What's New - Fall 2022

Within the Zoom Meeting activity settings, within the Breakout Rooms section, you are now able to create, modify, or delete breakout rooms.

Participants can now be added to a breakout room in advance of the meeting, based on email, or by selecting a group within the course.

A new resource type called Group Members has been added to UR Courses that can be configured to show all groups, all groups of a predefined grouping, or all groups that a student is enrolled in. It can also display email and messaging links so that group members can easily communicate with one another.

The instructor can choose which grouping to use (or none, in which case all groups of a course could be displayed); which groups to show (only groups in which a participant is also enrolled, i.e. their "own" group, or all groups); whether email addresses should be displayed in order to facilitate communication (can be limited to "own" group only)

A new Board activity type allows an instructor to create and label columns where students can add anonymous contributions, or cards, to this group activity. Example uses include brainstorming, categorizing, sharing resources, posting photos, or task planning.

Contributions made to the board are anonymous to other students. The level of participation in the group effort can be tracked (e.g., how many posts created). This could be manually converted into a participation grade or tracked within the Completion Progress block.

A new report offers instructors a convenient way to download attachments submitted by students in response to quiz essay questions. For more information, please see the Report section within our Quiz page.

Like the activity name auto-linking filter, when enabled this filter will convert any instance of the exact section name into a link to the section itself, or a bookmark link to the section if used on the course page.

Similar in nature to the Activity name and Section names auto-linking filters, when enabled this filter will automatically link exact instances of book chapter titles to the correspinding book chapter within the course.

When enabled, the FilterCodes filter allows content creators to easily customize and personalize course content using numerous plain text tags that can be used throughout the course.

Information Services is now operating WeBWorK, a web application that can create, modify, and distribute formula-intensive assignments to students with an interface that makes testing and assessing your student’s knowledge easier.

Dr. Robert Petry previously hosted WeBWorK, and we would like to thank him for his support during this transition.

For more information about WeBWork and UR Courses, please see our WeBWork resources.