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Using Zoom to Facilitate Online Classes

Gain an overview of Zoom --- an online platform that enables instructors to have real-time sessions with students, colleagues and guest speakers. You can share your presentations or desktop, collaborate with others, conduct small group activities, offer online office hours, poll your students and more, all from virtually any device.

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Using YuJa in Teaching and Learning

This course will introduce you to the basics of YuJa, a video content management platform available to the UCalgary community for teaching and learning.

We encourage you to review the relevant materials prior to the session.  

Putting Your Content Online

Posting your lecture online in a hurry? Organize your course content and share it with your students online. This workshop will introduce and show quick and easy ways to help you post lecture notes, readings, course outlines, additional documents and resources, links, images and media files online through our campus learning management system, D2L. 

Creating Quizzes Online

Moving your in-class quiz online? Create a quiz online through our campus learning management system, D2L. This workshop will introduce and show how to set up a simple quiz, create, add, and edit quiz questions, randomize questions, set time-limits and other helpful features.

Flipping Your Online Course

In a traditional flipped classroom, lectures, resources and activities are placed online while class time is dedicated to working together face-to-face with the course material. So, how can you flip an online course? Online courses offer both asynchronous and synchronous learning opportunities for learners. Using education technology, such as Desire2Learn, videos and podcasts, a flipped classroom provides opportunities for students to engage with content and each other asynchronously before attending synchronous sessions.

Course Design Essentials

This workshop provides participants with foundational knowledge of course design, including writing course learning outcomes, planning student assessments and selecting appropriate activities. Good course design practices can be applied to many types of courses including online, classroom, blended, labs and more. We will provide a theoretical overview of course design and use practical examples and activities for participants to work through in their own courses, while keeping student engagement in mind.

Use D2L to Collect Assignments and Provide Student Feedback

The D2L Dropbox provides a few options for you to collect student assignments online. Students can submit documents, links to presentations, and other formats using the D2L dropbox. You can then view each students’ submissions, provide feedback, and record their grade in the D2L Grades.

Setting Up Online Discussions in D2L

Online discussion boards are virtual conversation spaces to facilitate communication and knowledge construction (Johnson, 2007). The D2L discussion tool provides flexibility for students to contribute their thoughts at their own pace and time as well as opportunities to collaborate online. Attend this workshop to learn how to set up the discussion board in D2L.

Online Feedback Strategies and Rubrics

How do I know if my students understand? Timely and meaningful feedback has been proven effective to enhance student learning. Providing feedback online, without the physical interaction of a face-to-face class, may present unique challenges. This workshop will explore a variety of online feedback strategies coupled with the effective use of technology and rubrics to help keep students engaged and on track with their learning.

Handling Challenges in the Zoom Classroom

The Zoom classroom is similar to a face-to-face setting in that it allows for a synchronous gathering in which students and instructors can see and speak to each other in real time.  While tried and true strategies from face-to-face settings can apply in Zoom, there are also unique challenges in the online synchronous environment.  This session explores challenges that arise in Zoom related to classroom behaviours, and invites discussion around how best to engage students in the Zoom classroom.

Promoting Student Engagement and Active Learning on Discussion Boards

Active and engaging discussion boards can bring an online course to life butthey do not happen by accident.. This interactive workshop will focus on sharing practical strategies for developing discussion boards that promote student learning that is active, meaningful, relevant, interesting and (hopefully) fun. These strategies will be discussed in the context of good practices for online discussion boards.

Online Student Assessment

Online learning has both unique challenges and opportunities that can influence online student assessment. Alternative assessment strategies can be integrated into the course design to ensure rigorous and effective online student assessment. Drawing on course design best practices, this workshop provides an opportunity to work through a variety of online assessment strategies.

Engaging Students Online

How do I engage students online? Teaching and learning online may reveal some unexpected outcomes in comparison to face-to-face teaching. Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is a framework that guides the design of courses and learning environments to appeal to the largest number of learners. It emphasizes flexibility in how instructional material is presented, how students demonstrate their knowledge and skills, and in how they are engaged in learning. In this workshop, learn about UDL principles and discuss how they might be implemented within your own teaching practice online.

Best Practices for Designing a Quality Rubric

A rubric is more than a grading tool. Developing a rubric can help support student-centred learning by communicating and clarifying assignment expectations, and supporting peer and self-assessment. In this workshop, we will use sample rubrics to explore best practices and learn how they can be integrated into D2L.

Designing and Facilitating Group Work in Online Courses

This session aims to support instructors in designing and facilitating online group work or team projects that promote collaborative inquiry and use technology effectively. The facilitators will share their own experiences and draw upon evidence-informed best practices for creating, facilitating, and assessing online group work.