In an interactive session, rotate through 4 focused stations to experience a day in the life of a professor and student on Top Hat. Choose as many or as few of the stations as you'd like! By the end of the session, you will have insight into a variety of time-saving assessment options that enable ...Continue reading "Introduction to Top Hat"
Engagement from day one. Join us for an interactive webinar and learn how to use Top Hat’s Pages tool - a dynamic assessment builder. With Pages’ intuitive content creation, educators can extend engagement outside of class and build interactivity into every assignment. Facilitated by Gretchen Anderson and Misty Zimmerman (CELT Instructional Technology Specialists) If you ...Continue reading "Interactive Assessments with Top Hat Pages"
We’ve rounded up a showcase of 10 of our most powerful features. See Top Hat in action and learn how some of our capabilities can increase your impact on preparing lectures, evaluating understanding and improving student outcomes. Facilitated by Gretchen Anderson and Misty Zimmerman (CELT Instructional Technology Specialists) If you need help registering for events ...Continue reading "10 Things You Didn’t Know You Could Do with Top Hat"
Learn how to set up Canvas discussion activities for whole-class and group activities. If you need help registering for events or if you require reasonable accommodation to participate in CELT’s events or training programs, please reach out to us at celt@iastate.edu.
As a new program this year, the Large Enrollment Learning Community is open to anyone who teaches a large enrollment course at Iowa State. In conjunction with the development of a Teaching Toolkit and through community, instructors will build connection across disciplines and share solutions for teaching large enrollment courses. Large Enrollment Learning Community ...Continue reading "Large Enrollment Learning Community"
Gradescope Provides Compelling Alternatives for Paper-based STEM Assessments and Bubble Sheets Gradescope is an assignment submission, grading, and analytics platform that leverages AI and a logical workflow that makes grading more efficient and standardized. It is a Canvas integration that synchronizes course rosters and grades. Gradescope accepts scanned handwritten submissions for digital grading. · Digitally grade ...Continue reading "Gradescope Bubblesheets Training"
Gradescope Provides Compelling Alternatives for Paper-based STEM Assessments and Bubble Sheets Gradescope is an assignment submission, grading, and analytics platform that leverages AI and a logical workflow that makes grading more efficient and standardized. It is a Canvas integration that synchronizes course rosters and grades. Gradescope accepts scanned handwritten submissions for digital grading. · Digitally grade ...Continue reading "Get Started with Gradescope"
This event meets Fridays, starting September 8th through October 6th. (5 weeks) Dr. Todd Zakrajsek’s best-selling handbook, "Teaching at Its Best” is packed with invaluable resources and insights for faculty at all levels of their teaching careers. It’s an essential toolbox of practical teaching techniques, classroom activities, and exercises that can be immediately implemented. Join ...Continue reading "CELT Reading Circle – “Teaching At Its Best”"
Join us for an online training and learn how you can get the most out of Turnitin. The training will offer guidance on Canvas settings and interpreting the similarity report. Interested in learning more? Register today! If you can't attend live, register to receive a follow-up email with the recording and additional resources.
As a new program this year, the New Instructor Learning Community is open to anyone with a teaching role, regardless of whether or not they are a new instructor or new to Iowa State. Using the newly developed Teaching Toolkit and through community, instructors will build connection across disciplines and demystify the mechanics of teaching ...Continue reading "New Instructor Learning Community"
Learn how to create and use Canvas rubrics for effective grading of assignments and discussions. If you need help registering for events or if you require reasonable accommodation to participate in CELT’s events or training programs, please reach out to us at celt@iastate.edu.
The purpose of the ISU-OLC is to share campus best practices to improve online teaching and learning; see how others are using the University Learning Management System (LMS) to create innovative learning experiences, inform the campus about existing and new web-based instructional technologies, participate in new technology testing and evaluation; as well as, to leverage ...Continue reading "ISU Online Learning Community (September)"
In this webinar, attendees will be introduced to open educational resources (OER), free and openly licensed materials that you can adapt to fit your course’s needs. In addition to learning OER basics, participants will leave with a greater understanding of how to find, evaluate, and integrate OER into a course. Presented by Abbey K. Elder. ...Continue reading "OER 101: Getting Started with Open Educational Resources"
Learn how to efficiently and accurately manage the Canvas gradebook. If you need help registering for events or if you require reasonable accommodation to participate in CELT’s events or training programs, please reach out to us at celt@iastate.edu.
This facilitated workshop introduces participants to the QM Quality Assurance System. A brief overview of QM is provided, followed by an exploration into the question, “Why QM?”. QM Rubrics and the types of course reviews are introduced. The workshop culminates in developing a personal plan for continued engagement with Quality Matters. This is an online, ...Continue reading "Intro to Quality Matters"
We will focus on building effective communication through dialogue and our experiences, discussing how to empower students when building ground rules (class norms), and exploring strategies for facilitating conversations, including the O.T.F.D. (Open The Front Door) and A.C.T.I.O.N. communication frameworks. Facilitated by Dr. Laura Bestler, CELT
Documenting Your Teaching Series: This is a three-part series of webinars and workshops designed for faculty of all ranks and disciplines to holistically reflect on their teaching and document those efforts. Participants will find this series especially useful for documenting teaching for promotion, tenure, and professional development. Using an ISU-centered checklist, participants will determine areas ...Continue reading "Ideas for Documenting Your Teaching Efforts at ISU (Session 1 – Documenting Your Teaching Series)"
Explore how to seamlessly integrate Microsoft 365 tools into your Canvas course and how to use Teams to facilitate online communication and collaboration between students. Facilitated by Sonya Nichols, CELT Intructional Technology Specialist. If you need help registering for events or if you require reasonable accommodation to participate in CELT’s events or training programs, ...Continue reading "MS Teams/365 and LTI in Canvas"