Learning with the LEC Video: Canvas Link Validator

When hosting your course in Canvas you want to ensure all links in your course are working properly and haven’t broken since you last reviewed your course. There is a tool built into Canvas to automatically check all course links for you called link validator. The validator searches through your course modules, pages, and assignments and flags invalid or broken links in both published and unpublished content. This Learning with the LEC Video, will walk you through the steps to validate links within your course.

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Free Zoom Conference – Zoomtopia 2022

The LEC is glad to share the following information from Zoom about their annual conference, Zoomtopia 2022. This free conference takes place on November 8th and 9th. Once registered, filter for Higher Ed-specific offerings, and you will find several thought-provoking sessions. We encourage you to check it out and become more familiar with the Zoom platform and all that Zoom has to offer.

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Workshop on New Feature – Creating Engaging Video Paths 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.

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Learning with the LEC: Drop the Lowest Grade

Are you looking for an easy way to drop the lowest grade for students in Canvas? Maybe their lowest quiz grade, or assignment grade? This is extremely easy to do! Canvas automatically assesses how the change most positively affects a student and will consider the point values for the assessments to determine whether the point value or percentage should be used in determining which grade to drop. This video tutorial will walk you through the basic steps.

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Save the Date! November 2nd and 3rd Teaching and Learning Conference

Mark your calendars for November 2-3, 2022, for the Learning and Educational Center’s Virtual Teaching and Learning Conference! This virtual conference is open to all NSU faculty, administrators, staff, and students who are interested in teaching and learning research and practice.  There is no cost to attend but registration is required. We will send out a notification later this month with a link to the registration form. In line with this year’s theme: Connect, Engage, and Inspire, we have a variety of presentations that focus on active learning and student engagement strategies, use of educational technologies, assessment, online teaching, and others. We hope that you can join us!

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