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Faculty Pop-Up Training Series: More than a Zoom link: Teaching to a Class and a Zoom Room

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Faculty Pop-Up Training Series: More than a Zoom link: Teaching to a Class and a Zoom Room

  • Date: February 1, 2024
  • Time: 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM
  • Where: Zoom

You’re invited to a drop-in training series on the latest resources to enhance your teaching. Whether you’ve taught for decades or started this fall, these sessions will provide valuable insights and hands-on experience that you can integrate into your teaching practice.

This session will showcase several strategies and tools specifically designed to support teaching a mixed mode course. If your course includes students in a classroom and on Zoom, join us to hear how to encourage webcam use, engage students with whiteboards, and more. This session will meet on February 1, 12-1pm and be facilitated by Elizabeth Park.

 

Additional Sessions:

  • Top Hat – Active Learning Using Student Polling. Penn State’s Top Hat software provides instructors with the ability to collect student responses using their personal devices, just like our older “clicker” systems.  Join us to set up Top Hat to use with your classes as an audience response and polling system. This session will meet on February 22, 12-1pm and be facilitated by Griff Lewis.
  • Moving the Dial on Accessibility – Anthology Ally. The University enabled a Universal Design tool, Anthology Ally, in Canvas in Fall 2023 that supports our mission of creating inclusive learning environments.  This session will provide an overview of the tool and discuss strategies to increase the usability of content. This session will meet on March 14, 12-1pm and be facilitated by Jen Wagner.

Any additional questions can be sent to Elizabeth Park (eep5330@psu.edu).

If you would like to receive a calendar reminder, request one here: https://forms.gle/np9C28uFT3GJEXUq7

Exciting Zoom Feature Updates for your Fall Courses

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The Canvas/Zoom integration was recently updated and includes many new features that you might find beneficial in your shared courses! If you’d like to test any of the following, please join us during our drop-in sessions!

New Canvas-Zoom Integration : Zoom 1.3

If you don’t see Zoom on your Navigation bar in Canvas, it’s likely due to a recent upgrade. To add the Zoom link to your Canvas navigation, go to Canvas and click Settings on the left navigation bar. Click on the Navigation tab and scroll down to ‘Zoom 1.3’. Click the three dots next to ‘Zoom 1.3’ and choose ‘Enable’ (alternatively, you could drag and drop from the lower section to the upper section). Be sure to scroll down and click Save.  For more detailed instructions on how to add a link to your Navigation Bar, check out the Knowledge Base Article.

Zoom Whiteboard

The most exciting addition to Zoom is the Whiteboard feature. This powerful new tool is similar to Jamboard and Padlet, but is seamlessly integrated into Zoom. Zoom Whiteboards can be created in advance of meetings and students and faculty can access the Whiteboards after the meeting.

The Zoom Whiteboard includes sticky notes, pen tools, file and image uploads, multiple boards, and more. Check out the video below for a few ideas on how to use Zoom Whiteboards for community building and Using the Zoom Whiteboard for more information.

Check out this video series on how to use Zoom (or Microsoft) whiteboards to engage your students.

 

Breakout rooms from Canvas groups or a course roster

You can now create breakout rooms based on Canvas groups or your course roster. Read more on How to Auto Import Canvas course groups in breakout rooms.

Meeting Attendance – Gradebook Sync

With the new integration, you can enable Attendance Report which connects your Zoom meeting attendance to your Canvas course. There are several important considerations for this integration to work properly:

  • This feature does not support meetings that utilize personal meeting IDs.
  • This feature does not support Join Before Host.
  • This feature only supports meetings created by instructors.
  • The report will not be generated if the host is the only participant in the meeting.
  • This feature only includes meetings that are running within the expected time range they were scheduled for. If the meeting starts too early or too late, there will not be a generated attendance report. Due to this, the meeting must be started within the expected time frame for when it was scheduled (no more than 10 minutes before the scheduled start time, and no more than 10 minutes after the scheduled end time).

Drop-In Sessions 

We are offering drop-in sessions to ask questions, test the tech, or see short demonstrations of the new integration and new features.

Dates:

  • Tues, Aug 8, 1:00 pm 
  • Tues, Aug 15, 11:00 am
  • Wed, Aug 23, 12:00 pm

Check out the Commonwealth Campus Teaching Support website for more information on the Drop-In Hours and other additional events!

 

 

Event: Virtual Reality in a Shared Course Lunch & Learn

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Virtual Reality in a Shared Course: Lunch & Learn

Join us to hear about virtual reality in a shared DLC course taught by Bill Cantor, Assistant Teaching Professor in Information Sciences and Technology. This spring Bill used Meta Quest 2 headsets with Horizon Workrooms to bring together students from York, Abington, and Harrisburg campuses. The students participated in lectures and then worked in teams in the virtual classroom. Bill is part of the Media Common’s Immersive Headset Pilot Program for Spring 2023.

The Lunch & Learn will be on April 3 at 12:00 pm. 

Check out the recording of this event!

 

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Event: Health Policy Administration Career Panel

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Health Policy Administration: Career Panel

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