Learning and Educational Center
Take your Poll Everywhere skills to the next level in this hands-on workshop designed for those that have used Poll Everywhere and want to learn more features. You can enhance student engagement and streamline course management using advanced features of Poll Everywhere. Topics on the agenda include Competitions, Syncing Course Rosters with Canvas LTI, Customization of Activities, and Importing Activities from Excel.
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Feedback from students can be an important source of information about what is working or not working in a course. Most often, student feedback comes in the form of a summative course evaluation. Here at NSU, students fill out course evaluations at the end of each semester. While these evaluations have value, they also carry limitations.
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From enhancing healthcare simulations with AI-driven virtual reality to transforming data analytics education through AI-assisted coding and content creation, we will highlight the many ways AI is transforming higher education. With our panel of faculty from across disciplines, you will learn how AI is being used to develop realistic simulations, empower student creativity in digital media production, and support the development of project management deliverables.
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Are you looking for a unique way to engage your students? Why not try Canvas Credentials? Digital badges are more than just symbols—they are dynamic tools that can significantly increase student engagement by providing tangible recognition of their progress and accomplishments. By incorporating badging into your teaching strategy with Canvas Credentials, you will encourage students to take a more active role in their learning journey. Let us show you how!
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This hands-on workshop will invite faculty to engage with generative AI (genAI) tools to explore examples of how genAI can be used for student assessment. By engaging directly in activities using these tools, instructors will gain direct experience and be able to start imagining ways to invite genAI into their classrooms.
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Annoto Interactive Video is here! Faculty can enrich their SharkMedia videos with interactive quizzes and discussions, while students benefit from enhanced note-taking features. Join us in creating a more engaging and collaborative learning environment.
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Engaging students at a distance and in the classroom can present challenges. Poll Everywhere offers 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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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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Videos are often the most highly engaging media in a course. Videos can be used to introduce new course content, reinforce concepts already learned, share demonstrations, simulations, and much more. You may know that NSU has a media server called Shark Media which is our branded version of Kaltura. During this workshop, we will review the many capabilities of the Shark Media platform. We will show you where you can find every function on the platform, from uploading videos, all the way to creating chapter markers and playlists for your students.
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How do we know that students have achieved our course objectives? In this session, we will consider methods of assessment that minimize irresponsible student use of artificial intelligence. We will look at a variety of assessment tools and evaluate how they are impacted by GenAI tools. By the end of the session, you will have several potential strategies for updating and strengthening your course assignments.
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