Oakland University Workshop Calendar

e-LIS: Advanced - Gamification with H5P

Description: Learn how to make some of your lessons, documents, or case studies more interactive by converting them into a H5P lesson. You can even learn how a documented story, or a case study can be turned into a 'choose your own adventure' decision based learning module. Automating some of your lessons will result in more active engagement from your students. Skills badging for completion will also be reviewed and demonstrated.

e-LIS: Advanced - Media Management: where to store your videos

Description: If you have videos, or are planning to have videos in your Moodle course, this workshop will cover options for storing your Zoom, YuJa, Panopto, and YouTube. To help you decide which is best, the accessibility of your videos will be discussed as well as the ability to embed interactive questions.

e-LIS: Advanced - Moodle Images and Videos: The Art of Embedding Content

Description: Spice up your courses with Images, Videos, and more. Are your video links taking your students out of your Moodle environment? Learn how to embed images into your topics, quiz questions, and forums. Use Moodle's multimedia recorder to post with your webcam. Learn how to embed YouTube videos onto your Moodle Page, Book, or Activity description.

e-LIS: Best Practices - Backwards Course Design

Description: In this workshop, we will cover Backward Course Design, a model in which instructors identify their course's learning goals first, then build their content and activities around those goals. It can be tempting to share every interesting resource on a topic with your students, but information overload can hinder their learning. Instead, Backward Course Design aligns your learning outcomes and course material, and this intentional method of course design increases student engagement and understanding. After this workshop, you will understand why Backward Course Design is important, how it can help your students, and how you can get started using it to plan and structure your courses more effectively.

e-LIS: Best Practices - Creating a mid-course survey

Description: Are you curious about how your course is going for your students? Do you want to gain insight into your students’ perspectives of your course and your teaching? Join the e-LIS ID team for this workshop on how to create a mid-course survey to check the pulse of your students and make some slight tweaks to your course for the better!

e-LIS: Best Practices - How does a Quality Course Review work?

Description: This workshop will review the e-LIS quality course review process. Using the industry standard OSCQR-SUNY rubric, we will talk about its different sections and design elements to look for in your course. We'll also review the quality course review process that we use for online programs, but is also available to all faculty using Moodle.

e-LIS: Best Practices - 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.

e-LIS: Best Practices - PreAssessments with H5P quizzes

Description: A weekly pre-assessment quiz will allow you to gather info on what students know what parts your students are familiar with prior to instruction. It also gives your students some areas to pay closer attention. Setup, scoring, and feedback will be demonstrated in this workshop.

e-LIS: Best Practices - What is it like to work with an Instructional Designer?

Description: Ever wonder what kind of things IDs can do to help your course? This workshop will demonstrate Instructional Design Services provided by e-LIS. Whether it's course design, course building, quality review, accessibility checking, or creating engaging content, you'll understand the services and overall process that our ID team offers to enhance your Moodle courses.

e-LIS: Best Practices - Your first week of online: What does your course look like

Description: For new and veteran teachers, the first week of online classes can feel daunting. Is my course ready? What activities should I do in the first week? In order to hit the ground running, it is important to have solid course organization and some activities in the first week to allow for students to get accustomed to your course and get to know their classmates. In this workshop, we will discuss some best practices on structuring your Moodle course and demonstrate a few ice-breaker activities you can utilize in your first week of online teaching.

e-LIS: Best Practices - Zoom for Live Classes (Online and HyFlex)

Description: This workshop, led by e-LIS staff, will demonstrate how to use Zoom for your classes. 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.

e-LIS: Teaching Presence - Appointment Slots for Student Drop-in Office Hours

Description: Google Calendar has some amazing functionality that allows instructors and staff members to create open 'appointment slots.' Students or colleagues can then see your availability and book an appointment without having to ask or email you for availability. The workshop will cover best practices in setting this up.

e-LIS: Teaching Presence - Course videos vs lecture recording

Description: A vital component of online teaching and learning is creating course videos and lecture recordings for your students. In this workshop, we will discuss how to create reusable course videos and disposable lecture recordings and also demonstrate some best practices when it comes to creating video recordings. If you are looking to up your video content and recordings for your online course, then this workshop is just for you!

e-LIS: Teaching Presence - Creating Community in your Online Class

Description: In online classes, some students may feel isolated and mention a lack of “human connection.” In this workshop, we will discuss strategies to create and build community in your online classes so all of your students can shine. By the end of this workshop, you will be able to foster different types of interactions in your online class and begin to build a strong community where your students can succeed.

e-LIS: Teaching Presence - Online Teaching Observation Process

Description: Many academic departments have been asking e-LIS and CETL for materials to guide online teaching observations, similar to what instructors do in a F2F classroom. An Ed.D. student collaborated with e-LIS to pilot an online teaching observation guide and process. This workshop will demonstrate this process, as well as where anyone can find and share observation guides for both synchronous and asynchronous online instructors.

e-LIS: Teaching Presence - Student Communication Strategies

Description: When teaching online, strong communication between instructors and students is crucial for students to succeed and for the course to run smoothly. In this workshop, the e-LIS ID team will outline some useful strategies to make communicating with students faster and easier on Moodle. If you are looking to boost your communication skills in your online course, then this is just the workshop for you!

e-LIS: Tech Focus - Expedite Your Grading Using Moodle Rubrics and Grading Guides

Description: Learn to grade assignments in Moodle with great efficiency using Rubrics and Grading Guides in your Moodle Assignments and Forums. Creating grading rubrics and guides will help you save time, and grade each student consistently. The rubrics and guides can also be displayed to students for their reference.

e-LIS: Tech Focus - Make Your Course More Interactive Using 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.

e-LIS: Tech Focus - Moodle Course Accessibility Checker

Description: Quickly and easily check your Moodle course for accessibility using Ally, Moodle's built-in Accessibility checker. This quick workshop will feature a demonstration and some hands-on time to try it yourself inside your own course.

e-LIS: Tech Focus - Stress-Free Moodle Assignments

Description: Even if you're teaching fully online, partially, in-class, or even HyFlex - Moodle assignments will create a stress-free task for not only your students to complete, but also for you to grade! Sign-up for these and more secrets.

e-LIS: Tech Focus - YouTube for Storing & Sharing Videos

Description: Do you use a lot of videos in your courses? YouTube is a great place to store and share your video content. Whether you want to make your own videos or just curate your favorites, this workshop is for you! We’ll cover how to get started with an account, create playlists, upload videos, manage privacy settings, edit captions, and share videos on Moodle.

e-LIS: Tech Focus- 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.