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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In this hands-on workshop, participants will become familiar with the basic tools for data management in Microsoft Excel. Participants learn how to import, extract, and manipulate spreadsheet data. Participants will also use some of Excel’s tools to work more efficiently, including data validation, PivotTables, and PivotCharts.
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Collaborating and communicating online has become an integral part of our day-to-day lives, but it’s often messy and hard to navigate across multiple apps and devices. Join us for a brown bag session to learn how to create and organize a virtual collaboration space with Microsoft Teams. You’ll have a chance to explore relevant features available in Teams (channels, apps, tabs etc.) and walk away with tips for setting up, organizing, and managing your Team to make collaboration more seamless.
Are you using Penn State’s Office 365 applications to enhance your teaching? Do you want to learn more about Office 365 and how the applications could potentially be used in the classroom?This 1.5 hour demonstration and discussion will walk you through how to locate Office 365 applications, identify how you can use these tools in your teaching environment, and follow up with the resources needed to get you there.
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Are you new to using the calendar features of Outlook on the Web or need a refresher of the features and tools? Join us for this session and learn how to use Outlook’s most important calendar features. Learn to do it all: Schedule meetings, respond to meeting invitations, share your calendar, and get organized for greater efficiency!
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!
With the introduction of G-suite for education alongside the existing Office 365 collaboration tools, it can be difficult to determine which tools may best suit your needs. In this session, we will compare tools available in G-suite and Office 365 for productivity, storage, and collaboration. In addition, we will work through several use cases to determine which tool(s) might be best to use for your unique needs.
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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