Online and Hybrid Instruction and Course Design
Description: This presentation takes you through the basic expectations of teaching an online class at Cleveland State. It discusses how to set expectations for students as well as basic best practices for facilitating an online class.
Transparent Design for Online and Hybrid Courses
Description: This session will take a look at how to make an online class transparent and easy to navigate for students. In the session, we will look at design models and the basics of transparency and connect the concept to different tools within our LMS.
From Surviving to Thriving in a Post-COVID-19 Environment
Description: So, we survived the spring transition to a remote learning environment. Now what? In this session, Dr. Jim Peters and Gina Cash will review both institutional and published data emerging from the spring semester and will discuss available resources and tips for creating quality online or hybrid experiences for both faculty and students.
Delivering Content Effectively
1:00 - How to Record, Host, and Caption Videos
Facilitated by Sandra Godsey and Ashley Raburn
Description: In this session we will look at best practices for recording videos for your class, and then how and where are best options for video hosting as well as tips on captioning and keeping videos accessible!
2:00 - How to Adapt What You Do in the Classroom to a Virtual Environment
Facilitated by Rebecca Riggs and Victoria Bryan
Description: This session will review best practices for delivering content in an online or hybrid environment, including the appropriate length of videos, keeping students engaged, ensuring that students have engaged with the information, using existing resources so you’re not “reinventing the wheel,” etc.
3:00 - Faculty Panel: Implementation Examples
Facilitated by Vickie Still, Ashley McEwen, and Laurie Rowland
Description: Hear from various faculty members about their practices for delivering content effectively in an online environment. These will focus on fully online courses and the online components of hybrid courses. Each presenter will take about 10-15 minutes to talk about their approaches, and we’ll reserve some time for questions and discussion at the end of the session.
Connecting with Students Virtually
1:00 - Communicating Effectively in D2L
Facilitated by Dr. Ann Cunningham
Description: This session will address how to use various tools in D2L to communicate effectively with your students and provide them the scaffolding they need to succeed in your course. Dr. Cunningham will focus on using the news tool and D2L email as well as active participation in discussion boards.
2:00 - Setting Up Groups in D2L and Facilitating Effective Virtual Group Work
Facilitated by Nathan Simmons and Victoria Bryan
Description: This session will focus on how to utilize the Groups feature in D2L to organize group work in a virtual environment. We will also demonstrate effective practices for facilitating group work in a virtual environment by building trust among group members and establishing processes for holding each other accountable.
3:00 - Faculty Panel: Building Community in Online and Hybrid Instruction
Facilitated by Dr. Bonnie Freeland, Jennifer Davis, Amy Fowler
Description: This session will address multiple avenues for building community effectively, including case studies of how the nursing program implemented regular town hall meetings for students and faculty, addressing Zoometiquette in the virtual classroom, and using video to introduce important concepts in online courses. Each presenter will take about 10-15 minutes to talk about their approaches, and we’ll reserve some time for questions and discussion at the end of the session.
We’re offering this session on Thursday instead of Tuesday so that we can accommodate any interest in Pellissippi’s Virtual Distance Learning Conference (June 23, 2020, 8:30 AM – 4:30 PM EST). Registration is free! Click here to register.
Assessments
1:00 - How to Set Up Quizzes and Exams
Facilitated by Nathan Simmons
Description: This session will focus on the technical components of setting up quizzes and exams in D2L. The intended audience is instructors who are new to utilizing this feature or who need a reminder about these processes.
2:00 - Do You Actually NEED a Proctoring Service?
Facilitated by Rebecca Riggs and Ashley Raburn
Description: This session will address how to write assessments that incentivize learning and application. Topics to cover include randomizing questions/answers on exams, writing application questions rather than memorization questions, ways to incentivize studying before the exam rather than during the exam, etc.
