This Week in the LEC

The purpose of this session is to discuss how Zoom can be used to facilitate various instructional approaches (e.g., lecture, demonstration, retrieval practice, role play, think tank/brainstorm, quiet meetings, and Socratic dialogue). An overview of selected approaches will be presented followed by strategies for using Zoom features to facilitate the approach.

A module-based structure can be beneficial to students by establishing a logical sequence of tasks and emphasizing the connections between course components. In this workshop, you will learn how to use module organization and scaffolded instruction to create an intuitive flow in your Canvas course. 

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.

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. 

Have you ever had to have the alignment checked on your car because it kept veering to one side? Maybe you have had a spinal alignment done to relieve back pain.  Just like anything else that can lose effectiveness once the alignment is off track, your course can be misaligned and potentially throw your students off track.  A misaligned course contains gaps in learning objectives, activities, assignments, and/or assessments. In this one-hour workshop, we will discuss the components of well-written learning objectives and their connection, or alignment, to activities and assessments in your course.