LSBE TL Comm Online Teaching Discussion

Below are a few videos we have put together on online teaching from Magna Publication's 20 Minutes Mentor Video. Click here on How to access the videos as a UMD member How Can I Become a Better Online Instructor? Many who teach online find it less satisfying than teaching in person. This may be due to the lack of in-person interactions or not physically being there for the “aha” moments your students create. How Can Course Design Help Prevent Online Cheating?  Learn the techniques that other schools have successfully used to slash the potential of cheating, assuage student anxiety about their academic performance, and propel them toward being more honest, self-reliant learners. How Can I Ensure Academic Honesty in My Online Assessments?  This program offers a realistic and practical alternative to the ever-escalating “cheating wars” that consume so much college and university resources in prosecuting dishonest academic conduct. Implemen...

For most common questions about using canvas, you can visit https://community.canvaslms.com/ Some cool functions about Canvas: 1. Peer review assignments How do I create a peer review assignment?   2. Copy Quiz or other contents  (and option to automatically update the assignment dates when copying the content)  How do I duplicate a quiz   3. Count total posts to discussion forums per student Participation posts counts for all boards 4. Mass setting of due dates in a canvas course Setting multiple due dates in one file

If you would like to use synchronous video conference to get the classroom teaching experience, Zoom is the tool to go. If you experience slow down in video conference, you can ask class participants to turn off their video and just appear via Audio. This will save a lot of broadband width. I suggest you pair up with one of conference attendees today, or anyone who has used Zoom today to try it out before you use. There are many videos on Youtube that shows how a Zoom meeting can be set up. Here are a few. You can explore others. Zoom applications for teaching: Setting up a meeting: https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=UTXUmoNsgg0 Using breakout room for group discussions. https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=fIJJLtanyxk Real time polling of participants (survey) You can share the poll results after you end it: https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=HDHRmvpUVXw Whiteboard function https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=T1F5sBMWZyk

If you would like to record your class presentation in a video, you can use Kaltrura, Zoom and other video editing tools. To get Kaltura, in your website on Canvas, you can click My Media on the left list of tools (along with home gradebook, modules etc.). If you don't have 'My Media' button, you should go to Settings --> Navigation --> My Media (in the low tool box where inactive tools are kept) ---> Enable --> Save. Then My Media should appear on the left set of tools in your course. The following video shows how to launch and use Kaltura: https://learning.mediaspace. kaltura.com/media/1_rbj9as7v