Check it Out – Choose Your Video Quality!
Great news! We wanted to let you know that in our recent release, students will now be able to choose their video quality for the video they are watching. This can help prevent any potential buffering the student may encounter, most likely if they have poor Internet connection. This gives students three quality options to […]
5 Ways to Motivate Remote Teams
How do you motivate your team when you can’t look them in the eye? How can employees care about the success of your business when they don’t get the hands-on experience of being in the office every day? How can you increase employee engagement when perhaps employees have never met? Earlier this year, we learned […]
Back to Basics: How to Add a User Manually
Adding users will be one of the first things you do when you get your DigitalChalk account set up (along with creating your courses). There are a couple of ways to manually add users to your DigitalChalk organization. Mass uploading users If you have a Business or Enterprise account you will have access to this […]
Technology That Changes The Way We Learn!
I am sure all of you at some point have had to do some type of training whether face to face or online. If we were face to face I would ask you all to raise your hands if you had to take some long, drawn out boring training. I am confident we would have […]
A Guide to the Instructor Gradebook
The Instructor Gradebook tab offers some added features that allow you, as the organization administrator, to look at student information for specific course offerings. Let’s go over the few things you can do within the instructor gradebook tab. Exporting student information You can easily pull information for a specific course using the export feature in […]
5 Ways to Share Your PowerPoint Presentation Online
“Could I have a copy of your slides?” It’s a common question after you have finished your presentation and received the applause. You may just hand the file to the event sponsor to share with the crowd. However, most people will never get back to your slides – not because they were uninterested, but because […]
Quick Tip: Adding a Thumbnail to a Course Offering
Have you ever wondered how to add a thumbnail to a course offering? It’s an easy process – just a few clicks and you’re done! The first step is to have a .png, or .jpeg, file that is 640 x 360px. If the file is too large you will be able to crop it to […]
As Featured on Capterra: Flipped Classroom vs. Flipped Learning
*We have partnered up with Capterra to share the difference between a flipped classroom and flipped learning. You can view the full guest post on their blog here. If you are familiar with the eLearning world, then you’ve most likely heard the terms “Flipped Classroom” and “Flipped Learning”. In fact, it is a common misconception […]
Student Checkout Experience
Want to know what steps your students will have to take to register for a course? We’ll walk you through the whole process so you can see exactly what the student has to do. Adding the Course to their Cart After they have created their account and logged in, they will need to add the […]
5 Tech Tips to Teach Reading in a Blended Learning Classroom
Blended learning—using both traditional and technology-based methods for teaching—has become the norm for many educators. In 2010, more than 4 million students had access to online learning components in the classroom in addition to standard learning materials. What’s more, 73 percent of educators surveyed by the Center for Digital Education said they saw improvements in […]
