MyLO includes a powerful tool known as Quicklinks. This tool allows you to link to a range of items inside and outside of your MyLO site. You can use this tool to create links pretty much anywhere in MyLO including Announcements; Descriptions of Modules and Items;  HTML Pages; Discussion posts; and feedback in Assignment Submission Folders, Rubrics and Quizzes. […]

What does it do? Web comferencing allows staff and students to meet in real time in a virtual (online) space. During a session, participants can use text based chat, audio chat and/or video to communicate. An electronic whiteboard allows for the sharing and live annotation of PowerPoint presentations (though video and animations embedded in PowerPoint presentations […]

There are a variety of online tools and software applications that you can use to help students create or perform items for assessment, and submit online. Here, we  review some of the tools supported by UTAS.   Tool Suitable for… Submission Marking and feedback Considerations Microsoft Office Creation of a range of documents, from Word […]

Are you using Blackboard Collaborate Ultra to run online classes (workshops, tutorials, webinars etc)? The way you (and students) access the recordings of your sessions will depend on the way you set up the Online Room. If you ordered a room through the MyLO Support Team (usually via a form you fill out online), you […]

We have had some reports of students experiencing difficulty accessing Blackboard Collaborate Ultra Online Rooms. When some students go to MyLO and try to click on the Join Room link, or a session link, they are prompted to enter a username and password (not their UTAS username and password), and thus have difficulty accessing the room. This may […]

Recently, some staff have reported difficulty joining an Online Room or viewing a recording from the Online Room Archive. Issue When using Google Chrome, you try to join an Online Room or Archive (recording). A new window or tab opens showing the usual Blackboard Collaborate page, but nothing seems to happen after that. No obvious warnings […]

Presentations are a common form of assessment for group and individual assessment tasks. Presentations are usually delivered during face to face tutorials. How can we ‘translate’ the task of delivering a presentation into something that is feasible for distance students? Here are three possible solutions. Presentations during online sessions If you have a relatively small […]

Many Unit Coordinators include a group-related activity in their suite of assessment tasks. Presentations are a common form of assessment task for groups, but how can off-campus students get together to plan and record a group presentation, or simply just meet as a group? Using the UTAS web conferencing platform, Blackboard Collaborate Ultra (from hereon referred […]