Time is flying by! We hope your classes are off to a great start! As you continue teaching through the semester, our hope is that we can support you in the ways you need. We offer a variety of resources to help answer any questions that you might have:
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
In this newsletter, you'll find numerous tech tips to help with YuJa, finding course evaluations, and quicker course building; in addition, you'll find a video on Canvas updates that will help speed up grading! Don't forget to check out our February workshops, and the professional development opportunity we are currently offering! We hope to see you around!
Finding your Course Evaluations
Looking to improve your course(s)? One of the easiest places to start is by looking over your student evaluations. To learn how to access your course evaluations, what to ask yourself (courtesy of the Center for Faculty Excellence), and how digital learning can help, check out our video by clicking on the button below!
Building courses in Canvas can be time-consuming, but it doesn't have to be! We wanted to share our 5-step process to building courses quicker. This 5-step process will speed up course building and allow you to focus on the content and details of your course! Don't miss out!
There are two ways to embed YuJa videos on a Canvas page; you can embed a video by using the YuJa Integration Tool, or by copying and pasting the embed code from YuJa itself. Both are great options to allow students to watch the video right in Canvas, but by using the integration tool, you will be able to track analytics, including who watches your videos and how much they watch. Check out both videos below:
When copying a previous course, instructors using LockDown Browser will need to access the LockDown Browser dashboard before their students can take any exams. You can do this easily by clicking on LockDown Browser in your course navigation. You will then get an announcement letting you know your settings have been updated.
Grading Shortcuts
Canvas now allows you to add a missing grade status for a student by typing "MI" into the grade while in SpeedGrader or into the Gradebook. Our newest Canvas update video contains information about this new grading hack and others, including marking students as excused and how to quickly navigate and input grades for students in Canvas SpeedGrader.
You may have noticed a change in your course navigation recently. Newly created courses will now contain a condensed course navigation where items commonly not used are automatically hidden from student view. If you'd like to enable items that are now hidden, you still can. Check out this Canvas Community Guide or watch our tech tip video on personalizing navigation below to learn how!
During the month of February, Digital Learning is offering a variety of workshops including. See brief overviews and links to register below.
Fair Use in the College Classroom
Wednesday, February 8, 2:00-3:00pm
Fair Use is a powerful ally to educators who wish to use intellectual property in the classroom, and it's also one that is frequently misunderstood. Please join Craig Finlay, OER and STEM Librarian, as he covers the history and four factors of fair use, considerations for educators, and common scenarios one might encounter.
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.
Thursday, February 16, 9:00-10:00am Canvas’s SpeedGrader feature is an integrated tool that bridges Assignments and the Gradebook. Join us to learn how to use document markup tools, rubrics, and the comment library to improve your grading experience in Speedgrader!
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!
Interested in learning effective strategies for developing and managing an online class? Join us for our Foundations of Teaching Online course! This course explores the impact of instructional pedagogy on student learning and how implementing simple strategies can help improve student achievement, motivation, and engagement.
This 3-month course is asynchronous and has a rolling start date. This course is available for all faculty except those who have completed Foundations of Teaching Online in the past. Participants receive a $1,000 stipend for successfully completing all discussions and assignments. Register below!
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