TEACHING RESOURCES

Dalhousie instructors routinely use instructional technologies to enhance student learning. These technologies enable students and instructors to interact with each other and course content in a variety of ways including:

• Shared presentations.
• Web delivered quizzes and exams.
• Ongoing text discussion boards.
• Online meetings to complement in-class activities and in some cases serve as an alternative.
• Create or provide access to course materials.
• Posting of student grades.

Members of the ILO Team are available to provide advice, training, assistance, and trouble shooting for any of the numerous instructional technologies available as outlined below.

Advice

All Dalhousie instructors are encouraged to contact the ILO Team to either seek advice or simply think out loud about which of the available options may prove both beneficial and efficient as a way to provide online materials for students. 

Institutional Applications

As our Learning Content Management System (LCMS), Dalhousie licenses the Blackboard Learning System Campus Edition Version 6 or BLS for short. It is the core of our suite of institutional applications.

For content development, the following applications are supported and in most cases licensed institutionally (another way of saying you don't need to pay): CourseGenie, Dreamweaver, Impatica, Lectora 2005, StudyMate, Respondus (including the Lock Down Browser), and Turnitin.com.

Our institutional virtual classroom (web casts) is Live Classroom from Wimba Inc. For voice messaging, we have the Wimba Voice Tools including: Voice Board, Voice Direct, Voice Email, Voice Presentation, and Voice Recorder.

For pod casting, we support the Wimba Podcaster.

For more information on these products, please visit our Teaching Applications page.

Training

Regular workshops are scheduled on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday. The schedule changes from one term to the next as a reflection of user requirements. For a complete listing, please review the Getting Yourself Ready branch of this web site.

Trouble Shooting

When problems arise in the use of any of the supported tools outlined above, help is available via email at ilosupport@dal.ca, by phone at (902) 494-3456, or in person by dropping in to Killam B269 during regular office hours.

We invite you to contact us and share your ideas and interests via email at ilo@dal.ca or by phone at (902) 494-3456.