Missouri Online Training Events

Short course training sessions

Canvas Overview

The Canvas Overview covers the basics of setting up your Canvas course shell. Topics covered in this 60-minute session include:

Account & Notifications Settings
Editing the Course Navigation Menu
Understanding the difference between Modules, Pages, and Files
Basics of using Discussions
Assignments and Grades
Editing the Syllabus
Student view

Assignments, Quizzes and Grades

This session builds on the Canvas Overview class and provides more detail on the Assignments and Grades tools. Topics covered in this 60-minute session include:

assignment submission types
assignments for integrated tools
creating quizzes
allowing extra credit
grading on a curve
grade book sorting and organization
using Speedgrader
understanding the student view of grades

Peer Review and Group Assignments

This session builds on the Canvas Overview class and provides more detail on the Assignments tools. Topics covered in this 60-minute session include:

How to set up group sets and groups in Canvas
Creating Group Assignments and Discussion Boards
Grading Group Assignments using Speed Grader
Setting up Peer Reviews in Canvas
Best Practices/Stumbling Blocks for Peer Reviews and Group Assignments

Zoom Overview

Zoom is a cloud-based video conferencing tool you can use to virtually meet with others - either by video or audio-only or both, all while conducting live chats, and sharing your screen. It lets you record the meetings to watch later or share with others. Zoom improves student outcomes with secure video communication services for hybrid classrooms, office hours, and more. Instructors and students access Zoom through the course navigation button in a Canvas course. Topics covered in this 60-minute session include:

Creating account/Logging in
HIPAA account (qualifying uses, feature differences)
Download/install client
Overview of interface
Create a meeting
Enable in Canvas
Different roles: Host, co-Host, alternative host, participant
Check Attendance
Security Settings and managing participants

Advanced Zoom Overview

This training is for advanced Zoom users who are already familiar with basic Zoom functionality. This will be a hands-on interactive and engaging training so please come prepared to be on camera and willing to participate in the activities. Topics covered in this session include:

Managing Breakout Rooms
Zoom Chat
Zoom Whiteboard
Zoom polling and quizzing
Zoom apps

VoiceThread in Canvas

VoiceThread is a tool that allows you to have a conversation around a piece of media. In this training you will learn how to create VoiceThreads and then add them to your Canvas course as lessons or assessments. Topics covered in this 60-minute session include:

Adding VoiceThreads to your course site
Creating VoiceThreads
Using VoiceThreads in assignments
Grading VoiceThread assignments

Canvas Grades

The Canvas Gradebook Overview covers the basics of setting up and navigating through your Canvas Gradebook. Topics covered in this 60-minute session include:

Arranging Gradebook Columns
Applying late/missing policies
Hiding and Posting Grades
Gradebook Management/Time Saving Strategies
Using "Notes" in your Gradebook

Canvas Analytics

This session covers the basics of using New Analytics in Canvas. Topics covered in this session include:

Understanding Canvas terminology
How to access New Analytics
The four data tabs available within New Analytics
Messaging students from New Analytics
Ways to prepare your course to get the most from New Analytics

Panopto for PC/Mac

Panopto is a lecture capture and media delivery solution for instructors. Use it for remote teaching, online teaching, creating in-video quizzes, recording student presentations, and creating student media assignments. Panopto can be used in the classroom at teacher workstations or on your own computer. Topics covered in this 60-minute session include:

Enabling Panopto in your Canvas site
Downloading and installing the recorder on your computer
Getting set up to create quality recordings
Recording various types of lectures
Editing and sharing lectures
Viewing analytics
Managing recordings

ePortfolios

Canvas Student Pathways, or Folio, is an academic portfolio network Canvas tool that allows students to showcase their education and work accomplishments and connect with other professionals. Topics covered in this 60-minute session include:

Getting started with your ePortfolio
Capabilities of the Portfolium Network (Folio) platform
Student access to ePortfolios
Using ePortfolios as assignments in your course and use cases for your course

SmarterProctoring

Online proctoring tools lock down some aspects of a student's computer and use advanced machine learning, face-detection technology, and other metrics to ensure test integrity.

Topics covered in this 60-minute session include:

Is online proctoring right for my class?
Setting up a Canvas quiz with proctoring tools
Overview of Settings
How students take proctored tests
Evaluating proctoring reports
Resolving accessibility and technical issues

iClicker

An introduction to iClicker, the polling software, discussing registration, use of the Roster Grade Sync (RGS) function, student onboarding and more. Topics covered in this 60-minute session include:

Setting up your iClicker Course
Manipulate iClicker Course Settings
Understanding and learning about using the iClicker Floating Toolbar
Syncing your iClicker Grade with Canvas
Best Practices for using iClicker in the Classroom

Turnitin

Turnitin's Feedback Studio and Plagiarism Review tools do more than just check for plagiarism. In this session you will learn how it can help students improve their writing and help you with grading and providing meaningful feedback. Topics covered in this 60-minute session include:

Creating Turnitin assignments
Grading Turnitin assignments
Using the feedback features

Google Workspace and M365

Learn how to use Google Workspace & MIcrosoft 365 Applications to improve your Canvas classes and personal productivity. Topics covered in this 60-minute session include:

How to log into Google Drive, and M365
Overview of the different Apps in Google and M365
How to share documents in the different platforms
Discuss how to use the different platforms both inside and outside of Canvas
URLS to know:
Google: https://drive.google.com/
Microsoft (M365): https://office.com/

Advanced Panopto

Overview of more advanced features with an in-depth demonstration of features such as advanced editing, using Panopto with student assignments and captioning. Topics covered in this 60-minute session include:

Using Panopto recording Assignments with a Panopto Assignment folder
Using Panopto Capture recorder
Using advanced editing features: Graphics slides, updating PowerPoint slides, best practices with inline quizzing, and reviewing best practices when adding embedded external videos in a Panopto recording.
Creating Panopto Assignments in Canvas, recordings & uploading video assignments. and Panopto Quiz Assignments
Using "Building a Session"
Using Multi-Language Captioning for use in foreign language classes.

Hypothes.is

We will discuss how collaborative annotation with Hypothesis can be used to make student reading visible, active, and social. Topics covered in this 60-minute session include:

Learning how students can look up difficult words or unknown allusions in a text and share their research as annotations.
Pre-populating a text with questions for students to reply to in annotations or notes elucidating important points as they read.
Have students identify formal textual elements and broader social and historical contexts at work in specific passages.
Have students share their personal opinions on a controversial topic as discussed by an article.

Pressbooks

Attendees will learn how to get started with Pressbooks, from creating a new book to publishing and exporting offline versions of the text. Topics covered in this 60-minute session include:

Brief overview of what Pressbooks is and how it’s used.
Go over how to create a book in Pressbooks.
How to set up chapters and how the interface works.
Show how to export a book and bring it into Canvas.
Where to find help - https://guide.pressbooks.com/

Basics of Artificial Intelligence

Generative AI (like ChatGPT, Bing, and Claude) is changing teaching and learning. In this session, we will try to cover some of the most common areas of concern and answer your questions. Topics covered in this 60-minute session include:

University policy regarding AI
What to include in your syllabus and assignment instructions
Update on AI text detection
Suggested tools
Teaching tips

Modified on: Mon, Nov 6, 2023 at 3:33 PM

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