monday, January 9, 2023.
If you are teaching a Winter Session or SP23 course and plan to import your course content from a previous semester, all faculty are encouraged to check the content of...
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Complete These End-of-Semester Activities for Course Management
Posted December 14, 2022
by IDLT
As the term nears completion, the following tips will be useful for faculty in wrapping up their courses.
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Check your Grade Center Total and/or Weighted Total column(s) to be sure they are set up to calculate correctly. The Mercer University Online Weighted Average Grade Calculator is a useful tool for checking your Weighted Total calculations. If you find errors, contact ITS at 618-650-5500 or at bbhelp@siue.edu for assistance.&#...
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Increasing the Accessibility of a Word Document and PowerPoint Presentation
Posted December 14, 2022
by IDLT
Our past ITSpotlight articles on accessibility discussed running the course accessibility report to identify files that need improvement and how to increase the accessibility of a PDF. In this article, we’ll focus on how to increase the accessibility of Word documents and PowerPoint presentations.
Microsoft has a built-in accessibility checker to help you identify and correct any issues in Word, PowerPoint, and Excel files. Uploading...
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Tracking Student Attendance: Blackboard vs Starfish
Posted December 14, 2022
Tracking student attendance in college-level courses can be a topic of debate. Some courses require participation and class or activity attendance within the evaluation methods of the course and some do not. Regardless, tracking student attendance can help you as an educator to see patterns in student behavior, both individually and as a class. Attendance is also a factor in student retention. We have two methods of attendance tracking available at SIUE:...
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