Learning and Educational Center
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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The recent Zoom Update to version 5.8.6 brought one particularly helpful feature for the classroom. If you have ever co-presented with someone, or if your students do so, one person is typically responsible for controlling the slide deck. Now with the latest update, presenters can authorize anyone on the meeting to control the slide deck.
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In the Canvas release of November 20th, the word count for text submissions is displayed in SpeedGrader and for students, the Assignment Details page indicates whether comments have been added as an annotation or within a rubric.
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The LEC is proud to share its recently launched Thank-a-Professor program! Students can choose to write thank-you notes via a webform submission and let everyone know how their amazing professors have created meaningful classroom experiences and helped them achieve learning goals. Through this program, we will recognize instructors for their efforts by publicly sharing student thank-you notes. This is a celebration! We look forward to hearing all about our outstanding faculty through the experiences of our students.
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Did you know that you can obtain a certificate of completion for any of these workshops?
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People most often use Canvas as a home for formal course content, but it has an even broader capacity to support students’ learning when we think outside of the box. In this presentation, Susan Landrum will demonstrate how non-CRN Canvas “courses” can be used to create targeted academic content for students, such as supplemental modules that can be assigned to multiple courses; orientation mini-courses introducing students to the basic academic skills they will need for their program; and other types of academic skills instruction.
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Are you looking to hone your online teaching skills? The LEC is excited to announce its Fall lineup of faculty professional development including its new Wednesday Workshop Series, which focuses on the Foundations of Teaching Online. Whether you’re new to teaching online or are looking for new ideas to implement in your online and blended classes, our Wednesday Workshop Series will introduce you to the basics of teaching and learning in online and blended learning environments. While the workshops focus on strategies for teaching online, most can be applied to any modality.
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In this workshop, we will discuss the foundational knowledge and skills needed to teach effectively in Canvas. While this session is not training on how to build courses in Canvas, participants will gain an overall understanding of how the Canvas LMS is used at NSU, what Canvas components should be included in academic courses, and where to find help and support.
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This workshop is designed to show you different classroom technologies that can assist you in enhancing your online, blended, or face-to-face classroom experience. The instructor will take you step by step through each topic by telling you what it is, why would you use it, and demonstrate how to use it before you try it.
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Recent updates to the Zoom Application version 5.8.4 bring one particularly helpful feature for the online classroom, Advanced Polling. Advanced Polling has been automatically enabled for our accounts. With Advanced Polling there is the introduction of several new question types as well as a Quiz Mode.
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