Acadly
Acadly is a classroom interactivity tool that uses Zoom and adds features for in-class student response, math-TeX support, and no limits on the number of responses. Acadly Enterprise brings an improved experience to classes for both students and faculty, by making it possible to use quizzes, polls, discussions, word cloud questions, videos, files, and more, in one application.
Any UIC instructor can sign up with a UIC email address, a trial account will be activated for them and they will be placed in Acadly verification queue. Because the basic license is free, a verification is done to confirm that the person signing up is an instructor at a higher education institution. At any time, even before verification, if someone uses the Blackboard plugin to import a course to Acadly, all Acadly features will be unlocked immediately.
Automated Attendance with Acadly!
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AVAILABLE TO: Faculty | Students | Staff
FUNDED BY: University
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Features
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Included in Acadly’s Enterprise License
- Students in the course appear automatically in Acadly
- Students can attend Zoom synchronous classes within Acadly
- Students can chat, answer polls or take quizzes during Zoom sessions and have those activities available even after the class is over
- Students can automatically see their grades for class activities and attendance in Blackboard
What can Acadly help instructors with?
- Automatic Attendance that saves you time
- Realtime Polls to increase and record student engagement
- Quizzes to better understand students’ grasp on a topic
- Contextual Messaging tuned to the classroom
- Continue the engagement outside the classroom
- Analytics to get a detailed view of students’ performance
See the full list of Acadly features at acadly.com/features
Accessibility
Acadly offers accessibility features that allows users to easily navigate and read the Acadly web interface. The web interface supports screen readers for all available creator and viewer interfaces. The web interface also support keyboard access, allowing you to use the tab key to access all available functions. All sessions fully support adding and displaying captions.
For additional information on Acadly’s accessibility features, please visit Acadly’s Accessibility Conformance Report (WCAG Edition).
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Types of courses in Acadly
- Acadly with Blackboard and Zoom integration (Acadly Enterprise course): Any course created using the Bb plugin would have both integrations enabled by default. If someone wishes to use the Bb integration but not the Zoom integration, all they have to do is unselect the “this is an online lecture on Acadly” option at the time of lecture/ course schedule creation.
- Acadly with Zoom integration, but without Blackboard integration (Acadly Pro course): This is useful for cases where, say, the LMS course doesn’t reflect the actual enrollment, or when an instructor simply does not want to use Blackboard at all. I think at least a couple of professors did so last semester. To create a course with just the Zoom integration, instructors can log in to Acadly, tap the + button and select Create a Pro course. They will not hit a paywall here, which used to happen earlier. However, they will be shown information about how to create an Acadly Enterprise course before they proceed with the setup. This prompt is to make sure that professors understand that if they need Bb integration, they should not proceed further and create the course from within Bb instead.
- Acadly without Blackboard and Zoom integration (Acadly Basic course): To create a course without any integrations, one can log in to Acadly, tap the + button, and select Create a basic course. However, there is no real advantage of using an Acadly Basic course because:
- In an Acadly Pro course, using the Zoom integration is optional. It can be turned off at the lecture level, as explained in point.
- In Pro courses, apart from the Zoom integration, another benefit is that any exported reports contain students’ email addresses, which can help manually sync data with the Blackboard Grade Center. So it is recommended to create a Pro course, even if one does not use the Zoom integration.
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Set Up Your Acadly in Blackboard
Login into Blackboard and go into your Original View course or Ultra View course.
Please note that Chrome is the recommended browser for using Acadly.
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Original View Course
Go into the Original View course that you want to use Acadly in
- On the navigation panel, scroll down to Course Tools under Course Management; open course tools and select Acadly Course.
- Once you click on the Acadly link, you will be prompted to import data by clicking on the Yes, Import My Data button.
- You will receive notification if your email is not linked to an Acadly account and you will be prompted to create an account by clicking on the Create A New Acadly Account button.
- You will be emailed a verification code to enter into the next screen and click the Verify button.
- You will then be prompted to set a password, check that you agree with the Privacy Policy and Terms of Service, and click Continue.
- Or if you have already created an Acadly account, you will be prompted to sign in using your password.
- Next, you will need to view and set the course team, start and end date, duration, time zone, and then click Add a new weekly class button; this opens a pop-up window to add a weekly class schedule, when complete select the Done button.
- Select Save & Continue to see the course timeline, you can delete or add more classes as needed.
- Select Save & Continue again, this will bring you to the Import Student Data step, you will need to select Save & Continue and then Create Course button to confirm.
You can add a tool link in your Original View course for students to access by going to the navigation panel on the left side of your course by selecting the plus with a circle around it and selecting the tool link.
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Ultra View Course
Go into the Ultra View course that you want to use Acadly in
- You can add a tool link in your Ultra View course by going to the Books & Tools (under the Details & Actions panel on the left side of your course) and selecting the tool link.
- Once you click on the Acadly link, you will be prompted to import data by clicking on the Yes, Import My Data button.
- You will receive notification if your email is not linked to an Acadly account and you will be prompted to create an account by clicking on the Create A New Acadly Account button.
- You will be emailed a verification code to enter into the next screen and click the Verify button.
- You will then be prompted to set a password, check that you agree with the Privacy Policy and Terms of Service, and click Continue.
- Or if you have already created an Acadly account, you will be prompted to sign in using your password.
- Next, you will need to view and set the course team, start and end date, duration, and time zone.
- Click Add a new weekly class button; this opens a pop-up window to add a weekly class schedule, when complete select the Done button.
- Select Save & Continue to see the course timeline, you can delete or add more classes as needed.
- Select Save & Continue again, this will bring you to the Import Student Data step, you will need to select Save & Continue to import students, and then click the Create Course button to confirm.
Please note that student enrollments are automatically added to Acadly through the set up process.
Consult the tutorials on this page or register for training before starting to use Acadly in your classroom.
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Product tour videos
- Attendance in in-person classes
- For in-person classes
- For online classes
- For hybrid/ blended synchronous classes
Creating a trial course – please refer to this video on how you can set up a trial course to experiment with Acadly
Blackboard integration videos
- Setting up a “Blackboard-linked” Acadly course. You can also set up a course without Bb integration from inside Acadly but then it won’t have the benefits of roster and gradebook syncing that a Blackboard-linked course provides.
- Syncing course enrollment and exporting grades using Acadly’s Bb plugin
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Tutorial videos for using Acadly with Zoom integration (for online/hybrid classes)
- Linking your Acadly and Zoom accounts
- Automating Zoom class attendance
- Using breakout rooms on Acadly – Here’s a blog post on B/O Room activity ideas
- Creating activities
- Creating a live class
- Understanding the in-meeting experience
- Understanding the student-side experience in online classes
- Understanding the student-side experience in hybrid classes
Tutorial for using Acadly without Zoom integration (for in-person classes)
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webinars
Automatic Attendance
- Recording link | Jan 18, 2022 | Password: ySHp3vQB
- Recording link | Jan 14, 2022 | Password: 2jHDZumd
- Recording link | Jan 6, 2022 | Password: aQUFXW6G
Beyond Automatic Attendance
- Simplifying Blended Synchronous Teaching with Acadly | August 2, 2021 | Password: Dv3mwgBS