Academic Technology

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

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.  

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 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 roster and grades with Canvas
• Best Practices for using iClicker in the Classroom

Note: iClicker is free for MU but is a student cost at UMKC and UMSL.  It is not currently available at Missouri S&T.

Please note: This session will not be recorded. If you are unable to attend the session, please see our iClicker 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 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

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.

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.

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 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

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 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)

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.

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 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.

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.  

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 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.

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.  

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.