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Andrew L. Wright, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of CIS
andrew.wright@louisville.edu
louisville.edu/faculty/alwrig01
Agenda
• SafeAssign & Plagiarism Prevention
– Overview
– Using SafeAssign
• Tegrity
– Overview
– Supporting Pedagogy with Tegrity
– Using Tegrity
• Blogs and Wikis
• Conclusions
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Overview of SafeAssign
What is
• SafeAssign is a plagiarism prevention
service integrated with the Blackboard
Learning System™
• It is delivered by Blackboard at no additional
cost to the institution
• It uses a unique originality detection
algorithm to run a comparison of submitted
papers across a large collection of
databases
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What does
check?
• SafeAssign compares submitted papers to:
– Internet
• Index of billions of documents available to public
– ProQuest ABI/Inform database
• Millions of current articles, updated weekly, many with
full-text
– Institutional Database
• Papers submitted by users from UofL
– Global Reference Database
• Papers that were volunteered by students at other
institutions
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Sample
Report
Plagiarism Prevention
SafeAssign is not Enough
• SafeAssign cannot replace faculty judgment
– SA report does not prove that student
plagiarized work
– SA won’t detect all forms of plagiarism
• But SafeAssign can be used for creating
teaching opportunities
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Catalog Statement
• From current Undergraduate Catalog
– Plagiarism defined as "representing the words or ideas
of someone else as one’s own in any academic exercise”
– “Plagiarism Prevention: Instructors may use a range of
strategies (including plagiarism-prevention software at
the university) to compare student works with private
and public information resources in order to identify
possible plagiarism and academic dishonesty.
Comparisons of student works may require submitting a
copy of the original work to the plagiarism-prevention
service. The service may retain that copy in some
circumstances. Academic units or programs may
establish a more rigorous standard of review or consent,
which will be noted in the relevant guidelines.”
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Preventing Plagiarism
through Pedagogy
• Syllabus
• Assignment Design
• Teaching: process-based view of writing
• Teaching: research skills
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Teaching: Using Process-Based View of
Research and Writing
• Conducting preliminary research/reading
• Selecting a topic
• Preparing a working bibliography
• Drafting research questions
• Developing a working thesis (or hypothesis)
• Creating an outline
• Writing the first draft
• Revising, editing, and proofreading
• Producing the final draft
• Writing a reflection of the process
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Using SafeAssign
Modes of Use
• SafeAssign may be used in two primary ways
– Creating SafeAssignments
• Like a regular Assignment in Blackboard that routes
student submissions through plagiarism service
• In normal mode, papers added to Institutional Database
automatically with student opt-in for Global Reference
Database
• In draft mode, performs text matching but paper isn’t
retained in any database
– Direct Submit
• Faculty may directly upload papers
• May add to Institutional Database but not to Global
Reference Database
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Supported Document Types
• SafeAssign supports several types of
document
– .doc
– .pdf
– .rtf
– .txt
– .html
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Word 97-2003 (but not new .docx)
Adobe PDF
Rich Text Format
Plain Text
Web Page
Demonstration
• Easier to show in actual system
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Resources
• Delphi is building resources for SafeAssign:
http://delphi.louisville.edu/help/safeassign/
– Includes:
• Overview documents for students and faculty
• Step-by-Step directions for creating a SafeAssignment
• Step-by-Step directions for using Direct Submit
– Offers complete training:
http://delphi.louisville.edu/faculty/technology/
safeassign.html
• Also, check out Blackboard’s site:
http://www.safeassign.com/
– Has manuals, how to’s, FAQs, and more!
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Overview of Tegrity
Why Class Capture?
Amount retained
120:20 Principle
Time elapsed
Teachers speak an average of 120 words per minute
Students write an average of 20 words per minute
Students must decide whether to write or listen
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Why Class Capture?
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Why Tegrity?
Easy capture – no change in teaching
methods required to use
Capture, Store, Index with click of a button
Three buttons: Start, Pause, Stop
OPTIONS
Voice Recorder
Only
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Demonstrations
Instructor Video
Tablet PC for
Annotations
Review Anywhere, Anytime
PC Browser
Mac Browser
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Enhanced Audio
or Video Podcast
Mobile Access
Enhanced Podcasting
Automatically
push lectures to
the iPod for onthe-go learning
Mktg303
Tegrity Podcast
1/26/06
European
Union
Students easily navigate to
specific parts (chapters) of
their classes using text titles
and images
Automatic, chaptered, easy to subscribe
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UofL Pilot Summary
• 90% of students indicated that Tegrity would enhance at least some of
their other courses
• 73% of students indicated that Tegrity contributed to their learning
course material
• 66% of students indicated that studying with Tegrity was more effective
than studying without Tegrity
• 59% of students surveyed indicated that Tegrity improved their overall
course satisfaction
• 56% of students indicated that Tegrity allowed them to focus on the
most important learning goals of their course
• 55% of students indicated that Tegrity improved the DEPTH of their
learning
• 52% of students indicated that Tegrity helped their course grade
• 50% of students indicated that Tegrity saved time spent on the course
• 43% of students indicated that Tegrity increased their motivation to
study
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Supporting Pedagogy with Tegrity
Classroom-based pedagogies
• Promoting cognitive elaboration
– Modeling think-aloud-problem solving
– Changing student’s current mental models
• Enhancing critical thinking
– Capturing a case-study discussion
• AcousticMagic array microphones in CoB classrooms
• Providing feedback
– Group presentations recorded and available for later
critique
– Feedback on accuracy of note taking
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Techniques
• Full class capture
• Supplemental recordings
• Use of tablet/SmartBoard/Sympodium for
annotation and math/chemistry/physics
equations, diagrams
• Audio only – MP3 and WMA input
• Incorporation of document camera sources,
microscope output, webcam video
• Examples
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Using Tegrity
Student Platforms
PC
Mac
Minimum Requirements
Minimum Requirements
CPU: Pentium 4 or higher
Memory: 512 MB
Operating System: Windows Vista or
Windows XP SP2
Browser: Microsoft Internet Explorer 6,
Microsoft Internet Explorer 7, Firefox 2.0
CPU: PowerPC 1.4 GHz or Intel 1.4 GHz
Memory: 512 MB
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5
(Leopard) or 10.4 (Tiger)
Browser: Safari 2.0, Safari 3.0, Firefox
2.0
Other platforms: Unix / Linux supporting M4V files
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Instructor Platforms
Hardware: Minimum Requirements
PC
CPU: Pentium 4 or higher
Operating System: Windows XP SP2, Windows Vista
Memory: 512 MB (Windows XP SP2) or 1 GB (Windows
Vista)
Hard Drive: Free space about 4 GB
At a bare minimum, Tegrity requires only a computer and
microphone for the instructor and access to the server via the
Internet or local network. Any additional multimedia hardware can
be connected and captured if desired.
