What You Need To Know About Tegrity
Tegrity helps colleges and universities improve retention and competitiveness through greater student achievement. Tegrity makes class time available all the time by automatically capturing, storing and indexing every class on campus for replay by every student.
Does Tegrity Really Make a Difference?
Consider this…while the average instructor speaks over 120 words per minute the average student can only write notes at about 20 words per minute. The more a student tries to write, the less they can listen. Students usually have to rely on partial notes and memory when they study. With Tegrity, they can repeat the needed part of any class until they get it. And Tegrity’s unique indexing technology helps them quickly find exactly what they need, using a web browser, an iPod or cell phone.
Students appreciate Tegrity and rely on the "safety net" that it provides, helping them become more confident and attentive in class. Tegrity institutions report strong evidence that they are deploying a technology that makes a real difference in student satisfaction. In a recent survey, over 60% of the students believed that it improved their grades!*
Instructors quickly embrace Tegrity because they find it extremely easy to learn and use. They just click one button at the beginning of class and one button at the end. Their focus stays on teaching as usual and Tegrity software does the rest, assuring that only their enrolled students will have access to the recording. Surveys show that 97% of instructors believed that Tegrity improved their teaching effectiveness, and 93% express a high desire to use Tegrity in all their classes.
Students see more value in coming to class. Research shows that class recording does not reduce attendance. Students see more value in participating, knowing that they can always go back to the class recording for reinforcement.
No manual “processing” or “uploading. Tegrity helps you accomplish big things with minimal effort. It is a scalable and reliable solution that seamlessly integrates with other campus wide software in your infrastructure such as WebCT. Based on existing data, Tegrity automatically funnels and catalogs all the class recordings into the Tegrity class repository and automatically make the recordings available only through the right CMS course pages.
What gets measured gets done. To assure a successful deployment, Tegrity Campus includes integrated governance tools that ensure a measurable impact on students, faculty and program utilization. You will quickly generate your own tangible evidence that Tegrity makes a big impact on learning and the strategic goals of your institution.
What students are saying about Tegrity |
"Tegrity really helped me on my midterm. The subject is very visual and the audio helped fill in the details from attention gaps in the classroom." |
"Tegrity saves me time during study. I can find information much faster than searching through books or tracking down friends." |
"I benefited from reviewing the lectures before tests. If I hear it twice, I can remember it better" |
"It is very easy to use and it will benefit your grade, because you can sit through the class as many times as you want until you understand" |
"It is a great study buddy" |
"Take advantage of it. You never catch everything the teacher says the first time in class. Reviewing will help you catch anything that you may have missed" |
"It is a great study tool, I recommend Tegrity to all students." |
Top Reasons To Use Tegrity
Automatic capture, storage, indexing and cataloguing of every class: Tegrity automatically captures and aggregates all teaching done on and off campus within a single repository.
Easy to deploy, easy to Use, no software or hardware to install on faculty or student desktops or in the classroom and no cumbersome scheduling tables. Instructors just click to start recording when and where they choose - it's that simple!
Access to class experience over the web anywhere, anytime, on-demand and live: Based on the Web 2.0 architecture, the Tegrity repository is fully web-accessible, so students and faculty can access it anytime over the internet with a browser.
Keyword, thumbnail, location search class of class content– quickly drill-down and review only the topics without wasting time searching through every slide.
Seamless integration with our WebCT system, Tegrity is a scalable, web-based enterprise system.
Enhanced Podcasting/ Cellcasting enables students to download indexed class content to view and replay the entire class experience from their iPod, phone or mp3 player, view thumbnails and navigate anytime.
Personalized "My Tegrity" spaces enable students and faculty to access only content relevant to them on-demand.
Tegrity earns "A"s from customers for positive impact on learning, ease of use, improvement in study effectiveness and course enhancement.
Extensive Reporting capabilities allow faculty, academic officers, Information Technology staff and administrators to track usage patterns and measure technology impact.
