Watch Party for "The AI GAP: Equity, Access & the Risks of Standing Still"
Don’t miss our watch party for Dr.
Don’t miss our watch party for Dr.
The "Plus One" strategy revolves around consistently adding one new element, feature, or improvement to your course to continually enhance its quality. Here's how to apply this approach effectively:
Kaltura Media is the video management solution at UIS that is built into Canvas. Faculty and students may upload video from other sources (MS Lync, camcorders or phones) or record web cam and/or screen capture videos through Kaltura Personal Capture. A fantastic feature of Kaltura is the statistics for video use. As long as videos are embedded using the steps below, Kaltura will tell you the percentage of videos that each student watches, how many times the video was accessed, and the average viewing time.
Join COLRS staff to work on your course home page or syllabus using the CidiLabs Design Plus tool.
Join COLRS to learn about how course design can impact student learning. We'll cover some research findings, CidiLabs Design Plus, and how to customize our UIS syllabus template.
Join COLRS staff to learn about navigating the Canvas interface and the foundational tools for organizing and building a course at UIS. Topics covered include: navigating, communicating with students, creating modules and assignments, and gradebook.
Canvas allows instructors to copy a single piece of content, a module, one type of content, or an entire course. It is very flexible!
HyFlex (Hybrid Flexible) is a pedagogy and teaching modality that allows students a high degree of flexibility — the content is available in a physical classroom, synchronously via web conference during class meetings, and in a recorded asynchronous format. Originally conceived by Brian Beatty and his colleagues at San Francisco State University, the HyFlex model provides students more flexibility while maintaining high quality instruction for all students.
In HyFlex format, students choose among three modes to engage with their instructor, peers, and the content:
As we wrap up the fall term and prepare to begin intersession, we would like to wish you all a wonderful winter break. We are thankful for all you do to make UIS a great place to learn and work!
Happy winter break!
The COLRS Team: Michele, Carrie, Taylor, Scott, and Emily