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USING CLAS IN CONNECT

COURSE INSTRUCTIONS AND WELCOME AREA

“STUDENT VIEW” FOR

INSTRUCTORS AND TA’S

PREVIEW AND PRE-ANNOTATE

Collaborative Learning Annotation System

Whether you are using CLAS in your course already, or you are thinking about adopting CLAS as a media sharing & annotation platform for your course, you can now embed CLAS within the “Connect” Learning Management System. Students no longer need to remember an extra website and log in twice.

CLAS IN CONNECT (BLACKBOARD LEARN)

You can use CLAS for t imeline annotations, as a discussion board (comments only) , or simply to share video (video only) . You can request to switch between these modes at any t ime.

CLAS IN CONNECT (BLACKBOARD LEARN) - OPTIONS

Full featured

Comments only

Video only

The page for uploading, managing, and assigning videos can be reached from a l ink on top of the video view page l ike normal. By default , students cannot upload videos, but this can be turned on per course upon request.

CLAS IN CONNECT (BLACKBOARD LEARN) – V IDEO L IBRARY MANAGEMENT

Video upload & management page

Click on the icon on the thumbnail of each video in the v ideo management page to show a ful l CLAS “preview and pre-annotation” page with al l the usual features.

PREVIEW AND PRE- ANNOTATE V IDEOS BEFORE ASSIGNING TO STUDENT S

Each course in CLAS now has a default “welcome area” with a tutorial v ideo and a special comment panel where instructors and TA’s can put course-wide instructions and messages. The welcome area has anti -spam features to make sure that only relevant messages are shown to the whole class. The tutorial v ideo changes dynamical ly to f i t the viewer’s role, showing only the relevant features for each user.

COURSE INSTRUCTIONS AND WELCOME AREA

Instructors and TA’s can temporari ly v iew the course as a student. Access to the video “upload and management” and the “group management” pages wil l be blocked, and the private groups of individual users in the course wil l no longer be viewable (except for your own group(s) , of course) . Download, re-sharing, annotating, and commenting r ights may be restr icted as well depending on the course.

STUDENT V IEW FOR INSTRUCTORS AND TA’S

¡  The video management page can scale nearly indefinitely

§  Collections of thousands of videos are displayed in seconds (dedicated to our early adopters and supporters in the School of Music at UBC)

§  Each of these videos can be instantly assigned to a user or group

within and between courses by a smart dropdown box widget with integrated search and recommendation-as-you-type. This widget is comfortably scalable to thousands of students too

¡  Annotating and commenting on mobile is more user friendly, especially for videos with a lot of posts already. Try it!

OTHER IMPROVEMENTS