Bootcamp

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.

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

• Setting up Peer Reviews in Canvas
• Best Practices/Stumbling Blocks for Peer Reviews and Group Assignments
• Grading Peer Review Assignments using Speed Grader

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

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
• Best Practices/Stumbling Blocks for 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

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

This session will go over the recent and upcoming enhancements in Canvas. Updates may include Differentiation Tags, Discussion Checkpoints, Enhanced Rubrics, and SpeedGrader Enhancements. These updates are in various phases of rollout to the university (ready for use, in testing, coming soon).

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

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.

Using multiple means of representation (text, images, and video) is a key principle of Universal Design for Learning (UDL) and can help students better comprehend and retain essential course concepts. The Hypothesis team will discuss multimodal learning as a core principle of UDL, and how using YouTube video annotation alongside text annotation with scholarly sources like JSTOR can help incorporate multimodal learning in your course. They’ll demonstrate how to set up YouTube video & JSTOR annotation assignments with Hypothesis and review how to add multimedia to annotations.

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

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