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Learning with the LEC: Drop the Lowest Grade

October 7, 2022 thoeck

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.

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

October 6, 2022 Adam Cohen

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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Engage Your Students with Poll Everywhere Activities

October 5, 2022 thoeck

Engaging students at a distance and in the classroom can present challenges. Poll Everywhere provides a way to interact with your students with activities designed to ask questions, drive participation in group activities, and encourage students to share thoughts and insights from their phones or computers.

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Creating Innovative and Engaging Learning Experiences using Kaltura Interactive Video Paths

October 1, 2022 thoeck

Students and teachers can now create and share their personalized video experiences using Kaltura Interactive Video Paths, a newly acquired learning tool on SharkMedia. Interactive Video Paths allow learners to “choose their own adventure.” Interactive videos can quickly offer a guide or “hotspot” to a specific topic for information. Students can personalize their own viewing experience, rather than scrubbing through a vast video timeline and inadvertently missing valuable information which makes for a more user-friendly experience. Kaltura Interactive Video Paths offers some exciting new features including: Allowing viewers to play an active role by choosing their preferred actions and learning paths. Building choice-based video paths that increase engagement. Tracking views to better understand behavior and gain valuable insights through choices made. Interactive video paths give students the opportunity to control the story. Interactive video paths can transform the learning experience from a passive learning activity to an exchange of information where students take an active role. If learners can determine or control “what to what to do next” then, they are more likely to engage in learning. Interactive video increases learner-content interactivity. Here are a few suggestions for creating interactive video paths. Group Activities Video paths can be used […]

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Quick Take: Engage Students Using Microsoft Whiteboard

September 27, 2022 thoeck

The Microsoft Whiteboard application allows instructors to create an infinite, collaborative canvas for fostering effective and engaging learning with their students. This tool is especially powerful when working with students for completing a variety of tasks through brainstorming and planning. In this quick 45-minute workshop you will have a hands-on opportunity to work with the Microsoft Whiteboard and learn how you can use this tool in your online or face-to-face classes.

Did You Know? Quick Tips On Classroom Technology: Canvas Gradebook

September 26, 2022 thoeck

During this fast-paced workshop, we will share unique features about the tools that you use every day but may not know everything about. We will demonstrate and discuss use cases for the following Canvas Gradebook features and tools including Filters, History, Missing Items, Saved Comments, Individual Gradebook, Gradebook notes, and more…

Plagiarism and Using TurnItin with Canvas

September 19, 2022 thoeck

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.

Tips on Improving Group Assignments

September 17, 2022 thoeck

Group assignments are a useful way to bring students together and give them important real-world experiences. They can take the form of projects, presentations, or collaborative papers. This article includes some strategies that can be used to successfully manage group projects.

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Learning with the LEC – Canvas Assignment Weights

September 15, 2022 thoeck

Would you like to assign grade weights in Canvas so that your assignments, discussions, quizzes, and tests each contribute a different percentage to a student’s final grade? This is quick and easy to do in Canvas. Within each assignment group, a percentage is calculated based on total points available in that group. This video tutorial will walk you through the basic steps.

Using Flip to Engage Your Students

September 15, 2022 thoeck

Flip (formerly Flipgrid) is an easy-to-use tool to foster strong connections within a 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.

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