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Webinar Archive

On this page, you will find recordings and other resources from webinars offered during the spring and summer of 2020. 

Past webinars:

Introduction to Canvas
Advanced Zoom Features for Active Learning
Hybrid and Remote Student Presentations
Videoconferencing and Video Options
Video Whiteboard
Student Interaction
Helping Students Manage Remote Learning
Utilizing the Canvas Remote Teaching Templates
Proctoring and TurnItIn
Academic Honesty, Canvas Exams, and Assignments
Online Discussions
Quizzes, Grading, and Feedback in Canvas
Canvas Essentials

Introduction to Canvas

This webinar will provide a broad overview of Canvas for users new to the platform. Learn how to navigate in Canvas and use the basic Canvas features to get started creating course content. You will also learn how to import content from other Canvas courses, create your Canvas profile, customize your settings, and use the many Canvas support resources that are available to you.

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Canvas Essentials

This webinar covered basic Canvas functions to equip faculty to continue course instruction remotely, including communicating with students, distributing course content materials, facilitating class discussions, creating quizzes, and grading and offering feedback on assignments.

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Videoconferencing and Video Options

This webinar explored the opportunities and limitations of synchronous and asynchronous video learning and discussed tools such as Zoom, VidGrid, Canvas recordings, and Big Blue Button.

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Video Whiteboard

This webinar reviewed options to create video substitutes for classroom whiteboard/chalkboard work, including fully digital and physical writing tools available through Xavier to use for equations and formulae, molecular structures, and other basic handwriting and illustration needs.

Proctoring and Turnitin

This webinar focused on how to use Respondus Monitor and Turnitin to promote academic honesty. Respondus Monitor locks down the student's browser, records students taking Canvas tests via their webcams, and flags suspicious behaviors in the recorded videos. Instructors receive notification of flagged behaviors and can review the Monitor recordings to determine any issues related to academic honesty. Turnitin detects plagiarism by checking students’ work against an 8 million page database. Both Respondus Monitor and Turnitin can be enabled and used in any Canvas course. 

Student Interaction

This webinar focused on strategies and tools to promote student interaction remotely. It addressed synchronous and asynchronous solutions for discussions and group work using tools available within and outside of Canvas, such as Zoom, Big Blue Button, and Discussion Boards.

Online Discussions

This webinar focused on designing discussions in Canvas that engage students with course content and with each other. It covered creating effective discussion prompts, promoting quality student participation, directions for setting up discussion boards in Canvas, and grading.

Quizzes, Grading, and Feedback in Canvas

This webinar focused on how to create quizzes, use the Canvas gradebook, and use Speedgrader to provide feedback on student work with text, audio, or even video. It also covered customizing your gradebook display, creating rubrics, and setting up assignment group weighting if you plan to weight the final course grade.

Helping Students Manage Remote Learning 

This webinar focused on strategies for helping students manage the expectations of remote learning, providing clarity, consistency, and routine through elements of course design. Strategies discussed included utilizing Canvas Calendar and To Do list functions, deliberate spacing of assignments and tasks, creating benchmarks within larger projects, and regular student check-ins.

Maintaining Connection with your Students

A hallmark of Xavier courses is the connection between instructors and students. This webinar focused on strategies to help you preserve connectedness with students in the remote learning environment, including learning how to maintain your presence through options like video announcements, instructor presence in discussion boards, video comments on assignments, and providing textual context for course readings and materials. Helping your students feel less distant will help them be more successful in their classes.

ACADEMIC HONESTY, CANVAS EXAMS AND ASSIGNMENTS

This webinar covered several strategies for preventing or detecting academic dishonesty on exams or paper assignments, including 1) how to create online exams through Canvas Quizzes, with the option of using Respondus Monitor to make your exams more secure through browser lockdown and webcam recording technology, and 2) how to create a downloadable exam as an assignment in Canvas and utilize Turnitin for plagiarism detection. 

UTILIZING THE CANVAS REMOTE TEACHING TEMPLATES

Summer 2020 courses have been made available in Canvas with pre-loaded templates to make it easier for students to navigate remote learning. This webinar walked through how to utilize these templates to set yourself and students up for a successful remote learning experience this summer.

Advanced Zoom Features for Active Learning

This webinar, facilitated by Paul Weber and Daniel Wooddell, demonstrated multiple strategies for making your synchronous Zoom class sessions more interactive and keeping students engaged with you, your content, and each other. Strategies included how to gauge understanding with polls and nonverbal feedback, divide students for group work, and manage attention by signaling different sections of class time.

Hybrid and Remote Student Presentations

This webinar focused on tools and strategies for managing student presentations in a hybrid or remote format, addressing synchronous and asynchronous options, and options for peer feedback and traditional grading. The session included example Canvas assignments and demonstration of select tools or assignment preparation based on participant input.

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