February
4
MOQI Free Webinars
Check out the great professional development sessions offered through MOQI. These sessions are free. Plan to register in advance to ensure you have a seat.
Check out the great professional development sessions offered through MOQI. These sessions are free. Plan to register in advance to ensure you have a seat.
January
22
T4TL Workshop: QM Earning Online Teaching Certificate
The Technology for Teaching and Learning (T4TL) Workshop series begins in January with Dr. Kate Mooney, Accounting Professor, Herberger Business School presenting on the Quality Matters Online Teaching Certification process.
When / Where: Wednesday, January 30 from 3-3:50 pm in Centennial Hall 106 OR Thursday, January 31 from 12:30 – 1:30 pm in Centennial Hall 106.
Title: Quality Matters — Earning the Certificate in Online Teaching
Description: This presentation will outline the requirements for earning the Online Teaching Certificate, a seven course program from Quality Matters. Dr. Kate Mooney earned the certificate as her sabbatical project and will share the course requirements, structure, and content, along with some reflections on the benefits of the program.
If you cannot join us in Centennial Hall, please plan to attend online at https://webmeeting.minnstate.edu/t4tlworkshops.
February
28
Reminder: T4TL Workshop Today 2/28 and Tomorrow 3/1
Unleash Amazing Using Instructional Technology Tools
Wednesday, Feb. 28 from noon- 1 in CH 106 OR Thursday, Mar. 1 from 3:30 – 4:30 in CH 106 OR use this link to join us remotely T4TL remote access.
Workshop Description:
Would you like to reach more students with the same email message, but you want it to feel more personal? Are you curious to know what other faculty are doing in the classroom with technology? Join the Technology for Teaching and Learning (T4TL) workshop to learn more about instructional technology tools.
- Wednesday join Dr. Mark Petzold to hear more about how he uses D2L Intelligent Agents to reach out to his students without needing to create individual emails.
- Thursday join Dr. Kannan Sivaprakasam to hear how he is using instructional technology tools like Respondus, LICEcap, Zoomit, and Clickers to engage his students in Chemistry.
We would love to see you in person, but if that is not convenient, please join us remotely to learn more.
December
6
MOQI Webinars for Spring Semester 2018
Are you looking for professional development opportunities without needing to leave your office? MOQI has just the thing for you. Check out the list of FREE webinars scheduled from January through April. Review the list, find something of interest, and register today. The MN Quality Online Initiative (MOQI) promotes quality course design through professional development and statewide collaboration.
| Wed. January 10, 2018
Noon- 1 |
MOQI Webinar: Mediaspace for Recorded Lectures In this webinar, participants will learn how to capture a lecture using Mediaspace as well as how to integrate their lectures into D2L Brightspace. This webinar will focus on the technical aspects of recording lectures including audio levels, camera composition, capturing web camera and PowerPoint presentations, editing, machine-close caption the video and share this in D2L Brightspace. Step-by-step guides will be provided. Register for webinar: https://mnquality.eventbrite.com |
| Wed. January 24, 2018
Noon -1
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MOQI Webinar: Tips to Improve Navigation, Usability, and Organization in Your Online or Blended Course Register for webinar: https://mnquality.eventbrite.com |
| Wed. February 14, 2018
Noon – 1 |
MOQI Webinar: Increase Student Engagement Using Discussion Boards Participants will be introduced to ways you can engage your students with icebreakers to get to know each other, team building, introduce new technologies, hands-on experience with the discussion tool. Participants will also learn how to structure a debate online to increase student critical thinking skills and deepen their knowledge on course topics, incorporate scenario based learning as an effective way for students to apply what they are learning to realistic situation and participants will learn how to create a discussion board in which students can become the expert on a course topic requiring them research, apply concepts and examples. Templates, assignment directions and examples will be provided. After this webinar you will be able to: 1. Discuss techniques for increasing engagement using the discussion board. 2. Utilize planning worksheets and templates to implement discussion board concepts. 3. Increase student engagement with discussion boards. Register for webinar: https://mnquality.eventbrite.com |
| Wed. February 21, 2018
Noon – 1 |
