Bootcamp

Panopto Overview

Date: Tue, Feb 4, 2025
Time: 01:00 PM - 01:55 PM

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

Canvas updates and enhancements

Date: Tue, Feb 4, 2025
Time: 02:00 PM - 02:55 PM

This session will go over the recent updates and enhancements that became available in Canvas during the previous semester. Updates include new and updated functionalities with the discussion tool, faster SpeedGrader, and more.

Assessments with Panopto

Date: Wed, Feb 5, 2025
Time: 10:00 AM - 10:55 AM

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.

Advanced Zoom Overview

Date: Wed, Feb 5, 2025
Time: 01:00 PM - 01:55 PM

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

Accessibility in your Canvas Course and UDOIT

Date: Wed, Feb 5, 2025
Time: 02:00 PM - 02:55 PM

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.

Intermediate Hypothesis: Leveraging Social Annotation in the Age of AI

Date: Tue, Feb 11, 2025
Time: 10:00 AM - 10:55 AM

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.

Canvas Assignments, Quizzes and Grades

Date: Tue, Feb 11, 2025
Time: 11:00 AM - 11:55 AM

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

Canvas Analytics Overview

Date: Tue, Feb 11, 2025
Time: 01:00 PM - 01:55 PM

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 Overview

Date: Tue, Feb 11, 2025
Time: 02:00 PM - 02:55 PM

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

iClicker Overview

Date: Wed, Feb 12, 2025
Time: 09:00 AM - 09:55 AM

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

AI Plagiarism, Cheating and Academic Integrity

Date: Wed, Feb 12, 2025
Time: 10:00 AM - 10:55 AM

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.

Canvas Group Assignments and Peer Reviews

Date: Wed, Feb 12, 2025
Time: 11:00 AM - 11:55 AM

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

Intermediate Harmonize

Date: Wed, Feb 12, 2025
Time: 01:00 PM - 01:55 PM

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:

Honorlock Overview

Date: Wed, Feb 12, 2025
Time: 02:00 PM - 03:30 PM

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

Intermediate Kritik: Using AI to design new assessments for your classroom

Date: Thu, Feb 13, 2025
Time: 10:00 AM - 10:55 AM

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

Canvas Gradebook Overview

Date: Thu, Feb 13, 2025
Time: 11:00 AM - 11:55 AM

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