Academic Technology

Join VoiceThread for an interactive workshop where we'll explore VoiceThread's newest features, including integrated screen recording, the enhanced Postcard View, accessibility improvements, and the new VoiceThread Courses environment. You'll see how these updates can make teaching, learning, and feedback more engaging, efficient, and human-centered. Throughout the session, you'll have opportunities to work hands-on with these new tools so you can leave ready to use them in your own courses.

This is an exciting time at Turnitin, as we have multiple updates and new features and add ons for our Integrity product lines! You'll learn all about what the new Feedback Studio experience, Originality, and more!

Additionally, if you have feedback on Turnitin products, we would love to route your feedback to help influence the development of our learning solutions.

This session is for those who have experience with Turnitin. (If you are brand new, you are still welcome to attend. We invite you to also schedule an appointment where we can provide an introduction to the Turnitin solution you might be interested in or have started using.)

Note: This session creates a calendar invitation that shows as 45 minutes--we will actually stay a full hour to make time for questions. The session will be recorded so you can review anything you might miss.

Registering is one of the only ways to receive a link to the archived session, so please be sure you register, even if you cannot attend. (If we do not have at least 1 attendee, we may not have a recording to share.)

Driven by the rise of generative and agentic AI, instructors are increasingly leveraging handwritten work to evaluate a student's authentic thinking, reasoning, and writing process. Yet, this return to paper brings back a familiar challenge; balancing the value of authentic assessment against the time-intensive burden of manual grading. Join faculty and admin colleagues and a Gradescope specialist for an interactive session on how to preserve academic integrity without doubling your grading time. Our faculty panelists will share firsthand insights on how they:

• Grade handwritten assessments more efficiently without sacrificing consistency
• Reduce time spent on repetitive grading with AI-assisted answer grouping and flexible rubrics
• Coordinate fair grading across instructors, TAs, or teaching teams of any size
• Use grading analytics to identify common misconceptions and inform future instruction

Whether you teach STEM, business, or the humanities, you will leave this session with a clear understanding of how Gradescope saves time, ensures consistent feedback, and how you can get started trying out Gradescope today.

This is for people who use VoiceThread in Canvas. In this hands-on workshop, you will get to practice creating assignments through VoiceThread’s Assignment Builder. We will work on the new “Stacked Assignments”, along with the standard Create and Comment assignments. You will see how students submit assignments, and we will review the Instructor’s grading interface, including the new rubric interface.

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

Please note: This session will not be recorded. If you are unable to attend the session, please see our Canvas knowledgebase materials and overview videos. As always, feel free to schedule a 1:1 consultation or contact us if you have any questions.

The topic of this session is leveraging AI for creating course content. Currently, Canvas does not have an active, integrated AI component, but AI tools such as Chat-GPT, Gemini and Copilot are handy for developing course materials, particularly more rote content such as syllabi and lesson planning. Beyond structural considerations, AI can assist with brainstorming lecture, project and assignment materials. Optimally, AI can enhance your vision for the course without replacing it. Some examples we will look at in this session:

• Using AI to create a syllabus
• Using AI to create a lesson plan
• Using AI to create a rubric (note that a rubric cannot be imported into the Canvas rubric tool; it would need to be copied/pasted in)

We can also use AI for suggestions on assignments and quiz questions. AI is, in the words of Wharton professor and AI researcher Ethan Mollick, a "co-intelligence" that feels like a collaborator but is only reflecting back what you put into it.

Please note: This session will not be recorded. If you are unable to attend the session, please see UM Academic Technology's webpage on Artificial Intelligence and our training videos. As always, feel free to schedule a 1:1 consultation or contact us if you have any questions.

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

Please note: This session will not be recorded. If you are unable to attend the session, please see our Panopto knowledgebase materials and overview videos. As always, feel free to schedule a 1:1 consultation or contact us if you have any questions.

Creating an accessible Canvas course doesn’t have to be overwhelming. This session introduces a set of tools that work together to support accessibility at every stage of course development.

In this session, you’ll learn how to:

• Use the Canvas Accessibility Checker while creating content
• Clean up files and content with TidyUP
• Identify and remediate accessibility issues with Ally

By combining these tools, you can create a more efficient workflow for improving accessibility without starting from scratch

Please note: This session will not be recorded. If you are unable to attend the session, please see our Ally knowledgebase materials and overview video. As always, feel free to schedule a 1:1 consultation or contact us if you have any questions.

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.

Please note: This session will not be recorded. If you are unable to attend the session, please see our Zoom knowledgebase materials and overview videos. As always, feel free to schedule a 1:1 consultation or contact us if you have any questions.

This session will go over the recent and upcoming enhancements in Canvas.

Please note: This session will not be recorded. If you are unable to attend the session, please see our Canvas knowledgebase materials and overview videos. As always, feel free to schedule a 1:1 consultation or contact us if you have any questions.

Discover the practical techniques that turn simple AI requests into powerful, accurate, and useful results. In this hands-on session, faculty will learn proven prompt-writing strategies, explore real academic use cases, and leave with ready-to-use frameworks for teaching and everyday productivity.

