Workshops & Documentation

The Teaching and Learning Center offers numerous professional development opportunities, including group workshops and one-on-one workshops at your convenience to assess and enhance your classroom teaching. To browse upcoming workshops and events, go the Teaching & Learning Center homepage, and click on TLC Events.

Workshop Recordings

Intro to Canvas

New to Canvas or need a refresher? Learn the basics of Canvas to run your course from a distance. We’ll cover:

• Canvas interface & navigation
• Course settings
• Creating course content and sharing files with students
• Creating assignments and managing grades

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Teaching with Zoom

Zoom’s Canvas integration allows you to automatically invite your students to virtual sessions! We will cover the basics of Zoom meetings, including:

• Scheduling meetings
• Sharing audio and video
• Sharing PowerPoint presentations
• Sharing your screen for technical demonstrations
• Viewing attendance lists
• Recording and archiving meetings

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Zoom for Office Hours and Recurring Meetings

Zoom enables you to make appointments and conduct video conferences. Join us to learn about:

• Scheduling one-on-one meetings or group collaborations
• Using waiting rooms
• Sharing audio and video
• Sharing PowerPoint or other live screens
• Recording meetings and sharing
• Requesting control of a participant’s computer for easy technical support.

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Canvas Quizzes & Exams

Wondering how you’re going to test your students online? We’ll give you the basics, including:

• Creating multiple choice, true/false, and essay questions
• Best practices for promoting academic integrity
• Using Respondus Monitor for remote proctoring

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Prerecording Lectures with Mediasite

Our latest Canvas integration is the video hosting platform Mediasite. You can use Mediasite to upload videos to your course and make them available only to your course members. You can also use it to narrate PowerPoint presentations and save them as videos right within Canvas!

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Zoom Advanced Classroom & Security Strategies

Ready to take your Zoom meetings to the next level? Learn methods of engaging students in breakout rooms while preventing interruptions like Zoombombing and Trolling.

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