Fulfilling the Institutional Mission: Using Tegrity to jump start the freshman year

Dr. Sherri Cousin Davis, Lawson State Community College (Birmingham, AL)

• 7500 students, 286 faculty, 100% of courses are Tegrity supported
• Dilemmas:
• How to use technology more innovatively
• Better equip, engage, empower students
• Need to give 24/7 access to curriculum information
• Don't lecture to students about orientation info - just provide information
• Rethought using Tegrity just for lecture capture, but use it for training
• e.g. How to use e-mail, police chief talk, president talk
• Delivery of complex topics uniformly
• Assignments for incoming students to view information prior to arrival
• Same experience for all 35 sections of freshman orientation in recordings
• How-to's
• Register online, pay tuition, etc.
• Freshman Academy in Blackboard, Bb sections and Tegrity recordings for various topics for incoming freshmen
• Enables: consistency, 24/7 access, new approach, info for late-comers
• Tegrity recordings linked to assignment which requires taking of Tegrity Notes which are graded.  Tegrity Notes form created by college
• "What were main points of presentation?"
• "What did you  learn in the presentation that you didn't already know?"
• Recordings put a face on key faculty/staff for the students that hand-outs don't
• Surveys before and after implementation of Tegrity in training incoming students show marked increase in understanding of various areas and functions of campus life

General Session: What's on your Tegrity wish list?

There may not be much to capture from this one, but we'll see...

Nope.  Just a bunch of suggestions for Tegrity, including mine:

• Give the focus to the Recorder logon screen when it's started without having to click on it before starting to type in logon credentials
• The tiny URLs generated by 'Get Class Link' are only one character different between the allowing anonymous users and not.  Randomize these to prevent guessing of open link.

Transforming Teaching and Learning: Going mobile with Tegrity

Pam Smith, Tegrity

• Tegrity Mobile App (free app) - iPod Touch, iPhone, iPad
• Recording playback
• Streams content
• Select View Recordings on main menu
• Select class/recording on horizontal scroll list
• Scroll through chapter thumbnails
• Streaming formats: m4v (video/audio), m4b (audio), mp3 (audio)
• Depends on formats available and course settings
• Need to reprocess m4v podcasts created before June 2010
• Text Search will search screen text
• Click and hold thumbnail to view recording title and text
• 'Enable video streaming to iPhone App' setting must be enabled
• In-class bookmark creation
• Create bookmarks for lectures currently being recorded or after class
• During class on PC, smartphone or Tegrity Mobile App
• Bookmarks: Unclear (+ optional comments), Important (+ optional comments) and Comment
• Uploaded via network or at next device sync
• Bookmarks not displayed on Mobile App.  Displayed via Web browser playback
• Setup and settings
• Download/install Tegrity Mobile App
• Get code from Tegrity Web app
• Enter code on iPod/iPad/iPhone
• Click Connect
• To subscribe to recordings via iTunes
• Log into Tegrity Web interface
• Select course
• Click appropriate 'Subscribe' button at bottom of course recording list
• Launches iTunes and adds course recordings to 'Podcasts'
• Formats must be enabled in Actions/Settings for course

Fulfilling the Institutional Mission: Beyond the classroom - Using Tegrity to promote a positive institutional image

Ron Walls, NW Florida State College

• Goals for using Tegrity
• Improve student retention
• Improve Academic Success
• Expand the opportunity for students to learn
• Geography limits access to campus for many.  Needed way to reach out to students at a distance
• Results
• More course completions
• Improved grades
• New opportunities to learn
• Needed to share with the community who they are
• Science Fridays:  Professor gave public lecture on hummingbirds, but wanted to share it with those who couldn't attend
• With law enforcement and fire fighting programs, usingTegrity to become a inter-agency exchange for sharing information between individual public service entities for training, documentation, etc.
• Athletics:  Feature athletics for alumni, donors, etc.  Scouting/recruiting tool.  Training
• Allied Health:  Nursing and dental assistant lab orientation.  New students must view before arriving for classes rather than spending a day doing it in person.
• Nursing:  
• Doctor's orders exercises.  Actual doctors record orders to nurses.  Students get orders randomly, then record responses to be graded/critiqued
• Nurse to patient exercises.  Practice talking to patients/families
• New distance learning student orientation information, then must pass a quiz during first semester
• Faculty bios/course descriptions online, including optional link for faculty to introduce themselves and the course in a 30-second Tegrity recording.  Searchable system back-ended by Banner-like system.

