Instructional Technology Consultants & Departmental Web Support

Technical Help Documents

The ITCs have compiled a list of help documents that will hopefully be useful to faculty interested in developing online courses, or enhancing existing face-to-face courses. Click on the links below to view the help docs for each subject.

Blackboard
Blackboard is the primary course management system supported by the University. Blackboard allows you to create online content and add features such as discussions, groups, chat and announcements, all at the click of a few buttons. This link takes you to the Teaching & Learning Center's Blackboard documentation.

 Interactivity
This link will take you to a website where you can learn some simple ways to add interactivity to online courses. Tools covered include Hot Potatoes, Quandary, Audacity, PollMonkey and Nicenet.org.
Flipping Your Classroom
Flipping the classroom involves the use of a blended learning teaching model, where technology is used to provide students with the learning material outside of class, so that classroom time can be spent on interactive exercises and activities. Some phrase this as "lecture at home, practice at school." Screencasting is one way to easily create video lecture material.
 Macromedia Dreamweaver
Macromedia Dreamweaver is one of the premiere web authoring tools on the market. Learn how to create basic web pages, as well as more advanced, interactive web pages. Dreamweaver is an officially supported product but it is not available on the campus network.

Basic Audio
UNCG does not currently support a specific tool for creating audio files. However, Audacity is a free download from the Web and is fairly simple to use. Below are the links for downloading Audacity. By default, Audacity creates .wav files. If you need an .mp3 file, you will need to also download and install the LAME encoder (also linked below).

 Streaming Media
This ITS website provides you with information on how to produce streaming media for the Web.