All posts by Kristy Bunton

Tech Thursday

Tech Skills, Student Style: Workshops by Student Technologists!

Our Hands-on Student Led Technology Workshops are now on it.stonybrook.edu!

Unlock Your Digital Potential: Learn Canva, Figma, Python, HTML/CSS, GitHub, Adobe Express, and Video Editing from our talented Undergraduate Student Technologists!  Sign up today!

 

Upcoming Mini-Byte: Creating Accessible Graphic Designs with Adobe InDesign

Learn how to create marketing materials, social media content and other basic designs in an accessibility compliant manner.

InDesign Accessibility Robust tools for accessibility compliance (e.g., tagging for screen readers, defining reading order). Supports advanced features like accessible forms and navigation in PDFs. Can create documents that adhere to accessibility standards (e.g., WCAG, PDF/UA).

In this session, you will

  1. Create an accessible flyer ready for distribution
  2. Showcase InDesign’s ability to create inclusive and professional designs

REGISTER today!

IF I build it, they will click, right?

Course Overview Widget

Did you know you can view an overview of your course in Brightspace? To provide easier access to analytics about learners and courses, instructors can add the Course Overview widget to a course homepage.

 

 

 

 

 

View Class Engagement broken down by learner. How many posts did they make in the discussion board? What is the grade distribution?

Want to see the breakdown of when your course was accessed?

For more information: https://community.d2l.com/brightspace/kb/articles/3589-easily-access-analytics-about-learners-and-your-course

Register for one of our upcoming Turnitin Webinars!

Register for one of our Turnitin Workshops for Stony Brook Instructors:

Join our customer success manager, Leann from Turnitin to learn how to set up Turnitin in Brightspace, utilize feedback tools; access and understand reports.

To Register: https://web.cvent.com/event/0dcce4a0-18f0-4608-9df6-610b8f4eb711/regProcessStep1

Minibyte: Don’t Flag This! – Using Templates in Turnitin

If you want to prevent Turnitin from marking specific text as plagiarism (perhaps text that explains the assignment), use Turnitin Templates. We’ll focus on how to Enable Turnitin on a Brightspace assignment as well as how to use turnitin templates for assignments.

To Register: https://stonybrookuniversity.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_dht1o3rNzlZhHka?source=ats+blog&session=0225251100turnitin

NotebookLM Now Available to Stony Brook Students, Faculty and Staff!

NotebookLM is a cutting-edge, cloud-based AI service designed to revolutionize personal research and knowledge management. It offers a secure, personalized space where users can upload diverse sources – PDFs, web links, videos, audio files, Google Workspace documents, and more – to create a customized AI model.

For more information, visit: https://it.stonybrook.edu/services/notebooklm