MOQI Webinar: Accessibility, UDL, and You Participants will learn about how to create accessible course content using Word, PowerPoint, Mediaspace, and D2L Brightspace files. Handouts and guides will be provided. After this webinar, you will be able to: 1. Explain the difference between and main concepts of accessible course design, accommodation, and Universal Design Learning principles. 2. Identify several strategies for implementing UDL principles in your own course. 3. Create accessible course content including course documents (Word, PowerPoint, PDF), video captioning in Mediaspace, and content pages in Brightspace. Register for webinar: https://mnquality.eventbrite.com |
| Wed. February 28, 2018
Noon-1 |
MOQI Webinar: Learning Objectives: What, Why, Where, & How Well-written learning objectives establish the foundation upon which courses are designed and delivered. They form the basis for the instructional materials and assessments that are included in the course. Learning Objectives serve as an implied contract between the instructor and student by defining what is to be taught and what is to be learned, so communicating these objectives clearly is a crucial step in assuring an effective learning experience. This session will review best practices for creating and sharing measurable learning objectives in your online or blended course. Register for webinar: https://mnquality.eventbrite.com |
| Wed. March 7, 2018
Noon – 1 |
MOQI Webinar: The ABCs of Assessments Assessment, Evaluation, and Testing are often used interchangeably. What do we mean when we talk about formative assessment, summative assessment, aligned assessment, and evaluation? Is that the same as testing? Assessment is a crucial part of any course because it allows your students to demonstrate mastery of the learning objectives. But how do you know what type of assessment to choose? Register for webinar: https://mnquality.eventbrite.com |
| Wed. March 21, 2018
Noon-1 |
MOQI Webinar: Lights, Camera, Action…Recorded Lectures After this webinar you will be able to: 1. Describe PowerPoint design elements: theme, images, accessibility features, and use of master templates. 2. Create a video outline for instructional videos. 3. Utilize a planning document to produce effective recorded lectures. 4. Apply broadcast industry best practices for recorded lectures. Register for webinar: https://mnquality.eventbrite.com |
| Wed. March 28, 2018
Noon – 1 |
MOQI Webinar: Accessibility, UDL, and You Participants will learn about how to create accessible course content using Word, PowerPoint, Mediaspace, and D2L Brightspace files. Handouts and guides will be provided. After this webinar, you will be able to: 1. Explain the difference between and main concepts of accessible course design, accommodation, and Universal Design Learning principles. 2. Identify several strategies for implementing UDL principles in your own course. 3. Create accessible course content including course documents (Word, PowerPoint, PDF), video captioning in Mediaspace, and content pages in Brightspace. Register for webinar: https://mnquality.eventbrite.com |
| Wed. April 4, 2018
Noon – 1 |
MOQI Webinar: Mediaspace for Recorded Lectures After this webinar you will be able to: 1. Utilize Mediaspace to record lectures including web camera and presentations. 2. Share recorded lectures in D2L Brightspace. Register for webinar: https://mnquality.eventbrite.com |
| Wednesday, April 18, 2018
Noon – 1 |
MOQI Webinar: Tips to Improve Navigation, Usability, and Organization in your Online or Blended Course This session will introduce you to different ways to create and organize your course content to improve the learning experience for your students. Tips will include different content creation strategies to improve accessibility and usability. Several different course organization approaches will be shared that will streamline the learning experience for your students including how to link other Brightspace and external tools into your course content area. Register for webinar: https://mnquality.eventbrite.com |
November
15
Some Highlights of the November 28th MR3 Update
Just a few highlights from the update. Some are new features, others are fixes to issues experienced by on-campus users.
– HTML Accessibility Checker. (new feature)
- An accessibility checker is now available within the HTML Editor for use within Content, Widgets, Quizzes, Assignments, Calendar, and any other tools where an instructor or student can access the HTML Editor.
- The accessibility checker is available on the HTML Editor bar. After you add content to the HTML Editor, you can click the checker to ensure that the HTML page conforms to WCAG and Section 508 accessibility standards.
– Assignment folders available as release conditions again! (fix)
- This is a fix. Since the last update it has not been possible to use any of the Assignment folder conditions as a release condition. With this release this bug has been squashed!
– Long Answer (LA) question renamed Written Response (WR) (change)
- The Long Answer (LA) question type (Quizzes, Surveys) has a new name: Written Response (WR). Nothing about the functionality of the question type has changed.
