Snow day? Feeling sick? Unable to attend class? Regardless of the reason, it is important to have a plan for recovering lost class time. With Canvas, Kaltura and Zoom, you can keep students engaged and accountable for missed material. In this session, you will learn to identify content and choose the most effective Canvas delivery methods, produce reusable lectures in Zoom or Kaltura, and leverage Kaltura to increase interactivity with automatic chapters and slides, picture-in-picture, interactive transcripts, and quizzes, and evaluate student interaction using video analytics.
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This video is intended for Penn State staff who support IT Services. The primary topic is the Major Incident Process. Recent improvements to this process have resulted in more streamlined steps and clear lines of responsibility and communication. You will walk away with visual reference materials describing this process and your role in it.
This hands-on online session focuses on the Sites at Penn State tool, a blogging and website platform powered by WordPress. Get started with the Sites at Penn State tool and learn to create a personal or course blog, department, event, or course website, or an ePortfolio. Discuss best practices for managing text, posts, pages, media, and themes while exercising best practices in site design.
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Bring another level of engagement to your courses using Top Hat, Penn State’s new student response system and comprehensive teaching platform. In this training you’ll learn how you can use Top Hat to streamline attendance and participation, increase student engagement, deliver low stakes assessments, and more. You’ll also have time to experience and practice creating, organizing, and sharing content. We will cover how to set up the Canvas integration, share tips for getting your students connected, and how to sync Top Hat grades and assignments with your course to save you time and effort!
Ready to use Zoom, but not sure how to get started? Join us for this demonstration session to get up and running with Zoom basics. Explore the differences between meeting and webinar, and learn how to choose the best options for your sessions. Discover important information about meeting and account settings, and a few key host tools that can help you conduct effective meetings and webinars.
Ready to start using Zoom to host a webinar, but not sure how to get started? Join us for this demonstration session to get up and running with the basics of Zoom webinars. You will walk away with important information about webinar and account settings, and an understanding of a few key host tools that will help you conduct effective and engaging webinars.
Learn to use breakout rooms and other interactive tools to increase collaboration in Zoom. Participants will experience options for having their meeting attendees interact using tools such as chat, annotation tools, and breakout rooms. Participants will also develop ideas for setting up and using these tools to get meeting attendees working together in their own online sessions.
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In this hands-on workshop, learn to use Zoom tools to enhance engagement in online sessions. Explore how to engage and interact with students and meeting participants using tools such as chat, non-verbal feedback icons, and polls, and practice common host tasks such as sharing your screen and managing participant audio and video.
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Want to explore more advanced options for analyzing and manipulating your data in iTwo? These hands-on training sessions build upon the topics presented in iTwo: Getting Started with Data Analysis. Over the course of 2 sessions, you’ll dive deeper into the options available in iTwo, developing more complex queries while building upon the skills you gained in the introductory training.
Self-Study Option
A self-study alternative to the online training is also available. This allows you to study the materials on your own and then take a 10 question online assessment to test-out of the training. Completing this assessment serves as the equivalent of completing the online session. This is an excellent option if you are looking to receive training and access to iTwo right away, or if you prefer to go over the materials on your own, at your own pace. Please refer to the assessment and corresponding instructions.
This hands-on online training session is designed for advanced users of iTwo and builds upon the knowledge and skills presented in iTwo: Getting Started with Data Analysis and the iTwo: Advancing Your Skills training sessions. This session focuses on the basic skills needed to create interactive dashboards.
