Technology@Wooster

#ICYMI: February 26, 2021

Written by

Matthew E. Baker

What’s in this Week’s Blog?

This week we are focusing on getting ready for the semester. Check out our topics:

Upcoming Workshops

Educational Technology will be hosting some more virtual workshops this semester. Download the calendar event(s) below to add them to your own calendar.

Sway Workshop

Microsoft Sway WorkshopDownload

Microsoft Forms Integration Workshop

Microsoft Forms integration workshop Mar11Download

Scot Daily Health Check Notification App

You can now receive text messages for the Scot Daily Health Check. Find our more information on our post.

Need help using the Scot Daily Health Check Notification App? Check out this post and quick video made by Student Technology Assistants. You can also review the documentation for the Health Check App.

Need more help? Reach out to our Help Desk at helpdesk@wooster.edu.

Moodle Tips

This week’s Moodle tip is to add the activities block to your course. The activities block helps you and your students see what content is available in your course such as assignments, forums, and much more. It automatically updates when you add new content to the course. Check out our support video on using the activities block.

Infobase Learning Cloud

Faculty, staff, and students have on-demand access to professional development and training courses through our partnership with Infobase Learning Cloud (formerly known as Hoonuit and Atomic Learning). Offered as short, video tutorials, Infobase provides content on technology training (Office 365, Adobe, Moodle etc.), research paper writing, career planning, and much more.

For more information on what Infobase Learning Cloud can offer you or your students, visit our Infobase post on Technology@Wooster.

Faculty: you can use the external tool link to add Infobase content directly to your Moodle course. See our Using the Infobase external tool page in our Moodle Professional Development course for details. 

Microsoft Training Sessions

We would like to thank everyone who joined us and the Cleveland-based Microsoft Trainers for our training sessions.

If you were not able to attend the Organizing Teams Live Events session on Thursday, February 25th, you can still visit the link to watch the recording. The session focuses on how to set up live events, when a Live Event might be better than a Teams meeting, best practices, and more. Please see our Microsoft Teams Live Event post for more information.

You can watch all the sessions for 180 days on our Microsoft Training post.

What’s New in Microsoft Recap

Did you know that Microsoft is constantly rolling out features for Office 365? Here are some of the newest and upcoming features. (We do not have any control over when Microsoft releases updates.)

Want to know what the top updates to use in 2021? Well, look no further than Microsoft’s Mike Tholfsen’s video on 11 Features for Teams in 2021 (some of these are still rolling out).

Features Rolling Out

Recent Video Tips to Check Out

Some recent tips videos to check out:

We will continue to add to our updates on our Microsoft Updates post.

Want to suggest something to Microsoft for an improvement? You can via their UserVoice platform. Here are a few to check out:

Educational Technology Support Videos

Did you know that Educational Technology has support videos? Check out our Ed Tech Support Videos today.

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