LEC 2025 Year in Review: Workshops
Our Faculty Trainer, John Scigliano, conducts faculty workshops throughout the year. If you missed any of these workshops, you can watch a previous session in its entirety below. You can always view the workshop schedule and register for any of the upcoming faculty workshops. We look forward to seeing you!
Canvas Basics: Preparing Your Course for Student Success
Ready to make Canvas work for you and your students? Whether you’re new to Canvas or simply looking for a fresh start, this hands-on workshop will equip you with the essential skills to design a clean, organized, and engaging online course. You’ll learn how to apply a ready-made course template, build out assignments, discussions, and quizzes, and structure your content using modules that guide students to success. Along the way, we’ll spotlight new Canvas features that can enhance teaching and learning with minimal effort.
By the end of the session, you’ll walk away with a practical framework for building your course—and the confidence to launch it smoothly. Let’s set your students (and yourself) up for a successful semester!
Watch Canvas Basics: Preparing Your Course for Student Success
Did You Know? Exploring New Canvas Features
Unlock the full potential of the Canvas LMS with this hands-on workshop designed for educators looking to optimize their online course discussions and grading processes. This session will explore key features such as Discussions and Assigning Options to create dynamic and interactive learning environments. Additionally, attendees will learn how to customize assignment settings to meet diverse teaching and learning needs. The workshop will also cover the Speed Grader Screencast feature, enabling instructors to provide personalized and efficient feedback to students. Whether you’re new to Canvas or looking to refine your skills, this session will equip you with practical strategies to enhance student engagement.
Watch Did You Know? Exploring New Canvas Features
All About Canvas Rubrics
In this workshop, 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, you will learn practical tips and insights to help you maximize your use of rubrics in Canvas.
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Exploring Turnitin in Canvas
If you have writing assignments in your course, you already know that plagiarism can be a challenge. In this workshop, we 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 screen writing assignments for possible plagiarism and grammatical errors.
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Mastering the Gradebook in Canvas
This hands-on session will guide educators through the features and functions of the Canvas Gradebook to help streamline grading, improve feedback, and better support student success. Participants will explore Gradebook settings, filtering and sorting tools, grade posting policies, and integration with assignments and rubrics.
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Assignments and Discussions: Fostering Interactive Learning
This hands-on session is designed for educators who want to enhance student engagement through well-structured assignments and dynamic discussions in Canvas. Participants will explore best practices for creating meaningful assignments, designing engaging discussions, and leveraging Canvas tools to support interaction and learning. You’ll leave with actionable strategies to boost participation, motivation, and academic performance.
Watch Assignments and Discussions: Fostering Interactive Learning
Engaging Students with Badging: Exploring Canvas Credentials
Are you looking for a different way to engage your Students? Why not try Canvas Credentials. Digital badges are more than just symbols—they’re dynamic tools that can significantly increase student engagement by providing tangible recognition of their progress and accomplishments. By incorporating badging into your teaching strategy with the use of Canvas Credentials, you’ll encourage students to take a more active role in their learning journey. Let us show you how!
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Maximizing Your Course Insights with Canvas Analytics
This interactive workshop guides educators in the effective use of New Canvas Analytics, empowering them to monitor, analyze, and enhance student engagement and performance. Participants will work with practical scenarios, gaining hands-on experience in using analytics data to support teaching strategies and improve learning outcomes.
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Power Up Your Canvas Course with External Tools
In this interactive workshop, educators will explore how to integrate powerful external tools into the Canvas LMS to create engaging, student-centered learning environments. Participants will learn how to embed tools like Poll Everywhere for live interaction, LinkedIn Learning for skill-building, and other curated apps that support multimedia, assessment, and collaboration. The session will highlight real-world use cases and provide practical steps to incorporate these tools seamlessly into Canvas modules, assignments, and discussions.
Watch Power Up Your Canvas Course with External Tools
Getting Started with SharkMedia
Videos are often some of the most highly engaging pieces of content for a course. Videos can be used to introduce new course content, reinforce concepts already learned, share demonstrations and simulations and much more. NSU’s media server, branded as Sharkmedia, has numerous capabilities.
