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01
Feb

CIDI Workshop - Publishing Open Textbooks with Pressbooks

Workshop/Training

Pressbooks is an open e-book authoring and publishing platform available to USU teachers and students. It integrates with Canvas and allows teachers and students to discover, use, and adapt existing open educational content or author and publish new content. Learn how to use and create Pressbooks content for your course.

9:30 am - 10:30 am | Online/Virtual |
02
Feb

CIDI Workshop - Use Video Effectively in Teaching

Workshop/Training

This workshop will help you enhance your teaching with video.

9:00 am - 10:00 am | Online/Virtual |
02
Feb

CIDI Workshop - Digital Badging Using Canvas Credentials (previously Badgr)

Workshop/Training

Digital badges are sometimes called microcredentials. They can be awarded to students for various accomplishments and then shared by students on social media and elsewhere as an indicator of their accomplishment or competence. Canvas has an integrated digital badging tool called Canvas Credentials (previously called Badgr). This workshop addresses how to create, award, and track digital badges.

1:30 pm - 2:30 pm | Online/Virtual |
07
Feb

CIDI Workshop - Designing Assessment for Learning

Workshop/Training

This workshop will help you create or re-design assessment to align with your overall course goals.

1:30 pm - 2:30 pm | Online/Virtual |
07
Feb

CIDI Workshop - Teaching Online Classes

Workshop/Training

Learn how to set up an online course in Canvas using a Canvas template. This workshop addresses the process of beginning with a course map, importing a Canvas template, and then developing and organizing course materials into modules.

3:30 pm - 4:30 pm | Online/Virtual |
08
Feb

CIDI Workshop - Managing and Editing Lecture Recordings

Workshop/Training

With all the recordings you have probably been creating lately, your MyMedia account may be in need of some attention. This workshop will take you through the first steps to becoming a media master: learn how to tag and add descriptions to your recordings to make them more easily searchable, discover the power of playlists, and become familiar with the basic editing tools that are available through MyMedia.

11:30 am - 12:30 pm | Online/Virtual |
08
Feb

CIDI Workshop - Creating Inclusive, Accessible Courses

Workshop/Training

Your Canvas course already has great content, but have you considered how usable and accessible that content is?

11:30 am - 12:30 pm | Online/Virtual |
09
Feb

CIDI Workshop - Running Secure Exams in Canvas with Proctorio

Workshop/Training

This workshop addresses how to create exams in Canvas, plus tools and methods for protecting quiz content and ensuring academic integrity when in-person proctoring isn't an option. (Includes discussion of Proctorio, question banks, time limits, question design, and more.)

10:30 am - 11:30 am | Online/Virtual |
10
Feb

CIDI Workshop - Publishing Open Textbooks with Pressbooks

Workshop/Training

Pressbooks is an open e-book authoring and publishing platform available to USU teachers and students. It integrates with Canvas and allows teachers and students to discover, use, and adapt existing open educational content or author and publish new content. Learn how to use and create Pressbooks content for your course.

1:30 pm - 2:30 pm | Online/Virtual |
13
Feb

CIDI Workshop - Digital Badging Using Canvas Credentials (previously Badgr)

Workshop/Training

Digital badges are sometimes called microcredentials. They can be awarded to students for various accomplishments and then shared by students on social media and elsewhere as an indicator of their accomplishment or competence. Canvas has an integrated digital badging tool called Canvas Credentials (previously called Badgr). This workshop addresses how to create, award, and track digital badges.

10:30 am - 11:30 am | Online/Virtual |
14
Feb

Front & Center: DEI Update Webinar

Workshop/Training

How Student-Facing Staff Can Advance USU's Commitment to a Diverse, Equitable, & Inclusive Institutional Culture.

10:00 am - 11:00 am | Online/Virtual |
14
Feb

Gen Z: What’s Not to like? Understanding the new generation of learners and how to unlock their potential

Workshop/Training | Sparkshops

Gen Z will most likely not remember a time before smartphones and social media. They gravitate towards 10 to 15 seconds worth of content (thanks TikTok) and were forced to be online learners (thanks pandemic). This Sparkshop will identify characteristics of Gen Z and explore teaching strategies to increase engagement.

12:00 pm - 12:40 pm | Online/Virtual |
15
Feb

CIDI Workshop - New Quizzes in Canvas

Workshop/Training

Learn how to leverage New Quizzes in Canvas to create a more dynamic assessment experience. This workshop will include New Quizzes creation, question types, settings, moderating, and editing. Changes to the workshop curriculum can be made based on instructor experience.

12:30 pm - 1:30 pm | Online/Virtual |
16
Feb

CIDI Workshop - Exam Security in Canvas Without Proctorio

Workshop/Training

If you want to run a secure exam without using Proctorio, your options are to use a testing center or design your exam in a way that removes the benefits of trying to cheat. This can take some extra work and creativity, but often results in better exams overall. We'll discuss question design, timing, question banks, and the way the USU testing center network works.

9:00 am - 10:00 am | Online/Virtual |
16
Feb

Thesis and Dissertation Information Session

Workshop/Training

Thesis and dissertation format information sessions provide a thorough survey of USU thesis and dissertation format requirements and guidelines, journal and other departmental format options, and tools that may be useful in the preparation of a thesis or dissertation including the publication guide.

12:00 pm - 1:00 pm | USU Libraries |
16
Feb

CIDI Workshop - Teaching Classes in Zoom

Workshop/Training

Learn how to plan, begin, and successfully teach a class over Zoom. This workshop focuses less on Zoom functionality and more on teaching strategies for keeping students engaged and minimizing distractions when teaching in real-time, remotely.

1:30 pm - 2:30 pm | Online/Virtual |
17
Feb

CIDI Workshop - Managing and Editing Lecture Recordings

Workshop/Training

With all the recordings you have probably been creating lately, your MyMedia account may be in need of some attention. This workshop will take you through the first steps to becoming a media master: learn how to tag and add descriptions to your recordings to make them more easily searchable, discover the power of playlists, and become familiar with the basic editing tools that are available through MyMedia.

1:30 pm - 2:30 pm | Online/Virtual |
21
Feb

CIDI Workshop - Editing 2+ Courses in one Place with Canvas Blueprints

Workshop/Training

Canvas allows a teacher to create a "blueprint" course, where updates can be made just once and then synced to several associated courses. This can greatly ease the management of multiple versions of the same class. This workshop shows how to use and effectively manage blueprint courses.

9:00 am - 10:00 am | Online/Virtual |
23
Feb

CIDI Workshop - Designing a Flipped Classroom

Workshop/Training

Utilize Canvas and its features to create more time in class for demonstration or discussion.

3:00 pm - 4:00 pm | Online/Virtual |
24
Feb

CIDI Workshop - Getting Started With Canvas

Workshop/Training

This workshop covers signing in, creating assignments and setting up the gradebook, using modules, pages, and files, and updating profile and notification settings. Topics are subject to change based on the experience of attendees and what is needed.

9:30 am - 10:30 am | Online/Virtual |
27
Feb

CIDI Workshop - Advanced Zoom

Workshop/Training

Learn about advanced Zoom options, such as breakout rooms, polls, and using multiple monitors.

1:30 pm - 2:30 pm | Online/Virtual |
28
Feb

CIDI Workshop - Creating Interactive Activities for OER Texts (Pressbooks)

Workshop/Training

Pressbooks is an open e-book authoring and publishing platform available to USU teachers and students. It allows teachers and students to find, reuse, author, and publish open content. Additionally, it incorporates tools for creating interactive activities to accompany the text using the open H5P assessment platform. Learn how to create or adopt an open textbook and make it interactive.

9:00 am - 10:00 am | Online/Virtual |
28
Feb

Setting & Communicating Healthy Boundaries

Workshop/Training

Front & Center Webinar: How student-facing staff can set and communicate healthy boundaries with students.

10:00 am - 11:00 am | Online/Virtual |
28
Feb

CIDI Workshop - Shortcuts and Tools to Take Your Canvas Course to the Next Level

Workshop/Training

You've learned how to use Design Tools, now get to know the amazing tools you didn't know existed! Did you know you could add an alert box to your front page with one click? That's just the beginning of what's to come with this workshop.

3:00 pm - 4:00 pm | Online/Virtual |
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