Instructional Media Lab Staff will summarize and answer questions about what’s coming in a major Moodle upgrade this July 11.

Moodle 3.5 comes with a new clean and compact look and feel, a more mobile-friendly interface, and several new features you may want to consider for grading, creating non-flash-based interactive exercises and practice quizzes, and more.

Rest assured, while some menus will move, your courses and previous activities will work as before. Come find out what’s new!

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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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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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Instructional Media Lab Staff will summarize and answer questions about what’s coming in a major Moodle upgrade this July 11.

Moodle 3.5 comes with a new clean and compact look and feel, a more mobile-friendly interface, and several new features you may want to consider for grading, creating non-flash-based interactive exercises and practice quizzes, and more.

Rest assured, while some menus will move, your courses and previous activities will work as before. Come find out what’s new!

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

Learn and get hands on experience creating activities and exploring ways to engage students in Echo360 beyond just recording a classroom lecture. This workshop will cover how to make engaging supplemental videos using Personal Capture, how to create and use activity slides, manage discussions, and measure student engagement. This workshop will cover

This workshop is designed for users who have experience with Echo360 in the classroom, or who have already taken a Getting Started in Echo360 workshop.

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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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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!) 

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.

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

Instructional Media Lab Staff will summarize and answer questions about what’s coming in a major Moodle upgrade this July 11.

Moodle 3.5 comes with a new clean and compact look and feel, a more mobile-friendly interface, and several new features you may want to consider for grading, creating non-flash-based interactive exercises and practice quizzes, and more.

Rest assured, while some menus will move, your courses and previous activities will work as before. Come find out what’s new!

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

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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