FDIC Webinar Recordings
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Recording: Small Changes for Instructional Design
(26:20)
October 30, 2023
In this online presentation, Kim Ervin, FDIC Instructional Designer, shares research-based best practices for small changes in course design that maximise student learning outcomes. The information is based on the book "Small Teaching: Everyday Lessons from the Science of Learning (2d)" by James M. Lang.
Recording: Instructor Training on Respondus Monitor & LockDown Browser(47:44)
(Requires EIU netID and access to FDIC course in D2L)
August 10, 2023
In this webinar, Rebecca Schkade, Respondus Training & Customer Success Specialist, demonstrated:
- How to use LockDown Browser to prevent digital cheating in proctored testing environments
- How to use Respondus Monitor in non-proctored environments, to protect exam integrity and confirm student identity
- Advanced settings including combining proctored & non-proctored settings and using external tools in quizzes without compromising exam integrity
- The student perspective using each application
- Efficient review of the assessment data collected, including the Review Priority system, timeline, and milestone features
- Best practices and tips for success with both applications
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Recording: Supporting Students with Turnitin (1:44:44)
August 8, 2023
Turnitin Onboarding Consultant, Kenneth Rogers, offers guidance on Turnitin settings in D2L Brightspace, interpreting the similarity report, Turnitin's grading and feedback tools, and approaches to academic integrity. The demonstration included:
- Demo of Turnitin in D2L Brightspace
- D2L Brightspace Assignment Workflow
- Interpreting the Similarity Report
- Plagiarism vs. Text Similarity
- Grading/Feedback Tools
- PeerMark in Content Area
- Introduction to Academic Integrity and Contract Cheating
- Academic Integrity Core Values
- Defining Contract Cheating
- What's available at EIU?
- AI Writing Indicator and Resources
This webinar was offered as part of the 2023 FDIC August Institute.
Recording: What's New in D2L and other Instructional Technologies for Fall 2023 (1:02:38)
August 8, 2023
Julie Lockett, Director of Learning Innovation in the FDIC, presented feature releases and updates in D2L Brightspace, Turnitin, Respondus, and Perusall impacting teaching and learning at EIU.
Presentation Slides
Topics with corresponding timestamp in the video:
- Introduction
- What's New in D2L Brightspace (2:04)
- Announcements/News (2:49)
- Assignments/Dropbox (5:04)
- Brightspace Virtual Assistant (13:45)
- Awards (15:27)
- Class Progress (17:27)
- Discussions (24:46)
- Quizzes (39:28)
- Turnitin (49:27)
- Respondus (51:39)
- Perusall (54:27)
This webinar was offered as part of the 2023 FDIC August Institute.
Recording: Online Course Tour - PSY 3310 (37:42)
March 2, 2023
Dr. Jeffrey Stowell takes us on a tour of his online course. Jeff's course, PSY 3310 - Biological Psychology, recently earned the Quality Online Course (QOC) certification from the FDIC and meets the QM Essentials standards from Quality Matters. Jeff highlights cumulative quizzing, organization of content, use of video lectures, and the added benefits of checklists, surveys, navigation bar customization, and rubrics.
Recording: Communication Across the Curriculum: Plagiarism in Writing & Presentations (1:09:30)
February 14, 2023
Facilitators: Dr. Terri Fredrick and Dr. Nora Heist
What constitutes plagiarism and how might we, as educators, respond to it? How do we address ethical failures (e.g., copying a paper off the internet) versus knowledge failures (e.g., having a works cited page but not including in-text citations)? And how do we minimize the possibility that students plagiarize in the first place? In this session, we will address what constitutes plagiarism in writing and oral communication and offer strategies for proactively addressing these concerns in the classroom to facilitate a nuanced discussion about addressing plagiarism on campus.
Workshop resources can be found at this link.
Recording: Online Course Tour - EIU 4125G (41:16)
February 2, 2023
Dr. Kristin Routt takes us on a tour of her online course. Kristin's course, EIU 4125G - Cultural Diversity in the United States, recently earned the Quality Online Course (QOC) certification from the FDIC and meets the essential standards from Quality Matters. Kristin highlights her course design and the modifications she made to meet the Quality Matters standards.
