Faculty Workshops - Summer 2020
Workshops
The following workshops were available to all faculty and staff at the University of Rochester.
- Teaching and Learning Series Offered by Online Learning
- Teaching Using Digital tools and Platforms Offered by River Campus Libraries
- Assessment Series: Assessing Learning at a Distance Offered by Assessment Committee
- Event and Classroom Management - Classroom Technology Instructions
How to Collect Online Assessments, including Projects, Presentations, and Performances
Learn how to set up the Blackboard assignment tool to collect individual student submissions and group submissions. Learn about different options for collecting various kinds of student assessments, including video and online presentations. Note: this is a repeat of the session from June.
Dates: Monday, August 10, 12 noon
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How to Facilitate Discussion, Sharing of Student Work, and Peer Review Activities Using Blackboard Tools
Learn how to set up a discussion board within Blackboard. See how different settings can be used to facilitate different kinds of activities. The use of the Blackboard Blog tool will also be shared in this session. Examples of different discussion boards and blog activities will be discussed. Note: this is a repeat of the session from June and July.
Dates: Wednesday, August 12, 12 noon
Register: : https://rochester.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEtdeqhrD4vE9Y_Y5uZU57n03-QryCURgGZ
How-to Record and Deliver Video Lectures to your Students
Learn how to use Zoom to record a video lecture that includes PowerPoint slides, desktop software, or just video input. Best practices for creating recording lectures will be examined. Tips for creating effective lectures, including tips for fixing mistakes. Provide streaming access for that video to the students in your course via Blackboard and Panopto access controls. Panopto edit features, as well as captioning options, viewing statistics, and adding quiz questions to videos will also be reviewed. Note: this is a repeat of the session from June and July.
Dates: Friday, August 14, 12 noon
Register: https://rochester.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0pdu6hqj4sG9RyQTlyoJoVCa-zVaNu4mCH
How to Facilitate a Live Zoom Class Session
Learn how to use Zoom to facilitate a live class session. Learn some tips for maintaining your classroom securely, as well as how to share your screen, annotate on your screen, use the whiteboard, create breakout rooms, and use the polling feature. Note: this is a repeat of the session from June and July.
Dates: Monday, August 17, 12 noon
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Blackboard has a new Zoom connection tool – the Zoom Meeting Manager.
Learn more about the new Zoom Meeting Manager in Blackboard, as well as the new security settings being implemented by Zoom and how that will affect your existing Zoom meetings.
Note: This tool within Blackboard only works for users with a NetID-based (rochester.zoom.us) account.
Dates: Wednesday, August 19, 12 noon
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Slides
How to Add Collaboration Tools into your Course
Learn how to use Blackboard Wiki, Padlet, Google docs/Box Note to add online collaboration tools into your course.
Dates: Friday, August 21, 12noon
Register: https://rochester.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJElceivpzIoHN1-s4u31xsIHI9Ac_LQExC5
How to Facilitate an Online Exam
Learn how to create and set up a Blackboard Test. The various options available for testing will be discussed including when and how to use each option. Additional testing software will be mentioned. Note: this was last offered in June and July.
Dates: Not scheduled
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How to use Voicethread for Discussions
Voicethread is a tool that can add life to your discussions by allowing audio and video, as well as text-based comments. Learn how to build a Voicethread, add comments, and share it with your class for discussion. Note: this was last offered in June and July.
Dates: Not scheduled
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The Blackboard Grade Center
Learn how to set up the Blackboard Grade Center. Note: this was last offered in June.
Dates: Not scheduled
How to use Yellowdig for discussions
Looking for a different kind of discussion board? Yellowdig is similar to Facebook in that it provides a conversation that is more like social media. Additionally, students earn points for their contributions to the conversation on Yellowdig, whether it be through original posts or comments on posts from classmates. Learn more about how Yellowdig works, and how to set up Yellowdig for you in your course. Note: this was last offered in June.
Dates: Not scheduled
Blackboard Basics
This workshop is for Blackboard beginners. Learn the basics of setting up a course in Blackboard. This session will cover how to add and move content, how to use Announcements and Email for communication, how to manage the left-hand menu, and how to add basic tools to your course and review the grade center. It will not cover settings and options for the various tools or grade center. Note: this was last offered in July.
