Oakland University Workshop Calendar

Assignment Activity: Everything You Need to Know

Description: Come learn about how to go paperless in class! The assignment activity can be used for collecting a variety of assignments, such as papers, spreadsheets, presentations. It can accept almost any type of file. Come learn how to setup and assignment, use Moodle's built-in grading interface, provide student feedback, and upload/download assignments in bulk. Become more efficient as using this tool and see the variety of ways it can be used in online and face-to-face courses.

Book Resource: Moodle's Best Kept Secret

Description: The Moodle Book resource is an extremely versatile, yet often overlooked, learning tool. Faculty in face-to-face, hybrid, and fully online courses can use the Book resource to organize and present chunks of information. It allows you to embed related text, documents, videos, websites, audio clips, and more into your Moodle course in a format that is highly organized for students. Best of all, the Book Resource is easy to use with just a little bit of practice. Come learn how to create your own engaging books in Moodle!

Create Engaging Content with H5P

Description: This presentation will give an overview of H5P and give practical, real-world examples of the amazing content it can create. No matter the course modality, face-to-face, hybrid, or online, students benefit from interactive learning material in Moodle. H5P is a free tool that allows you to create interactive content that can be created directly in Moodle. Not only is the rich interactive content it creates engaging, it is ADA compliant and mobile friendly, making it both free and accessible. With over 35 different content types, you can create interactive presentations with questions embedded, add questions to any video, create image hotspots or sequencing, even flashcards. Come learn how to make free interactive content to keep students engaged and help with retention.

Forum Variety: How to Master Moodle's Forum Activity

Description: Let’s face it - online discussion boards can get stale for faculty and students. Students tire of the “one original post and two reply” format, and instructors disengage from the grading overload online discussions create. Let us help you spice up your discussions by using free technologies and different teaching approaches. Learn about tools you can use to create video chat discussions and how to use Moodle to disrupt the monotony.

Gradebook Setup: Do it Now Before It's Too Late!!

Description: Learn how to match your gradebook to your course syllabus. Did you know Moodle's gradebook setup can do: extra credit, drop lowest, bulk insert grades, and import/export from excel? Best practices will be covered so you can save time when grading. Also learn of the BRAND NEW feature in Moodle that can transfer your gradebook's course total grades into Banner (SAIL) directly from the Moodle gradebook.

Grading Assignments: How to Create Reusable Assignment Rubrics in Moodle

Description: Learn to grade assignments in Moodle with great efficiency using Assignment Rubrics. Creating grading rubrics will help you save time, and grade each student consistently.

Introduction to YuJa

Description: This workshop will provide you a broad overview of the YuJa video system. Led by our YuJa Success Manager, this session will cover video conferencing, lecture capture, and media management. Note that the training session will take place in the join.me conferencing software so that the facilitator can show all YuJa features from a meeting owner's perspective.

Lunch Bytes--Teaching with Technology

Description: Join e-LIS for lunch and an informal discussion about using technology in your online or partially online course. Monthly featured faculty facilitators will share interesting techniques they are using in their courses. There will also be time for you to ask questions. e-LIS will provides lunch to all participants! (if you have special dietary restrictions, please feel free to bring in your own lunch).

Moodle - Setting Up Group Work for Students Online

Description: Setting up groups in your online courses can be challenging if you've never done it before. This workshop will help you identify which strategy fits how you want your groups to work. The following topics will be demonstrated: Assigning groups automatically vs. allowing students to choose their own groups; different groups for different projects; group assignments; group discussion forums; Group projects using Google Docs; group presentations; grading and more.

Moodle Introduction for New Users

Description: Are students asking you to use Moodle more in your face-to-face course? Have you avoided using Moodle because you are just not a techie? Then this workshop is for you! We will explore simple ways to use Moodle that will make life easier for any level computer user. You will learn about Moodle’s main communication tools, ways to organize class content, resources and the gradebook. We will also look at the advantages of using Moodle for faculty and students, as well as, other training services available through e-LIS.

Panopto

Description: Panopto is a lecture capture system that will record the video/audio in the classroom. The recording can then be edited and housed in a Moodle course for easy access for students. This workshop will cover the steps for using Panopto.

All e-LIS workshops can be attended live either in-person at 430 Kresge Library, or by attending online via WebEx. If you plan to attend online via WebEx, you can visit the following page on the same day and time as the in-person workshop to attend virtually: https://oakland.webex.com/oakland/k2/j.php?ED=397265387&UID=1

Quizzes: Create and Deliver Quizzes with Ease

Description: Come learn the three easy steps to create Moodle quizzes: create question bank categories, populate your question bank, then add questions. You'l learn how to import multiple choice questions direclty into Moodle, how to minimize potential cheating, and how to use other tools like Camtasia and H5P for student engagement quizzes. Even experienced Moodle quiz users can learn new tricks in this workshop!

Remote Lecture Workshop (WebEx, YuJa, Google Meet, Panopto)

Description: This workshop will cover how to lecture remotely using WebEx. We will also briefly cover the basics of YuJa, Google Meet, and Panopto Lecture Capture. These workshops are "online attendance" only via WebEx.

Video Conferencing for Online Classes

Description: This workshop will overview the tools available for live video conferencing in your online classes. We will also discuss best practices for lecturing, discussion, and other popular activities.

YuJa: Create Recordings

Description: This workshop will overview the lecture capture and video recording features of YuJa. YuJa’s "Create Recordings" features allows you to create video presentations with ease using screen recording and other video/audio tools. Oakland University has a site-wide license and YuJa lectures and videos can be recorded any time right from your Moodle course. NOTE: YuJa media management and video conferencing are covered in other workshops.

YuJa: Manage Media

Description: This workshop will overview the media management features of YuJa. YuJa’s media management features allow users to upload, store, manage, caption, and edit content right within the platform. Oakland University has a site-wide license and your YuJa media can be accessed anytime during the day or night right from your Moodle course. NOTE: YuJa lecture capture/video recording and video conferencing are covered in other workshops.