Category: Professional Development

Responding to students’ questions in an efficient and effective way can help reduce misunderstandings and improve student performance and engagement. This presentation will address the topic of student questions and how faculty can answer them in various forums from in-person office hours to online discussion boards.

Flipgrid is an easy to use tool to foster strong connections within a course. This tool is offered to educators for free and can be integrated into 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 stimulates thought provoking responses from the students and can also be entertaining. With this tool, you see the student’s emotions during their responses, which can generate a meaningful, more connected experience to any topic you ask them to share their opinions about.

This workshop is designed to show you different classroom technologies that can assist you in enhancing your online, blended, or face-to-face classroom experience. The instructor will take you step-by-step through each topic by telling you what it is, why you would use it, and demonstrate how to use it before you try it. This session will include topics like How to use the new Zoom features like the Timer App and Presentation Slide Controls as well as the Comment Library in Canvas.

The Microsoft Whiteboard application allows instructors to create an infinite, collaborative canvas for fostering effective and engaging learning with their students. Join us for this brief and interactive session, and start using the tool today!

Gear-up workshops are designed to give NSU faculty, students, alumni, and the general public an opportunity to engage with publishers, researchers, and librarians. This session will cover professor tools, provided by Wall Street Journal Digital, that integrate into their coursework. Additionally, there will be a short demo of Wall Street Journal Digital tools and how they work in promoting critical thinking and assessment strategies, especially using the seminar series. Location: Online Zoom Date and Time: Tuesday, March 22, 12:00pm – 1:00pm Eastern Register in advance for this meeting: https://nova.libcal.com/event/8927055 After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

The Office of Student Disability Services and Access Plus will be hosting an Autism Awareness event the week of March 28th. We will be having an event on Tuesday, March 29th from 3:30pm-5:30pm specifically for faculty, staff, and graduate assistants in the Flight Deck. This event will include a presentation by Dr. Maribel Del Rio who will be discussing Access Plus, how their program collaborates with the Office of Student Disability Services, and strategies for faculty and staff when working with students on the spectrum. After the presentation, we will have a panel consisting of Access Plus and the Office of Student Disability Services to answer any questions. We will also be providing light refreshments. If you are interested in attending the event, please complete the following form: https://forms.office.com/r/Zrs8p8bGix The form should be completed before March 25th at 6:00pm. If you are unable to access the form, you can scan the following QR code: If you have any questions, please email our office at disabilityservices@nova.edu. Individuals who may need accommodations to attend the event are encouraged to contact the Office of Student Disability Services staff at disabilityservices@nova.edu, prior to attendance.  

When students engage in academically dishonest behaviors, they may be responding to subtle pressures in the learning environment that interfere with deep learning and nudge them toward cheating. Hence if we can gain a better understanding of the reasons for academically dishonest behavior, we can use that knowledge to improve our course design, teaching practices, and communication with students. One of the recommended strategies for reducing cheating through better learning has been the use of authentic assessments (i.e., assessments that break from the traditional model of quizzes and tests)—and a growing body of research has especially looked at the role that authentic assessments can play in medical education. In this workshop, participants will learn what the research tells us about the prevalence of cheating in higher education today, about the different forms that authentic assessments can take in medical education, and how those authentic assessments can help reduce cheating in their courses. The session will include a presentation and time for questions and discussion.

If you have writing assignments in your course, then you already know that plagiarism can be a problem. This workshop will present the tool, Turnitin, which helps identify instances of potential plagiarism. During the workshop, you will learn about the various ways in which Turnitin can be used in your Canvas course so that you can begin screening writing assignments for plagiarism, as well as grammatical errors.