Tip of the Week

Each week, ODEL provides interesting and helpful posts on educational technology and online education.

Week of 11/11/2024

UH-licensed Zoom accounts have an artificial intelligence tool, AI Companion, that can answer questions and summarize meeting information. During Zoom meetings, participants can direct questions to AI Companion and get answers based on the conversation transcript. ...

Week of 11/04/2024

Looking for new ways to connect with students? The act of coloring can reduce student stress, increase mindfulness and spark creativity. Coloring pages can be related to course content or used as an icebreaker activity and are easy to generate using Canva’s ...

Week of 10/28/2024

Canva is terrific for designing slide presentations, but wait, there’s more. Have you considered presenting directly from the site? Canva’s presenter mode opens two windows. While your audience sees your slides full-screen, your presenter window has a slide-notes ...

Week of 10/21/2024

UH West Oʻahu will soon enter the transition phase from Laulima to Lamakū, our new LMS powered by Brightspace. January 2025, a fresh schedule of Lamakū Discovery Sessions will get underway to support Cohort 2 (UH West Oʻahu and UH Mānoa). Don’t worry if ...

Week of 10/14/2024

This month is your last chance to access and download video and audio files from Augusta ADA Solutions, as the service is being discontinued on October 31, 2024. Your UH YouTube channel is a good alternative for hosting videos and podcasts. Open the Firefox browser ...

Week of 10/07/2024

Zoom Workplace is a familiar video conferencing platform equipped with communication tools that enhance online instruction. Zoom has updated its online whiteboards with features that can take the place of Google’s defunct Jamboard. The new whiteboards have tools ...

Week of 09/30/2024

You may have noticed that Zoom has morphed into an all-in-one connection platform, Zoom Workplace, with an expanded set of functional tools for synchronous and asynchronous communications. Ever find yourself unintentionally muted during a Zoom meeting? Zoom has ...

Week of 09/23/2024

Campus content creators include social media managers, microsite admins, and professors. Meeting the needs of online users who cannot see visual information, or hear audio recordings, is an important consideration when developing shared content. Section 508 of the ...

Week of 09/16/2024

It’s not too early to dig into a Lamakū sandbox to explore new LMS features and build content. Once you’ve opened a Lamakū account, you will be auto-enrolled in Lamakū Instructor Essentials, a self-guided course. UH instructional designers (IDs) developed a ...

Week of 09/09/2024

The pace of technological change has been whiplash fast as of late. AI entered the educational scene, calling for a new set of skills including revamped assessment strategies. Laulima will soon give way to Lamakū, an LMS with an easy-build content structure. UH ...