The Schedule

This presentation details the conversion of a communication fundamentals class from face-to-face to synchronous online modality.

Ever wonder how you can use live streaming for your courses? Come and learn about what IVC Dance has been up to with live streaming content for the community and our dance courses over the past year. Topics will cover software used, how themes were selected, format of live stream events, how live streams were integrated in courses and more. Live stream events can be a great way to bring in guests or share special content with your students that you can use for courses, departments and beyond. Come learn more and stay for conversations and questions after!

As the first point of communication with our students, our syllabi are critical in setting the stage for our course learning environments. We'll discuss how to articulate clear, equitable policies using positive language that motivates students to succeed. For the second half of the session, please bring a syllabus for some hands-on revision and review.

Equitable pedagogy is more than representation; it holistically supports students with course structure and language that invites participation. Recommendations provided during this session are informed by the Spring Guided Pathways Summit, field experience, and scholarly literature.

Ever since moving to online instruction, one of the most concerning issues has been the use of online proctoring software. Faculty have been forced to modify the way they teach and assess in an online environment, while students have been experiencing an increase in unnecessary stress and anxiety. In this workshop, we will discuss alternatives to use of online proctoring software and share best practices for administering assessments that are less invasive.

From IVC to transfer or a career, making your course part of the process.

Putting it all together while keeping equity and culturally responsiveness in the forefront of course design.

Looking at your class and engaging students through New Analytics. This tool is built into Canvas and available to show you information about how your students are interacting with your class and help you communicate with students based on how well they are succeeding.

We will be discussing the benefits to using Discord as an educator and sharing basic information about the critical functions of the software to ensure you can easily use this popular platform for communicating.

Do you ever wish you had more time in your class? If so, you may want to consider flipping your classes. This session will detail advantages to flipping your classes, what technologies I use in flipping my classes, and how I organize and run my classes in order to give my students the tools they need to succeed. Time will be available at the end of the session to answer any question you may have.

Learning communities within the classroom can provide the additional camaraderie and support needed for student success. In the biology courses I teach, the infrastructure of the lab rooms promotes small group learning and collaboration. Frequently, these in-person lab groups spill over outside the classroom and organically develop into study pods. However, due to the pandemic-induced transition to online learning, students have lost these lab groups. That was, until I discovered Canvas Groups. Please join me as I discuss how I have incorporated Canvas Groups in my online classes to replicate the experience of learning communities.

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This session will look at five formative feedback tools that can be used across a variety of platforms in order to better inform students while lowering barriers. Each tool is easy to implement and can be widely used across different academic fields. The tools take advantage of different modalities of communication, including text, audio, and video, to best suit your needs and style.

This session will explore how Flipgrid can be used in Higher Education settings. To get started, please go to Flipgrid.com

This session will look at how you can use Grackle to ensure that your documents are accessible to all students.

This session will look at how you can use videos as an interactive tool to engage with students synchronously or asynchronously.

This session will look at how you can use DesignPLUS in Canvas to create a more inviting, pedagogically informed design for your assignments and pages.

This session will look at using Pronto as a way to engage students through video, chat, and yes - even memes, right in your Canvas course shell.