Academic Technology

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Make setting up readings for your classes a little easier by using your campus library’s resources in Canvas. Instead of uploading articles to your courses, with all the concerns uploading raises about copyright and accessibility, rely on links to those articles and other materials. Topics include:

• how to create permanent links to library database content
  • Library Resources tool in Canvas available at MU, UMKC, and UMSL
  • EBSCO Canvas tool at MU and UMKC
  • Proquest tool at UMKC
  • MU’s Lib Apps tool

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.

In this workshop, you will create a VoiceThread. Participants will learn how to upload media, comment and annotate on that media, and share it with others. This will be a slow paced, step-by-step, hands-on workshop. It is open to both VoiceThread license holders and free accounts.

In this webinar, the Pressbooks team will walk through how to create and maintain accessible publications using Pressbooks, combining platform tools with practical, real-world best practices.

You’ll get a guided tour of Pressbooks Accessibility Assist, including a demonstration of the Authoring Tool (available now) and the upcoming Scanner Tool and Network Book Scanner designed to help institutions assess accessibility at scale. Along the way, we’ll show how these tools fit into everyday publishing workflows for instructors, librarians, and institutions.

The session will include a show-and-tell walkthrough followed by an open, interactive conversation where attendees can ask questions, share strategies, and learn from peers across the Pressbooks community.

Whether you’re preparing for new accessibility requirements or looking to strengthen existing practices, this session will help you move forward with confidence.

By the end of this webinar, attendees will be able to:

• Understand the core principles of accessibility compliance as they apply to Pressbooks-published content
• Use Pressbooks Accessibility Assist to identify and address accessibility issues during the authoring process
• Learn how the Network Book Scanner will support network-wide accessibility reviews and compliance efforts
• Apply practical best practices for creating accessible OER and digital learning materials
• Engage with peers to exchange tips, challenges, and workflows for accessibility at scale

Please be aware that this event is listed in CST here and EST on the google form. This webinar is open to all users on hosted PressbooksEDU networks.

AI-powered browser tools like Google’s Homework Helper and agentic browsers from OpenAI, Perplexity, and Opera are introducing new challenges for online assignments and assessments. This session examines these emerging threats, explores their capabilities, and discusses practical countermeasures.

This is a hands-on workshop. We will begin to explore the features available to VoiceThreaders with a full license. Participants will learn how to create groups and subgroups, set sharing permissions within those groups, and privately share VoiceThreads with individuals.

Equations and symbols are at the heart of many STEM courses — but making them accessible can feel daunting. Mathpix is a tool that converts handwritten and digital math into formats that are easier for faculty to prepare and more accessible for students to use. 

Learn from your colleagues across the UM System who will share how Mathpix is being applied in teaching and how it can reduce stress for faculty while opening learning opportunities for students.

Presenters:

Vinay Kanth Rao Kodipelly, Assistant Teaching Professor of Mathematics at the University of Missouri–St. Louis - Vinay coordinates and teaches undergraduate mathematics courses at UMSL and designs a range of instructional artifacts, including interactive lecture materials that he coined as Slides on Steroids. These are highly structured, interactive slide-based resources that he has presented at several teaching and learning conferences. In developing these materials—along with accessible course notes, assessments, and student-facing resources—he relies on Mathpix for efficient equation capture, accessibility support, and conversion of mathematical content into polished instructional formats suitable for slides.

Dr. Jagannathan Sarangapani (Jag), Rutledge-Emerson Professor in Electrical Engineering & Interim Director ISC

This training session is open to all users of hosted PressbooksEDU networks and is

designed for users who have some familiarity with Pressbooks and who want to learn how to publish and prepare their book for distribution.

Users who attend this session will be able to:

• Customize theme options and apply Custom CSS
• Explore and apply a theme
• Add contributors and other metadata to their book
• Understand how they can perform pre-publication checks for quality (accessibility, etc)
• Publish their book content in full or in part
• Create & share PDF and EPUB exports

Register in advance for this meeting. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. All registrants will receive a recording of the webinar.

In our third hands-on workshop in the series, participants will learn how to give private feedback, use threaded commenting, copy VoiceThreads for use with multiple groups, and use comment moderation to formatively assess student work..

ePortfolios are powerful tools for documenting, reflecting on, and demonstrating student learning over time. In this introductory session, faculty will explore how ePortfolios can function as a high-impact teaching and learning practice—fostering metacognition, deep reflection, and authentic assessment.

We'll examine the pedagogical benefits of ePortfolios before diving into a hands-on overview of our new Canvas-integrated ePortfolio tool.

Join Victoria Mondelli, PhD,  Founding Director of the Mizzou Teaching for Learning Center and Josh Merlenbach, Application Administrator, UM Academic Technology, as they share their knowledge of ePortfolios. Bring your questions and learn more.

Whether you're new to ePortfolios or looking to integrate them into your courses, this workshop will equip you with the foundation and tool to get started.

This training session is open to all users of hosted PressbooksEDU networks and is designed for users who have some familiarity with Pressbooks and are ready to create more engaging learning materials Attendees will learn how to design and create formative assessments and other interactive elements (via H5P), add opportunities for social annotation (via Hypothesis), display mathematical & scientific notation, load Pressbooks content into courses taught within a Learning Management System, and send grades to the LMS gradebook (via Pressbooks Results). 

Users who attend this session will be able to:

• Choose and create appropriate interactive quizzes (with H5P)
• Configure a chapter for grading 
• Bring graded content into an LMS course and use autograding features (with PB Results)
• Activate and use digital annotation tools (with Hypothesis)
• Create and display mathematical & scientific notation (with LaTeX or MathML)

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. All registrants will receive a recording of the webinar.

Please be aware that this event is listed in CST here and EST on the google form. This webinar is open to all users on hosted PressbooksEDU networks.

Working towards a digitally accessible Canvas course can be an overwhelming task, but there are tools to help! This session will introduce two Canvas-integrated tools, TidyUP and Ally, to assist you in your efforts to make your materials in Canvas accessible. TidyUP identifies and can help you remove outdated or unused content, while Ally identifies and remediates accessibility issues in your Canvas content.  

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 as well..

This training session is open to all users of hosted PressbooksEDU networks and is designed for users who are new to Pressbooks.

Users who attend this session will be able to: 

• Find and clone openly licensed content from the PB Directory
• Find and use appropriate support resources
• Create a new book
• Bring in content from Pressbooks and Word documents
• Create & organize new parts & chapters
• Add basic content to their book (textboxes/headings, footnotes, glossary terms, images, video) 
• Preview changes before publishing and view/restore revision history
• Add collaborators to their book with appropriate roles

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. All registrants will receive a recording of the webinar.

Please be aware that this event is listed in CST here and EST on the google form. This webinar is open to all users on hosted PressbooksEDU networks.

This training session is open to all users of hosted PressbooksEDU networks and is designed for users who have some familiarity with Pressbooks and who want to learn how to publish and prepare their book for distribution.

Users who attend this session will be able to:

• Customize theme options and apply Custom CSS
• Explore and apply a theme
• Add contributors and other metadata to their book
• Understand how they can perform pre-publication checks for quality (accessibility, etc)
• Publish their book content in full or in part
• Create & share PDF and EPUB exports

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. All registrants will receive a recording of the webinar.

Working towards a digitally accessible Canvas course can be an overwhelming task, but there are tools to help! This session will introduce two Canvas-integrated tools, TidyUP and Ally, to assist you in your efforts to make your materials in Canvas accessible. TidyUP identifies and can help you remove outdated or unused content, while Ally identifies and remediates accessibility issues in your Canvas content.