Author: Jacqueline Kirkham
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Upcoming Zooms to Teams Training Sessions
CIEL is offering a training series through April and May for instructors who will be moving their online synchronous teaching from Zoom to Teams for Fall 2024. Due to the popularity of our Teams 101 session we have added an additional date for that webinar. If you don’t have any experience hosting meetings in Teams,…
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Course Prep Week 2024: Hands On Curriculum Support for Faculty
Join us for Course Prep Week 2024: Hands On Curriculum Support for Faculty, May 8-10. We hope that you will join us as we provide focused learning opportunities including course refresh, consultations with technology and pedagogy specialists, workshops on key aspects of course design and the opportunity to interact with your colleagues who are working…
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Zoom to Teams Training for Instructors
Starting in the fall semester of 2024, all video conferencing and online meetings at VIU will move to Microsoft Teams. CIEL will be offering a range of options to help instructors with this transition in the spring preparation time…
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NEW: Import Final Grades from VIULearn
If you are an instructor who uses the VIULearn Grades tool to calculate student’s final grades, your end of term final grade entry just got a lot simpler. Enterprise Services, the Records department and CIEL have worked together over the last several months to add an option in the official Grade Entry tool to import…
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VIULearn Quiz Time Settings Are Changing
There are some exciting changes coming to the VIULearn Quiz tool this summer. Starting July 20, 2023, the following changes will take effect for all users in the VIULearn Quiz tool: Read on to learn how this will affect existing and newly created quizzes going forward. Changes to Existing Quizzes All quizzes that are currently…
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End of Year Cleanup
As we get to the end of the spring semester we want to remind you about the cleanup processes for VIULearn, VIUTube and VIUBlogs.
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VIUTube: Please Check Your Media
VIUTube media has now been migrated from our previous provider (Kaltura) to the new platform (YuJa). All Employees should check their media as soon as possible and report any issues to CIEL so these can be resolved before the old platform is deleted in September 2022.
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Cloud Recording Is Now Available for VIU Zoom Accounts!
VIU employees with VIU Zoom accounts can now choose to record meetings to the cloud rather than locally recording on their computers. Zoom cloud recordings are automatically transferred to your VIUTube media collection and then deleted from Zoom
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New VIUTube Available For Uploading and Creating, Starting July 4, 2022
We are excited to announce that employees and students at VIU can begin adding and creating media on the new VIUTube platform starting on July 4, 2022. Your existing media will continue to be available at https://viuvideos.viu.ca. CIEL will be working with our new vendor over the next two months to migrate that content to…
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Update: VIUTube is Moving
The Centre for Innovation and Excellence in Learning is very happy to announce that the new service that will power VIUTube is Yuja. Yuja was chosen through an open, competitive procurement process as the best fit for VIU’s video hosting and streaming needs. Over the next few months, CIEL will work closely with our new…
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Reminder: VIUTube is Moving
Our current VIUTube service (powered by Kaltura) is at the end of its life and will no longer be available after September 2022. The end of this service means that we must move our VIUTube service to a new home and all video links and embed codes for VIUTube content will need to be updated.
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VIULearn Course Cleanup 2022
This blog post is a reminder for all instructors at VIU that we will be processing the VIULearn Course Cleanup as scheduled in the first week of July 2022. For anyone who began using VIULearn for the first time in 2020, please read on to learn more about the Course Cleanup process.