Please note: This session will not be recorded. If you are unable to attend the session, please see UM Academic Technology's webpage on Artificial Intelligence and our training videos. As always, feel free to schedule a 1:1 consultation or contact us if you have any questions.

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
• Create
• Comment, including stacked commenting assignments

These can be combined in various ways and can be used to assess student presentations as individuals or as groups.

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

Please note: This session will not be recorded. If you are unable to attend the session, please see our Zoom knowledgebase materials and overview videos. As always, feel free to schedule a 1:1 consultation or contact us if you have any questions.

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.

Please note: This session will not be recorded. If you are unable to attend the session, please see our Panopto knowledgebase materials and overview videos. As always, feel free to schedule a 1:1 consultation or contact us if you have any questions.

This session covers utilizing more advanced features of Lucid. Topics covered in this session include:

• Advanced features in Lucid to enhance instructional activities for students
• Quick Tools, Visual Activities, Layering, Assisted Layout, Voting Sessions, Advanced Shape Options, and more
• Q&A to help work through any problems you have had while working in Lucid

Please note: This session may not be recorded. If you are unable to attend the session, please see our Canvas knowledgebase materials and overview videos. As always, feel free to schedule a 1:1 consultation or contact us if you have any questions.

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

Please note: This session will not be recorded. If you are unable to attend the session, please see our Canvas knowledgebase materials and overview videos. As always, feel free to schedule a 1:1 consultation or contact us if you have any questions.

This session builds on the Canvas Overview class and provides more detail on using groups. 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

Please note: This session will not be recorded. If you are unable to attend the session, please see our Canvas Groups knowledgebase materials and overview video. As always, feel free to schedule a 1:1 consultation or contact us if you have any questions.

Explore how artificial intelligence can support every stage of the assessment process—from creating rubrics, quizzes, and exams to streamlining grading workflows. This session will cover practical faculty use cases, institutional guidelines and policy considerations, and help participants understand when AI can enhance assessment practices and where human oversight remains essential.

Please note: This session will not be recorded. If you are unable to attend the session, please see UM Academic Technology's webpage on Artificial Intelligence and our training videos. As always, feel free to schedule a 1:1 consultation or contact us if you have any questions.

Join us for an introduction to proctoring solutions supported at UM System: Respondus LockDown Browser and Honorlock. This session is designed to help faculty understand how each tool supports academic integrity in online assessments, including key features, setup basics, and the student testing experience.

We will also explore the growing impact of artificial intelligence on academic integrity, with a focus on emerging AI-enabled test-cheating threats. The session will highlight common risks, such as AI-assisted answer generation and content sharing, and discuss practical countermeasures available to instructors.

Whether you are new to online proctoring or looking to strengthen your current practices, this session offers actionable insights and an opportunity for discussion.

Please note: This session will not be recorded. If you are unable to attend the session, please see our Honorlock knowledgebase materials and overview video. As always, feel free to schedule a 1:1 consultation or contact us if you have any questions.

This session is part of our series on Artificial Intelligence.

According to a Missouri Online faculty survey in the Spring of 2023, 98% of UM faculty have concerns about the use of tools such as ChatGPT in assignments and 68% on tests. In this session, we will review different ways AI can be used for plagiarism and cheating, talk about AI text detectors and non-technological ways of looking for AI-generated content, along with the limits of both, strategies for approaching AI cheating with students, and discuss the current UM policies regarding unauthorized use of artificially generated content.

Please note: This session will not be recorded. If you are unable to attend the session, please see UM Academic Technology's webpage on Artificial Intelligence and our training videos. As always, feel free to schedule a 1:1 consultation or contact us if you have any questions.

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

Please note: This session will not be recorded. If you are unable to attend the session, please see our Canvas knowledgebase materials and peer review overview video. As always, feel free to schedule a 1:1 consultation or contact us if you have any questions.

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

Please note: This session will not be recorded. If you are unable to attend the session, please see our Canvas knowledgebase materials and gradebook overview video. As always, feel free to schedule a 1:1 consultation or contact us if you have any questions.

The Hypothesis team will discuss how collaborative annotation with Hypothesis can be used to make student reading visible, active, and social in STEM courses. Social annotation's collaborative and metacognitive nature can encourage students to tackle difficult concepts in a new way. For example, social annotation can assist students in identifying patterns and relationships, in analyzing the validity of arguments and/or solutions, and in locating and contextualizing important information in problems. Additionally, it can give instructors an opportunity to guide students through texts or course materials asynchronously.

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

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

Please note: This session will not be recorded. If you are unable to attend the session, please see our Canvas knowledgebase materials and analytics overview video. As always, feel free to schedule a 1:1 consultation or contact us if you have any questions.

Help your students help themselves by telling them about Draft Coach.

Draft Coach is a student-oriented tool from Turnitin providing help with properly quoting/paraphrasing and citing work, as well as (non-AI) grammar checking/advice. This session is intended to introduce the tool to instructors and help them advise students in using it.

Please note: This session will not be recorded. If you are unable to attend the session, please see our Draft Coach knowledgebase materials. As always, feel free to schedule a 1:1 consultation or contact us if you have any questions.