Panopto is a powerful, user-friendly service for creating and sharing videos. Embed your Panopto videos within Blackboard for a great experience for both you and your students!    

Did you know that you can add quizzes and discussions to videos in Panopto, and then link them directly to your Blackboard Gradebook? You can also make your videos more user-friendly and accessible by adding tables of contents and captions. And, when you add captions, your video becomes word-searchable, so students can immediately find the place in the video where a certain term or name was mentioned. Now, that’s powerful.    

Humber’s Panopto portal has been completely refreshed with brand new Support Resources where you can learn how to:  

• Get started using Panopto (45 minutes)  
• Choose your folder and set permissions (15 minutes)  
• Upload already-made videos (8 minutes)   
• Create new content on a computer or mobile device (25 minutes)  
• Use special features, such as editing, quizzes, captions, discussions, notes, table of contents, variable speed control, and video search (25 minutes)  
• Embed videos in Blackboard and share videos and playlists (15 minutes)  
• Collect student assignments in Panopto (10 minutes)  
• Teach students how to use Panopto (20 minutes)  
• Troubleshoot student problems (10 minutes)    

Is it your first time creating or uploading videos in Panopto? These 4 videos will guide you through from beginning to end. Get started in 5 minutes or less!  

• Creating Reusable Videos in Panopto using My Folder (5:28 minutes)  
• Uploading Reusable Videos to Panopto using My Folder (4:03 minutes)  
• Uploading Single-Use Videos within Blackboard Original (3:26 minutes)  
• Creating Single-Use Panopto Videos within Blackboard Original (4:34 minutes)    

Visit the redesigned Panopto Portal today and dive into one of our micro-modules to learn more about how Panopto can support you in enhancing student engagement. 

Consider this four-minute video.  A social experiment conducted in a park clearly demonstrates how our perceptions and actions differ in this situation based on one single variable.

Experiments like these make us think about our assumptions and how our experience of the world is affected by our social identities. It exemplifies how we treat people differently, whether intentional or not. We all absorb stereotypes and perpetuate them by nature of being raised within a society that perpetuates them. Overcoming them requires our intentional attention.

As part of its commitment to building and maintaining an equitable, diverse and inclusive campus, Humber is setting up a group for its employees who identify as white and/or as having white skin privilege to unpack this way of thinking and their role in how it is upheld, and to learn about how to create a more inclusive community at Humber.

Interested in joining?  Reach out to Regan Mancini and Lisa Salem-Wiseman. The group, The Unlearning Circle: White identified Humber employees dismantling whiteness, will launch December 2 at 2 p.m. Register for the event here (open to ALL Humber employees).

Kindly contact Lisa Salem-Wiseman or Regan Mancini for any questions about this post.

Enhancing Institutional EDI Knowledge of Disability and Academic Accessibility: 

• ALS’s Best Practice Considerations through the Communique focuses on equipping faculty to better support students with disabilities. Where appropriate, ALS encourages students to be actively involved in the accommodation process. 

• For example, students with disabilities connected with ALS are responsible for renewing their Accommodation Letter each semester.  

• Students are also advised to contact faculty to request accommodations in advance of a test or to request an extension. 

• We encourage faculty to actively dialogue with students regarding accommodation requests. 

Visit our ALS Information for Faculty website to learn more about accommodating students with disabilities. 

Please email us at accessible-learning@humber.ca with suggestions for key accessibility-related topics that you would like us to address through the Communiqué. 

On November 18, the Premier's Awards presented by Colleges Ontario celebrated the important social and economic contributions college graduates make in Ontario and throughout the world.

The virtual gala served as host to the province’s 24 colleges and their deserving nominees representing diverse categories including Apprenticeship, Business, Community Services, Creative Arts and Design, Health Sciences, Recent Graduate and Technology.

Baldev Mutta, Social Service Worker and Advanced Crisis Intervention and Counselling graduate, was selected as the recipient in Community Services, earning Humber its fifth consecutive win of the annual award.

The CEO of Punjabi Community Health Services gratefully accepted his latest accolade recognizing the career preparedness provided by Humber and acknowledging the efforts he will continue by serving communities in need.

Find the full article in Humber Today