Deliver lectures, share content, annotate content, and use a digital whiteboard.

Allows students to ask questions, receive immediate feedback, and collaborate with each other in real-time. Be aware of cognitive load; you may wish to turn off the chat in Zoom during a presentation and open it when you want to take questions.

See Zoom recommended settings depending on your class size.

Real-time lectures can be recorded and made available in myCourses.

Record in 7-10 minute chunks.

Create a separate video for each topic.

Record in 7-10 minute chunks.

Create a separate video for each topic.

Using Zoom from inside myCourses will allow you to automatically post recordings for students

Students can do group assignments and group discussions in myCourses. 

Set your students up in groups. See Create Groups in myCourses.

You and your students can record and post audio files in .wav format within Discussions and Assignments. See Record Audio in myCourses.

Note that students are also able to use Zoom to record presentations.

Smartphones and tablets generally offer excellent audio quality for recordings.

iPhone: Try the built-in “Voice Memos.”

Android & Windows: Various built-in and third-party apps exist for voice recording. Learn more here.

Students can record themselves using a smartphone, tablet or laptop, and share the recording in myCourses with the instructor or the whole class.

• Assignments: Submission to instructor
• Discussions: Whole class sharing
• Video assignment: Allows instructors to view individual student assignments or group assignments. The group project feature allows students to collaborate on a video assignment

If oral communication is less of a core objective for the course, students can submit a written script of their presentation, which can be assessed for content knowledge and skills like persuasive thinking.

For video assignments, timestamp your feedback comments.

Assignments can be individual or by group.

Instructors can create and share a grading Rubric for their assignments.

Ability to set a start date, due date, and end date.

Ability to set release conditions for an assignment

Let students know what they did well, and what and how they can improve.

Use the built-in assignment annotation feature to mark-up submissions using highlighting, free hand drawing and associated commenting.

Offer open-book exams with Assignments or timed assessments with Quizzes. 

Create different types of auto-gradable questions, such as multiple-choice, true or false, short answer, fill-in-the blank, and matching. Written response questions must be graded manually. See Overview of Quizzes, Surveys and Self Assessments in myCourses.

Set a date at which the quiz becomes available.

Enforce a time limit on your quiz.

Set "Automatically Publish Evaluation" if applicable.

Give students one or multiple attempts.

Randomize your quiz questions so that every each student receives a unique set of questions.

The University of Newcastle, Australia has a helpful guide to designing open book exams.

Test student knowledge through open-book type exam including long answer questions/illustrations/diagrams.

Or, allow students to upload a completed assignment.

Best for large classes over 200.

A Crowdmark "Assigned" assessment creates an assignment type that students can write anywhere and submit online.

Instructors can set release dates and due dates to manage submissions.

Students can write responses on paper, take a photo, and upload image or upload a word or pdf file.

Ability to grade assessments in Crowdmark using annotation tools and comment library.

Ability to send graded and annotated assessment to student.

LockDown Browser “locks down” the browser on a computer or tablet. Students are unable to copy, print, access other applications, or visit other websites during an online exam.

This option is not recommended.