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Professional Development Schedule

Estimated Reading Time: 16 Minutes

2024

Professional Development Schedule

Use the link below to join any of the sessions that have a virtual option unless otherwise noted on the calendar

Professional Development Zoom link:

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Meeting ID |944 3392 8143

Password |614328

(Excluding Zoom Training, which is held in Teams. Find the Teams link in the calendar)

Registration is not required for virtual sessions

Sessions will be in the Flex format. Session descriptions can be found below the calendars at the bottom.

January 2025 Calendar

Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat
1 2 3 4
5 6 7 8

Getting Started with Canvas

9:30 AM - 10:15 AM

CH 179/Online

9 10 11
12 13 14 15 Start of Classes 16 17 18
19 20 MLK - No Class 21 22 23 24 25
26 27

Yuja Video Basics

1:00 PM - 1:30 PM

CH 179/Online

28 29 30 31

February 2025 Calendar

Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat
1
2 3 4

Yuja Verity (replacement for Respondus Lockdown Browser)

12:00 - 12: 30 PM

CH 179/Online

5

LUAU Series by Educational Effectiveness | Flyer

Session 1: Information Literacy 401: Thinking Critically/Sourcing Wisely

12:20 PM - 1:20 PM

Online Only

6 7 8
9 10 11 12

LUAU Series by Educational Effectiveness | Flyer

Session 2: Self-Advocacy 101: Nurturing Critical Thinkers for Student Success

12:20 PM - 1:20 PM

Online Only

13 14 15
16 17 18 19

LUAU Series by Educational Effectiveness | Flyer

Session 3: Generative AI 201: Fostering a Culture of Critical Inquiry with Prompt Engineering

12:20 PM - 1:20 PM

Online Only

20 21 22
23 24 25 26

LUAU Series by Educational Effectiveness | Flyer

Session 4: Design Thinking: Igniting Student Innovation for Critical Thinking Across the Curriculum

5:30 PM - 6:30 PM

Online Only

27 28

March 2025 Calendar

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16 17 18 19 20 21 22
23 24 25 26 27 28 29
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April 2025 Calendar

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Professional Development Session Details
(Click a title below to reveal the session description)

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 Verity, which is the replacement for Lockdown Browser:

  • how to set up Verity in Canvas for both faculty and students
  • how to set up a quiz with Verity
  • the features and functionality of Verity quiz settings
  • accessing and reading the Verity data dashboard

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.

Professional Development Schedule

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