Summer and Fall course shells should now be available for you to begin working in. We recommend waiting to import content into Fall courses until the VidGrid link replacements are complete in Mid-June (for more information on VidGrid link replacement, see the YuJa section further down in the newsletter), but if you are needing to get started on them early, or on summer courses, the following resources may be helpful:
Come see us in Eppley Admin Building, Room 113 from 9-4, Monday-Friday
Book a 30-minute meeting with an instructional designer or technologist on our bookings website.
Send us an email at uno.its.digitallearning@unomaha.edu
SAVE THE DATE!
Save the date for this year's in person Digital Learning Showcase: Celebrating 25 Years of Excellence in Online Teaching at UNO! The showcase is scheduled for Tuesday, April 25, 2023 from 2:00pm-4:30pm in the CEC with a reception to follow. Note: While this is an in-person event, we do plan to have zoom functionality for those who aren't local.
Digital Learning is excited to highlight the innovative and engaging strategies that faculty have crafted in the past year. This year's theme is Celebrating 25 Years of Excellence in Online Teaching at UNO. If you're interested in presenting, please submit a topic proposal by selecting the button below. Faculty presenters will receive a $100 stipend for their time. Please submit your Digital Learning Showcase proposal no later than Friday, April 7.
Canvas now allows instructors to submit a file upload assignment on behalf of a student in the Gradebook. The submission includes the timestamp and who submitted the assignment. Additionally, the instructor can submit multiple files at a time for a single student and submit beyond the availability date. This update allows instructors the option to support students in situations that need an alternative means of submission.
Using the Canvas Peer Review Tool to Build Your Learning Community
Friday, April 7, 10:00-11:00am
This workshop will introduce you to the Peer Review feature in Canvas, breaking down the benefits it offers to your teaching, the basic functions, and the process of configuration. Participants will learn to set up peer review for an assignment, create reviewer pairings, add a rubric, and enable anonymity if desired. Resources to guide students through the peer review process will be provided. This workshop aims to help participants use peer review to build a class community that promotes meaningful learning and produces better work.
YuJa is UNO's new video platform! The YuJa basics workshops will introduce faculty to the new video platform and deliver an overview of the features it offers including: video making options, using YouTube videos in YuJa and basic editing. Join us to learn how you can get started creating your own academic videos!
YuJa Video Quizzes are a great way to increase student participation and interactive learning in your course! In this session participants will learn how to create and implement two types of video quizzes in YuJa, how to navigate the YuJa Gradebook and how video quiz grades seamlessly feed from YuJa into the Canvas Gradebook.
YuJa offers video editing capabilities that allows you to improve your media content. Join us to learn how to use the video editing tools including: cutting and trimming, inserting/overriding videos, captioning editing and more!
Three times a year, the Office of Digital Learning awards grants for faculty to develop or improve the online delivery of one of their courses; the next approaching due date is for courses that are marked for spring 2024 course delivery. Click the button below to learn more and apply for a grant today!
We are two months away from our contract ending with VidGrid. In preparation, YuJa has started to replace VidGrid links and videos with YuJa links and videos in all courses EXCEPT for the spring 2023 semesters. Starting May 8th, making new videos in VidGrid will be disabled and link/video replacement for Spring 2023 courses will begin.
NOTE: if you have VidGrid videos created on web pages or outside of Canvas courses, you'll want to ensure you switch out the VidGrid videos before the end of June to ensure it is accessible for everyone. For help with how to access YuJa Links and Embed Codes, check out this YuJa Tech Tip Video.
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