Online Teaching Resources
Getting Started
- Putting your course online (video)
- Digital Accessibility
- Securing Remote Work
- Synchronous Meetings Best Practices [PDF]
- TechReady - All you need to know about OHIO technology all in one place
Blackboard
Blackboard is OHIO’s learning management system. It is an online service for posting course-related materials and facilitating interactions between students, instructors, teaching assistants, and guests.
- Getting Started with Blackboard
- Best practices with Blackboard (4/23/20) (video)
- Looking for a Blackboard template for Spring Semester? Please contact Mary Beth Robinson at robinsom@ohio.edu
Microsoft Teams
Microsoft Teams is a team-based collaboration tool that provides group chat, channeled conversations, instant messaging, live document collaboration, audio or video calls, and meetings.
- Getting started with Microsoft Teams
- Requesting a Microsoft Team (scroll down to "How to Request")
- Assignments
- Sharing Content
- Recording Your Meeting
- Play and Share a Meeting Recording
- Attendance Reports
- Introduction to Microsoft Teams for Students (video) (but still useful for Faculty)
Zoom
Zoom is a video conferencing tool that provides chat, breakout rooms, polling, and audio or video calls within a meeting.
- Scheduling a Zoom Meeting
- Meeting Controls
- Sharing Content
- Recording Your Meeting
- Enabling Breakout Rooms
- Tips for Securing Your Virtual Meetings
Panopto
Panopto is a cloud-based application for recording lectures, presentations, or events for later replay by students or colleagues. You can easily embed your recordings in your Blackboard course.
- General Panopto Help and Resources
- Getting started with Panopto (PDF)
- Panopto Q&A Session for RHE Faculty (5/4/20)
VoiceThread
VoiceThread is a cloud-based application that allows you to upload, share and discuss documents, presentations, images, audio files and videos. You can easily use VoiceThread in your Blackboard course.
Proctortrack
Proctortrack allows students to take a proctored exam on their own devices from a location of their choosing, if the feature has been enabled by the instructor in the Blackboard course. A student will need a computer with a webcam and access to a well-lit room.
Book a workshop to learn more!