Do you know if your Google Docs are accessible? As per NYU’s website: “New York University is committed to supporting an information technology environment that provides individuals with disabilities an equal opportunity to participate in the University’s programs, benefits, and services as their peers without disabilities.” As such, it’s important to make sure […]
Document Your Teaching: Wei Zhao’s Presentation
Since Fall 2022, the A&S Office of EdTech has partnered with GSAS to offer a 3-week asynchronous course called Teaching to Engage. This course offers novice and aspiring instructors the opportunity to use various educational technologies with a keen focus on the pedagogical rationale behind using these tools. We’re very excited to share that one […]
Benefits of the Brightspace Rubrics Tool
Do you have assignments or projects that use rubrics? If so, have you had the opportunity to use the Brightspace Rubrics tool? If not, there are 3 key benefits to using the Brightspace rubrics tool. Consistent Grading Well-constructed rubrics can be invaluable in supporting you to provide consistent grading to your students. When you apply […]
Teaching to Engage Shoutouts
Due to continuing interest and demand, the A&S Office of Educational Technology offered a second iteration of its Teaching to Engage seminar during the latter half of the Spring 2023 semester. As with the previous iteration, this cohort was composed of interdisciplinary graduate students from GSAS. Some students concurrently hold teaching positions or hold Teaching […]
Update on Turnitin
Have you ever used Turnitin? Turnitin is NYU’s licensed plagiarism detector, which is fully integrated into Brightspace. The way the tool works is that Turnitin is first enabled on an assignment in the Brightspace Assignments tool. While there are a number of custom settings that can be configured in Turnitin, the general function of the […]
Exciting Update for Perusall
Perusall, for anyone who hasn’t had the opportunity to use it yet, is a social annotation tool that’s fully integrated with Brightspace. With this tool, instructors can provide articles, videos, and/or podcasts to students who can then annotate and otherwise mark-up the material. Social annotation exercises are wonderful to enable students to construct knowledge with […]
Innovations in Instruction
Have you had an opportunity to check out our office’s Innovation in Instruction website? On this website, you’ll find dozens of examples of innovative projects that A&S faculty have designed and facilitated. For many of these endeavors, faculty partnered with the A&S Office of EdTech, NYU IT, and other offices to help actualize exciting learning […]
Have you checked out PowToon?
During the spring 2022 semester, NYU’s User Advisor Group (UAG) published a report that pointed to the need for a self-service animation tool. Then, early on in the fall 2022 semester, NYU licensed PowToon, which is fully integrated with NYU Stream. PowToon is available for use by all members of the NYU community. PowToon allows […]