Recording: Podcasting and Assessment in the Classroom (42:32)
October 20, 2022
Given the widespread use of podcasts in society, asking students to produce their own could be engaging for the students and a unique, authentic assessment of their learning. In this seminar, participants hear from two EIU faculty members currently using podcasts as a learning activity in their courses. They describe how the podcasting assignment is designed, how it is scaffolded into the course, how it is graded, their experiences using it as an individual and group assignment, and answer participant questions. This workshop is for faculty who have considered (or currently are) using podcasts as a learning activity or who want to enhance the learning activities in their in-person or online courses.
Recording: Building Inclusive and Equitable Syllabi and Assignments (1:05:50)
August 12, 2022
As we prepare for the next academic year, many of us reflect on our past practices in an effort to make improvements that would enhance student learning and experiences in our classrooms. For many, the syllabus, that welcome email or the D2L news feed will be your students’ first introduction to our course. Catherine Polydore, Chair and Professor of Counseling and Higher Education explore how, as academicians, we can have blind spots in our practices that create micro-barriers to our students’ success. In this workshop, Dr. Polydore discusses what it means to be inclusive and equitable, we will learn about inclusive and equitable pedagogy, and what they look like in the syllabus and various assignments.
This hybrid workshop was offered as part of the 2022 FDIC August Institute.
Recording: Teaching with Google Jamboards (1:02:54)
August 11, 2022
Jamboard is Google's free tool for collaborative digital whiteboarding. Kim Ervin, Instructional Designer in the Faculty Development and Innovation Center demonstrates how students and instructors can use it to collaborate whether they are in person or online, working at the same time (synchronous) or working at different times (asynchronous). This session overviews learning activities using the tool, introduces participants to the Jamboard Kiosk in the Center for Student Innovation (CSI) of Booth Library, and how to use a Jamboard in a traditional classroom.
This hybrid workshop was offered as part of the 2022 FDIC August Institute.
Recording: What's New in D2L @ EIU for Fall 2022 (58:48)
August 10, 2022
Julie Lockett, Director of Learning Innovation in the FDIC, presented feature releases and updates in D2L impacting teaching and learning at EIU.
Presentation slides (PDF)
Topics with corresponding timestamp in the video:
- Introduction
- Pronouns (6:01)
- D2L Email/Panthermail (7:27)
- Solve help bot (14:35)
- News (18:44)
- Dropbox (18:45)
- Content (20:06)
- Quizzes (28:58)
- Audio and Video (34:55)
- Brightspace Editor (46:08)
- Turnitin (47:10)
- Intelligent Agents (48:22)
- Brightspace Pulse (51:40)
- Q & A (53:23)
This webinar was offered as part of the 2022 FDIC August Institute.
Recording: Improve Academic Writing Using Turnitin Draft Coach (17:00)
August 9, 2022
In this webinar, Ryan Miller, Turnitin Training Consultant, demonstrated how Turnitin Draft Coach™ is now available to help students improve their academic writing and research skills by providing instant feedback where they write. Draft Coach can help correct grammar, check for similarity, and improve citations. Instructors, join us for this webinar to learn how students can use Turnitin Draft Coach for Office 365 at EIU. Topics included Student usage in Word (Office 365), How to check similarity, citations, and grammar, and How to interpret reports report.
This webinar was offered as part of the 2022 FDIC August Institute.
Recording: Using Turnitin Feedback Studio in D2L to Deter Plagiarism (55:26)
August 9, 2022
In this webinar, Ryan Miller, Turnitin Training Consultant, demonstrated how Feedback Studio can be used for similarity checking, feedback, and grading and is proven to deter plagiarism. Ryan demonstrated how instructors can use Turnitin Feedback Studio in D2L at EIU. Topics included How to create Turnitin Assignments in D2L, How a student submits an assignment, How to view the and interpret the Similarity report, and How to navigate the Similarity report.
Note: In this webinar the presenter indicated that by default, papers submitted to Turnitin are not stored in the standard paper repository but that is incorrect for our instance of Turnitin in D2L. The papers are submitted to the standard paper repository by default. If you do not want the papers submitted to the repository (such as for a draft), you must change the Turnitin setting in that assignment dropbox to "Do not store submitted papers."
