Online Learning
The College of Arts and Sciences online learning can help you design courses, improve existing course content and learn how to use UB-supported online tools to develop engaging classes and videos.
Online Tools
UB offers a variety of tools to aid your teaching needs. This collection of online tools is designed to help you explore and create exceptional courses. These include on-demand training, online resources and 24/7 support.
Record, edit and publish educational video and audio content from your computer or mobile device with Panopto.
Recording with Panopto gives faculty and staff tools for video and screen recording, editing and sharing, all in one place and from any device. Panopto with an excellent tool for creating prerecorded content for online courses and can be integrated with UB Learns. Here are a few resources on how you can record with Panopto.
A brief overview of Panopto's main features.
For more step-by-step instructions, please visit the Recording with Panopto website.
Helpful Accessibility Resources:
Download our PowerPoint templates for step-by-step instructions on making your Word documents and PowerPoint presentations accessible and unlocking your content for everyone, including people with disabilities.
- They have to click Continue to move ahead in the video but won't be able to answer the questions again.
- If available, they will see the results they received when they took the quiz.
- If available, they can review the correct answers and show those answers to their friends.
- Seeing the answers and results can be turned off, in which case they will only know that they took the quiz.
A student can look at the table of contents and skip over the video to answer a quiz. But there's an option to block students from advancing over a quiz until they've answered all the questions and click continue.
- Yes, it auto-grades.
- You can enter different answer options for each blank. For example, The _rain|reign|rein_ in Spain falls _in|on|upon_ the plain.
- Panopto ignores case and leading and trailing spaces when determining the correct answer.
- There is no partial credit for multiple blanks. If a student gets one wrong, the question is marked wrong.
The question is marked wrong if a student doesn't choose all the correct answers.
- All answers are recorded for each quiz. Download the "Detailed results by section" report to see the details for each viewer on each quiz question.
- If a student does not complete all quizzes in a video, partial results will appear in the Panopto portal, and the results will not be passed to the UB Learns grade center.
If students in your class require captions as a disability accommodation, have the student contact Accessibility Resources. Accessibility Resources will notify you of documented accommodations you can enter in your class or use with the integrated tools.
Panopto's built-in Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) feature makes it easy to caption videos to make them accessible to people with hearing impairments and others who find captions useful. The captions can then be refined manually.
Closed Captioning/Transcription Services
Use the transcription request form to submit your information to assist you with your closed captioning/transcription on your UB Panopto or Zoom video.
After you submit the transcription request form, you will receive a notification about how to upload your video to a Box folder. If you have any questions, please contact Jay Stockslader, Director of Online Learning and Continuing Education in the College of Arts and Sciences.
This service is for general transcription of your class, presentation or workshop video. If you have students needing transcription services specifically for accessibility, please contact Accessibility Resources. Accessibility Resources may be able to fund the outsourcing of closed captioning/transcription of your class videos.
We can only assist your class with UB Panopto or Zoom class videos for educational purposes.
Videos submitted for this closed captioning/transcription service must be for continuous viewing or used multiple times for educational purposes.
Have more Panopto questions?
Find answers to the most commonly asked questions about Panopto on the Record with Panopto website or contact Jay Stockslader, Director of Online Learning and Continuing Education.
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UB Teach Anywhere
Teach Anywhere will help you navigate the comprehensive resources that UB has, helping to ensure your success in teaching online or in the classroom.
You can find support every step of the way. Here are a few support resources unique to the College of Arts and Sciences.
Online Learning and Continuing Education
The College provides hundreds of academic courses online each year. Contact Jay Stockslader, Director of Online Learning, Assessment and Special Programs, to discuss how to offer your class online, learn more about instructional design, or develop an online degree program.
CAS Educational Technology (CASet)
CASet provides comprehensive information technology services and support to the College. CASet partners with faculty and staff to meet instructional, research and administrative needs by servicing and consulting on matters relating to technology.
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Office of Curriculum, Assessment and Teaching Transformation
The University at Buffalo Office of Curriculum, Assessment and Teaching Transformation (CATT) provides leadership and support for delivering and assessing 21st-century instruction across physical and digital learning environments.
Other UB Online Tools and Support
Visit UB Information Technology (UBIT) Faculty Technology Guide and Student Technology Guide to explore and learn how and help students use other digital tools.
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