Academic Technology

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 provides organizational and design tips on setting up and arranging the Modules in Canvas. Features include nesting and indenting items, using emojies for visual interest, condensing information in Pages, choosing Home Pages, and manipulating the navigation menu. 

This session is intended for intermediate and advanced Canvas users

 

This session outlines strengths and weaknesses of various quiz options in Canvas. We explore optimal question types, quiz formats and setups, and question design recommendations, and we identify when Classic Quiz is preferable to New Quiz.

This session is intended for intermediate to advanced Canvas users. 

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.

This session is part of our series on Artificial Intelligence.

• Describe the AI capabilities
• Describe AI prompt patterns
• Craft AI prompts for specific instructional activities based on your course needs
• Articulate what constitutes effective prompts 
• Identify factors to consider when incorporating AI in teaching

This session features a grab bag of weird stuff buried in Canvas that few know about and fewer use. Undelete, New Analytics, sneaky settings in Settings, Delay Posting in Announcements, and various other treasures, tricks, secrets, and insights. 

This session is intended for intermediate to advanced Canvas users.

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

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.

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 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

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

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 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

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 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

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

Members from Design Services, Program Coordination and Academic Technologies, will be presenting at the Health Sciences Campus.

The presentation will start at 12:05 and last about 30 minutes, leaving plenty of time for questions and one on one conversations. Pick up some Missouri Online swag, enjoy some refreshments, enter a drawing for prizes, ask questions and talk about your teaching goals.

We look forward to seeing you at Hospital Hill!

Members from Design Services, Program Coordination, Academic Technologies, and Recruitment and Student Support are scheduled to participate in UMKC's campus visit.

Drop in at any time during the meet & greet to participate in collaborative conversations, pick up some Missouri Online swag, enjoy some refreshments, enter a drawing for prizes, ask questions and talk about your teaching goals.

Table topics will include: technology roadmap, course analytics, program development, retooling, market research, faculty development, programmatic support and certifications, and student recruitment.

We look forward to seeing you at your campus!

Explore the ethical implications of generative AI in use in your courses and work, and how to use it responsibly to comply with FERPA and university policies. This session will include time for discussions and also include examples of prompts that conform to ethical usage.

Specific areas covered are: 

• Generating course materials with AI
• Use of AI images and media in your courses
• For student assignments and grading
• Letters of recommendation
• Scholarly writing