Descriptions

Applying the QM Rubric Workshop

The workshop should appeal to novices and more seasoned faculty alike who are looking for assistance with designing a quality online course or those who may be interested in becoming Peer Reviewers. Throughout the workshop emphasis is placed on the QM Program being an open, collegial, collaborative, continuous, and centered approach to a quality course design. The standards are created by faculty for faculty. QM strives to assist faculty in going beyond “good enough” in their course design.

At the completion of this workshop, you should be able to:

• Identify the underlying principles of QM.
• Identify the critical elements of the QM quality assurance program, including the QM Rubric materials, processes, and administrative components.
• Apply the 2011-2013 QM Rubric to review online courses.
• Make decisions on whether the demo course meets selected QM Rubric standards.
• Apply the concept of alignment.
• Draft helpful recommendations for course improvement by citing annotations from the QM Rubric and evidence from the course.

Applying the Template for your 100% online or Hybrid course

In this workshop we will work on your Canvas course using the Template. This hands-on workshop will prepare you for teaching this fall. Please bring your course information and due dates for graded items. (Tentative dates are fine.)

• Ensuring you have the full template applied
• Changing the Course Dashboard card
• Modifying the homepage
• Completing Module topics and dates
• An overview of content pages
• An overview of Announcements
• An overview of assignment settings
• Publishing your course

Canvas: Modules & Pages

In this workshop we will create pages, manage course content and materials using the Modules and Pages tools in Canvas. This course is designed to give instructors who already have some knowledge of Canvas a more in-depth hands on experience with creating pages as well as creating and managing modules. The workshop is beneficial for both online and in-class instructors who are looking for better ways to present in-class material rather than using PowerPoint. Class presentations/materials are then saved with the course (making them easier to find), easier to export to the next semester, and additionally provide students with notes for review. This course is one of the required classes in the Basic Online Course Development Certificate. 

Canvas: Basic Quizzes*

In this workshop we will explore the basic use of the Quizzes tool in Canvas. Create simple quizzes, look at Quiz settings and how to moderate Quizzes. This course is designed to introduce instructors to the Canvas Quizzing tool.

Canvas: New Analytics

Canvas Analytics aggregates and presents activity, assignment submission, grade, and participation data for each student, represented in colorful visualizations to help instructors see at a glance which students are performing well and which are at risk.

Analytics allows instructors the opportunity to:

• Predict how students react to course activities.
• See which students are at-risk and need help.
• View how effective your teaching strategies are in allowing students to learn.
• See a quick view of what your students are achieving in your course.

This workshop will provide an overview and hands-on practice with course statistics and the New Analytics feature. We will also review other various student analytical tools available to instructors.

Canvas: Outcomes & Rubrics

Canvas outcomes and rubrics are a great way to track assessment in your Canvas courses. Canvas rubrics can be used to grade student assignments, quizzes, and discussions and can include both specific grading criteria and course level outcomes. This workshop will teach you how to add outcomes to your Canvas course; create rubrics with specific assignment criteria; add learning outcomes to rubrics; attach rubrics to assignments; and grade with rubrics in SpeedGrader.  Note: this workshop covers the technology of rubrics and outcomes, not the design of rubrics.

Canvas: SpeedGrader & DocViewer

In this workshop we will explore the use of SpeedGrader in various types of Canvas assignments and the DocViewer tool to grade online documents. This course is designed to give instructors who already have some knowledge of Canvas a more in-depth hands on experience with grading options.

Kaltura: Personal Capture & Closed Captions

With Kaltura, instructors can upload media and record their screen or webcam. Kaltura can be used to narrate PowerPoint slides. Kaltura is integrated into Canvas. Captioning and transcript features are now integrated into Kaltura. The captioning service allows faculty and staff to order captions and transcripts for media uploaded into Kaltura. You will learn how to use Kaltura CaptureSpace and how to edit closed captions.  This course is a prerequisite for Kaltura: Quizzes.

