Let’s Discuss Plagiarism and Using Turnitin with Canvas

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.

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Actions to Improve Your Zoom Session

This session is designed to give faculty a handful of tips to improve their Zoom sessions. We will review several lesser-utilized Zoom features and share how they can help improve the quality of your Zoom session to make class time more engaging. During the session, we will share tips about Breakout Rooms, Zoom Polls, the New Whiteboard, enhanced screen sharing, reactions, and how to preserve your Zoom recordings.

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Hone your Skill in Immersive Learning Experiences: An Introduction 

This in-person workshop will enable participants to experience immersive learning technologies (VR/AR/MR/xR) exploring human anatomy, physiology, and disease. The participants will have an opportunity to embody a patient in an immersive first-person experience from the patient’s perspective. The immersive technologies support skill development in the health professions practice and can also be used to facilitate learning in other contexts like neuroscience, engineering, math, and more. During this workshop, participants will have a full hands-on experience on varied immersive learning technologies.

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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 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.

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Add Interactive Video to Your Online Course with 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.

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Learning with the LEC: Hide and Manage Navigation Links

Navigation links are an important part of the student experience in the Canvas LMS. Navigation should be clear and simple for students, and they should only see the links you want students to have access to. The order of navigation links can be changed, and links can also be hidden so links won’t appear in your students’ navigation panel. This will simplify navigation and remove the distraction of unneeded links. This video tutorial will guide you on how to manage and hide navigation links for students.

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