CONTACT INFORMATION
Sue and Radcliffe Kilam Library 259
956.326.2792
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2015 - 2016
Annual Report
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P R O C T O R E D E X A M S
Faculty seeking assistance with
proctoring of exams for students
who cannot test on campus
should contact the director of
the Testing Center at 956-326-
2888 or visit USC 201C. Requests
for reservations of computer
facilities for proctoring of exams
should be made by writing to
the Student Success Manager or
by calling 956-326-2247. Special
arrangements for proctoring
of exams at a distance will be
provided by the Testing Center
in cooperation with the Office
of Instructional Technology and
Distance Education Services.
We piloted Respondus Monitor
during the Spring 2016 semester.
R E V A M P O F T H E
O I T P R O F E S S I O N A L D E V E L O P M E N T W E B S I T E
Professional Development train-
ings are available to the TAMIU
community throughout the year.
These types of trainings include
Blackboard, Echo360, SoftChalk,
Adobe Connect, Accessibility,
Quality Matters and many more.
Most of the trainings are offered
face-to-face but they are also
Adobe Connect:
A web conferencing software service which offers immersive online meeting experiences for collaboration and
virtual classrooms.
VoiceThread:
An interactive collaboration and sharing tool that enables users to add images, documents, and videos, and to
which other users can add voice, text, audio file, or video comments.
Atomic Learning:
A robust digital content library of more than 1,500 hours of online professional development and learning
resources consisting of over 60,000 video tutorials.
ECHO360:
A lecture capture solution which provides new levels of interactivity between the material, instructor and student, and
also provides daily analytics to users for improving student outcomes.
Turnitin:
An originality checking and plagiarism prevention service which encourages best practices for using and citing written
material.
available via webinars, office vis-
its, classroom visits and walk-ins.
Self-enrollment to any of the
trainings is possible by visiting
our totally revamped website at
or
by contacting the eLearning team
at: oitprofessionaldevelopment@
tamiu.edu
The Blackboard LMS provides our university the ability to integrate with many great instructional tools to be used in the online environment.
Current integrations include:
