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Perspective on AI

AI and teaching with AI is certainly near the top of our brains these days.

OKLIS (Oklahoma Learning Innovations Summit) hosted a session on teaching with AI, and recorded it for us! Watch it below, or access it on YouTube here.

AI Tools

Teaching with AI is fun/hard/weird/unsettling/surprising/all of the above.

ChatGPT gets all the press (plus, saying “ChatGPT” sounds techy and cool), but did you know there are waaaaay more AI Tools out there? To do more things than just generate text?

Oklahoma’s own Dr. Buck Dodd has made an AI Toolkit available through his company ClearKinetic. Check it out below to explore more of what AI can do!

Leave a comment below if you’ve used some in the online or F2F (face-to-face for all you cool kids) classroom.

Creating with AI Toolkit

Join Us on Slack!

Slack is a community workspace website, desktop app and phone app where we can talk to each other, exchange ideas, work on projects, clarify dates, etc. instantly. Things can be shared in themed groups called channels, or in private messages between users (like a text), or to the group in general.

You know, like what people who actually like each other and work together do. 😉

It’s pretty great.

Join us. 🙂

  1. Go to  https://join.slack.com/t/casconline/signup
  2. Use your CASC email account to sign in
  3. Join the CASC Online workspace!
  4. Say hi in the #general channel, or send a message to anyone.
  5. Download the app to your phone and sign in using the same credentials.

Strategies for Meaningful Interaction

Hello CASC Online,

As faculty members deeply committed to student success in online education, we are delving into a crucial topic today and exploring strategies to make interactions more meaningful. You can access the article here: Link to the article. Here are some highlights of strategies you can implement to ensure regular and substantive interaction without overwhelming yourself

Our collective goal is to enhance student success in online education. By implementing these strategies, we can keep creating engaging online learning environments that empower our students to thrive.

I encourage you to read the article! Together, we can strengthen the quality of online learning and set our students on a path to success.

Happy teaching, and here’s to fostering a more interactive and effective online education environment!

Link to the article

Enrollment is Coming!

Please consider downloading this image, then posting it as an announcement to your online courses!

Dates and info for Enrollment Spring 2024

Blackboard Ultra Training is Coming!

We are beginning the process of transitioning to Blackboard Ultra. You’ll find the workflow and aesthetic to be simpler and cleaner for both you and your students. Here’s our project timeline:

We are SO THANKFUL for our early adopters, who will be recieving training and coaching starting in March:

Instructors in these areas should now have access to their Fall 2024 shells WAY ahead of time, so that we can convert those to Ultra, train, explore and build. Training is coming in March 2024! Funds have been secured for live training from Blackboard Ultra experts, who will also help us convert our existing course content to the Ultra look and feel.

If you have any questions, or would like to get on the next early adopters list, email the Director of Online Learning (Sarah Brown) at [email protected]

Good things, big times! 🙂

Welcome to the Vike Hub!

This is a space designed to support YOU.

We’ll keep it simple – any here either A. is trying to make your life easier, or B. is investing in your development as a professional.

It’s not a doomscroll device…it’s a hopequest endeavor.

Tell us what you need – we’ll get to it. In the meantime, enjoy the feed!

Website Media Library Tutorial

In this tutorial we will be showing you how to access and utilize the media library.
 
As you can see over on the left hand column here we have a number of folders that are already created. To create a folder you’re simply going to click on this little icon with a plus symbol and it will create a folder for you. Then you’ll just name that and it will add it to the list. For this purpose I’m just going to hit cancel.
 
Now to add items to folders you can do it one at a time or you can do it in bulk. To add one to a folder we’re going to grab this Trio logo and we’re going to add it to branding. I’m simply going to grab the Trio logo, then I find my branding folder and I’m going to drag it into that folder. In order to grab multiple we’re going to hit bulk select. We’re going to select all three of these Cafe menu photos and we’re going to drag that into Cafe menu. Those disappear, and go into the cafe menu folder. Likewise we’re going to grab the rest of the documents here that are in the unorganized folder and we’re going to grab all of those. We’re going to find our documents folder here on the left, we are going to grab all eight of these items and we’re going to drag that into the documents folder and that’s pretty much how we’re going to organize our photos and documents.
 
Now you can easily navigate each folder and see what photos/documents are in these folders. This also makes it easy to remove any older items that we don’t need anymore. For instance in the degree programs folder here we have a bunch of 2023 degree programs that are uploaded so we can go in here and delete the older degree programs that way it doesn’t continue to clutter the server up.
 
That’s a quick tutorial on how to use the media library.