Workshop: How to Build a Branching Scenario in SharkMedia

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. Register today!

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Workshop: Transform Your 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.

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Call for Proposals Closing Soon for the 2023 NSU Teaching and Learning Virtual Conference

We are excited to announce the opening call for proposals for our annual Learning and Educational Center (LEC) Teaching and Learning Conference scheduled for Wednesday, November 1st and Thursday, November 2nd (virtually via Zoom). The theme, Destination Excellence: A Journey to Engaged Teaching and Learning, represents NSU’s collective ambition to create an educational environment that nurtures critical thinking, creativity, and collaboration. It recognizes that excellence is not a stagnant endpoint but an ongoing journey, requiring continuous improvement and adaptation.

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Canvas Corner: Panda Pros – Instructure’s Free Back-to-School Coaching Sessions

Instructure Canvas, our Learning Management System, is offering free, one-on-one, online coaching sessions on any topic related to Canvas that you may want guidance on. Appointment dates are currently available right now through September 30th. You can sign up for these 45-minute sessions that run from 11 AM to 7 PM Eastern and are available every day of the week – including weekends!

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Workshop: Creating Interesting and Engaging Discussions with Flip

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 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 that stimulates thought-provoking responses from the students and can also be entertaining. Join us to learn more about using this engaging tool in your courses.

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Article: Choosing Appropriate Instructional Content for a Course

Choosing appropriate instructional content for a course can be a complex and time-consuming task. For many subject areas, there are far more potential instructional materials that could, or should, be part of what a course will include. Because we recognize this challenge, we are providing some useful tips that can help to narrow down and select the appropriate instructional materials for any course.

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Secrets of Success: Thank-a-Professor Recipients Unpack Their Effective Teaching Techniques Panel #3

Looking to learn from the best and brightest in academia? Join us for an exciting third and final panel discussion featuring faculty who were recognized in our Thank-a-Professor program. During this session, you’ll have the opportunity to hear from other faclty 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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Workshop: Turnitin, Plagiarism, and AI Writing Detection in Canvas

If you have writing assignments in your course, you already know that plagiarism can be a problem. This workshop will present the tool, Turnitin, which helps identify instances of potential plagiarism along with the newly added function of AI writing detection. 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, grammatical errors, and detecting AI-written essays.

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Canvas Corner: Bulk Publishing and Submit on Behalf of a Student

Canvas has been recently updated with some new features that may be helpful to instructors. These updates include the ability to bulk publish or unpublish modules in a course, and the ability to submit assignments on behalf of a student. Instructors can now bulk publish all modules or individual modules, as well as unpublish them in bulk. This provides instructors with more options and improves efficiency when publishing modules. You now have the option to publish all modules and items or all modules only, along with the option to unpublish all modules and items.

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