Academic Technology

In this workshop, you will learn how to create VoiceThreads and then add them to your Canvas course as lessons, discussions, or assessments. This will be a hand-on workshop where you can follow along with the activities and add VoiceThreads into your course modules.

Looking for strategies to foster rich, student-driven annotation discussions? In this workshop, the Hypothesis team will share research-backed methods and active learning strategies to make social annotation more engaging and impactful. Participants will leave with a range of creative ideas for effectively incorporating social annotation into their courses.

You can join this Canvas course to follow along in Hypothes.is assignments and get access to resources.

This workshop for instructional designers and technologists explores how Hypothesis social annotation can support course learning objectives by fostering meaningful peer and instructor interactions. Our discussion will begin with an interactive examination of social annotation through different design and pedagogy frameworks. We will then review considerations such as course copy, the process of exporting and importing facilitator annotations, and other technical details for using Hypothesis in blueprint/master course shells.

You can join this Canvas course to follow along in Hypothes.is assignments and get access to resources.

This session will provide an overview of Zoom's In-Meeting AI Tools. Topics covered will include:

• In-Meeting Questions
• AI Summary
• Smart Recordings
• Adjusting your AI Companion settings

 AI Companion will also be available during the meeting so users can experience the settings live.

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 and grade VoiceThread assignments.

Types of VoiceThread assignments are:
Watch
Comment
Create
These can be combined in various ways and can be used to assess student presentations as individuals or as groups.

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 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

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 also be used to create assessments for your students.  This training will cover how to create and grade Panopto assessments.

This session 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

A commitment to equitable teaching must extend to students with disabilities. In this session, we will discuss why you should not wait until you receive an accommodation request to design a learning experience that is inclusive of students with visual, hearing, motor, and cognitive disabilities. You will have an opportunity to practice identifying and addressing potential accessibility barriers in Word documents, PowerPoint slide decks, and Canvas pages. We will also introduce UDOIT Advantage, a tool for scanning your Canvas site, finding and addressing accessibility barriers, and even providing alternate formats for your course materials.

This session covers the basics of setting up your Canvas course shell. Topics covered in this 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

The emergence of cutting-edge technologies, like ChatGPT, has sparked a critical conversation throughout the education industry. In this workshop, the Hypothesis team will show you how to leverage social annotation to encourage authentic, process-oriented engagement with your course materials. They’ll also share best practices for using social annotation with AI writing tools and demonstrate how to set up hypothesis-enabled readings in your LMS. Participants can expect to leave the webinar armed with concrete assignments to implement in your courses right away.

You can join this Canvas course to follow along in Hypothes.is assignments and get access to resources.

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

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

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 session include:

• Creating Turnitin assignments
• Grading Turnitin assignments
• Using the feedback features

This session covers 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 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

Plagiarism and cheating with AI is a continuing concern. In this session we:

• Consider different ways AI can be used for plagiarism and cheating
• Talk about the AI text detectors and their deficiencies
• Discuss non-technological ways of looking for AI-generated content
• Strategies for approaching AI cheating with students
• Discuss the current UM policies regarding unauthorized use of artificially generated content.

This session builds on the Canvas Overview class and provides more detail on the Assignments tools. Topics covered in this 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

This session is for instructors and administrators who know how to create discussions in Harmonize and want to learn strategies for making online discussions more inclusive so that every student has a voice. We’ll cover all of the ways you can use Harmonize to encourage students of all abilities to engage with the content and each other. We’ll also highlight strategies you can use to promote more collaboration and social learning so that your students feel more connected to a learning community.

We’ll cover how you can:

• Make it easy for students to follow along by structuring course discussions based on modules or weeks
• Enable diverse learners to participate with rich, fully accessible multimedia tools and auto-captioning
• Promote student-student interactions using chat and groups
• Create a safe space for students to ask questions
• Check in with students and gauge comprehension using polls
• Support inquiry-based learning and/or subject specific questions
• Bridge the synchronous and asynchronous portions of your class
• Encourage peer-to-peer learning with social annotations of PDFs

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. To prepare for the session we suggest you look through Honorlock's best practices for remote test taking information.

Topics covered in this 90 minute session include:

• Is online proctoring right for my class? 
• Setting up a Canvas quiz with Honorlock
• Overview of Settings
• Evaluating proctoring reports
• Resolving accessibility and technical issues

Kritik is an online platform that facilitates peer to peer assessment of student work, giving students an opportunity to learn from their peers, adapt and improve their work and gain a deeper understanding of the topic. This pilot is running January through December 2024. If you are interested in participating in the pilot please email TeachingTools@umsystem.edu.
‍Sign up if you want to upskill yourselves in the world of AI and are interested in learning how to use it to create new assessments for your class. It will focus on relevant steps that can save you time and create a better assessment opportunity for your students.
What to expect:

• Audience Discussion: What are some new assessments you’ve tried to improve student engagement? Have you used AI to create new assessments?
• Activity: Creating New Assessments Using AI Kritik + AI Walkthrough
• Examples of new assessment strategies implemented by institutions and instructors
• Q&A

This session covers the basics of setting up and navigating through your Canvas Gradebook. Topics covered in this session include:

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

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

• How to log into Google Drive, and M365
• Overview of the different Apps in Google and M365
• How to share documents on 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/