Workshops
Stay current with your training by attending or watching our workshops on demand. In the two weeks leading up to the start of Winter 2021 the ODE instructional design team will be offering a series of workshops to help you make sure your courses are ready for your students.
Live Workshops
Register for live teaching workshops at https://events.umflint.edu/ode
We have a catalog of workshops for you to review. If they don't fit into your schedule, many include videos you can watch on-demand.
Canvas
Bb to Canvas Course Transition
In this workshop, ODE staff will introduce you to the Canvas LMS and help you understand what happened to your course content when it was migrated from Blackboard to Canvas. You will learn about new features in all the main tools and content types, as well as general cleanup that will need to be performed to get your courses ready for students.
Canvas Basics
This workshop is for instructors who are interested in learning how to teach using the Canvas learning management system. After completing this workshop, you will have a basic overview about all built-in tools for communication and for developing course content in your virtual classroom.
Delivering Tests in Canvas
In this workshop we’ll explore the basics of delivering tests online. Topics will include creating a test in Canvas, adapting an existing test for online delivery, exam security, and recommended practices for online testing.
Getting Started: Navigation, Help Options and Communication Tools
Getting Started: Modules, Pages, and the Rich Content Editor
Getting Started: Assignments and Classic Quizzes
Getting Started: Gradebook and Speedgrader/Outcomes and Rubrics
Delving Deeper: Course Design Considerations and Analytics
Delving Deeper: Group Work/Collaboration and Wrap-up Q&A
Assessments
Delivering Tests in Blackboard
In this workshop we’ll explore the basics of delivering tests online. Topics will include creating a test in Blackboard, adapting an existing test for online delivery, exam security, and recommended practices for online testing.
Developing Online Assessments
Online instruction can easily be designed to engage students in authentic problem-solving skills. This session shows you example lessons designed with authentic learning in mind. Within these examples, we’ll show you technologies and strategies that can foster learning transfer through active learning.
Interactive Activities
Looking to make your online content more engaging? This workshop reviews many methods you can use to create interactive content using tools that are readily available and easy to learn. We'll also show you how OEL can assist you in creating activities for your courses.
Respondus Lockdown Browser
Respondus Lockdown Browser, which is a restricted web browser that you can require students to use when taking your quizzes and exams in Blackboard. When students take an exam using the Lockdown Browser, they will not be allowed to print, copy, go to another website, or access other applications. If desired, you can enable webcam monitoring which will use facial recognition and other tools to flag test attempts that appear suspicious. The recording for any attempt may then be viewed by the instructor.
Using SafeAssign
SafeAssign is a plagiarism prevention tool that detects unoriginal content in students' papers by identifying areas of overlap between submitted assignments and existing works. In this session, we’ll demonstrate how to use SafeAssign. We also address these related questions when using SafeAssign: What constitutes cheating? What are the penalties for cheating? Should I allow students to see SafeAssign findings ahead of time?
Video Assignments
Explore options to introduce video-based assignments incorporating free and easy-to-use tools in Blackboard.
Course Development
Hyflex Demonstration
This demonstration is intended to give faculty a better understanding of how hyflex teaching works in the classroom setting, and outlines resources available for training.
Adding Library Materials to your Course
This workshop is designed to help instructors integrate course materials found through the library databases into their Blackboard courses. We will review the basics of Fair Use, learn how to use the library’s new Fair Use Checklist, learn how to find stable links to articles and ebooks through the library databases, embed streaming films from the library’s databases, and integrate library resource guides into your Blackboard course as a tool. We suggest you have articles, books, or films in mind as the workshop leader will walk through some examples.
Course Structure
A well-organized Blackboard course shell is faster and more intuitive to navigate—for both faculty and students. In this workshop we'll explore simple yet effective strategies for structuring your online course. Join us to discuss how consistent modular design can improve the usability of a Blackboard course, reduce support questions, and empower students to spend less time searching through the course, and more time focusing on the content.
Coming Soon: Watch On-Demand
Creating Accessible Content
Federal law mandates that all web-based content at public institutions of higher education be accessible to students with disabilities. The Blackboard course management system itself is fairly accessible, however, content that you create in the system may not be.
This workshop will outline how to format text, images, videos, and documents in Blackboard so that they are accessible to students with disabilities. We will also cover how to make time extensions on quizzes and exams for students who require it.
Effective Online Discussions
In this session, you will achieve the basic skills of setting up, monitoring and assessing a Blackboard discussion board, wiki, or blog. Also in this workshop, you will explore the social, cognitive, and technological dimensions that can make the online discussion a powerful learning method. Because different types of discussions require different approaches, we’ll show you the various ways that the online discussion method aligns with your particular instructional objectives.
Coming Soon: Watch On-Demand
Presentation Options
This workshop reviews many methods you can use to create online lecture content including, voice-over presentations, screen capture, and whiteboard recordings. While the focus of the session is on do-it-yourself methods, we'll also introduce you to resources available at OEL that can make your presentations pop.
Teaching Tools
File Sharing and Collaborative Document Creation Tools
In this workshop we will explore the file sharing tools (Dropbox, Google Drive, OneDrive, etc.) and collaborative document creation tools (Office 365, Google tools, etc.) currently provided to members of the University of Michigan system. We will also explain storage and sensitive data restrictions.
Coming Soon: Watch On-Demand
Google Tools for Synchronous Online Courses
Take advantage of Google Drive's real-time collaboration tools to increase engagement, manage break-out discussions, and add interactivity to your synchronous online classes.
Coming Soon: Watch On-Demand
Kaltura
Instructors who often use video will be interested in Kaltura, a video-hosting alternative that allows you to create, publish, edit and analyze video without leaving Blackboard. This service has with many advantages, including the ability to host large videos with unlimited storage space. After this workshop, you will be able to:
Upload videos to your Kaltura "My Media" folder
Embed videos throughout your course
Record and embed short videos
Identify the areas in Blackboard that have this feature
Coming Soon: Watch On-Demand