Learning with the LEC: Creating and Managing Assignments through the Canvas Calendar

Did you know that you can create and manage assignments for your courses through the Canvas calendar? The calendar allows you to see assignments from all your courses in one central place. You can create new assignments or change assignment details directly from the calendar. You can easily change due dates, for example, by just dragging the assignment to a different date. This quick video tutorial will guide you through the steps.

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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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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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