Nursing Education

Did you know that VCU SON Faculty may be eligible for AACN Memberships? Here are some of the benefits included: Contact Dina Belic via email for more information about AACN memberships.

There has been a lot of chatter lately about AI, education, and forming “uncheatable assessments” or “AI-resistant” assessments. While cheating has existed long before college students had their own private dial-up internet, AI has posed new challenges in creating educational content that actually assesses and develops learner competencies and cognition.  One of the answers that […]

It is the beginning of the semester and you went through your course before it launched and thought you found all of the issues that students might encounter. Inevitably, there will be items missed or issues that pop up that you didn’t anticipate. The Online Learning and Teaching Support Team (OLTS) has you covered! We […]

As education and pedagogy have evolved, differing systems of assessments and grading infrastructure have been positioned to provide alternatives to standard, numeric-based grading systems. These are largely to configure a vision of learning that gives students intrinsic motivation for learning and, particularly in medicine, ensuring competency in nationalized standards that students must pass in order […]

Take advantage of these two upcoming faculty professional development opportunities offered through through Adobe: Enjoy the series above for engaging, successful and interactive classroom exercises and lesson plans shared by four faculty at different institutions. If you don’t have an Adobe license, use the VCU Adobe License Request Form to request access to: Acrobat Pro, […]

VoiceThread is hosting a basic workshop series in August. VoiceThread Basics 1: Upload, Comment, and ShareWhen: August 6, 2024, 1:00 pm (Eastern Time)Description: In this workshop, you will create a VoiceThread. Participants will learn how to upload media, comment and annotate on that media, and share it with others. This will be a slow paced, […]

ExamSoft is offering a back to school 2024 webinar entitled “The Complete Guide to Preparing for Exam Day.” The session is designed for Faculty and Proctors. During this session, they will cover a high level overview of topics: It will be held Tuesday, August 13th at 11 am. Register for this webinar.

If you forgot to configure an assignment on Canvas as a Turnitin assignment prior to students submitting their papers, there is an option. You can use the Turnitin website to check the submissions. To do this, create a Turnitin assignment in your Canvas sandbox course. If you have forgotten how to set that up, check […]

Have you ever needed to recreate an older Kaltura recording and wished you had a transcript to go by? Closed captioning is enabled by default on newer recordings but not on those created more than a few years ago. The good news is that it is possible (and easy!) to have Kaltura close caption ANY […]

I recently had some trouble recording my screen with Kaltura Capture after updating to the most recent version of Windows 11. As it turns out, you don’t need a third party tool to record your screen in Windows 11, you can just use Microsoft PowerPoint! This post is based on the How to Screen Record […]