In the July newsletter, you'll find information about Canvas updates, July workshops, upcoming professional development opportunities, YuJa, resources to help you prepare for the fall semester, and an introduction to our fall workshop series!
As a reminder, Digital Learning is working remote this summer until our new space in the library is ready! We are still here to help:
Book a 30-minute meeting with an instructional designer or technologist on our bookings website (found by selecting the help icon of Canvas).
Send us an email at uno.its.digitallearning@unomaha.edu
Bulk Publish and Unpublish
We're excited to announce that Canvas now allows faculty to unpublish or publish all modules at one time, improving faculty workflow and efficiency when launching courses! To learn more about the new feature, select the button below!
By July 31st, Instructure (Canvas) will be migrating all of their Canvas Community support videos from Vimeo to Canvas Studio. These videos are often used to introduce students to Canvas and may include some videos you offer to your students in the student technology resource module, older start here modules, or other pages you've embedded Canvas help videos in for students. The most common videos that will need replaced are:
Digital Learning has been working hard to update our content within Canvas Commons to reflect the new links. To ensure your videos are available going forward, you can:
Import the updated 'Student Technology Resource Module' from Canvas Commons
Import the updated 'How to Navigate Canvas' page from Canvas Commons
Re-embed the videos yourself by selecting the embed this video button in the upper right corner of the associated Canvas Community Pages [links above] and copying the embed codes. For a visual, watch this how to video.
For more information on how to access Canvas Commons and import templates into your course, check out our Canvas Common Resource Page. If you have questions or need any assistance, please contact the Digital Learning team.
Other Updated Canvas Resources
Digital Learning has also updated/added the following two pages in Canvas Commons to improve the directions and resources offered for students when using YuJa to record videos and for YuJa Panorama. You can add these pages to your course by importing the entire updated Student Technology Resource Module from Canvas Commons or by importing the following pages from Canvas Commons:
'How to Use YuJa to Record Video Assignments/Discussions'
'How to Use YuJa Panorama'
YuJa Basics
Thursday, July 13, 2:00-3:00pm
The YuJa basics workshops will introduce faculty to the YuJa 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 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!
Starting Fall 2023, YuJa Panorama, a new accessibility tool integrated into Canvas will be available for faculty and students to use in their course. For a sneak peak into what YuJa Panorama is and how both faculty and students can use it, join us for our first Panorama Workshop!
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.
As you prepare for the fall term, use the following resources to help you get started, especially the beginning of the semester checklist to make sure you're all ready to go!
Creating an Engaging, Equitable, and Inclusive Online Class
Starts September 11, 2023
Our 3-week Humanizing Online course on creating an engaging, equitable, and inclusive online class is coming up in a couple months! In this course, participants will explore ways to design and facilitate online courses that promote rich and robust learning interactions for all students. Faculty who participate and complete the course will receive a $300 stipend. Join our newest cohort today!
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!
Our contract with VidGrid officially ended on June 30th, 2023. As a reminder, all videos made in VidGrid prior to March 8, 2023 were copied over to YuJa. VidGrid videos are now located in your My Media folder in YuJa, hosted in a folder with your email address as the name.
YuJa has finished swapping VidGrid links and videos with YuJa links and videos in all Canvas courses. Although this process worked quite well, it was not perfect. We recommend you doing the following things before the fall semester begins:
Videos: Double check the videos in Canvas were transferred over to YuJa and all pages are labeled correctly.
Video Thumbnails: Thumbnails did not transfer over, if you want thumbnails for your videos, you'll need to re-add the thumbnails in YuJa
Video Quizzing: Video Quizzes were transferred over from VidGrid but must be re-embedded into your Canvas course for them to work.
Directions: Swap out VidGrid directions with YuJa directions in all assignments, discussions, and pages in your course.
If you have questions or need any assistance, please contact the Digital Learning team.
Fall workshops will consist of Technology Quick Bytes (30-minute sessions) and 1-hour workshops that embrace topics and pedagogy outside the traditional Higher Ed model. Join us for one or all of the workshops you're interested in learning about. A list of topics coming this fall are below; more details, workshop titles and registration links will be coming in the August newsletter!
Academic Technology Quick Bytes
These 30-minute sessions will focus on specific tasks within our academic technology. Each session will consist of a basic overview and leave time for you to ask questions.
Akindi Test Importer
Turn It In
Zoom
YuJa
Canvas
Thinking Outside the Traditional Model: Unique Approaches to Teaching
These 1-hour workshops will focus on non-lecture based learning! Each workshop will consist of an overview of the approach and give examples of how to do it effectively.
AI/ChatGPT series
Hyflex
Competency Based Education
Flipped Classroom
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