– THE ICONS ARE BACK!!! (update)
- Previously, icons displayed in Content to help users distinguish between content file types (for example, an icon for a video topic or an icon for a discussion topic). Now, icons reflecting the Daylight look and feel are re-introduced in Content. These icons are visible in the main Table of Contents view, the Module Content view, and the Table of Contents fly-out menu when viewing a topic or activity.
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– Quizzes – shuffle question order at quiz level (new feature)
- To discourage cheating in quizzes, instructors can now shuffle the order of all questions in quizzes or specific groups of questions (sections) in quizzes. For example, an instructor could shuffle questions 1-10 in a quiz, or shuffle questions 3-10 (grouping those questions into a section) and retain the order of questions 1-2 at the start of the quiz.
- When editing a quiz in the Quizzes tool, a new option to Shuffle order of questions at the quiz level displays in the Quiz Questions section. When creating a new section to group specific questions in a quiz, a new option to Shuffle order of questions in this section is visible in the Display Options section.
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- Once the shuffle option is selected, a shuffle icon appears next to each affected question in the quiz.
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– Hide Assignment folders (new feature)
- Instructors can now set the visibility state for draft content within assignment submission folders in Content and Assignments. When content is in a draft state, it is not visible to learners in Brightspace Learning Environment.
- When instructors have set the visibility to draft, the hidden icon appears in the instructor view of the assignment.
The full release notes: MR3 Release Notes and Fixed Issues (PDF)
October
5
Recap of MOQI Webinar Learning Objectives: What, Why, Where & How
What was updated in the post: Added Webinar Summary and Bloom’s Taxonomy Action Verbs handout (click Webinar Summary for document).
Awesome webinar provided yesterday through MOQI. Beth McMahon and Robin O’Callaghan presented on Learning Objectives over the lunch hour. Effective use of action-based facilitation, Beth designed the session to include a substantial amount of interaction which increased engagement and reduced the temptation to multi-task. It was great to see other SCSU representation at the event, Dr. Kate Mooney and Dr. Kristin Portz were also in attendance.
What: Learning Objectives form the foundation of the course and provide students with your expectations of what needs to be done to meet the objectives. They also create a bridge to align course materials, instructional activities, and assessments.
Why: Learning objectives help both the student and instructor.
How: Use ABCDs of writing learning objectives when creating learning objectives.
Where: Put your learning objectives in a number of places throughout your course to help connect the dots for your students.
“Using learning objectives helps guide and direct students creating a state of expectations and avoiding leaving them in a state of wonder,” (Beth McMahon, 2017).
If you missed this webinar, don’t worry it will be offered again next semester.
September
20
FREE MOQI Professional Development Webinars
November
29
Bloom’s Digital Taxonomy Verbs Poster
Global Digital Citizen Team shared a resource that can help many instructors in revising their learning objectives and adding some digital skills to their classroom.
“When using Bloom’s Digital Taxonomy (a revised take on Bloom’s devised by educator Andrew Churches), it helps to have a list of verbs to know what actions define each stage of the taxonomy. This is useful for lesson planning, rubric making, and any other teacher-oriented task requiring planning and assessment strategies.According to Churches on his wiki Edorigami, “Bloom’s Revised Taxonomy describes many traditional classroom practices, behaviours and actions, but does not account for the new processes and actions associated with Web 2.0 technologies …” This means the verbs listed below are applicable to facilitating technology use in the modern classrooms.”
Click here to learn more and download the poster.
May
6
Badges: Recognizing and Encouraging Student Involvement
Interesting article on using gamification and badging to increase student involvement.
EAB: Badges: Recognizing and encouraging student involvement; Innovation Profile #6
January
4
How to Prepare D2L Brightspace Grade Book for Importing Grades into ISRS from eServices
How to Prepare D2L Brightspace Grade Book for Importing Grades into ISRS from eServices
As of July 23, 2015, faculty have the option of importing final grades from D2L Brightspace into ISRS via the eServices Grade and LDA Entry interface. 1st) Prepare the D2L gradebook settings to enable import to ISRS, and 2nd), use eServices Grade and LDA Entry to import final grades.
Please see this entry at the D2L Brightspace service desk page for full information: https://d2l.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/1619/session/L3RpbWUvMTQ1MTk0MTkyMS9zaWQvQnZqOXhJRm0%3D
or:
Email d2l@stcloudstate.edu with questions!