This webinar was offered as part of the 2022 FDIC August Institute.
Recording: Teaching with Podcasts (57:45)
Tuesday August 9, 2022
Kim Ervin, Instructional Designer in the Faculty Development and Innovation Center discusses using podcasting as couse learning materials as well as learning activities. For example, instructors can use third-party or instructor-produced podcasts to deliver course content and students can produce podcasts as a way to demonstrate learning. This session overviews considerations to take into account when teaching with podcasts and introduce participants to the podcasting studio located in the Center for Student Innovation (CSI) of Booth Library.
This hybrid workshop was offered as part of the 2022 FDIC August Institute.
Recording: Open Educational Resources (OER): Why Students Need Them, How to Find Them, and How to Build and Share Them (57:46)
April 14, 2022
There is much buzz surrounding OER and it’s impact on student success. During this session, Steve Brantley explores the variety of forms OER can take, how to find them, and how you can employ them in your classroom. For the intrepid, take a quick trek into how an OER textbook is created using existing open platforms.
Recording: So You Have Students with Accommodations...or Not! (38:11)
February 8, 2022
Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is an approach to teaching and learning to ensure that all learners can access and participate in meaningful, challenging learning opportunities. Often, instructors are asked to make important accommodations for students with exceptionalities such as captioning videos or using alternative text for images in online course designs. However, these efforts are not just for students with accommodations, they are principles that impact and enhance outcomes for ALL learners across course modalities. Dr. April Jackson, the Director of Student Disability Services at EIU presented this webinar on the basics of UDL and how instructors can incorporate these principles for all students.
Recording: Online Course Tour - HSL 2300G (56:35)
February 3, 2022
Dr. Linda Simpson takes us on a tour of her online course. Linda's course, HSL 2300G - Personal and Family Financial Literacy, recently earned the Quality Online Course (QOC) certification from the FDIC and meets the essential standards from Quality Matters. Linda highlights the modifications she made to meet accessibility standards for instructional materials in her course and the best practices she uses to support students in the online learning environment.
Recording: Librarian Course Support and Integration: Utilizing Information Literacy and Library Digital Tools for Student Success (54:15)
February 2, 2022
Steve Brantley presents on the myriad of tools and services that Booth Librarians offer to bring critical thinking and information literacy skills to your students. Whether you employ a flipped classroom, embed a librarian into D2L, integrate library databases into your course website, or bring your class into Booth for traditional instruction, this session to explores the collaborations available to you with EIU’s information professionals at Booth Library.
Recording: Online Course Tour - PSY 3780 (42:47)
November 11, 2021
Dr. JungSu Oh takes us on a tour of his online course. JungSu's course, PSY 3780 - Abnormal Psychology, recently earned the Quality Online Course (QOC) certification from the FDIC and meets the QM Essentials standards from Quality Matters. In this webinar, JungSu highlights the design choices for his online course, such as use of self-introduction, start-up quiz, project guide, progress management, and organization of content.
Recording: Innovative Ways of Teaching with Perusall (1:05:04)
October 27, 2021
Dr. Lu Ding, Dr. Linda Ghent, and Dr. Jim Bruehler presented on Perusall, a social annotation tool that can be easily embedded in D2L Brightspace. Many faculty use it to replace asynchronous online discussions, and many of them use it before the class and bring in any topics that need to be further addressed in face-to-face meetings. Faculty have reported that Perusall has substantially increased student engagement in online discussions and students have also shown higher interest in participating in Perusall online discussions than traditional D2L online discussions. In this workshop, Dr. Bruehler and Dr. Ghent showcased some of the innovative ways that they used Perusall in their classes. In addition, Dr. Ding presented some pedagogies of how to use Perusall in a class including how to prepare students and how to familiarize students with Perusall.
Recording: Online Course Tour - PSY 3680 (42:43)
September 30, 2021
Dr. Jeffrey Stowell takes us on a tour of his online course. Jeff's course, PSY 3680 - Sensation & Perception, recently earned the Quality Online Course (QOC) certification from the FDIC and meets the QM Essentials standards from Quality Matters. In this webinar, Jeff highlights cumulative quizzing, organization of content, use of video lectures, and the added benefits of checklists, surveys, navigation bar customization, and rubrics.
