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Workshop: Lucid for Education: Exploring Visual Collaboration within Canvas

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In this interactive workshop, educators will explore how to leverage Lucid’s suite of tools—including Lucidchart and Lucidspark—within the Canvas Learning Management System to create dynamic visual content and collaborative learning activities. Participants will learn how to create and embed diagrams, flowcharts, and brainstorming boards to enhance instructional materials, facilitate student engagement, and support group projects.
Attendees will receive step-by-step guidance on setting up Lucid in Canvas, using visual content to illustrate complex concepts, and incorporating interactive boards for real-time collaboration.

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Workshop: Canvas: Rubrics built with Turnitin

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This interactive workshop introduces faculty to the upgraded Turnitin integration using LTI 1.3 in the Canvas LMS. Learn how to create and manage rubrics within the Turnitin interface, understand the new types of rubrics available, and apply them effectively in online assignments. We’ll explore key benefits of using Turnitin rubrics for consistent and transparent grading, and how the LTI 1.3 update simplifies assignment setup and enhances workflow. Whether you’re new to Turnitin or transitioning from the previous version, this session will help you align assessment with learning outcomes more efficiently.

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Series Announcement – Supercharge Your Research with NSU Libraries

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This research series invites faculty to engage with librarians from the five NSU Libraries and discover how they can partner with you to advance research, teaching, and digital innovation. Across six interactive workshops, faculty will meet subject-specialist librarians, uncover powerful and often-overlooked research tools, master advanced search strategies, and learn how curated guides and specialized databases streamline discovery across disciplines.

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Supercharge Your Research – Meet Your NSU Librarians: Your Partners in Research Support

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Ready to supercharge your research and teaching? Discover the power of NSU Libraries in an interactive roundtable with librarians from Alvin Sherman, Oceanographic, Panza Maurer Law, Martin and Gail Press Health, and Tampa Bay Regional Campus Libraries. Explore missions, unique resources, and time-saving tools to elevate research impact and transform scholarship, teaching, and digital projects.

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Workshop: Exploring Microsoft 365 Forms for Surveys and Quizzes

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Discover how to create surveys, quizzes, and polls that engage students and streamline data collection. This interactive workshop introduces Educators to the power of Microsoft Forms for teaching, assessment, and administrative tasks. Participants will explore design best practices, learn how to analyze real-time responses, and integrate Forms with Canvas and other university platforms. Whether you are looking to gather feedback, check student understanding, or organize information, Microsoft Forms provides an easy and effective solution.

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Supercharge Your Research – Find It Fast: Navigating University Library Resources

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Ready to take your research to the next level? Join this dynamic session to master librarian-level search strategies, quickly access full-text PDFs, and uncover hidden resources like thesauri, video databases, and datasets. Faculty will discover curated guides and insider tips to streamline their process, elevate their research, and unlock the full potential of NSU Libraries.

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Canvas Corner: Assign Separate Due Dates for Discussions Responses

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Canvas has added an exciting new feature to Discussions called “Checkpoints” which will allow instructors to set separate due dates for the initial responses and replies. This includes setting different point values for each of these parts of a discussion assignment. Up until now, instructors would need to instruct students to post their initial response by a certain date so that other students had time to respond by the final due date…

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Find a Starting Point & Supercharge Your Research at Panzer Maurer Law Library

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This workshop, Find a Starting Point & Supercharge Your Research at the Panzer Maurer Law Library, offers faculty an engaging introduction to legal research services that support meaningful discovery. Through librarian guided discussion and interactive activities, faculty will explore key legal databases, clarify research focus, gain insight about legal research, and leave more confident in advancing their research goals.

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Supercharge Your Research – Beyond the Hype: An Objective View of AI in the Research Process

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Reimagine how AI fits into your research and teaching. This one-hour faculty workshop cuts through the hype to reveal what AI can, and cannot do, in academic research and scholarly work. Faculty new, returning, or seasoned researchers will learn about library-supported tools that strengthen ethical scholarship, critical thinking, and research-driven writing across disciplines.

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