In this hands-on workshop, you will learn the basics of building a course Web site using Moodle. Instructors will be introduced to basic navigation, learn how to configure course settings, and practice adding content and activities to a Moodle course. This workshop does not cover the Moodle gradebook but provides a good foundation for further exploration. NOTE: In-depth discussions of grading and individual Moodle activities are outside the scope of this workshop. 

Prerequisite: Must be a teacher or a TA with course-designer access in Moodle.

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Explore the features of Zoom for teaching. In this introductory workshop, we’ll cover the basics of scheduling and running meetings, as well as creating engaging discussions with tools like screen sharing, whiteboards, breakout rooms, and polling. You’ll also be introduced to features to help you take attendance and integrate your Zoom meetings into Moodle.

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Qualtrics is one of the most popular online survey creation tools, used by researchers, analysts, and instructors to gather data and generate quick visualizations. It can also create live-updated reports that adjust as new respondents take the survey. This can be a useful tool for instructors looking to obtain information from their students for pedagogical reasons or during data collection for research. 

In this course, we will cover how to navigate Qualtrics, how to create a survey, manage respondents, create custom feedback, and how to generate reports. 

Requirements: You must have a Qualtrics account. If you don’t already have a Qualtics account, sign up for a free trial account before the workshop.

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Record a lecture presentation, narrated tutorial, or a software demonstration and then post the resulting “screencast” on your Moodle course or class website. In this hands-on workshop we will use Camtasia. We will also discuss the different ways screencasting is being used to enhance classroom and online instruction.

This workshop is focused on the Mac version of Camtasia. The Windows version of Camtasia looks very similar and Windows users are welcome to attend, but the devices may not have the exact same functionality. 

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In this hands-on workshop, you will learn the basics of building a course Web site using Moodle. Instructors will be introduced to basic navigation, learn how to configure course settings, and practice adding content and activities to a Moodle course. This workshop does not cover the Moodle gradebook but provides a good foundation for further exploration. NOTE: In-depth discussions of grading and individual Moodle activities are outside the scope of this workshop. 

Prerequisite: Must be a teacher or a TA with course-designer access in Moodle.

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Learn how lecture capture with Echo360 can be used to deliver online lectures, reinforce classroom material, to “flip” the classroom, make the classroom a more accessible space for students, or for instructors to watch and improve their teaching styles.

The purpose of this workshop is to introduce the ways Echo360 can capture and share material through automatic Classroom Capture, Personal Capture (PCAP), and uploading existing material. We will also briefly cover student engagement tools, creating mini lectures, and other ways you may enhance student learning.

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Create a public web presence for your teaching or research with WordPress, an easy-to-use platform for building websites and blogs. Common uses by faculty include scholarly portfolios, personal blogs, blogs authored by students as part of a course, public-facing course websites, and informational websites for labs, centers, or research groups. 

In this hands-on introductory workshop you’ll learn the basics of  the Dashboard control panel on Blogs at UMass, the WordPress service provided by UMass Amherst Information Technology.

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This hour-long workshop will cover how to create effective quizzes. We will cover common quiz settings, feedback options, and the multitude of quiz question types. This workshop is designed to be as broad as possible. Familiarity with quizzing in Moodle is preferable but not a requirement.

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Come explore the future of teaching technology at UMass Amherst with hands-on experience in the Experimental Classroom in the Du Bois Library. We’ll have a demonstration of flexible classroom set-ups, multi-camera recording, working with digital whiteboards and casting on Promethean screens, and more.

This Workshop will be co-facilitated by Scott Poulin System engineer and Marta Pluta Classrooms Personnel Mgr from Information Technology (IT)

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Explore the features of Zoom for teaching. In this introductory workshop, we’ll cover the basics of scheduling and running meetings, as well as creating engaging discussions with tools like screen sharing, whiteboards, breakout rooms, and polling. You’ll also be introduced to features to help you take attendance and integrate your Zoom meetings into Moodle.

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In this interactive technology workshop, we will explore pedagogical approaches that draw from different feminist frameworks to think together about how we use and could use Moodle. We will include, for example, a selection of the transnational feminist technology principles. In this workshop we will review specific activities in Moodle that can be harnessed and offer resources for tools that might be integrated or used in conjunction. While this workshop is designed for current or future faculty and TAs, anyone who is interested is welcome!

Please note: For this workshop we will expect participants to engage with provided content prior to the workshop (expected to take less than 30 minutes).

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Come explore the future of teaching technology at UMass Amherst with hands-on experience in the Experimental Classroom in the Du Bois Library. We’ll have a demonstration of flexible classroom set-ups, multi-camera recording, working with digital whiteboards and casting on Promethean screens, and more.

This Workshop will be co-facilitated by Scott Poulin System engineer and Marta Pluta Classrooms Personnel Mgr from Information Technology (IT)

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Trello is an easy-to-use, visual project management tool that streamlines a clear course of action to get you organized, whether it is for plotting out short vs. long term goals, or step-by-step directions for individual vs. group purposes. Possible uses include overall project management, curating materials for the building of new curriculum, and more. 

In this hands-on introductory workshop, you’ll learn to begin partitioning your workload in the best way that suits the project at hand.

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Learn how lecture capture with Echo360 can be used to deliver online lectures, reinforce classroom material, to “flip” the classroom, make the classroom a more accessible space for students, or for instructors to watch and improve their teaching styles. 

The purpose of this workshop is to introduce the ways Echo360 can capture and share material through automatic Classroom Capture, Personal Capture (PCAP), and uploading existing material. We will also briefly cover student engagement tools, creating mini lectures, and other ways you may enhance student learning. 

Register for this event (If you are asked to create an account, remember to register for the workshop after that!)