Deploying for Success: Feature update - Admin (technical)

Ori Wallenstein, Tegrity

• Advanced filtering and sorting options
• Last usage stats at a glance
• Purge content
• Closed Captioning Workflow
• Instructors request recordings for transcription to CC
• Admins approve/reject requests
• Course can be set up for automatic transcription submission
• Approved selections e-mailed to 3rd party service with unique key to allow service to do CC
• Auto m4v reprocess of existing recordings (for Podcasts and iOS apps)
• Settings in course config settings
• AAIRS
• For integration with authentication services (Bb, AD, LDAP, etc.)
• New: Allows testing by connection type
• Basic LTI support
• IMS GLC standard for integrating remote tools and service providers into an LMS
• Defines std webform parameters for LMS (Bb) to launch external svc (Tegrity)
• Separation of m4v upload
• Recordings upload first. m4v files processed and uploaded separately
• Optimize recordings for frame rate vs. performance
• Tegrity Support Self-Service Portal:  http://tegr.it/y/selfserv
• Fill out registration form
• Can subscribe to maintenance bulletin feed
• Recordings can be archived to DVD (Actions/Make DVD Image), and restored using c:\program files\tegrity\recorder\SupportPPQ.exe

Fulfilling the Institutional Mission: Best practices for training faculty

Charles Rigdon, U of Missouri-Columbia
Dr. Andrew Wright, U of Louisville

• Mizzou:  Launched Tegrity Summer 2009.  Available via Blackboard Spring of 2010
• 150 instructors using Tegrity currently
• 8,000 recordings, 360,000 views
• Keys to success
• Keep training brief
• Focus on early adopters
• Provide necessary tools - cameras, mics, digital writing tabs, tablet PCs, etc.
• Hand-holding may be necessary
• Be available for quick response
• Seek feedback about users' experiences after they start using it
• Pedagogical Focus
• Student recordings - practice presentations
• Provide a 'model course' with a variety of recording examples to show instructors how Tegrity can be used
• Panel discussions with faculty who are using it and how

• U of Louisville - Soft launched Tegrity Summer 2008
• Campus-wide deployment via Bb
• Decentralized support
• Central IT supports servers
• Unit IT staff support end users
• Marketed to faculty (newsletters, presentations)
• Usage time increasing
• Keys to success
• Raise awareness
• Student survey data positive
• Include personal vignettes by students to show faculty
• Pedagogical Focus
• Group faculty training
• Link to and demo specific use cases
• Reinforce active learning strategies to avoid decline in class attendance. Passive teaching style might reduce attendance with Tegrity recordings available
• Remind faculty that they are in control of their class (esp. in regard to class attendance)
• New learning paradigm
• Tegrity enhances critical thinking, promotes congnitive elaboration (modeling think-aloud-problem solving)
• Voice Tracker array microphones used to capture entire audio spectrum
• Providing feedback on accuracy of note taking
• Supplemental recordings: problem sets, hot-to demos
• Use Sympodium for annotations, diagrams
• Student recordings
• Record grading of projects, papers to provide to students
• Remind faculty of Tegrity settings
• Advance training available for faculty
• Important take-aways
• Documenting/publishing use cases
• Highlight users and vignettes as motivators
• Train the trainer sessions for Help Desk/IT
• Equipment availability - loaners of mics, Webcams, etc.

Fulfilling the Institutional Mission: Learning in a Winter Wonderland - A virtual classroom in the midst of and ice storm!

Baylor University, Louise Herrington School of Nursing, Dallas
Nan Ketcham and Cheryl Tucker

Used Tegrity during the ice storm of 2011 (think just before Super Bowl XLV)

• 300 students
• Started with Tegrity in May 2009
• Lecture capture in lectures and labs, undergrad (19) and grad (7) faculty, guest speakers and adjunct faculty, remote faculty who only come to campus once/semester
• Spring 2010:  Independent auditor interviewed students about Tegrity
• Helped students focus
• Helped them follow along more efficiently
• Increased understanding of complicated concepts
• Use mobile devices to listen to lectures
• Allowed flexibility in studying
• Faculty feedback
• Faculty observed better preparation by students
• 50% full-time faculty use in 12 months
• Snow and ice storm, February 2011
• Lost five days of classes
• School developed virtual classroom and clinical environment using Tegrity and Blackboard
• Gave tests remotely using Blackboard and Respondus Lock-Down Browser
• Students' progress and testing monitored using Blackboard Grade Center
• Rolling blackouts occurred, but students were held accountable to view lectures on smartphones
• Virtual simulated clinical experiences provided via Tegrity/Blackboard
• Also e-mails, texts phone conferences used
• Concern about quality of content learning during ice storm revealed higher scores that year than this, well above national average
• Lessons learned
• Make sure Tegrity is easily accessed via course management system
• Policy development
• Class attendance
• Make up days for class and clinicals?
• Home computers or laptops: Make a course requirement to have Tegrity and other technologies always available, just in case?
• Next steps
• Have students develop studies/research presentations
• Remote testing
• More lecture capture video recordings
• Tegrity Live Webcasts
• Integration of Blackboard and AAIRS