Academic Technology

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 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

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

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

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 session include:

• Full Panopto site overview
• Using advanced editing features: adding slides, clips, YouTube videos and webpages
• Creating quizzes
• Student use of Panopto for assignments and discussions
• Adding and editing captions

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 session include:

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

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

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