News

SOLE Spotlight | YouTube Presentations in a Discussion Post | April 2022

Published April 14, 2022

To keep students engaged, especially in online courses, it is a good idea to diversify course content and assessments. Using a Discussion Post in SOLE to allow students to submit a presentation for th ...

SOLE Summer Certificate Training Announcement

Published April 5, 2022

Application & Web Support Services is pleased to announce our Summer SOLE Certificate Courses to provide training for Course and Site Administrators.

SOLE Spotlight | Live Polling | March 2022

Published March 3, 2022

Live Polling is a tool used to check comprehension, enhance engagement and facilitate learning during class. Live polling requires no clickers and can be utilized from the student's phone or laptop to ...

SOLE Spotlight | WVU Closed Captioning Unit | February 2022

Published February 3, 2022

As many faculty know, West Virginia University maintains an in-house team of professional transcribers and sign language interpreters who work to make the classroom more accessible for students regist ...

SOLE Spotlight | Annotator View | November 2021

Published November 12, 2021

The SOLE Annotator tool provides document previews that can be annotated using the built-in commenting, highlighting, and drawing tools. The Annotator can be used by students to take notes on document ...

Delay Monterey OS Upgrade

Published October 26, 2021

ITS suggests Apple computer users delay Monterey OS upgrade until compatibility is ensured

WVU-managed Macs and iPads will get critical security update on Sunday, Sept. 26

Published September 23, 2021

All faculty and staff who use a University-managed Mac or iPad should leave those devices turned on to accept a critical security update from Information Technology Services around 9 a.m. on Sunday, S ...

SOLE Spotlight | Certificates | September 2021

Published September 7, 2021

The Certificate tool can be accessed from within Information on the left navigation. Click Add Certificate and define the General Settings. You must define a dependency which is the action a user must ...

SOLE Fall Training Announcement

Published July 21, 2021

Application & Web Support Services is pleased to announce our Fall SOLE Certificate Courses to provide training for Course and Site Administrators.

SOLE Spotlight | Panopto Recordings and Closed Captioning | July 2021

Published July 1, 2021

Now that many of us have transitioned to teaching online and are reusing our recorded class lectures, the Provost Office wants us to keep in high priority adding Closed Captioning. This makes recordin ...

Previous Next