Zoom News: Sort Gallery View, Enhanced Chat Features, and More

Zoom News

In recent updates to Zoom, new features have been added that may enhance the learning experience when engaging with your students. These include the ability to sort your gallery view in several ways, new chat features which include expanded tools, a better chat experience in breakout rooms, and the inclusion of participant names and screen sharing in immersive view. To use these new features, be sure to first update Zoom so that you are using the latest version, and direct your students to do the same.

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Secrets of Success: Thank-a-Professor Recipients Unpack Their Effective Teaching Techniques

Looking to learn from the best and brightest in academia? Join us for an exciting panel discussion featuring faculty who were recognized during this year’s Thank-a-Professor program. During this session, you’ll have the opportunity to hear from faculty members who have been acknowledged by students for their incredible teaching and dedication to student success. Our panelists will share their tips, tricks, and strategies for engaging students, creating an inclusive classroom environment, and fostering meaningful learning experiences. Whether you’re a new NSU educator looking to improve your teaching skills or a seasoned instructor who is looking for some new ideas, this session is for you.

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Learning with the LEC: Using the Accessibility Checker in Canvas

Accessibility means designing content that is accessible to people with a diverse range of hearing, movement, sight, or cognitive abilities. It means making sure all users can access your content as easily as possible. Accessibility is a crucial component to course content that is often overlooked, and Canvas’ Accessibility Checker is here to help. In this video tutorial, you will learn how to use the Accessibility Checker in Canvas to identify accessibility issues and provide you with solutions to make your content accessible and easier to navigate for all users.

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Workshop: New Tool Training Available: Transform Your Students’ Video-Watching Experience with Annoto

Annoto transforms passive video viewing into an active, collaborative experience that provides you with actionable insights regarding student learning and engagement. It enables students to contribute, share and learn together, experience videos as an interactive group experience, and keep a personal journal of notes. Join our Customer Success Manager from Annoto for Training and get started with Annoto today.

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Live Discussion: Overview of the LEC’s Educator Competency Framework

The Learning and Educational Center’s (LEC’s) Educator Competency Framework can be used to help educators improve their teaching and learning effectiveness. This framework comprises five competency categories with associated knowledge, skills, and attitudes that we believe all NSU educators should possess. The five categories are: acting with integrity, embracing belonging, equity, diversity, and inclusion, creating learner-centered environments, designing effective learning experiences, and using innovative teaching strategies and technology. Join the discussion about the framework and how faculty, staff and administrators can use it to guide their professional development actvities.

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Workshop: All About SharkMedia

Videos are often the most highly engaging pieces of content in a course. Videos can be used to introduce new course content, reinforce concepts already learned, share demonstrations, simulations, and much more. You may know that NSU has a media server called SharkMedia which is our branded version of Kaltura. During this workshop, we will review the many capabilities of the SharkMedia platform. We will show you where you can find every function in the platform, from uploading videos, all the way to creating chapter markers and playlists for your students.

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Workshop: Using SharkMedia to Create Branched Video Scenarios

Lights, Camera, Action! Would you like to create an interactive video? Sharkmedia has been enhanced with an exciting feature from Kaltura called Interactive Video Paths. Interactive Videos enable you to create a more personalized, “choose your own adventure” learning experience by adding choice-based learning paths to your videos. Interactive videos are well known for their ability to increase viewer’s participation, reduce cognitive overload, maximize retention, and provide real world learning experiences. This workshop will explore pedagogical tips and technology tools for assembling an engaging interactive video path through a step-by-step process that will help you to make your own interactive video learning experience for students.

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Article: Bite-Sized Learning

Our digitally connected world may be changing how people learn along with their need to retain information. Since technology makes it easy to stay connected, it is becoming increasingly difficult to function without accessing the Internet for tasks like checking emails, social networking, settling arguments, shopping, and almost every day-to-day activity. The internet has also increasingly become a place where people go to learn. The increasing desire to be socially connected and have an awareness of the world around us creates constraints on our time which have encouraged the growth of microlearning. Technology has made it simpler to offer and access small pieces of educational content through a well-known instructional design technique known as chunking (Gobet, 2005). Because of this shift, microlearning has become appealing in some learning environments.

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