D2L Brightspace is DEN@Viterbi's course management system. Send course emails, upload course materials, post assignments, and create your gradebook. Tools, functions, and their associated descriptions are available within the D2L Brightspace support course. You must be logged into D2L Brightspace to gain access.

The Instructional Support Center has an inventory of Tablet PCs and iPads available for instructors, teaching assistants, or anyone involved in a DEN course's administration. Eligible participants may check out a device for the term. For instruction and grading purposes only. Availability is on first-come, first-serve. To request a device for the term, please fill out this form.

Electronic/Digital alternative to a whiteboard.

The SMART Notebook Interface
The Notebook interface is very easy to use and many functions (such as inserting pictures, saving files, etc) will be familiar as they are similar to those found in MS Office applications such as Word.

Opening and Saving Notebook Files
This is no different than saving and opening files such as Word or PowerPoint. The options for saving and opening are under File on the toolbar.

After your lecture you will be responsible for saving your SmartBoard Notebook files. The Instructional Support Center will then handle the conversion of your SMART Notebook files and posting onto Blackboard for your students. To save your files please navigate to your folder by following the path:

My Computer > Instructors Current Semester (Z:) > Your Course > Smartboard

Please label the file as such:

coursename_lecture_##_date

(example: AME503_Lecture_03_061212)

Importing and converting a PowerPoint to a SMART Notebook file.
Likewise it is possible to convert existing PowerPoint files into a SMART Notebook file – this will create each individual slide from PowerPoint as a new individual page in Notebook and will allow you to then drag, drop, and edit each component (i.e. text, images etc.) so you can add and change content as you wish. As always you can email your files to the Technical Support Center at dentsc@usc.edu. There are two options to convert your files to SMARTBoard Notebook format:

From the SMART Notebook application: Select IMPORT, found under FILE on the toolbar. Then browse to where the PowerPoint is that you wish to convert and select it. Please allow some time for the conversion to take place – the speed at which the conversion takes place depends on the size of your PowerPoint.
From PowerPoint: Select File > Print. Make sure the following printer is selected:
SMART Notebook Document Writer
or

SMART Notebook Print Capture

Exporting your Notebook file to convert it to PowerPoint or PDF
As previously stated the Technical Support Center can take care of converting your SMART Notebook files, but it is also possible to use the option under File to export your completed notebook to a different format. For example, you can easily convert your Notebook file to a PowerPoint or PDF.

To do so, use the Export option under File. This can be useful if you wish to save resources in a format that you can then share with students immediately or if you wish to save them to your personal hard disk or flash drive.

Writing using the SMART Board Interactive whiteboard
You can write notes or draw in digital ink using the Smart Notebook Software

To write or draw:

Pick up a pen tray pen
Write or draw on the interactive whiteboard
TIP: Don't rest your elbow or the palm of your hand on the screen while you're writing.

Pressing the Interactive Screen
You can perform normal computer operations by pressing the interactive screen with your finger.

Left-Click:

Ensure that the pen tray tools are in the pen tray
Press the interactive whiteboard with your finger
Right-Click (or Control-Click):

Press the Right-Click button on the pen tray, and then press the interactive whiteboard with your finger
If you want to perform another control click, repeat step 1.
Erasing from the Screen:

Pick up the eraser from the pen tray
Press it on the interactive screen.
When you finish erasing, return the eraser to the pen tray.

Office 365 is a collection of apps and cloud services. Includes Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Outlook, OneDrive for Business. Free for all faculty and staff. Click here for more information.

Alternative to D2L Brightspace's discussion board tool. Create highly interactive discussion topics, polls, and allow students to respond anonymously for more collaboration. Integrates with D2L.

Click here to view a sample class using Piazza

Alternative to D2L Brightspace's discussion board tool. Create highly interactive discussion topics, polls, and allow students to respond anonymously for more collaboration. Integrates with D2L.

Ed Discussion

Web conferencing in the classroom. Engage with your online students in a virtual environment during your lecture. Click here for a video demonstration

Zoom provides a high-quality, mobile-optimized video and audio conferencing service for free to all USC faculty staff and students.

For additional support please visit the Zoom Help Center: Contains a library of detailed user documentation and videos on every Zoom topic.

Features

• Very high-quality video and audio conferencing
• Join audio conference via computer audio or dial-in
• Real-time white boarding, co-annotation and group chat during meetings
• Screen sharing capabilities
• Record meetings and store them for viewing later
• Easy-to-use apps on mobile phones/tablets and Mac and Windows PCs
• Meetings can have up to 300 participants
• Meetings can last up to 24 hours
• Hold unlimited meetings, one at a time
• Easy to schedule and join meetings
• USC faculty, staff and students get a persistent, personal meeting ID

Getting Started

Go to usc.zoom.us, download the Zoom app to your desktop, laptop or mobile phone and log in using Shibboleth (USC’s single sign-on system).

Part of Office 365 suite of software - free for faculty and staff. Please click here for more information. Use your USC Office 365 account for access.

Turnitin is an online tool used to promote academic integrity and detect potential plagiarism. To identify unoriginal content, it compares student submissions with a vast database of academic papers, websites, and other sources. Turnitin also provides detailed similarity reports, helping instructors evaluate the originality of student work and ensure proper citation.

In addition to plagiarism detection, Turnitin offers features like feedback and grading tools, allowing instructors to leave comments and grade assignments. It also supports peer review and helps analyze authorship consistency, making it a comprehensive solution for academic assessments.

For more information on how to create Turnitin assignments, please visit USC's Brightspace help page here: Turnitin: Assignment Integration, Student Submission, and Grading – USC Brightspace Help

As a Vocareum instructor you would have access to numerous features to design a course. From utilizing multiple lab types, such as the Vocaruem Notebook, Jupyterlab, Cyber Range and more. To implementing autograding, managing enrollments, and visiting student's IDEs to seamlessly aid in their learning experience. This guide will briefly cover the features and abilities you hold, while providing access to more robust documentation.

Benefits of Vocareum:

INTEGRATES WITH BRIGHTSPACE 

CLOUD LABS - Supporting coursework in Computer Science, Data Science, Big Data, Web Development, Robotics, animation and more.

NATIVE NOTEBOOK SUPPORT - Provide code comment, auto grade and run plagiarism detection on notebook assignments directly from Jupyter Notebook, RStudio and more.

CLOUD IDE - No installation - work in the browser with access to all required tools and resources.

ASSIGNMENT MANAGEMENT - Set up rules and resources for assignments with easy deployment of strategies like peer review and team projects.

GRADING AUTOMATION - Simplify grading by running your scripts against the students' work in our cloud computing infrastructure.

PLAGIARISM DETECTION - Deploy sophisticated and configurable algorithms to measure similarity with other students' code.