Update your Syllabus Link before Fall!  Did you know that the new Curriculum Management System, Watermark, creates new syllabi links each academic year? This means you must update the links in your D2L courses before the start of each Fall semester. Since the syllabus is an essential part of the LMS minimum usage requirements, April [...]

Using Anchor Tags to Link to a Spot on the Same D2L Page As much as we try to streamline content for students, there are occasional pages in D2L that seem to just scroll on forever. For example, the Course Expectations page usually has a comprehensive section for each of the expectations or policies in [...]

Using PowerPoint as your Background in Zoom Want to create more engaging Zoom classes? Try using your PowerPoint presentation as your background in Zoom while teaching! You can point to the content and connect with students just as you would in a classroom!   In this month’s 5-minute Soundbyte, Adrian shares how easy it is to [...]

How to Find Help in D2L In this month’s 5-minute sound byte, Carrie shares answers to all of these questions. If you learn something new, please share with your colleagues. When a problem arises, sometimes it’s hard to know where to go for help? When do I submit a ticket.  Why would I need to [...]

Zoom Immersive View Teaching from Zoom may have gotten easier over the past 2 years, but can we make it more engaging? Yes! You can provide that in-class feeling using Zoom Immersive View.   Create an engaging, immersive experience for students in your Zoom class by adding that classroom feel back to the screen! You can [...]

Newest TEaCH Champions Challenge TEaCH Champions is about recognizing you as the innovative instructor that you are! We want to celebrate your instructional creativity, share your great ideas, and empower you to continue to teach like a champion.   In this short clip we share how TEaCH Champions works and a little about our current challenge: Creating Interactive Google Slide [...]

Help PDFs play well with D2L's Document Reader By now, you’ve probably tried using ReadSpeaker in your D2L courses. It works great with HTML pages! But, what about documents you have uploaded into your course? For these, there is Document Reader! The Document Reader helps students by reading aloud the content in documents such as Word docs or PDFs. The [...]

TEaCH Champions TEaCH Champions is about recognizing you as the innovative instructor that you are! We want to celebrate your instructional creativity, share your great ideas, and empower you to continue to teach like a champion.   In this short clip we share how TEaCH Champions works and a little about our first challenge on using the HTML Templates in D2L.     Binge watch the [...]

Using Your YouTube to Share and Edit Videos Did you know that all faculty at Delaware Tech receive a free YouTube account? YouTube is a great tool for sharing and editing videos to enhance the student experience with extras like video chapters, music tracks, and automatic closed captioning. To learn more about how you can use YouTube in your course, check out the YouTube Reference Guide for videos and text-based instructions. Reach out to CCIT [...]

Timestamping in YouTube Timestamps are a great way to break up videos into small searchable sections for student ease. Timestamps add information and context to each section of the video and allow users to quickly find and re-watch different parts of the video. Once you enter timestamps into the video, students can click and drag the video player around to maneuver between sections of the video. Check [...]