Recording: What's New in D2L @ EIU for Fall 2021 (47:25)
August 11, 2021
Julie Lockett, Director of Learning Innovation in the FDIC, presented feature releases and updates in D2L impacting teaching and learning at EIU. Topics included: Recent, current, and future feature releases and updates for D2L.
Presentation slides (PDF)
Recording: D2L: Assignment Options Old and New (43:38)
May 18, 2021
Julie Lockett, Director of Learning Innovation in the FDIC, demonstrated assignment creation and evaluation options in D2L. Topics included: Creating assignments, new assignment creation experience, submission types, grading assignments, new assignment evaluation experience.
Recording: D2L: Creating and Managing Graded Discussion (39:04)
May 18, 2021
Julie Lockett, Director of Learning Innovation in the FDIC, demonstrated assignment creation and evaluation options in D2L. Topics included: Creating assignments, new assignment creation experience, submission types, grading assignments, new assignment evaluation experience.
Recording: D2L: Managing Content New and Old (47:26)
May 18, 2021
Julie Lockett, Director of Learning Innovation in the FDIC, demonstrated how to organize and upload content in a D2L course using the new and old content experiences. Topics included: Organizing content, differences between the new and old content experiences, copying content, adding content, and embedding or linking video.
Recording: D2L: Simplify Your Course Homepage and Navigation - NOTE: Recording begins at 45:32 (52:55)
May 17, 2021
Julie Lockett, Director of Learning Innovation in the FDIC, demonstrated how to simplify your course to make it easier for students to navigate. Topics included: Course homepage management, updating the course image, custom and system widgets, navbar management, hiding unused tools, changing the course title, changing the header (welcome message), News vs. Activity Reed, and course start and end dates.
Recording: Accessing Course Data to Make Data Driven Decisions in D2L (59:54)
March 10, 2021
Julie Lockett, Director of Learning Innovation in the FDIC, demonstrated course data and reports available to instructors in D2L including built-In reports, in-Line tool reports and statistics, using other D2L tools for data collection, Insights for Instructors, and the Insights Portal.
Recording: Create Custom Learning Paths in D2L using Release Conditions (47:09)
March 3, 2021
Julie Lockett, Director of Learning Innovation in the FDIC, shared how Release Conditions work, D2L tools that support release conditions, how to access Release Conditions, Release condition types, and best practices for creating release conditions.
Recording: Personalize Your Course Interactions Using Video Note in D2L (49:55)
February 17, 2021
Julie Lockett, Director of Learning Innovation in the FDIC, discussed and demonstrated: How to record and insert a video note, How to generate captions for a video note, Differences between adding a video note and using the record video option, and Suggested uses and best practices.
Recording: Enhance Learner-Instructor Interaction using Intelligent Agents in D2L (1:00:13)
February 10, 2021
Julie Lockett, Director of Learning Innovation in the FDIC, demonstrated how Intelligent Agents can assist instructors and students by providing an automated notification when a defined activity occurs (or does not occur) in a course. Topics included: What is an Intelligent Agent and how does it work, Use Case Scenarios, How to create an Intelligent Agent, Running an Intelligent Agent, Release Conditions and Replacement Strings, Intelligent Agent Templates, and Effective Practices.
Recording: Engaging students online - Conducting effective asynchronous online discussions (30:07)
January 21, 2021
Lu Ding, Instructional Designer in the FDIC, presented some activities which can be used in the online learning environment as alternatives to text-based asynchronous online discussions and techniques for facilitating effective online discussions. This webinar looked at tips and tricks of how to design, conduct and facilitate engaging asynchronous online discussions in academic settings.
Recording: Demystifying Hybrid Classes: Principles and Pedagogies (42:33)
November 17, 2020
Lu Ding, Instructional Designer in the FDIC, presented some effective learning activities based on proven principles of designing and implementing hybrid or mixed modality courses. She used breakout groups, polling and whiteboard in Zoom, so that participants could experience what students experience in active learning environments.