Similar to WebEx, there is no need for IT support and there is also
no need for proprietary hardware.
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Instructor Platforms
Functionality
PC
Two recording modes:
Standard Recording mode: Lowest resource usage (CPU
and disk) recording. Records with PowerPoint with a
dedicated OLE solution, annotations with a dedicated
engine and screen recording and video.
Enhanced Recording mode: Captures entire recording as a
screen recording. Enables instructor video throughout
the recording.
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Instructor Platforms
Functionality
PC
Standard Recording mode:
Pros:
 Small disk footprint for recordings
 Shortened post-processing time
 Reduced bandwidth needed for playback
Cons:
 Does not support PowerPoint animations and ink or
embedded video
 Does not capture software running over PowerPoint (like
Clickers)
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Instructor Platforms
Functionality
PC
Enhanced Recording mode:
Pros:
 Captures any software running over PowerPoint (like
Clickers)
 Instructor video available throughout the recording
Cons:
 Uses more disk and CPU as recordings are captured as
screen recordings
 Higher bandwidth needed for playback
 Post-processing takes more time as there is more
recording data to convert
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Instructor Platforms
Hardware: Minimum Requirements
Mac
CPU: PowerPC 1.4 GHz or Intel 1.4 GHz her
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) or 10.4 (Tiger)
Memory: 512 MB
Hard Drive: Free space about 4 GB
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Demonstration
• Easier to show in actual system
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Tegrity Recorder
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Selecting a Course
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Recording Settings
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Course View
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Class Expanded
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Tegrity Player
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Tegrity Player – Smart Slider
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Action Menu
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Course Settings
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Resources
• Delphi and IT are building resources for Tegrity:
http://delphi.louisville.edu/help/tegrity.html &
https://docushare.louisville.edu/dsweb/View/
Collection-7039
– Includes:
• Overview documents for students and faculty
• Faculty and student guides
– Offer complete training:
http://delphi.louisville.edu/faculty/technology/
tegrity.html
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Blogs and Wikis
What is a Blog?
• DailyBlogTips.com offers:
– “A blog is basically a type of website, like a forum or
a social bookmarking site. As such it is defined by
the technical aspects and features around it, and
not by the content published inside it.
– The features that make blogs different from other
websites are:
• content is published in a chronological fashion
• content is updated regularly
• readers have the possibility to leave comments
• other blog authors can interact via trackbacks and
pingbacks
• content is syndicated via RSS feeds”
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What is a Blog?
• DailyBlogTips.com offers:
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How Blogs are Used
• Blogs in Blackboard are often used for
personal reflection (private journals) and
community discussions
– May set up in any content area
– May also set up a course level blog used by
instructor to communicate with class
•Think Announcements with student comments
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What is a Wiki?
• The Wikipedia article on Wikis suggests:
• “Ward Cunningham, and co-author Bo Leuf, in their book
The Wiki Way: Quick Collaboration on the Web described
the essence of the Wiki concept as follows:
– A wiki invites all users to edit any page or to create new
pages within the wiki Web site, using only a plain-vanilla Web
browser without any extra add-ons.
– Wiki promotes meaningful topic associations between
different pages by making page link creation almost
intuitively easy and showing whether an intended target page
exists or not.
– A wiki is not a carefully-crafted site for casual visitors.
Instead, it seeks to involve the visitor in an ongoing process of
creation and collaboration that constantly changes the Web
site landscape.”
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How Wikis are Used
• Wikis in Blackboard are often used with
team projects
– Members of the team collaborate to produce
online site
– Also empowers the instructor with assessment
details such as student submissions and
percentage of participation within the group
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Resources
• Delphi is building resources for Blogs & Wikis:
http://delphi.louisville.edu/help/wikisBlogs.html
Includes:
• Getting started guides
• Step-by-Step directions for configuring, posting, and contributing
– Offers complete training:
http://delphi.louisville.edu/faculty/technology/
blogs_wikis.html
• Also, check out vendor Learning Object’s site:
http://www.learningobjects.com/
– See TeamsLX (wiki tool) and JournalLX (blog tool)
• For more examples, see:
– BlogsForLearning
– Campus Technology article – The Power of Wikis in Higher Ed
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Acknowledgements
This presentation would not have been
possible without the help of my colleagues
from Delphi:
Edna Ross (Tegrity)
Ghanashyam Sharma (SafeAssign)
Mike Homan (Blogs & Wikis)
Questions