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Instructional Technology Services (ITS) - provides services, resources, and guidance needed
for effective use of technology in teaching, learning, and scholarship through the use of the
tools referred to here including Blackboard, eInstruction, ePortfolio, ListServ, LockDown Browser,
MoCat, SharePoint, Tegrity (podcasting), Learning Objects (blogs and wikis), Respondus, Turnitin.com,
and Wimba. ITS also provides a variety of Video and Audio services to the UMKC campus including Videoconferencing, ITV Classroom Facilities, DVD Duplication, VHS to DVD transfers, and audio encoding and ripping, Video Production, Studio Production, Location Video Taping, Video Archiving, Video Stream Service. Time Warner and Comcast cable channels KCEN, and KCHN, are also managed by ITS. Satellite up and down links can be delivered to any point on campus is also available.
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Monthly Open Lab Help Session for Faculty and
Staff
For hands-on help with any of UMKC's instructional technology products,
attend upcoming Open Lab Help sessions.
No appointment is needed; simply drop by at any time during the scheduled Open
Lab Sessions:
Session #1: September 2nd, 1 PM - 3 PM, Hospital Hill Campus: HSB 3304
Session #2:
September 4th, 10 AM - Noon, Volker Campus: Fine Arts 307
Session #3: October 2nd, 10 AM - Noon, Volker Campus: Fine Arts 307
Email:
its@umkc.edu; or stop in or
contact us at 816-235-6700 for more information
- Blackboard Course Management System -
provides tools used for presenting course content and other materials online. Blackboard includes components
for communicating with students, managing course gradebooks, creating, and administering tests, and allows
instructors to give their students secure, password-controlled access to their course materials from
virtually any computer with an internet connection. Sites are available to all faculty and staff members
and can be used for course delivery, staff training, and organizational collaboration.
- Blackboard Request System - available from the "Request System" tab within Blackboard, this
tool allows UMKC faculty and staff to submit requests to modify instructor assignments in a course,
copy content from one semester to another, combine multiple sections of a course, or create a new
organization site.
- Blogs and Wikis from Learning Objects -
Learning Objects is a suite of additional tools in Blackboard that includes the ability to create
Blogs and Wikis. It also has a Search feature to find information within courses.
- eInstruction - Classroom Performance System
(CPS) - The eInstruction system adds interactivity to your classroom. With the receiver and
response pads, you can give short quizzes, take attendance, play learning games, instantly assess
students' comprehension of your lecture, and more. CPS receivers are installed in several Ideal Learning
Environment ILE classrooms.
- Learning Object Creation - using media and/or resources from a secondary
source,
Instructional Technologies staff members aid in converting movies into streaming
objects, optically scanning documents, creating Blackboard-ready exams, and other learning
objects.
- Listserv electronic mailing list - using L-Soft's LISTSERV software
lists can be configured to fit a wide range of needs and purposes, with multiple levels of moderation,
formats such as announcement-only or free-discussion, message archiving, daily/weekly digests, and
many other features. List owners have a great deal of control and flexibility. LISTSERV also supports
multiple owners and/or editors, allowing a list to be administered by a team. Mailing lists are
available for use by student, staff, or faculty organizations, professional or academic-interest
groups, classes, academic or staff units, etc.
Request a Listserv
- Podcasting - Learn about an exciting new
technology that can greatly increase student retention in your courses--Tegrity. Also, try a
simple way of just using your voice to send podcasts to students with Wimba Voice.
- Respondus - a powerful tool for creating and managing exams that can be printed to paper or
published directly to Blackboard. Exams can be created offline using a familiar Windows environment
program (like Microsoft Word) or moved from one eLearning system to another. Whether you are a veteran
of online testing or relatively new to it, Respondus can save you hours on each project. For more
information regarding Respondus please see the Blackboard site "Information for UMKC Blackboard
Instructors." All UMKC faculty are automatically enrolled in this site.
- Respondus LockDown Browser - a custom browser that locks down the testing environment within Blackboard. When students use
LockDown Browser, they are unable to print, copy, go to another URL, or access other applications. When an
assessment is started, students are locked into it until they submit it for grading. Use of Respondus is
required for Lockdown Browser. For more information regarding Lockdown Browser, please see the Blackboard
site "Information for UMKC Blackboard Instructors." All UMKC faculty are automatically enrolled in this
site.
- SharePoint- a
collaboration tool for enhancing the efforts to share and organize
information among various individuals and team members. SharePoint can
be customized to fit the needs of the team or organization. Various site
templates are available for use, including team site, basic meeting templates.
- Tegrity Podcasting/Coursecasting - Tegrity Campus 2.0 allows
coursecasting, basic and enhanced podcasting, streaming, and/or downloading of recorded/archived
content. Recorded lectures include the instructor's voice and computer screenshots. Class recordings
are automatically given chapter headings based on instructor slide changes and application switching.
A visual index is then generated for each chapter, making lecture navigation easy.
- Turnitin - Web-based plagiarism detection and prevention system
available to all faculty and students. Through the turnitin.com
web site, faculty, and students have the opportunity to check the originality of their writing assignments.
- Training & Support - offered for the
instructional technologies used at UMKC. Training sessions are customized to fit your needs.
- Wimba Classroom - a live virtual Classroom seamlessly integrated
into Blackboard supporting multi-way audio, video, application sharing, polling and content display.
It enables instructors to add vitally important elements of interaction not provided in a text-based
course and to personalize online courses by holding live, online classes, office hours, guest lectures,
webcasts, or meetings.
- Wimba Pronto - Use a new instant messaging and voice
chat tool to meet live online at any time with classmates and instructors. Wimba Pronto works with
Blackboard to automatically populate each student's contact list each semester with the names of every
student in their classes and social organizations.
- Wimba Voice - Six communication tools
within Blackboard that offer a means to facilitate and promote language learning, vocal
instruction, collaboration, coaching, and assessment to increase the interaction and student engagement
level of Blackboard.
- Voice Board-post and listen to voice messages within discussion boards
- Voice Email-send and listen to voice through email messages
- Voice Recorder-record and listen to voice on a web page
- Voice Direct-communicate with others in real-time using voice and text
- Voice Podcaster
- Voice Presentation-add web content alongside vocal messages
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| Contact Us |
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Instructional Technology Services staff members can be reached at (816) 235-6700 or
ITS@umkc.edu.
Report a problem online.
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