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CLAS HOLIDAY UPDATE 2013

REAL-TIME ANNOTATION

RESPONSE THREADING

STUDENT UPLOAD ACCESS

CONTROL

CLEANER INTERFACE LAYOUT

Comments and annotations from one user will be broadcasted to all users in the same course (or group, depending on access ctrl policy) within a few seconds This is immediately available for all courses with a broadcast threshold of 10s Faster thresholds (up to 2s) configurable per course upon request

REAL-TIME ANNOTATION AND COMMENTS

Students in class with laptop

Students from home

Projected to the whole class

Students on the go with tablets

Student John Doe posting a response

NEAR REAL-TIME BROADCAST

A new post can reply to any other post regardless of type: general comments, timeline annotations, video responses… Each post can reply to multiple other posts. Each post can be replied to by multiple posts. ⇒ Enabling the creation

of both linear hierarchical discussions, or a network / roundtable model of discussion

Following a conversation easily by hovering on top of post #ID in a thread to see that post highlighted

RESPONSE (DISCUSSION) THREADING

Parent posts (one or more, any type) << this post << Children posts (one or more, any type)

Comments

Annotations

Students can upload videos

And assign videos to other users and groups

Without being able to see or manage videos uploaded by others in the same course or other courses

This access ctrl rule is also finely configurable to per department, per course, and per group within a course

For access ctrl rule configuration, please email the arts.helpdesk@ubc.ca

STUDENT UPLOAD ACCESS CTRL

CLEANER INTERFACE LAYOUT

More space for comment

panel

More visible and accessible button to enter general

comments

¡  There is no interface to configure student upload access control yet, please email the arts helpdesk (arts.helpdesk@ubc.ca) to request configuration

However, the configuration can be very fine, for example: §  Students can only upload videos for department EDUC, course

EDUC500 section 101, and only when they are a member of the group “video assignment”

“Real-time annotation broadcasts” does not imply that video responses are always immediately viewable. Typically, video responses are viewable immediately on the same browser+OS combination, but to be viewable across all platforms can take up to 1-2 hours.

CAVEATS