3:00 - Using Zoom/Google Hangouts to Proctor Exams
Facilitated by Greg Edwards
Description: As we strive to improve our internet delivery and testing processes, using the Zoom platform to remotely test students could prove a viable option. During the latter part of the Spring 2020 semester, the nursing department used Zoom regularly and successfully for testing in D2L. Greg will introduce and discuss the successes and impediments to using this technology as an alternative testing format.
Grading Effectively
1:00 - Setting Up and Using the Grade Book in D2L
Facilitated by Dr. Ann Cunningham
Description: This session will address basic information on how to set up a grade book in D2L and offer some tips for how to use the grade book effectively to communicate your students’ progress in your course.
2:00 - Creating Rubrics in D2L
Facilitated by Nathan Simmons
Description: This session will focus on how to use the rubric tool to facilitate faster and more effective grading.
3:00 - Offering Useful and Instructive Feedback: Grades As a Form of Instruction
Facilitated by Candice Patterson, Jennie Eble, Victoria Bryan
Description: Feedback is not just about evaluating a student’s work and justifying a grade; feedback can be used to continue forming a student’s understanding of the course’s subject matter. Equally important is the value of clear expectations on assignments. These concepts are especially important in a virtual classroom. This session will explore effective ways of offering feedback to support learning. Each presenter will take about 10-15 minutes to talk about their approaches, and we’ll reserve some time for questions and discussion at the end of the session.
11:00 am ౼ Examity Proctoring Training
Facilitated by an Examity Trainer
Description: This session is required for any faculty who plan to use the Examity service for proctoring exams during the fall semester. The training should only take about half an hour, and there will be time for questions. If you plan to use Examity, but you are unable to attend at this scheduled time, please contact Ashley Raburn (araburn@clevelandstatecc.edu).
1:00 - Reviewing the CDI’s Sample Hybrid and Online Courses
Facilitated by Ashley Raburn, Sara Amato, Victoria Bryan
Description: This summer, the CDI has worked with faculty to make sample online and hybrid course designs available for faculty to view as students. To gain access, a faculty member just needs to write to MediaHelp@clevelandstatecc.edu to request that they be added to the sample course. This session will give attendees an opportunity to walk through a few of these courses and ask questions about the faculty members’ design process/decision making.
2:30 - Verbal/Recorded Feedback
Facilitated by Susie Fries and Victoria Bryan
Description: Recording verbal feedback for students seems cumbersome at first, but once you figure it out, it can save you a ton of grading time AND it helps you communicate to your students that you're invested in their learning and development. Susie and Victoria will go over how to implement this technique in your grading practices and how to utilize the recording functions in D2L and TurnItIn.
1:00 - Best Practices for Building and Using Rubrics in Your Courses
Facilitated by Melynda Conner (TBR)
Description: Well-structured grading rubrics play an integral role in the shape and function of any course. They can clarify and reinforce expectations, dispel student confusion and anxiety, and anchor accountability enforcement. In this one-hour workshop, participants will review several styles of rubrics that are easy for instructors to create and for students to understand.
2:30 - Mental Health and Managing Stress
Facilitated by Melodee Alexander
Description: Life is a seesaw. We get into trouble when our lives are overcome with heaviness on one end of the seesaw or when we can’t find our fulcrum. Weight on both sides and the fulcrum are all necessary to have balance. This workshop will consider enforcing the fulcrum, identifying the weights that can get too heavy, and the ongoing process of the balancing act in the human experience.
1:00 - Reviewing Online and Hybrid Course Design Checklists
Facilitated by Victoria Bryan, Ryan Thompson, Susan Webb-Curtis, Karen Wyrick
Description: Before new online and hybrid courses run in August, the deans/department chairs and members of the CDI will be reviewing course design using the online course design checklist and hybrid course design checklist. These sessions will help you familiarize yourself with these rubrics and answer any questions you might have about their content.
2:30 - Faculty-Led Q&A
Facilitated by Laurie Rowland, Dr. Jenny Paul, and Marci Reiter
Description: This session will allow experienced faculty to address questions from the virtual audience related to online and hybrid course design. Come with your questions, leave with some answers!
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