Date: Not scheduled
Series: Teaching Using Digital Tools and Platforms - offered by River Campus Libraries
- Course Sites & Digital Publication
- Audiovisual Analysis
- Spatial Thinking & Mapping
- Virtual & Augmented Reality
- Cultural Heritage Objects & Exhibits
- Digital Project Design & Implementation
- Working with Hypothes.is
Series: Assessment - offered by Assessment Professionals across the University
The following professional development workshops are available to all faculty and staff at the University of Rochester. The goal of these sessions is to help faculty prepare to assess student learning online for the upcoming fall semester. This series covers everything from adapting tests and quizzes, creating long-term projects, and supporting student writing using what you already know, and leveraging available technologies. The workshops are free for all faculty and staff and offered via Zoom for your convenience.
Please register for all sessions that are relevant to your needs by emailing: denise_harris@urmc.rochester.edu
Long-term Projects as Performance Assessment - Professional Development
Long-term projects are a powerful way to assess the acquisition of skills and dispositions – with the bonus of avoiding common academic honesty issues. In this professional development session you will learn about key features of successful long-term projects, along with strategies to leverage online tools to best structure, support, and evaluate these projects.
Dates: Tuesday, July 14, 9:30 – 10 am
Presenter: Raffaella Borasi
Recording: https://youtu.be/c9X7mtgMdVY
Long-term Projects as Performance Assessment – Sharing Practical Applications
In this session, a few faculty members will share examples of long-term projects they have used for performance assessment in online courses. These examples will be examined to generalize valuable design features and best practices.
Dates: Thursday, July 16, 4:15 – 5 pm
Facilitator: Raffaella Borasi
Registration will be limited to 25
Adapting tests and quizzes for distance learning - Professional Development
Using tests and quizzes in online courses raise legitimate concerns about academic honesty, but there are solutions. In this workshop, you will learn proven strategies to design online tests and quizzes that address these concerns and ensure they accurately reflect what students know.
Dates: Monday, July 20, 12 – 12:30 pm
Presenter: Andrew Wolf
Adapting tests and quizzes for distance learning - Sharing Practical Applications
In this session, participants will engage in an informal discussion, question, and answer, and brainstorming about adapting tests and quizzes for distance learning. We will discuss the challenges, barriers, and potential solutions.
Dates: Wednesday, July 22, 4 – 5 pm
Facilitator: Andrew Wolf
Registration will be limited to 25
Learning critical thinking and writing from a distance
Teaching students to think critically and write effectively requires opportunities for practice and receive feedback from faculty and peers. In this workshop, you will learn how to apply effective strategies, such as video feedback and peer review, to support students at a distance using readily available technologies.
Dates: Wednesday, August 5, 12 – 12:30 pm
Presenter(s): Rebecca Wolf & Andrew Wolf
Learning critical thinking and writing from a distance
In this session, participants will engage in an informal discussion, question, and answer, and brainstorming about teaching critical thinking and writing from a distance. We will discuss the challenges, barriers, and potential solutions.
Dates: Friday, August 7, 4 – 5 pm
Facilitator(s): Rebecca Wolf & Andrew Wolf
Registration will be limited to 25
Connecting Student Learning Outcomes Part 1: Aligning Outcomes and Identifying Essential Learning
Course learning outcomes (CLOs) express the intended learning objectives in a measurable way. With the shift in learning environments, reviewing your CLOs will help you in identifying essential course learning outcomes to support course design (and re-designs), and in developing appropriate assessment strategies to inform teaching and learning.
Part 1 of this two-part series will focus on identifying essential course learning outcomes and aligning with program learning outcomes to which your course is connected.
Dates: Thursday, August 13, 12 – 12:30 pm
Presenter(s): Josephine Seddon & Jon Herington
Connecting Student Learning Outcomes Part 2: Aligning Assessments to Inform Teaching and Learning
Course learning outcomes (CLOs) express the intended learning objectives in a measurable way. With the shift in learning environments, reviewing your CLOs will help you in identifying essential course learning outcomes to support course design (and re-designs), and in developing appropriate assessment strategies to inform teaching and learning.
Part 2 of this two-part series will focus on identifying and aligning appropriate assessment strategies to inform course teaching and learning and to support any related program learning outcomes assessment needs.
Dates: Wednesday, August 19, 12-12:30 pm
Presenter(s): Josephine Seddon & Jon Herington