Tuesday, 19 July 2016

Authentic Assessment in Brightspace - YouSeeU & D2L

Presented by Dr Marsha Bayless, Stephen F Austin State University and Dr Jeff Lewis, Chief Learning Officer, YouSeeU
Attended by Anne

Great session - ongoing flurry of questions from audience
Focused on Virtual Classroom and Authentic Assessment capabilities

YouSeeU - Virtual Classroom
  • Seamless integration in Brightspace
  • Session duration up to 90 minutes
  • Up to 100 session participants
  • Recordings available for four months
  • Up to 250 sessions per week (for institution)
  • Up to 7 webcams can run at one time - instructor plus 6 others; experience has shown that more is distracting

Recording can be downloaded at instructor level in mp4 format

Premium
  • Unlimited meetings per week
  • Up to 150 session participants
  • Recordings available for one year
  • Additional phone bridge availability

Screen configurable to however you want it
Fall/September release:
  • Participants can be grouped in breakout rooms for group work
  • Mobile friendly
  • Polling capability
  • Captioning capability
  • Flash and Java removed for desktop sharing to eliminate plugin problems

Te Kura takeouts
  • How to equitably allocate the standard 250 sessions across the organisation
  • Great potential across all levels, but in particular to provide "classroom" space for TAH students


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