NiceCast for Streaming Audio Broadcasts to Students

This tutorial shows how to use Nicecast to create a streaming audio broadcast to send to your students' computers. World Language teachers, this is for you! Use this process to facilitate in-class speaking assessments like in a language lab: you control the playback, and the students record their separate speaking responses. 

Here's the link to the related student tutorials.

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TurnItIn Tutorials

TurnItIn's signature feature is Originality Check, which compares student submissions against a database of 40+ billion websites, 300+ million student papers, and 100+ million academic books and publications. 

Yes, Originality Check will help you detect plagiarism. But really, Originality Check is an invaluable resource for teaching students to avoid plagiarism. 

The recommended best practice for Originality Check is to configure your assignment so that students may check drafts' originality repeatedly by submitting and overwriting drafts until the actual due date. Jump to directions for this configuration

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TurnItIn Training Videos:
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TurnItIn Instructor Training Pages:
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 Configuring so that students may check themselves over multiple drafts:

On the "New Assignment" page, click for "More Options." 

Then, under the menu, "Generate Originality Reports for Student Submissions," choose the second option, "Immediately (can overwrite reports until due date)." This link leads to the precise moment in the "Creating Assignments" video tutorial that demonstrates this configuration. Watch until 2:02.

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FinalSite Tutorial #8 - The Assessment Calendar

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FinalSite Tutorial #7 - copying assignments to multiple calendars

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FinalSite: The Student Tutorial

A number of you have asked what the student experience will look like. Here's the tutorial I built for students, and will share with them in an email Monday night or Tuesday morning. Please direct your advisees and class students to view it!



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FinalSite Tutorial #5 - Posting an Assignment

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FinalSite Tutorial #4 - Tour of a Model Class Home Page

FinalSite Tutorial #3 - Intro to Groups Spaces Features

FinalSite Tutorial #2 - Brief Introduction to Groups Spaces

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FinalSite Tutorial #1: Introduction to the Faculty & Staff Portal

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Defining Custom Styles in Microsoft Word 2011 -- Makes Proofreading a Breeze!

Reblogged from Ted's professional blog: Anything But Expert

Here's a trick for defining custom styles to highlight errors in student work. Giving each custom style a shortcut key makes proofreading a breeze!



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