Echo360 Academic Champion Grant
Echo360, the software behind Otago Capture, is offering a $3000AUD grant for an “Academic Champion”. This is for Academic staff who are using Otago Capture in their teaching. The grant includes:
- 2 day workshop (incl flights, accomodation etc)
- $3000 AUD to support adoption of Otago Capture within Otago
- Registration, flights, accomodation for the annual Echo360 A/NZ Conference
Echo will have more information about the grant soon. But if you’re interested please contact the eLearning team or check out the poster below.
Demo video for students – Otago Capture
We’ve made a very short video (about two and a half minutes) that demonstrates the main features of the new Otago Capture system from a student perspective.
Please feel free to show this video to students in any lectures or tutorials, and to upload it to the Capture section for any course. You can watch this video on Unitube here.
Alternatively, you can download a copy of the video using the following link:
Capture demo video for students Jan2018
Reminder: Blackboard Update on Monday 18th of December
On Monday we will be updating Blackboard. Blackboard will be unavailable from 9am until 5pm.
This update includes:
- A new mobile friendly theme
- A change to the Inline Grading Tool
- Bug fixes and security updates
The new theme will allow Blackboard to be more easily used on a mobile phone. It also means we must turn off individual Course Themes.
The current Inline Grading Tool, Crocodocs, is being shut down in January and Blackboard are moving to the new Box View. This change is completely out of our control and affects every institution using Blackboard.
Some known issues that will be fixed with this update include:
- Hotspot question inaccuracies
- Needs Grading errors
If you want to see more about these features we’ve made a handy series of posts about the update.
