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Professional Development Schedule

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2023

Professional Development Schedule

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Professional Development Session Details
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In the event the College is closed and moved to a remote environment due to inclement weather, all professional development sessions will become virtual only.

This session will review the assignment and discussion tools. Topics covered in this session will include:

  • Creating an Assignment
  • Assignment Settings
  • Creating a Discussion
  • Discussion settings
  • TurnIt In Basics

This session will cover how to take attendance using Roll Call and will include:

  • Adding Attendance to your course menu
  • Reviewing the Attendance (Roll Call) settings
  • Linking Attendance to the Gradebook
  • Attendance reporting

This session will review communication tools in Canvas that will help you communicate with your students and the use of groups for collaboration. Topics covered in this session will include:

  • Canvas Inbox (internal messaging system)
  • Course Calendar
  • Announcements
  • Setting up groups
  • Office 365 Collaboration

This session will review the reports available to you as an instructor. Topics covered in this session will include:

  • Where to access reports
  • What reports are available
  • How to run reports
  • Sample reports

This will be an introductory session on how to get started with Canvas. Topics covered in this session will include:

  • Accessing and logging into Canvas
  • Canvas Navigation Basics
  • Suggestions on how to approach reviewing and updating your courses
  • Basics of adding and re-arranging content
  • Review Course Evaluation Checklist
  • Creating and Adding Content

This session will cover setting up your gradebook and using rubrics. Topics covered in this session will include:

  • Setting up gradebook
  • Managing categories
  • Setting up Weighted Total
  • Overall gradebook management
  • Creating Rubrics

This session will cover to how grade assessments in Canvas and the use of SpeedGrader. Topics covered in this session will include:

  • Grading each assignment type (assignment, quiz, etc)
  • Grade settings and grade management
  • Using SpeedGrader
  • Providing feedback to students (with/without a rubric)
  • Student view of feedback

This session will cover how to use Kahoot! in the classroom.It will include:

  • Creating a Kahoot!
  • Sharing with students
  • Using in PowerPoint
  • Tips for use in the classroom

This session will cover Canvas quizzes and test banks. Topics covered in this session will include:

  • Reviewing Quizzes from Blackboard
  • Creating a new quiz
  • Quiz settings
  • Working with test banks
  • Student view of quizzes

This session will show what a course looks like from the student view. This will allow you to better understand students questions about their experience. Topics covered in this session will include:

  • Dashboard
  • Course Stream
  • Reviewing Content
  • Discussions
  • Inbox
  • Groups
  • Assessments
  • Grades
  • Grade Predictor tool

This session will demonstrate how to use TunritIn (the replacement for SafeAssign) as a faculty member and how to interpret the scores. This includes setting up an assignment with Turnitin. Draft Coach, an interactive online coach for citations, grammar, and similarity will be demonstrated. Draft Coach is available for both faculty and students.

This session will review how to begin using Yuja. Topics include:

  • Library Organization
  • Recording a Yuja video
  • Editing Basics
  • Closed-captioning Basics
  • Sharing with students

Blackboard Collaborate will be sunsetting for the College on June 30, 2023. This session will review how to use Zoom for synchronous sessions.



March 2024

Monday, March 25 | 11:00 AM - 11:30 AM | SH 203 and Online

Tuesday, March 5 | 12:30 PM - 1:00 PM | SH 204 and Online

Tuesday, March 19 | 1:00 PM - 1:30 PM | SH 204 and Online

Monday, March 4 | 12:00 PM - 12:30 PM | CH 179 and Online

Monday, March 18 | 1:00 PM - 1:30 PM | CH 179 and Online

Monday, March 4 | 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM | Online Only

Monday, March 4 | 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM | CH 179 and Online
Thursday, March 7 | 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM | CH 179 and Online

Wednesday, March 20 | 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM | CH 179 and Online

Wednesday, March 20 | 11:00 AM - 11:30 AM | CH 179 and Online

Tuesday, March 5 | 3:00 PM - 3:30 PM | CH 179 and Online - CANCELLED

Monday, March 18 | 2:30 PM - 3:00 PM | CH 179 and Online
Thursday, March 21 | 6:00 PM - 6:30 PM | ATC 314 and Online

Wednesday, March 6 | 12:00 PM - 12:30 PM | CH 179 and Online

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Thursday, March 28 | 3:00 PM - 3:30 PM | CH 179 and Online

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Meeting ID:299 797 633 136
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April 2024

Wednesday, April 24 | 11:00 aM - 11:30 AM | SH 203 and Online

Tuesday, April 2 | 12:30 PM - 1:00 PM | SH 204 and Online

Monday, April 8 | 1:00 PM - 1:30 PM | SH 203 and Online

Thursday, April 18 | 10:00 AM - 10:30 AM | CH 179 and Online
Monday, April 22 | 2:00 PM - 2:30 PM | CH 179 and Online

Wednesday, April 10 | 11:00 AM - 11:30 AM | CH 179 and Online

Friday, April 12 | 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM | Online Only

Friday, April 19 | 9:30 AM -10:00 AM | CH 179 and Online

Friday, April 19 | 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM | CH 179 and Online

Tuesday, April 2 | 6:00 PM - 6:30 PM | ATC 314 and Online

Monday, April 15 | 2:30 PM - 3:00 PM | CH 179 and Online
Thursday, April 25 | 6:00 PM - 6:30 PM | ATC 314 and Online

Friday, April 5 | 10:00 AM - 10:30 AM | CH 179 and Online

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Thursday, April 18 | 3:00 PM - 3:30 PM | CH 179 and Online

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Monday, April 15 | 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM | Online Only

May 2024

Tuesday, May 7 | 11:00 AM - 11:30 AM | SH 203 and Online

Wednesday, May 1 | 11:00 AM - 11:30 AM | SH 205 and Online

Monday, May 6 | 1:00 PM - 1:30 PM | SH 203 and Online

Thursday, May 2 | 3:00 PM - 3:30 PM | CH 179 and Online

Tuesday, May 7 | 3:00 PM - 3:30 PM | CH 179 and Online

Wednesday, May 8 | 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM | Online Only

Wednesday, May 1 | 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM | CH 179 and Online

Monday, May 6 | 2:00 PM - 2:30 PM | CH 179 and Online

Monday, May 6 | 2:30 PM - 3:00 PM | CH 179 and Online

Monday, May 6 | 3:00 PM - 3:30 PM | CH 179 and Online

Tuesday, May 14 | 2:30 PM - 3:00 PM | CH 179 and Online
Thursday, May 23 | 6:00 PM - 6:30 PM | ATC 314 and Online

Friday, May 3 | 11:00 AM - 11:30 AM | CH 179 and Online

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Meeting ID:228 043 517 621
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Wednesday, May 8 | 9:30 AM - 10:00 AM | CH 179 and Online

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Meeting ID:230 154 073 557
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Friday, May 3 | 9:30 AM - 10:30 AM | CH 179 and Online


June 2024

Tuesday, June 11 | 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM | Online Only

Professional Development Schedule

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