Teaching Remotely – Training and Q&A Sessions

Instructional Technology and the Center for Teaching Excellence will host workshops and Q&A sessions on remote instruction topics. You don’t need to sign up, just click on the Zoom link provided at the scheduled time to join.

Past Events

Finals in a Remote-Instruction Context: Helping Students Meet Your Learning Objectives (Session Slides) (Session Recording)
3 pm-4 pm via Zoom
Tuesday, April 28
Description: Join us for a discussion on how to support students and maintain the integrity of your course as we discuss both the logistics of collecting assignments, setting up exams, and recording presentations and how to support all students, including those who have accommodations, in fulfilling your learning objectives.
Presenters: Brenda Adrian, Laura Youngblood, Rebecca Davis, Kendall Swanson, Jennifer Jefferson

Monday, March 30 through Friday, April 17:

All the following sessions will be hosted in the following Zoom meeting room: https://stedwards.zoom.us/j/559734502

Q&A sessions for remote instruction will be open Monday, March 30 through Friday, April 3 from 2–4 p.m. every day

In addition to the daily Q+A sessions, there will also be special topic-focused sessions:

Faculty Learning Community Session:
Designing Assignments with Instructor Workload in Mind
(Session Slides) (Session Recording)
3:30pm
Tuesday, March 31

Other Topic-Specific Workshops:
Group Work and Collaboration
(Session Slides)(Session Recording)
11:30 a.m.–noon and 8–8:30 p.m.
Wednesday, April 1

Integrating the Current Moment into Your Courses (Session Slides) (Session Recording)
11:30 a.m.–noon and 8–8:30 p.m.
Wednesday, April 8
Panelists: Mary Culkin, Nicole Trevino, and Connie Rey Rodriguez, Rebecca Frost Davis and Jennifer Jefferson
Session Description: How are our students doing? What support structures is the university providing? What considerations does this moment present for teaching and learning? This panel discussion will share insights from the student of concern process, Academic Support Services, Student Affairs, and the Remote Instruction Workgroup and offer a chance for faculty to share what they are seeing and ask questions.

Maintaining Community While Teaching Remotely (Session Slides) (Session Recording)
11:30 a.m.–noon
Wednesday, April 15

Monday, March 23 through Friday, March 27

Q&A sessions for remote instruction will be open from 2–4 p.m. every day.

Topic-focused sessions will change each day:

Let’s Take a Collective Breath: Getting Started with Remote Instruction (Session Slides) (Session Recording)
11:30 a.m.–noon, 8–8:30 p.m.
Monday, March 23

Canvas: Creating Announcements, Modules and Assignments (Session Slides) (Session Recording)
11:30 a.m.–noon, 8–8:30 p.m.
Tuesday, March 24

Conducting Classes in Zoom (Session Slides) (Session Recording)
11:30 a.m.–noon, 8–8:30 p.m.
Wednesday, March 25

Panopto: Recording Short Lectures and Student Presentations (Session Slides)(Session Recording)
11:30 a.m.–noon, 8–8:30 p.m.
Thursday, March 26

Conducting Classes in Zoom (Session Slides) (Session Recording)
11:30 a.m.–noon, 8–8:30 p.m.
Friday, March 27

Faculty Learning Community Session:
Best Practices for Making Videos
(Session Slides) (Session Recording)
12:30pm
Friday March 27
Join us online to learn about evidence-based best practices for creating course videos.  We’ll talk about making instructional videos and recording presentations or mini-lectures.  You’ll learn more about optimum length, legibility, accessibility, scripting, best ways to record, sound & video quality, framing, lighting and captioning.

 

Faculty Learning Community: February & March Sessions

Join Instructional Technology and the Center for Teaching Excellence for our February faculty development events. These sessions will mostly be delivered virtually using Zoom and each one is geared specifically towards teaching online. Sessions will be 30 minutes or less and, whether you are teaching online or just want to know more, these practical sessions will help you expand your pedagogical toolbox without setting foot on campus!

Telling the Story of Your Course in the Online Classroom, Rebecca Davis
Tuesday, February 11, 3:30 – 4 pm in Zoom

Framing and contextualizing learning is an important element in any course to keep students oriented and engaged. In a traditional course, this might be the time spent at the beginning of a class or week. In an online course, that same process of “setting the scene” needs to be explicitly stated through the course introduction video, overviews for weeks or units, and weekly announcements. In this session, we’ll look at how you can build the story of your course and touch on this narrative over and over again. Participants will leave with a sense of their course’s story and how to tell it in the course shell.

Transparent Assignment Design,
Rebecca Davis
Friday, February 14, 12:30 -1 pm in Zoom

Data shows that transparency in teaching can positively affect student success by fostering academic confidence, a sense of belonging, and mastery of skills. What does transparency in teaching look like? In this session, we’ll review transparent assignment models, try out templates for transparent assignment design, and provide you with simple strategies to make assignments clearer in terms of directions, purpose, and outcomes.

How to Calculate Course Workload using the Rice Course Workload Estimator, Rebecca Davis
Friday, February 21, 12:30 -1 pm in Zoom

How much time are students working on assignments for your class? In this session, we’ll take a closer look at time. The Rice Course Workload Estimator is a tool to help instructors quantify and compare student workloads across their course. We’ll try it out, discuss pros, cons, and caveats, and discuss other ways of estimating course workload when planning online courses or documenting course rigor for accreditation bodies.

Universal Design for Learning (UDL)
Friday, February 28, 12:30 – 1:30 pm in Holy Cross Hall 101

Join the Center for Teaching Excellence and Instructional Technology for a hands-on workshop on Universal Design for Learning.

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Interested in reconsidering your content?  Want to craft assignments for different modalities? Curious about intentional community building? Join us for this workshop on Universal Design for Learning where we’ll discuss general principles of the framework and then have time for application to your own courses. The goal with this lunch session is to provide you with resources to implement changes, both immediately and long-term, into your courses.

We recommend that you watch this video in advance of the session:

Using Hypothesis for Social Annotation in Canvas
Rebecca Davis

Friday, March 6, 12:30 – 1 pm in Zoom
Social annotation helps students better engage in digital texts through shared highlighting and comments. For online classes, this interaction can take the place of shared reading of texts in the face-to-face classroom and can be especially helpful when students are approaching new kinds of texts like academic articles. This session will demonstrate the Hypothesis plug-in for Canvas and examples for using social annotation in online classes.

Getting Started with Accessibility in Online Classes
David Cuevas and Brenda Adrian
Tuesday, March 10, 3:30 – 4 pm in Zoom
Accessibility can be an overwhelming topic, but this session will get you started with some practical steps you can take to make your Canvas courses, presentations, and videos more accessible for your students with disabilities. These strategies will also benefit all of your students.

Best Practices for Making Videos
Jessica Vargas, Eric Trimble, Mike Bell
Friday March 27 at 12:30pm  in Zoom
Join us online to learn about evidence-based best practices for creating course videos.  We’ll talk about making instructional videos and recording presentations or mini-lectures.  You’ll learn more about optimum length, legibility, accessibility, scripting, best ways to record, sound & video quality, framing, lighting and captioning.

Designing Assignments with Instructor Workload in Mind – in Zoom
Mike Weston
Tues March 31 at 3:30pm
In this 30 minute session, we’ll take a look at Assignments from the Instructor perspective. Specifically, we’ll look at techniques for grading efficiently, using rubrics and different types of assignments.