Recording: D2L: Personalize Your Course Interactions Using Video Note (56:33)
November 11, 2020
Julie Lockett, Director of Learning Innovation in the FDIC, demonstrated how Video Note in D2L Brightspace could be used to create and post a video message for students in a news announcement within a course without special software or the need to download, upload, and link to video files. She also demonstrated how to provide a video overview of a content module or an assignment for students.
Recording: Zoom in Education Webinar: Polling and Breakout Rooms in a Zoom Meeting (42:59)
November 4, 2020
Julie Lockett, Director of Learning Innovation in the FDIC, demonstrated how to conduct polls and utilize breakout rooms in a Zoom meeting. Topics included: Enabling Polling, Creating a Poll live or in advance, Launching and ending a poll, Downloading a report of polling results, Enabling Breakout Rooms, Assigning participants to Breakout Rooms, Pre-assigning participants to Breakout Rooms, Managing Breakout Rooms, and Limitations of Breakout Rooms.
Recording: Zoom in Education Webinar: Zoom Meeting Recording Options (38:59)
November 4, 2020
Julie Lockett, Director of Learning Innovation in the FDIC, demonstrated meeting recording options in Zoom. Topics included: Recording a Zoom meeting, Automatic recording, Accessing and sharing Cloud recordings, Frequently asked questions about Local and Cloud recording, Managing recordings, Downloading and publishing Zoom recordings, and Audio transcript and closed captioning for Cloud recordings.
Recording: Zoom in Education Webinar: Screen Sharing and Annotations in a Zoom Meeting (46:50)
October 28, 2020
Julie Lockett, Director of Learning Innovation in the FDIC, demonstrated screen sharing options and how to use the annotation tools in Zoom. Topics included: Screen sharing options including Basic, Advanced, and Files, Sharing your screen or content, Screen sharing a PowerPoint presentation, Sharing a Whiteboard, Using annotation tools on a shared screen or whiteboard, and Saving shared screens with annotations.
Recording: Zoom in Education Webinar: Hosting a Zoom Meeting (42:14)
October 28, 2020
Julie Lockett, Director of Learning Innovation in the FDIC, demonstrated hosting a meeting in Zoom. Topics included: Starting the Zoom meeting, Navigating the Zoom meeting interface, Zoom toolbar, Zoom side panel including the participants list and chat, Default settings and other options, Meeting best practices, and Ending the meeting.
Recording: Zoom in Education Webinar: Integrating Zoom in D2L (41:12)
October 21, 2020
Julie Lockett, Director of Learning Innovation in the FDIC, demonstrated how to integrate Zoom in a course in D2L. Topics included: Adding Zoom to your course, Zoom interface in D2L, Scheduling a new Zoom meeting in D2L, Zoom meeting options, Managing Zoom meetings in D2L, How students join a Zoom meeting from D2L, How to invite others (not enrolled in your course) to the meeting, and How to start a Zoom meeting from D2L as the host. Note: During this webinar it is indicated that Zoom cloud recordings are automatically deleted after 30 days. That information was incorrect. We later found out that Zoom cloud recordings are not automatically deleted and will remain in the cloud until the host deletes the recording.
Recording: Zoom in Education Webinar: Your EIU Zoom Account (42:43)
October 21, 2020
Julie Lockett, Director of Learning Innovation in the FDIC, demonstrated how to access the EIU Zoom web portal and utilize EIU Zoom accounts. Topics included: How to access your Zoom account on the EIU Zoom Web Portal, EIU Zoom Web Portal interface, Scheduling a Zoom meeting, Zoom Outlook plugin, Zoom meeting options, Managing Zoom meetings, How to invite others to the meeting, How to start a Zoom meeting as the host, and Default settings and other options. Note: During this webinar it is indicated that Zoom cloud recordings are automatically deleted after 30 days. That information was incorrect. We later found out that Zoom cloud recordings are not automatically deleted and will remain in the cloud until the host deletes the recording.
Recording: D2L: How to Grade Student Work (34:57)
September 9, 2020
Jeff Cranstoun, Instructional Support Specialist at EIU, demonstrated how to set up grade items in D2L, how to grade and provide feedback in D2L, and how to set up a grade book in D2L.
