Workshops

Want to improve your online instruction? This series of 4-week/module online course is designed to help faculty enhance the delivery of their online courses using a proactive course management approach. Faculty who communicate often and appropriately with online students support student engagement and promote a more successful learning environment. These sessions will focus on a variety of online strategies to ensure students are successful. Participants will learn about various online best practices and will practice select strategies in an active web course. Participants will need an active course or a clone of a future course in which to implement new strategies. Deadline to register is Friday, July 3. Course begins on Monday, July 6 and goes until Sunday, August 2.

Participants who complete all four modules receive a $150 stipend. For more information, please email Brandy Scarnati

Course design can contribute greatly to student success with online instruction. This training will focus on how to plan, organize, align, and mindfully design online courses. Participants will look at some course framework fundamentals, pedagogy in mindful course design, and basic course road mapping. Modules open weekly, and each week is self-paced. Participants who complete all three modules will receive a $150 stipend upon completion.

Register by July 3, 2020. Registration officially closes July 3, 2020 at 5 pm; any newcomers before then will be added and notified ASAP so that they can begin work the following weekend. This online course runs July 6–26, 2020.

Learn how TMCC's Retention Specialist is helping your students succeed in their courses. This session will cover what support is offered to our online students at TMCC in regard to navigation, study skills, netiquette, and encouraging active participation.

Please add this Zoom link to your calendar after registering: https://zoom.us/j/99965040868

Create simple introduction videos or elaborate lectures and presentations. In this session we will cover how to access the recording tool in Canvas and how to share your creations with your students.

Please add this Zoom link to your calendar after registering: https://zoom.us/j/99300173546

Find out how to migrate your word processor exams into Canvas without all of the copy and paste. Let the program do the work for you. Compatible with Image/Diagram questions, True/False, Multiple Choice and more!

Please add this Zoom link to your calendar after registering: https://zoom.us/j/99267115978

This remote training will cover how to create and edit a Canvas quiz. We will discuss how to build reusable question repositories known as Test Banks, and how you can easily copy both of these creations from course to course.

Please add this Zoom link to your calendar after registering: https://zoom.us/j/98084031664

In this virtual session participants will learn how to create assignments in Canvas, enable Turnitin the plagiarism detector, create a rubric, and use SpeedGrader to grade the assignment.

Please add this Zoom link to your calendar after registering: https://zoom.us/j/97825615423

In this virtual session participants will learn how to add their syllabus to canvas, and ensure the syllabus course schedule is accurate and updated.

Please add this Zoom link to your calendar after registering: https://zoom.us/j/96404205725

This session will review one of the top online tools that support academic integrity. The Respondus LockDown Browser® is an application that locks down the online test environment to prevent cheating, surfing the web, or printing during online exams.

Please add this Zoom link to your calendar after registering: https://zoom.us/j/94635674607

Learn how to use the features in the Canvas gradebook. Become proficient in using the speed-grader. Understand assignment groups, their settings and how to utilize your gradebook.

Please add this Zoom link to your calendar after registering: https://zoom.us/j/97034687682

This 1-hour workshop will provide an overview of course design in Canvas, including the TMCC student landing page, how to edit navigation menu options for students, and organizing course modules. Interested faculty can simply join this workshop by following the Zoom access link below. I hope to see you there!

Please add this Zoom link to your calendar after registering: https://zoom.us/j/96449203586

This 1-hour workshop will provide an overview of how to build discussions in Canvas, and how to keep them interactive and engaging for your online students. Interested faculty can simply join this workshop by following the below Zoom link. I hope to see you there!

Please add this Zoom link to your calendar after registering: https://zoom.us/j/93046007591

This workshop will go over using Canvas Conferences. You will learn how to create a conference, how to share a link to invite outside users, and how to enable recording. You will also learn how to create breakout rooms. This is a great tool if you wish to host synchronous lectures/conferences during the fall and summer terms.

Please add this Zoom link to your calendar after registering: https://zoom.us/j/93226755896

This four-week online course from July 20 through August 16, 2020 will address universal design. The course will provide detail on how to ensure your course content is accessible to all. Accessibility is always a work in progress. Note there are many different features, tools and resources we can use however, we may never be 100% compliant and the truth of the matter is that is okay. There are many resources here on campus that can help. You are not in this alone.

This course provides a foundation for creating content that is universally designed and inclusive of all learners. An overview of assistive technologies is included, along with multimedia demonstrations of their use in online courses. The basic principles covered in this course can be applied to any Learning Management System and content uploaded into them using external software tools.

A $150 stipend will be issued upon successful completion. Please register by July 17, 2020.

This two-week workshop will offer a background on pedagogy behind consistency in course presentation, as well as an examination of how a universal student landing page can create clear navigation paths for eLearners. As educators, we never want technology to be a barrier to succeeding in an online course. The available technology in an online learning management system (LMS), if used mindfully, can support and streamline the achievement of your anticipated learning outcomes. Additionally, this workshop will provide tips and tricks for creating a comprehensive Getting Started module for online learners.

Registration officially closes July 20, 2020 at 5 p.m. and all registrants will be notified via email when the workshop is open. This online course runs July 20 – August 2, 2020. The first module opens at 12 a.m. midnight on July 20, 2020.

This webinar will be hosted by two education leadership executives from Apple, Dr. Andrew Currah and Lisa Newell. The discussion will address two themes: the role of technology in the ongoing transition from remote learning (as an emergency response to COVID-19) to distance learning (a longer term model optimized for student engagement); and second, best practices for live and asynchronous instruction using Apple technology. You will also get an overview of free professional development learning resources that are now available to educators.

Please add this Webex link to your calendar after registering.

This two week, self-paced Canvas workshop with TMCC Faculty Diversity Advocate, Dr. Micaela Rubalcava, will focus on the process of thinking about, writing, and then inserting an authentic diversity statement into your syllabus. The syllabus diversity statement is an example of a first-impressions curriculum interaction between teacher and student. This workshop supports the academic freedom of instructors who are teaching in the fall and want to insert a diversity statement to directly welcome diverse students into course content. Additionally, if you so choose, the statement could be read aloud in introduction videos to create an immediate sense of inclusion and belongingness with your students during these difficult times.

The class takes approximately two hours of time-on-task and is limited to 10 participants. Registration deadline is Wednesday, July 29. Registrants will be notified via email from the instructor when the workshop is open. This online course runs July 31 – August 14, 2020.