Learning and Educational Center
If you are looking for a place to find helpful tutorials on features that help you improve your classes, the “Learning with the LEC” series is a great place to start. The Learning and Educational Center produces these short videos which cover a number of different topics. The tutorials explain how each feature is useful and walk you through a step-by-step process explaining how to use them.
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It is easy to create student groups in Canvas for your courses. Canvas Student Groups is a great feature that you can use to create and manage group assignments. This allows for one member of the group to turn in the assignment for the whole group, and one grade to be automatically assigned to the whole group. You can also assign individual due dates to each group. This video tutorial will walk you through the basic steps.
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Zoom is hosting a special series for education organizations on Tuesday, August 2, and Wednesday, August 3. This three-part event series will teach you how to set up your classroom and engage your students on Zoom. Live training sessions are interactive, with opportunities for live Q&A with Zoom Trainers and will inform you on best practices for using Zoom in an educational setting and as an educational tool.
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As you are preparing for the start of the Fall term, we wanted to share some of the recordings from just a few of the workshops we held this summer. We look forward to continuing to present new and exciting events this term.
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Canvas has recently made some changes that can improve the experience for both instructors and learners. Users can now set up their local time zones, instructors can choose alternative default due times, and Canvas has added an icon maker which can create and save icons to visually enhance courses.
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A recent update in Zoom enables a new feature where a meeting participant can perform a gesture to the camera and it will be translated into the appropriate gesture symbol on the screen. This is a great tool for students and professors to use, allowing for a more intuitive way to react in a session. The new feature works with two gestures – the “raise hand” and the “thumbs-up.”
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The Microsoft Whiteboard application allows instructors to create an infinite, collaborative canvas for fostering effective and engaging learning with their students. This tool is especially powerful when working with students for completing a variety of tasks through brainstorming and planning. In this quick 45-minute workshop you will have a hands-on opportunity to work with the Microsoft Whiteboard and learn how you can use this tool in your online or face-to-face classes.
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Engaging students at a distance and in the classroom can present challenges. Poll Everywhere provides a way to interact with your students with activities designed to ask questions, drive participation in group activities, and encourage students to share thoughts and insights from their phones or computers.
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Universal Design for Learning (UDL)-based instruction promotes inclusive learning that meets the diverse needs of all students. Three UDL principles, nine guidelines, and 31 checkpoints guide the creation of an instructional environment, lessons, and curricula. However, given the myriad of pedagogical and technological options, where and how do we start implementing UDL in an online course? What are some practices or tips to get started in Canvas? In this session, Dr. Orellana will share and discuss with participants practical implementation ideas to design Canvas courses according to UDL.
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Before a class officially begins, students begin accessing your course in Canvas. What do they see? What is the first impression they have of who you are? A course welcome video allows students to become familiar with you and your course before class starts. During this online workshop, Gregory Wright, an experienced multimedia producer will show you around the video editing tool Adobe Premiere Rush and share some basic video editing principles. Be sure to bring your previously recorded video content to edit.
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