Resources

Handy HelpWall for Faculty

Instructional Third-Party Online Tools

Office of Distance Learning Tactical Plan 2019-2025

UH Quality Online Standards

  • These standards cover essential aspects of online course design and delivery and are tailored to the UH context. The aim is to create a common language and an established baseline for integrating researched national standards into online courses.

UH West O’ahu Distance Learning Faculty Guide 2021

Educational Technology

This section includes resources for developing engaging multimedia content for your online course. Many of these resources are available to UH West O‘ahu faculty and staff either through UH site licenses or free subscription options. 

Hypothesis is a free social annotation tool for highlighting and commenting on webpages, documents or eBooks. Pressbooks installations and books hosted at pressbooks.com come with the Hypothesis plugin installed.

Perusall is another free social annotation tool that allows learners to make text-based annotations on a webpage, document or eBook. Users can highlight text and add comments. Class members are able to see and respond to each other’s shared annotations. Perusall can be integrated into a Laulima course by special request. Email Kenwrick Chan at kchan@hawaii.edu.

Get Started with New UHWO Classrooms provides details on the video camera, TV, wireless microphones, and Vibe boards.

Need classroom tech support? General Help Request

Google Docs – Share and Collaborate

Padlet

Cleanup.Pictures removes objects, people, text or defects

Image Accessibility Creator alt text generator simplifies the task of describing photo content.

Pixlr online photo editor

removebg removes image backgrounds

TinyPNG compresses images to reduce file size

Google@UH Consumer Apps

Free slide templates:

Qualtrics

  • 11ElevenLabs is a speech synthesis platform for generating lifelike speech from text which can be used as a voice-over track in video production.  
  • Camtasia is a software suite for creating video tutorials and presentations directly via screencast or a recording plug-in to Microsoft PowerPoint.
  • PowerPoint Record a presentation
  • Screencast-O-matic is a free screen recorder and video editor that allows you to capture your screen and create high-quality video tutorials.
  • Snagit is a screenshot program that captures video display and audio output. Available for Windows or macOS, Snagit replaces the native print screen function with additional features such as the capture of embedded links, images and multimedia.

Explore options for creating video captions. Upload videos to cloud storage such as Google Drive, YouTube, or UH Zoom Recordings.

Start by requesting a UH Zoom license to ensure that you can host extended-length meetings (over 40 minutes). To enable all features, update your Zoom meeting client. 

Visit the UH West Oahu Office of Distance Learning YouTube Channel and see the Zoom Playlist for more video tutorials.

Hybrid Teaching Resources

Newly equipped hybrid classrooms offer meeting technologies to integrate and engage remote students. 

Short video tutorials provide details on operating the classroom control panel, desktop computer, document camera, and BluRay.

Vibe interactive smart boards can function as whiteboards or Android tablets and support screencasting from a variety of devices. Find out more with Getting Started with New UHWO Classrooms and FAQs for Teachers and School Administrators.

Most hybrid classrooms are equipped with HuddleCam2 SimpliTrack2 auto-tracking cameras. Find out more with Getting Started with New UHWO Classrooms. Smaller classrooms and conference rooms are equipped with a Meeting Owl, a 360-degree smart-conferencing camera with built-in mic and speaker. See Best Practices for Using the Meeting Owl in the Owl Labs For Education Guide. 

Lamakū

UH West Oʻahu is transitioning to the Lamakū learning management system also known as D2L Brightspace. Please go to our Lamakū Resources page for guidance. 

The Office of Distance Education & Learning (ODEL) continues its Prep & Organize Lamakū sessions this summer. These one-hour consultations focus on migrating your Laulima courses to Lamakū in preparation for the Fall 2025 semester. Prep & Organize request form

Laulima

This section provides information on the Laulima learning management system. Please note as of 2025, UH West Oʻahu has adopted a new LMS, Lamakū, also known as D2L Brightspace. 

Sakai 21 User Guide

Laulima Resource Guide for Faculty

Laulima v21 upgrade features (Faculty Resource)

Laulima v20 upgrade features (Faculty Resource)

Account management
Managing Course Tabs (display, hide and re-order course list)

Course Space management
Adding a TA or someone to help develop your course
Removing someone from your course
Adding a Student or Guest student to your course
Accessing your course with a “Student View” account
Adding Tools
Determining student date last attended (for grading/financial aid purposes)
Publishing Your Course or Project Site (Making your site visible for student access)
Importing from Site (Copying material from one site into another)
Renaming, Rearranging, Removing, and Hiding Tools
Changing a participant’s role
Creating groups

Resources tool
Hiding files and folders (Allows uploaded files/folders to be hidden from students’ view)
Making a resource publically viewable (Allows people to view items not located in that site)

Syllabus tool
Adding your syllabus via attachment
Adding your syllabus via copying/pasting

Assessment tools
Tasks, Tests & Surveys (now named Assignments, Tests and Surveys)
Assessment Strategies
Extending the time limit for certain students in Tests & Quizzes
Special Access feature (change parameters for specific students) in Assignments, Tests and Surveys
Instructions for for TTS “Paste Questions & Import” (PDF file) (click here for sample text file)
Editing a test question to insert an image
Respondus (offiline quiz creation tool) resources (third-party software for Windows)

Gradebook tool
Gradebook: Categories & Weighting
Exporting Gradebook
Removing Assessments & Assignments from Gradebook
Calculating Course Grades (Students’ grades are calculated higher than they should be?)
Changing Course Grade Options in Gradebook
Publishing Grades from Laulima directly to Banner

Miscellaneous tools
Sending email via the Email tool
Adding a Module
Sign-up tool
Clog tool
Linking to a UHM library electronic resource from Laulima (Manoa courses only)
Problems with Copy/Paste from Word (Getting error messages when trying to copy/paste from Word?)
iClicker v7 (iClicker Classic) download and guides
Instructions for setting up iClicker v7 (iClicker Classic) on MacOS 10.12 (Sierra)
Setting up an iClicker Cloud link in Laulima
Register i>clickers using Laulima (iClicker v6)
Uploading polling information from i>grader to Laulima (iClicker v6)

Instructional Tips
Creating Private Journals in Forums (pdf, Roger Williams University)

Copying Old Course to a New Course
Publish and Unpublish Your Courses
Setting up Assignments, Tests and Surveys
Making Sure My YouTube Account is linked to my Laulima
Setting Up Your Discussion Board

Laulima Video Tutorials (UH West O’ahu)

UH West O’ahu Distance Learning YouTube Channel

Laulima Tutorials (UH Online Innovation Center)

Online Teaching Resources

This section provides resources related to standards and best practices for high-quality online teaching and learning.

(David L. San Jose, Char Hopela)
(Erin Kim, John Ly)
  • Individual student accommodations
  • ADA and Section 504 legal matters

UHWO Institutional Effectiveness (Assessment)
Writing Objectives Using Bloom’s Taxonomy
How to Assess Students’ Learning and Performance
Assessing Student Learning Outcomes in an Online Environment

Quality Matters
OSCQR Standards Open SUNY Course Quality Review (OSCQR)

Course Design Checklist

Instructional Design Support Services (Interactive)

UHWO Syllabus Template

Professional Development

In coordination with the Office of Professional Development and Academic Support (OPDAS), the Office of Distance Education & Learning (ODEL) offers workshops on topics related to online teaching and learning. Check our Upcoming Events for workshop dates. 

UHOIC Home Page
UHOIC Knowledge Base: Tutorials and Resources

Courses to Help You Create Better Images and Videos

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