Academic Technology

Harmonize 101: How to build engaging content, monitor and grade your assignments!
In this session, you’ll learn how to take full advantage of the key Harmonize features that drive increased student engagement, promote inclusive learning, and save instructor’s time.
You’ll learn how you build your first Harmonize discussion and how you can use powerful features like multi-media, milestones, and auto-grading to take your course discussion to the next level.
By the end of the session, you’ll know how to set up, moderate, evaluate, and encourage student participation in your online course discussions.
We’ll cover how you can:

• Use ChatGPT to build your discussion prompt
• Author rich content
• Configure milestones (aka multiple due dates)
• Auto grade student participation
• Easily evaluate student performance and provide substantive feedback
• Monitor for students who may need help

Online proctoring tools lock down some aspects of a student's computer and use advanced machine learning, face-detection technology, and other metrics to ensure test integrity. To prepare for the session we suggest you look through Honorlock's best practices for remote test taking information.

Topics covered in this session include:

• Is online proctoring right for my class? 
• Setting up a Canvas quiz with Honorlock
• Overview of Settings
• Evaluating proctoring reports
• Resolving accessibility and technical issues

This training session is open to all users on hosted PressbooksEDU networks and is designed for users who have some familiarity with Pressbooks and are ready to engage in more complex activities, like adding interactive elements or integrating Pressbooks with supported third-party tools. A more detailed description of webinar topics can be found in our guide.

Please be aware that this event is listed in CST here and EST on the google form. This webinar is open to all users on hosted PressbooksEDU networks.

In this workshop, you will learn how to create VoiceThreads and then add them to your Canvas course as lessons, discussions, or assessments. This will be a hand-on workshop where you can follow along with the activities and add VoiceThreads into your course modules.

In this session, participants will see a full tour of the new VoiceThread interface. We will review the changes to the media player, including jump commenting, bulk actions, and the “one conversation” setting. We will also see the improved VoiceThread homepage and learn how to access assignments.

This session covers the basics of setting up your Canvas course shell. Topics covered in this session include:

• Account & Notifications Settings
• Editing the Course Navigation Menu
• Understanding the difference between Modules, Pages, and Files
• Basics of using Discussions
• Assignments and Grades
• Editing the Syllabus
• Student view

Online proctoring tools lock down some aspects of a student's computer and use advanced machine learning, face-detection technology, and other metrics to ensure test integrity. To prepare for the session we suggest you look through Honorlock's best practices for remote test taking information.

Topics covered in this session include:

• Is online proctoring right for my class? 
• Setting up a Canvas quiz with Honorlock
• Overview of Settings
• Evaluating proctoring reports
• Resolving accessibility and technical issues

Panopto is a lecture capture and media delivery solution for instructors. Use it for remote teaching, online teaching, creating in-video quizzes, recording student presentations, and creating student media assignments. Panopto can be used in the classroom at teacher workstations or on your own computer. Topics covered in this session include:

• Enabling Panopto in your Canvas site
• Downloading and installing the recorder on your computer
• Getting set up to create quality recordings
• Recording various types of lectures
• Editing and sharing lectures
• Viewing analytics
• Managing recordings

Overview of more advanced features with an in-depth demonstration of features such as advanced editing, using Panopto with student assignments and captioning. Topics covered in this session include:

• Full Panopto site overview
• Using advanced editing features: adding slides, clips, YouTube videos and webpages
• Creating quizzes
• Student use of Panopto for assignments and discussions
• Adding and editing captions

This training session is open to all users of hosted PressbooksEDU networks and is designed for users who are new to Pressbooks. Attendees will learn how to get started with Pressbooks, from creating a new book to publishing and exporting offline versions of the text. A more detailed description of webinar topics can be found in our guide.

Please be aware that this event is listed in CST here and EST on the google form. This webinar is open to all users on hosted PressbooksEDU networks.

In this session, participants will see a full tour of the new VoiceThread interface. We will review the changes to the media player, including jump commenting, bulk actions, and the “one conversation” setting. We will also see the improved VoiceThread homepage and learn how to access assignments.

Online proctoring tools lock down some aspects of a student's computer and use advanced machine learning, face-detection technology, and other metrics to ensure test integrity. To prepare for the session we suggest you look through Honorlock's best practices for remote test taking information.

Topics covered in this session include:

• Is online proctoring right for my class? 
• Setting up a Canvas quiz with Honorlock
• Overview of Settings
• Evaluating proctoring reports
• Resolving accessibility and technical issues

This session builds on the Canvas Overview class and provides more detail on the Assignments and Grades tools. Topics covered in this session include:

• assignment submission types
• assignments for integrated tools
• creating quizzes
• allowing extra credit
• grading on a curve
• grade book sorting and organization
• using Speedgrader
• understanding the student view of grades

This training session is open to all users on hosted PressbooksEDU networks and is designed for users who have some familiarity with Pressbooks and are ready to engage in more complex activities, like adding interactive elements or integrating Pressbooks with supported third-party tools. A more detailed description of webinar topics can be found in our guide.

Please be aware that this event is listed in CST here and EST on the google form. This webinar is open to all users on hosted PressbooksEDU networks.

This session covers the basics of setting up and navigating through your Canvas Gradebook. Topics covered in this session include:

• Arranging Gradebook Columns
• Applying late/missing policies
• Hiding and Posting Grades
• Gradebook Management/Time Saving Strategies
• Using "Notes" in your Gradebook

This session covers the basics of setting up your Canvas course shell. Topics covered in this session include:

• Account & Notifications Settings
• Editing the Course Navigation Menu
• Understanding the difference between Modules, Pages, and Files
• Basics of using Discussions
• Assignments and Grades
• Editing the Syllabus
• Student view

iClicker Events is designed to allow participants easy access without the need to create an iClicker account, register for a course, or purchase a subscription. In this 20-minute session learn more about how this latest feature works and how you may create Events outside the classroom. No iClicker account required! This session is vendor hosted and facilitated by Missouri Online.

Note: iClicker is free for MU but is a student cost at UMKC and UMSL.  It is not currently available at Missouri S&T.

Rooted in modern pedagogy and enhanced by generative AI, the iClicker AI Question Creator enables instructors to effortlessly craft and deploy unique questions that facilitate an interactive and engaged classroom experience. Tailored to fit any discipline or topic, the question creator allows educators to specify the desired level of rigor, course level, and learning taxonomy, ensuring the questions align with their teaching goals, which we will cover in this 30-minute session. Additionally, we will touch on some other pedagogical practices to help you get the most out of the software. This session is vendor hosted and facilitated by Missouri Online.

Note: iClicker is free for MU but is a student cost at UMKC and UMSL.  It is not currently available at Missouri S&T.

The new Assignments activity type in iClicker Cloud extends iClicker’s signature student engagement experience to asynchronous class meetings. The Assignments feature allows instructors to upload pre-authored questions to gather student feedback, encourage participation, and gauge understanding. Students can still feel like they are active participants in their courses by responding to Assignments at their own pace, from wherever they may be. Assignments are great for pre-class, post-class, breakout, or lab activities in synchronous classes, too! This session is vendor hosted and facilitated by Missouri Online.

Note: iClicker is free for MU but is a student cost at UMKC and UMSL.  It is not currently available at Missouri S&T.