Watch Getting Started with SharkMedia
Exploring Advanced Features of SharkMedia
Unlock the full potential of your video content in SharkMedia! This workshop is designed to bring your skills with SharkMedia to the next level. Participants will learn how to perform basic video editing, create interactive hotspots, manage and edit captions for accessibility, build engaging quizzes, and analyze viewer engagement through detailed analytics. Through hands-on demonstrations and guided instruction, you’ll explore each of these features and discover how to create more dynamic and interactive videos that captivate your audience.
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Embedding Multimedia with SharkMedia & Annoto
Enhance your course content with interactive video experiences using SharkMedia (Kaltura) and Annoto. In this hands-on workshop, educators will learn how to embed SharkMedia videos directly into Canvas and transform passive video watching into active learning. Participants will explore how Annoto enables real-time engagement with features like timeline comments, polls, private notes, and interactive quizzes—all within the video player. The session will also cover how to analyze student activity through Annoto’s analytics dashboard, giving you insight into learner participation and video usage. Whether you’re looking to make lectures more dynamic or encourage student collaboration around multimedia, this workshop will equip you with the tools to create meaningful video-based learning experiences.
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Transform Students Video-Watching Experience with Annoto
If you want to increase student engagement and personalize feedback within your Shark Media videos, the Annoto widget workshop was created just for you.
The Annoto widget is a tool that integrates with Shark Media and can be used in Canvas enabling you to add interactive elements to your videos. You can use it to create questions, quizzes, surveys, polls, and discussions that appear on the video timeline. You and your students can also use it to annotate your videos with highlights, notes, links, and images. These features can help you enhance your instructional design, foster student collaboration, and provide timely and personalized feedback.
Watch Transform Students Video-Watching Experience with Annoto
Lucid for Education: Exploring Visual Collaboration within Canvas
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.
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Exploring the Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat
Are you ready to streamline your workflow, boost collaboration, and apply innovative tools for teaching and research? Join us for an interactive workshop designed to introduce educators to Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat—a game-changing platform that enhances efficiency and creativity. Whether you’re managing administrative tasks, collaborating with colleagues, or analyzing data, this workshop will equip you with the skills to make the most of this powerful tool.
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Mastering the Newest Zoom Features for Student Participation and Efficiency
This interactive session introduces educators to six powerful features released in Zoom that are designed to enrich virtual classroom experiences and boost teaching productivity. From immersive layouts and animated reactions to simultaneous screen sharing and personalized toolbars, participants will explore how to use these tools to promote collaboration, clarity, and connection in online learning environments.
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Creating Engaging Course Content with Adobe Express
Transform the way you design and deliver course materials in this inspiring, hands-on 1-hour workshop. Adobe Express is your launchpad to making learning more visual, interactive, and impactful—no graphic design experience needed.
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Microsoft 365 Forms for Educators: Creating Engaging Surveys, Quizzes, and Polls
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.
Watch Microsoft 365 Forms for Educators: Creating Engaging Surveys, Quizzes, and Polls
Engage and Manage Your Students with Poll Everywhere
Discover how to boost classroom engagement and streamline course management using Poll Everywhere, a powerful audience response system that integrates seamlessly with your teaching. In this hands-on workshop, you’ll explore how to use live polling, Q&A, clickable images, word clouds, and more to create an interactive learning environment—whether in-person or online. You’ll also learn how to manage responses, customize activities to fit your teaching style, and review real-time analytics to assess student understanding. By the end of the session, you’ll be equipped with practical strategies to encourage participation, foster student interaction, and make data-informed teaching decisions.
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Exploring Advanced Features of Poll Everywhere
Take your Poll Everywhere skills to the next level in this hands-on workshop designed for those that have used Poll Everywhere and want to learn more features. You can enhance student engagement and streamline course management using advanced features of Poll Everywhere.
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