Oakland University Workshop Calendar

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.

Moodle Accessibility Workshop

Description: Moodle has accessbility features that help keep your courses digitally accessible to your students. This workshop will cover the ATTO toolbar in Moodle as it pertains to alt text for images. Moodle's Ally feature reviews your course and reports the level of accessibility for each link in your course. Finally, YuJa's media manager, Panopto, and Zoom's transcript/caption abilities will be covered in the workshop. The link to join the workshop will be located in the e-LIS Workshops eSpace. https://espace.oakland.edu/course/view.php?id=1573

Moodle Advanced: 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.

Moodle Assignments

Description: With Moodle Assignment activities, students can upload files or type in a Moodle textbox to submit homework. This workshop will cover how to add online assignments into your Moodle course. The workshop will also cover the grading interface, and different strategies to grade submitted assignments.

Moodle Course Design and Best Teaching Practices

Description: This new workshop for 2021 will address student needs based on survey data collected by Oakland University Student Congress. The workshop will also identify how online faculty may avoid some of the stressors associated with online teaching as identified by faculty feedback reported to the Student Academic Support Committee. By the end of this workshop, you'll have a firm grip on student needs in the online environment, as well as proactive strategies for teaching your online courses.

Moodle Forums

Description: Moodle Forums allow students and teachers to post and leave messages for the class to read and reply. This workshop will cover how to setup Forum discussions and some strategies for meaningful discussions. It will also discuss different uses for the forum, group discussions, and how to grade forums.

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.

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 (Zoom, YuJa, Google Meet, Panopto)

Description: This workshop will cover how to lecture remotely. We will explain the options of using Zoom, YuJa, Google Meet, or Panopto Lecture Capture for remote lectures.

Setting Up Your Gradebook in Moodle

Description: Have you ever been confused setting up your gradebook in Moodle? Are your students asking you to put your grades in Moodle and you aren't sure how to do it? Have you never used the Moodle gradebook because it seems too complicated? Are you an experienced Moodle gradebook user curious to learn more about this powerful feature? This workshop is designed to give you the knowledge to construct your gradebook confidently in Moodle. Learn how to create weighted or non-weighed gradebooks and how you can simplify the gradebook for you and your students.

Start Recording Lectures Today!

Description: Do you want to record over Powerpoint? Do you want to post your video lectures to Moodle? Do you have no idea where to start? This workshop is for you! This session will introduce you to video recording technologies for face-to-face and online classroom environments.

The following technologies will be introduced and demonstrated:

Pre-record (for online) OR Live record your face-to-face lectures via Panopto lecture capture system

Live online classrooms via Zoom with recording options and live classroom online strategies

Pre-record video lectures and tutorials using YuJa

The differences between these systems will be discussed, allowing you to make an educated decision as to what option best fits your particular course's needs.

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.

Zoom Workshop

Description: This workshop, led by e-LIS staff, will demonstrate how to use Zoom. Zoom is synchronous video-conferencing software for teaching. It offers audio, video, text chat, and presentation space. An instructor typically talks into a microphone and demonstrates any types of presentations, files, or webpages on their own computer to students or external participants at a distance. Zoom meetings can be recorded for replay at a later time.