Learning and Educational Center
Jihong Tang, one of our excellent Instructional Designers entered a contest hosted by the eLearning software developer iSpring Solutions. The competition sought to have designers create an eLearning activity that utilized some features of the software while incorporating interaction and engaging users.
Read more
Canvas has some great features that can add to the course experience for both students and instructors. One of these is the peer review option for assignments. A peer review assignment requires that students provide feedback on each other’s assignment submissions. This results in higher quality work and a more involved learning process that ultimately leads to greater success in mastering course content while students learn from each other (Yalch et al., 2019).
Read more
As educators, we want students to be successful. So how do we define “success”? At the most basic level, it would be accomplishing a course’s stated learning objectives and getting a good grade — eventually doing that enough times to graduate and get a degree. But how many instructors and students feel engaged and motivated by that? And what kind of learning-awareness and real-world skills does that develop in our students?
Read more
In this video tutorial, you will learn how to create and edit appointment slots through the Canvas calendar. This is a great way to set up individual or group appointments, allowing students to reserve the appointment slot they wish, with the information showing up in both their, and your, calendars. Students will be reminded of the appointment in their “To Do” column on their dashboard.
Read more
NSU has just rolled out a new tool that you can use in your Canvas courses called Annoto. Annoto has many great features that will engage your students while they are viewing videos. This tool transforms the video-watching experience from a passive one into an active one and can be used with any video you choose. It enables learners to contribute, share, and learn together, experience videos as an interactive group, and keep a personal journal of notes. It allows instructors to guide the video-watching experience with questions, formative assessments, and focused discussions, as well as the ability to answer questions related to the video.
Read more
Join us for an exciting workshop ‘All About Canvas Rubrics’! In this 55-minute session, you will discover how to use Canvas Rubrics to provide clear and consistent feedback to students, save time grading, and improve the quality of student work. You will learn about different types of rubrics, including holistic, analytic, single-point, and customized rubrics, and discover how to create and use them effectively in your course. Whether you’re a seasoned Canvas user or new to the platform, this workshop will provide you with practical tips and insights to help you maximize your use of rubrics in Canvas. Don’t miss this opportunity to improve your teaching and student learning outcomes – register now!
Read more
Videos are often some of the most highly engaging pieces of content for a course. As part of your course videos can be used to introduce new course content, reinforce concepts already learned, share demonstrations and simulations and much more. You may know that NSU has a media server that we call SharkMedia our branded version of Kaltura. But you may not know about all of the capabilities of SharkMedia. Join us to learn all about SharkMedia.
Read more
Flip is an easy to use tool to foster strong connections within a Canvas course. This tool is offered to educators for free and can be integrated in your Canvas Course to allow students and you the opportunity to record their responses to topics in fun and innovative ways. The social experience of letting students use creativity in composing their video allows them to engage with a topic that stimulates thought provoking responses from the students and can also be entertaining. With this tool, you see the student’s emotion during their responses, which can generate a meaningful, more connected experience to any topic you ask them to share their opinions about.
Read more
Wouldn’t it be great if you could send students to specific breakout rooms based on how they answer a poll question? Well, now you can! You can use this new feature in a variety of ways. Check out these simple instructions to get started.
Read more
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.
Read more