Advanced Assignments, Quizzes, & Gradebook

Online Event

The workshop will build on the basics of building assignments, quizzes, and the gradebook. Topics covered include:   How to create, edit, and grade TurnItin assignments How to create student presentation assignments How to use Rubrics w/ Assignments How to moderate a quiz How to access the quiz log and quiz…

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Space Saving Strategies for Online Courses

Online Event

Every Canvas course has a finite amount of space: 1 GB (or 1000 MB).  This is not a lot of space considering any files you upload into your course takes up space, any files you import into your course takes up space, and any file students submit as part of…

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Free

Yuja & Stream Basics

Online Event

Yuja and Microsoft Stream are video storage and streaming platforms faculty and students at USM have access to.  This workshop walks attendees through how to access and use these platforms, and how to bring video from them into a Canvas course. This session is led by Mark Ferguson and will…

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Free

Editing Closed Captioning (CC) Transcripts

Online Event

There are three different video platforms that create Closed Captioning (CC) transcripts for videos: Cisco Webex, Microsoft Stream, and Yuja.  The accuracy of these products are between 75-90% depending on the quality of the audio in the video, the speech patterns of people in the video, and any background noise…

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Online Office Hours

Online Event

For those who are used to holding office hours in person, that method of communication and scheduling is much more difficult with online students.  This workshop discusses a different way to accomplish the same to accomplish the same sort of communication and interaction with students through fully online communication. This…

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Advanced Yuja

Online Event

For those who already know the basics of Yuja (how to login, create a video, and share it to Canvas), this workshop discusses features that are beyond the scope of the casual user.  These features include:  Yuja Quizzes (or quizzes embedded into a video) Video analytics Video editing Deleting/Recovering videos…

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Free

Space Saving Strategies for Online Courses

Online Event

Every Canvas course has a finite amount of space: 1 GB (or 1000 MB).  This is not a lot of space considering any files you upload into your course takes up space, any files you import into your course takes up space, and any file students submit as part of…

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Free

Yuja & Stream Basics

Online Event

Yuja and Microsoft Stream are video storage and streaming platforms faculty and students at USM have access to.  This workshop walks attendees through how to access and use these platforms, and how to bring video from them into a Canvas course. This session is led by Mark Ferguson and will…

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Free

Advanced Assignments, Quizzes, & Gradebook

Online Event

The workshop will build on the basics of building assignments, quizzes, and the gradebook. Topics covered include:   How to create, edit, and grade TurnItin assignments How to create student presentation assignments How to use Rubrics w/ Assignments How to moderate a quiz How to access the quiz log and quiz…

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Free

Live Online Classes w/ Webex & Teams

Online Event

This workshop will offer detailed overviews of Cisco Webex and Microsoft Teams, how they are incorporated into Canvas, and how they may be used to hold live classes within an online environment. This session is led by Mark Ferguson and will be conducted virtually through Microsoft Teams. Links to the…

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Free