Student Tech Tours

To: Instruc­tors

Re: Book your Stu­dent Ori­en­ta­tion to Learn­ing Tech­nol­o­gy Tours

Feed­back from instruc­tors, sup­port staff and stu­dents indi­cates that the Stu­dent Learn­ing Tech­nol­o­gy Tours are a huge ben­e­fit for stu­dents. Book a 30-minute or 60-minute Learn­ing Tech­nolo­gies Tour with some­one from Stu­dent Tech Ser­vices for your class.

To help stu­dents be suc­cess­ful dig­i­tal learn­ers, two learn­ing tech­nol­o­gy ori­en­ta­tion tours (done vir­tu­al­ly or in-class) are avail­able to book. The tours will include new fea­tures and func­tions in Kaltura, and focus in on the key Bright­space fea­tures stu­dents need to use this dig­i­tal learn­ing plat­form.

Don’t wor­ry if your stu­dents get a tour in anoth­er class – mul­ti­ple ori­en­ta­tions will be good for their learn­ing. We rec­om­mend “The Full Tour” to ensure your stu­dents have the best oppor­tu­ni­ty to ask ques­tions and get acquaint­ed with all the new tech­nolo­gies.

What to do?

1. Select your Tour Choice (more details see below)

  • The Essen­tials Tour (30 min­utes) OR
  • The Full Tour (60 min­utes)

2. Go to the NIC Ser­vice Desk https://servicedesk.nic.bc.ca/ > Ser­vice Cat­a­log > Com­put­ers, Phones and Print­ing > GENERAL REQUEST

  • Indi­cate your pref­er­ence of a tour, course name, course num­ber, course for­mat (in per­son or online) and oth­er details. Some­one will be in touch.

TOUR OPTIONS

Option A: The Essen­tials Tour — 30 min­utes

  • Tour of myN­IC – stu­dent por­tal (e.g., sign­ing in, self ser­vice, email, Bright­space, announce­ments, etc.)
  • Tour of Bright­space – (e.g., key func­tions and fea­tures – such as grades, assign­ments, quizzes, con­tent, announce­ments etc.)
  • Intro­duc­tion to stu­dent email (e.g., where to find, its impor­tance to learn­ing, check often)
  • Brief list of impor­tant activ­i­ties: “you need this list of items…” (e.g., Microsoft 365, Blue­Jeans, email on your device)
  • How to sign in to Office.com and down­load Microsoft 365
  • Where to find us for sup­port (www.nic.bc.ca/StudentTech)
  • Answer ques­tions

Option B: The Full Tour — 60 min­utes

  • All items from Options A  —  Plus these addi­tion­al items or your request:
    • Get­ting email set­up on per­son­al devices
    • Kaltura Vir­tu­al Class­room Tour – (e.g., key func­tions and fea­tures )
    • Kaltura Tour – video stream­ing and stor­age plat­form (e.g., overview of func­tions and fea­tures – such as down­load­ing Kaltura Cap­ture, upload­ing video and shar­ing video link, find­ing video in My Media/Brightspace)
      • even if you are not using Kaltura for cre­at­ing or stor­ing video for your course, stu­dents might like to know about the free video recorder they have access to and the “YouTube”- like NIC Medi­a­Space plat­form should they wish to use for shar­ing media with their class­mates or for oth­er class­es