Kaltura: Quizzes

Increase the effectiveness of education and training by including questions and solutions in the video experience. Online video quizzing increases active viewing, enables measurement, and provides a new way to improve learning outcomes. It also offers a way to make any video more engaging and accountable. Prerequisite: Kaltura: Personal Capture & Closed Captioning

MERLOT

MERLOT and Search Strategies for Online Materials

Looking for some new resources to enhance student learning in your course? MERLOT (Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching) provides descriptions and links to online learning resources including case studies, tutorials, animations, interactive multimedia, reference materials, quizzes/assessments, drills, and presentations suitable for higher education learning. Creative Commons, also introduced in this class, helps you find copyrighted media that come with some advance permissions for use. It is also suitable for faculty teaching fully-online courses, hybrids or those looking for supplementary online materials for classroom courses. This training is delivered in Canvas using web resources, is self-paced, and can start and end when convenient for your schedule. The class requires completing assignments using MERLOT and Creative Commons.  Register anytime for the MERLOT class and you will receive the instructions to get started. Suitable for instructors.

Online Course Strategies

Experience an online class in Canvas from a student perspective when you take this four-week workshop to guide you through course development for an online course. It is also useful for faculty planning or revising hybrid courses. Participants will work on a specific course, selected by them, during the workshop, making course level decisions and working on developing one module, or short segment, of the course. Weekly workshop assignments are due. This workshop does not result in a fully-developed online course but gets you started.  The workshop includes reading two books from the Jossey-Bass Guides to Online Teaching, which will be purchased for you. Past participants have estimated the class taking them about 3-7 hours per week. This course is one of the required classes in the Basic Online Course Development Certificate. 

PlayPosit 

PlayPosit is a software application that allows you to incorporate interactive audio and video into your pedagogy, turning your students’ passive observation into active learning. Whether you teach in-person or online, using PlayPosit will help your students explore, analyze, and apply concepts through enriched and accessible learning content.

Qualtrics Series (3 workshops)

The Qualtrics series is comprised of three separate workshops --  Qualtrics 1: Building a Survey, Qualtrics 2: Data & Analysis, and Qualtrics 3: Reports.  The workshops will provide instruction and practice in building a basic survey, collecting responses, analyzing data and building reports. Qualtrics 2 and 3 both have prerequisites, either knowledge of Qualtrics or by attending the previous workshops in the series.

Quick Check*

This workshop is an introduction to Quick Check.  Quick Check is a tool for creating inline assessments in Canvas, allowing instructors to integrate frequent low-stakes assessments into their courses. Providing a mix of higher and lower stakes assessments can help instructors get to know students' work, create multiple opportunities for feedback, and deter cheating. 

Template Training

In this workshop we will work on your Canvas course using the Template. This hands-on workshop will prepare you for teaching this fall. Please bring your course information and due dates for graded items. (Tentative dates are fine.)

• Ensuring you have the full template applied
• Changing the Course Dashboard card
• Modifying the homepage
• Completing Module topics and dates
• An overview of content pages
• An overview of Announcements
• An overview of assignment settings
• Publishing your course

UDOIT: Checking Course Accessibility

This workshop provides training on the UDOIT tool in Canvas, which will help you make your course more accessible to students.

Universal Design Guidelines

This workshop will focus on reasons why accessibility for students with disabilities is important, principles of Universal Design of Learning that can be used to result in a more inclusive online learning environment for all students, and practical tips on making instructional materials more accessible using common software (like Office).  The workshop is taught totally online in Canvas using web resources. Faculty will experience this Canvas experience from a student perspective. It is recommended for faculty who create/revise online or blended courses or are considering doing so. Faculty who use online resources or create instructional materials as supplementary learning as part of classroom courses can also benefit. This course is required for those earning their Basic Online Course Development Certificate. 

Using VoiceThread to Engage Students Workshop*

Use VoiceThread to communicate, collaborate, and connect with your students. VoiceThread can be used in Canvas as a tool for student discussion, narrating PowerPoints, or allowing students comment on your slides using microphone, webcam, text, phone, and audio-file upload. Upload, share and discuss documents, presentations, images, audio files and videos. Over 50 different types of media can be used in a VoiceThread. 

Zoom Advanced: Engaging your students*

Zoom Advanced is for instructors who already know the basics of teaching remotely via Zoom. This workshop will focus on Zoom Advance controls of switching between multiple cameras, breakout rooms, and polling.

Zoom: Basics & Office Hours*

Zoom is our web collaboration tool available to all IU students, faculty, and staff. Zoom provides high-quality audio and video and integrates into Canvas as an external tool. Anyone who has the meeting URL can attend a Zoom meeting even if they aren’t affiliated with IU; however, only those in the IU community can create Zoom accounts and schedule meetings. In this session you will learn the basics about Zoom and how to set up Office Hours for your online students using Zoom.