Learning and Educational Center
In this workshop, we will explore strategies for making online courses more accessible and inclusive. All students can benefit from intentional course design.
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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. The workshop will use a blended flipped type of experience where the participants will first go into the Canvas course to view the course material that explains the procurement of a Poll Everywhere account, how to download and install the Poll Everywhere app to PowerPoint, and short videos introducing the Poll Everywhere software. After completing the Canvas portion, the participant will be granted access to the zoom link for the live Zoom session.
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Register Now! NSU Libraries’ 7th Annual Power Publishing Day, Thursday, January 27 – FREE EVENT Do you want to share your scholarly research with the world? Come join us for a day of learning about academic publishing from the publishers, editors, and faculty. You will not want to miss this opportunity to meet editors and reps from publishing houses including Clarivate, Elsevier, Emerald, IEEE, IGI, SAGE, Taylor & Francis, and more. Learn about: getting your research published, including case studies navigating the peer review process publishing initiatives for Open Access strategies for finding the right publisher and more… Plus, network with your colleagues and other academics in our community. There is no cost to attend but registration is required and can be done through lib.nova.edu/ppd22. You can attend in person or online. Complimentary breakfast and lunch will be served. This event is open to NSU faculty, staff, students, alumni, and the public. The event will be held at the Alvin Sherman Library at 3100 Ray Ferrero Jr. Boulevard, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33314. If you can’t make it to the event, email Susan Berkman at sberkman@nova.edu to request the presentation recordings.
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The latest version of the Zoom Desktop software carries several updates that impact the classroom. The update includes a new breakout room option, the ability to save a Gallery View for use later as well as additional support for Emoji in chat.
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In the January 15th, 2022 Canvas release, the expanded or collapsed state of the Course Navigation Menu persists throughout all Canvas courses. In the Rich Content Editor, accessibility issues are displayed via an indicator over the Accessibility Checker icon. This functionality was previously managed by the Accessibility Checker Indicator feature option, which has been enforced for all Canvas institutions. In the Gradebook, the Missing status is removed for missing submissions that receive a manually entered grade. In SpeedGrader, graders are notified about unposted comments. Accompanying this Canvas Corner is a guide to share with your students on how to select personal pronouns in your user account.
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The LEC understands that there are many demands for your time and you might not be able to make it to all of our workshops. Here are some of the recordings from our Diving into Fall Guest Presentation Series in case you weren’t able to join us.
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Welcome and Happy New Year! The LEC is excited to kick off 2022 with a variety of professional development events and resources. In this issue, we begin with a Year in Review and highlight many of the LEC initiatives from 2021. We are grateful for your interest in using our resources to support NSU’s Vision 2025 and our path toward preeminence.
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In this session, we will discuss some foundational terms and definitions, different types of delivery modes, key competencies of online instructors, and emerging trends in online teaching and learning.
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In the December 2021 Canvas release, the discussions setting menu includes several terminology adjustments, the grade book settings menu has been adjusted to a sidebar, and the course publish and unpublish buttons display in the course settings page.
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This was a year of transition and dynamic change. With the global pandemic, and with the return to our campus, faculty made the heroic effort to transform their classroom experiences from the BlendFlex model to the face-to-face classroom in a very short time. The Learning and Educational Center (LEC) hosted a series of workshops, deeply rooted in teaching pedagogy, organized training for faculty, published articles, and created videos to support our mission to improve the quality of teaching and learning at NSU. Towards the end of the year, our Brand New LEC Faculty Studio was brought to life! Finally, we were able to implement the Thank-a-Professor Program to allow our NSU Students to send Thank-You notes to our Teaching Faculty for the amazing work that you do in your classroom! In case you missed these, below are links to some of the articles, Shark Notes, and videos along with some data on the workshops that we hosted and co-hosted with some of our university partners in 2021.
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