Online Teaching Pedagogy

Intro to Teaching Online (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3)

This webinar video covers the specific needs of online students, and how to manage the online teaching environment. We will briefly cover measurable outcomes and backwards course design.

Using Quality Matters to Improve Your Course (Part 1, Part 2)

These videos discuss how to use the Quality Matters rubric.

Fostering Student Interaction and Engagement (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3)

This session introduces some practices that help foster student engagement, such as frequent feedback and authentic assessments, as well as some helpful tools for instructors to

This video will introduce you to the best practices of inclusive teaching.

This session offers some foundational strategies to help instructors create robust prompts and clear policy statements, which will guide students toward effective online discussions and participation, as well as some things to consider when assessing those discussions.

This webinar video demonstrates how to find the license of course materials, how to perform a Fair Use assessment, and how to locate Open Educational Resources (OER). We will also cover some of the best ways to present both copyrighted and Open materials to online students, including course-packs, e-reserves, and streaming from the Swank movie catalog.

Authentication and Academic Honesty (Part 1, Part 2)

This session discusses some of the causes of academic dishonesty and suggests some tactics that can be used to ensure student authentication and honesty in online courses, including proctoring options and assessment alternatives for exam-heavy courses.

This video demonstrates how to record simple lecture capture, and get the best possible results.

Canvas

Introduction to Canvas (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4)

This is an overview of the Canvas Learning Management System and covers how to navigate the platform, load or edit a syllabus, generate the gradebook, create modules, and create basic content.

This video is intended for instructors who have a Canvas course shell set up and need to manage students, grade assignments, and administer the course. The video covers how to send messages, make announcements, grade, edit content and manage assignment settings, and how to manage student groups.

This video focuses on adding and editing course content using the Rich Content Editor and the link/embed menu options.

This video covers how to use the Inbox, Announcements, and gradebook comments to communicate with students, student groups, and whole classes.

This session is intended for users comfortable with completing basic tasks in Canvas, who would like to examine specific course tools in more depth. This session focuses on the Quizzes tool and how to create quizzes, exams, and surveys.

This video deals with the integrated web-conferencing tool, BigBlueButton. The video covers how to create, join, and participate in a Conference, including how to use polls and breakout rooms.

This video covers how to create a Turnitin assignment, in your Canvas course, how to edit Turnitin settings, and how to use Turnitin originality reports as a teaching tool for your students.

Instructure, the makers of Canvas, maintains a large archive of high-quality how-to video guides to Canvas. We strongly recommend exploring these videos!

Accessibility and Universal Design Videos

This session focuses on using headers and styles effectively, and on how to make accessible PDFs.

This session focuses on how to add alt text and captions to images, and how to prepare a video for captioning.

This video focuses on how to use the math editors of common Learning Management Systems to create accessible mathematical equations on the web, and how to convert LaTeX to MathML.

This video will cover what information should be included in course documents, and how to structure your course consistently.

This video, by the makers of the UDOIT accessibility checker, briefly demonstrates how to use the checker.

Third-party Tool Videos

BigBlueButton
The web-conference tool integrated into Canvas and Sakai.

Kaltura MediaSpace
A video hosting platform that allows you to upload or record new content.
PowToons
A service integrated with our instance of Kaltura to create animated videos by editing simple templates.

VoiceThread
A discussion tool that allows users to annotate and create text or multimedia comments on a central media item (slide, PDF, video, image, etc.).

Turnitin
A tool for detecting plagiarism in written work.

ITV Studio

Create Your Own Video
This short tutorial video demonstrates how to find, schedule, and use the iTV Project Studio, a self-service recording room set up for faculty so that you can record quality video lectures and demonstrations with just a few buttons to push.