Oakland University Workshop Calendar

e-LIS Create a variety of engaging discussions using Moodle Forums

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.

e-LIS Expedite your grading using Moodle Rubrics

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

e-LIS Streamline your Moodle Course Design

Description: Let's get spiffy! Your general area will be clear, your communication crisp and direct, your weekly topic headings neat and chronological, required versus optional readings clear (files, folders, pages), your assigned activities understood. But wait - how do we do those things? Step 1: come to this workshop!

e-LIS: Accessibility strategies in Moodle

Description: Join e-LIS and to learn more about one of OU's newest tools - Blackboard Ally. Ally helps faculty create accessible content, and can benefit both students with and without documented disabilities. Learn how Ally can help you create accessible content, and learn more about the features that automatically do it for you.

e-LIS: Benefits & strategies for a properly setup Moodle Gradebook

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.

e-LIS: 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!

e-LIS: 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: Moodle 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.

e-LIS: Record Your Lectures using 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.

e-LIS: Scenario-Based Learning Activities

Description: For experienced and intermediate to advanced Moodle users! Scenario-based learning (SBL) uses interactive scenarios to support active learning strategies, such as problem-based or case-based learning. It normally involves students working their way through a storyline, based around a complex problem they are required to solve. This session will review the difference between basic and branching scenarios, the design elements required for either type, provide steps for creating a storyboard, tips for getting started, examples, resources, and more! Come learn how to give students a unique way to apply learning concepts and gain insight from the consequences of their choices and decisions.

e-LIS: 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 for these and more secrets...

e-LIS: Teacher Presence using YuJa Lecture Recording

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.

e-LIS: 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.