Academic Technology

This session is designed for users who are new to Pressbooks and covers several introductory topics.

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

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.

Have questions about implementing Hypothesis? Want to collaborate and learn from other instructors using Hypothesis at their institutions? Pop in to Office Hours with our success team to ask questions and engage with peers about social annotation with Hypothesis.

This training session is designed for instructors who are already using Pressbooks and want to take full advantage of Pressbooks Results, a feature that sends student scores from interactive H5P activities directly to your LMS gradebook.

This session will focus on how to activate and use Pressbooks Results within Canvas so you can streamline grading, motivate learners, and improve learning outcomes.

Attendees will learn how to:

• Configure Pressbooks chapters that contain H5P activities for grading
• Connect Pressbooks content to your LMS
• View student performance in your LMS gradebook and the Pressbooks Results Viewer

These trainings are ideal for anyone preparing to use Pressbooks content in their LMS and looking to seamlessly integrate interactive assessments.

Prerequisites: Some familiarity with automatically graded H5P activities is recommended. If you’re new to H5P, we recommend our ‘Create Engaging Learning Materials with Pressbooks’ webinar instead.

In this session, Dr. Raelynne Hale from Kansas State University will examine ways that VoiceThread can serve as an AI-resistant tool for online courses. From low-stakes activities to audio-visual summative assessments, VoiceThread offers a platform that can humanize the online classroom and promote student learning and growth. In this session, participants will see example activities and assessments that they will be able to adapt and use in their own courses.

Have questions about implementing Hypothesis? Want to collaborate and learn from other instructors using Hypothesis at their institutions? Pop in to Office Hours with our success team to ask questions and engage with peers about social annotation with Hypothesis.

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

Social annotation offers students a way to build community while they annotate course documents, but just because we create an annotation assignment does not mean that students automatically know how to write meaningful annotations. This session provides strategies for increasing instructor presence in annotation activities, prompting meaningful original annotations from students, and inviting students to respond to each other. You will leave with strategies that you can apply to your assignment prompts to start seeing better results from student annotations & discussions immediately.

We will also discuss how auto-grading can be used for courses large and small.

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

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 is designed for users who are new to Pressbooks and covers several introductory topics.

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

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.

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 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

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 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)

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.

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.