Tip of the Week
Each week, ODEL provides interesting and helpful posts on educational technology and online education.
Week of 06/30/2025
The latest Brightspace tutorial recording, Bright Ideas: Creating Quizzes in Brightspace, is now available to help you streamline your assessment creation process. This video resource will walk you through building a comprehensive quiz library. From this library, you ...
Week of 06/23/2025
Designing for Gen Z, a Quality Matters webinar, underscored this generation's desire for learning experiences that build connections among peers. While faculty often assign group projects with this aim, students frequently adopt a divide-and-conquer strategy, ...
Week of 06/16/2025
The summer months might cause some to be a little "spacey," but for many university faculty, it's also an opportunity to dive into academic projects and catch up on reading. If you're looking for an intelligent assistant to streamline your research, consider ...
Week of 06/09/2025
A recent Quality Matters webinar, "Designing for Gen Z," provided valuable insights for faculty seeking to create engaging and effective online courses for today's students. Presenter Shannon Stoker of Tarleton State University explored the defining characteristics ...
Week of 06/02/2025
Are you just getting started with Lamakū? Learn the ropes of course building by joining the Summer 2025 Lamakū Support Sessions. These informal Zoom sessions offer dedicated time for participants to collaborate with instructional designers and peers.The Lamakū ...
Intelligent agents send emails and more
Week of 05/26/2025
Intelligent agents within Lamakū can be set to monitor course activity and trigger automated reports or actions, such as targeted emails to students. For instance, instructors can configure agents to automatically notify learners who have not accessed the course ...
Enhance Your Lamakū Course with AI Assistance
Week of 05/19/2025
As you develop your courses in Lamakū, we encourage you to explore these time-saving AI tools:Image Accessibility Creator: This tool helps you easily generate alternative text (alt text) for your slides and images. Simply drag and drop your images, and an accurate ...
Access your Google Drive offline
Week of 05/12/2025
Your UH Google Drive provides secure cloud storage for your work projects and documentation, allowing you to access and share your content online from any computer or mobile device. For added convenience, you can also enable offline access to Google files. This ...
Improve your Gmail with Gemini
Week of 05/05/2025
A practical application for Gemini found in the UH Google Apps menu is applying the AI tool to email correspondence. Interaction workers, from instructors to admin support staff, spend over 28% of their workdays reading and writing emails, according to a 2012 ...
Add practice questions to Lamakū content
Week of 04/28/2025
Inserting questions into your content modules allows students to test their knowledge before moving on to the next topic. Practice questions, a Creator+ feature of Lamakū, are easy to add to your course. Select Insert Practice from the Authoring Tool on the ...