Learning and Educational Center
Have you attended one or more workshops hosted by the LEC? Did you know that you can obtain a certificate of completion for any of these workshops? You may want to access, save, or print a certificate to keep in your records. Accessing your certificates is quick and easy.
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The LEC is proud to present the recordings from the presentations of the LEC Summer Series. In the first video, Marti Snyder defines reflection, and how it can be used in the classroom to facilitate transformational learning experiences in face-to-face, online, and blended learning environments. In the second video, Rita Shae-Van Fossen, shows how to create infographics using Piktochart to communicate course content and share ways to use infographics for learning. In the third video, Timothy Hoeck and Mary Young introduced the new LEC Course Templates available in Canvas Commons. They discussed the purpose of the templates along with how to import the templates into your course, provided details on editing the content, and discussed some tips and tricks on maintaining course quality.
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On the first day of class, students are often intimidated by a syllabus that looks more like legal documents than an invitation to learn. This leads to students just ignoring its contents and instructors constantly saying, “it’s in the syllabus”. Infographics offer a visual option for communicating key course content in a way that is engaging and more memorable. Participants in this hands-on session will learn how to create infographics using Piktochart (Canva can also be used) to communicate course content and share ways to use infographics for learning.
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Have you considered accessibility when designing your course? Do you know what it means for your course to be accessible? This article will help raise awareness of accessibility in your course and point you to tools or techniques for improving accessibility in your course.
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The LEC is proud to present the recordings from the presentation of the LEC Summer Series. In these videos, the facilitators share best practices with Canvas, TurnitIn, and discuss the components of well-written learning objectives and their connection, or alignment, to activities and assessments in your course.
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The Latest Update from Zoom 5.7.0 brought several great features that benefit the digital classroom. Check out a brief description of some of these new features.
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As an instructor, you have access to the Training Services Portal to complete self-paced training resources on a variety of Canvas topics. The Training Services Portal is hosted in Bridge, a tool built and administered by Instructure.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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