Blackboard: http://www.blackboard.com/
Blackboard is a Web-based course-management system designed to allow students and faculty to participate in classes delivered online or use online materials and activities to complement face-to-face teaching. Blackboard enables instructors to provide students with course materials, discussion boards, virtual chat, online quizzes, an academic resource center, and more.
Wimba: Wimba LiveClassroom tutorial for Faculty
Classes can still meet live and easily using the Live Classroom. Not only can they meet, but instructors can present audio lectures with PowerPoint, students can interact with audio, and participants can share desktops and contribute to the work all in this application. Instructors are able to track participants as well as insert polls to gain feedback from their students. If somebody can’t make it to class, that’s okay because the entire class can be archived. Live Classroom brings the classroom online.
Respondus: http://www.respondus.com/products/demos-sm.shtml
Creating quizzes and exams is often a time consuming task, but Respondus takes much of the difficulty out of it. With Respondus, instructors can import test questions from a word document, and the software program will convert the document to a format that is ready to upload to Blackboard- no more copy and pasting.
Importing questions to Respondus:
http://www.respondus.com/movies/Importing/Importing%20Questions20withRespondus.html
To download Respondus and Instructions, download and unzip the following file: Respondus
Respondus Lockdown: http://cdl.utpa.edu/Home/downloads/responduslockdown.htm
is a custom browser that locks down the testing environment within Blackboard, Desire2Learn or WebCT. Students are locked into the assessment and are unable to print, copy, go to another URL, or access other applications.
Studymate:
this software application makes learning fun for students. Instructors have the ability to easily upload course materials into the Study Mate program. Then choose which interactive learning activities they would like. The options include flash cards, fill-in-the-blank, multiple choice, matching and more.
To download StudyMate and Instructions, download and unzip the following file: StudyMate
Softchalk: http://www.softchalk.com/lb_demo.html
is a powerful web lesson editor that let's you easily create engaging, interactive web lessons for your e-learning classroom. With LessonBuilder you can create professional looking, interactive content without knowing any HTML, or programming. Spend your time developing course content, not learning how to use complex software. In minutes you can create, interactive learning games including customizable flash cards, matching crosswords and more. Six question type (multiple choice, multiple answer (more than one correct answer), short answer, true/false, matching and ordering. Pop-up text annotations to define terminology or enhance the interactivity of your lesson content.
Safe Assign: "How To" Webinar
is a plagiarism prevention service, offered by Blackboard to its Blackboard Learning System Enterprise, Vista Enterprise and CE Enterprise clients. This service helps educators prevent plagiarism by detecting unoriginal content in student papers. In addition to acting as a plagiarism deterrent, it also has features designed to aid in educating students about plagiarism and importance of proper attribution of any borrowed content.
Safe Assign Wiki: http://wiki.safeassign.com/display/SAFE/Home
