The IMPACT team is available to help faculty with instructional design and technology. We are happy to answer questions big or small and help identify the best tool to help you meet your instructional goals.
This section contains how-tos for some of the most commonly asked questions. It is a mix of instructions we created for Health Sciences faculty and material created by others. To use, click on the topic section to expand and view guides.
- Accessibility
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We at GW Health Sciences are committed to making our courses as accessible as possible to all. Below are some resources and easy things faculty instructors can do to help make course materials more accessible. The more you use these strategies on an ongoing basis, the more prepared you will be if/when there is a student with a documented need.
- GW Disability Support Services- Accommodation & Accessibility (Link)
- Digital Accessibility in Your Courses (Google Slides)
- Accessibility Course Checklist (Link)
- Easy Accessibility Practices for Word and PowerPoint
- Easy Accessibility Practices for Blackboard Content
- Health Sciences Accessible Syllabus Template -- Updated December 2024
- How to Caption Your Video in Youtube
- Blackboard
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Tests/Quizzes
Assignments
- Creating an Assignment
- Grading Assignments
- Grading Schema
- Bb Annotate Assignment Grading (Video from Blackboard)
- How to Use SafeAssign in Assignments and (Video from Blackboard)
Data Management
Rubrics
Blackboard Collaborate for Live Sessions
- Blackboard Collaborate Ultra: Setting Up a Session
- Blackboard Collaborate Ultra: How to Run a Session
Groups
Journals, Wikis, and Blogs
- Blackboard Help for Journals (Link)
- Blackboard Help for Wikis (Link)
- Blackboard Help for Blogs (Link)
Copying and Merging Courses
Zoom
- Course Materials
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Syllabus Template
- Media - Presentations, Graphics and Videos
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How to Create a Narrated PowerPoint Presentation
- PowerPoint Office 365 (Update to Office 365, PC or Mac, for free!)
- PowerPoint 2016
- How to Create a Narrated Presentation or Screencast on a Mac
- How to Upload a Video to YouTube and Embed it in Blackboard
- How to Caption your Video in YouTube
Images
Improving the Quality of Your Online Presentations
Webcam Videos
- Video Selfies: Look Better in Your Webcam Videos
- Make a Webcam Video with Windows 10
- Make a Webcam Video with Quicktime on a Mac
- How to Record Your Webcam to Youtube
- Screenshots and Recordings – macOS Big Sur
Phone Videos
- Panopto
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Panopto is used for classroom lecture capture, but is also a powerful tool for sharing narrated presentations, mini lectures, or lab demonstrations with multiple video angles and/or screen capture.
Panopto Guide for GW SMHS and SPH
Where to find people to help with Panopto:
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Health Sciences faculty/staff – Contact the IMPACT Team
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SMHS faculty/staff generally – Contact the Center for Faculty Excellence or Robin Tse rgwtse@gwu.edu
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School of Public Health faculty/staff – Contact Andrew Wiss awiss@gwu.edu or Isabelle Gholl isabelle.gholl@gwu.edu
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Panopto Support is available 24x7 – Call 855-765-2341
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- Poll Everywhere
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- Signing up and using Poll Everywhere (Link)
- Introducing Poll Everywhere. Scroll down for short instructional videos from Poll Everywhere. (Link)
- Getting Started (PDF)
- Getting Started Webinar: How to Create A Poll, Customize Polls, Insert the Slides into PowerPoint, and Run Reports. (Video)
- Download Poll Everywhere for PowerPoint (Windows)
- Download Poll Everywhere for PowerPoint (Mac)
- Virtual Conferences
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Video Conferences
- VoiceThread
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VoiceThread is a tool that allows asynchronous discussions around pieces of media such as photos, diagrams, video, and slides with a whiteboard tool. Discussion comments can be made easily using video, audio, or text. VoiceThread is provided as a tool within Blackboard, keeping items shared privately within a class. When used in Blackboard no separate accounts are needed.