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3-Step Interview helps promote improvement in communication skills, participation, and networking. Students are put in a situation where they have to listen, then express what is said by others to answer questions and learn about a specific topic.

Below are several AI tools IDs may consider for various use cases. We attempt to identify options that are, at least, among the top options currently available in a relatively undeveloped space.

An overview of five areas USU instructors can focus on to adapt to AI in teaching and learning. Each of the five areas links to additional informational pages.

A guide on adapting teaching to AI, focusing on course objectives, designing AI-resistant assignments, and ways to integrate AI as a tool for feedback, simulation, and research. It emphasizes teaching students to critically evaluate AI outputs and explore...

This guide outlines effective communication strategies for AI use in college teaching, emphasizing the importance of understanding AI to prevent cheating. It details USU's varied AI policies for syllabi, ranging from prohibition to encouraged use, and pro...

Explore how AI enhances higher education, offering tools for updating lesson plans, creating study guides, and streamlining administrative tasks. Discover AI's role in assisting students with tutoring, research, language learning, study planning, career a...

A description of generative AI tools, such as ChatGPT, with a discussion of ways instructors can incorporate them into their teaching while discouraging the use of AI tools to cheat.

This guide helps educators identify and respond to AI misuse in student work. It outlines clues for detection, advises cautious use of AI detection tools, and emphasizes following due process and institutional policies when addressing suspected AI-generat...

Academic integrity is an important characteristic in all students. Throughout one’s academic journey, numerous exams, activities, and collaborative projects are completed for grades. The online format is no different.

Academic integrity in online and hybrid courses is just as important as it is in face-to-face class environments. USU provides several options to help you foster academic integrity in all varieties of the online classroom.

A list of tools supported by USU for remote course delivery with resources for each tool.

Instructions for accessing your Canvas course through the dashboard, courses list, or to do list.

As you create your online course, be aware that all content should be fully accessible for all students. Files and documents should be formatted to meet accessibility guidelines.

How to access the AI Detection feature in a Copyleaks report in Canvas. How to enable / disable the aI Detection feature in Copyleaks reports.

After you have recorded your lecture in Zoom, you can access them through Canvas or through the zoom.usu.edu website.

Information on how to communicate with your students and give them access to Canvas before the semester begins.

Resources for teachers on active learning and how to promote active learning in their students.

How to add additional module and set module icons on the home page of your Canvas course.

How to add Alternative Hosts on Zoom through the USU Zoom website. How to add Alternative Hosts on Zoom through your Canvas course.

Embed Delphinium in your Canvas course homepage (Pages front page) to make it easier for students to find.

How to add an ungraded Hypothesis annotation activity in your Canvas course as a module item.

If you would like to include a video from your "My Media" collection, you'll need to do the following:

How to add and style teacher, TA, and course designer details. Information including contact name, contact information, and office hours.

How to add a banner image in a Canvas page using the Upload/Embed tool, which can then further be edited through features found in DesignPLUS.

How to add a banner image to a Canvas page using the DesignPLUS sidebar. How to add a banner image using the Theme Tool, Image Tool, and the Upload/Embed Image Tool.

You can add a video from YouTube to your My Media repository. After the video is added to My Media, you can publish it to one or more course media galleries.

Learn how to enable an LTI tool as a module item in Canvas at Utah State University.

Learn how to enable an LTI tool through an assignment in Canvas at Utah State University.

Increase the usefulness of course videos and improve accessibility by adding closed captions

Step by step instruction how to add current module contents to the home page of your Canvas course using Design Plus.

This page explains how to add a TA or Designer to your course. It also explains how to add students to club courses.

Disruptive behavior impacts students' right to learn and instructors' right to teach. It can involve physical actions, verbal utterances, or other activities, and is prohibited by USU student code. This page provides guidelines on how to address disruptiv...

How to adjust your Canvas Service Preferences, allowing CIDI to fix common issues students encounter within the course.

Collection of advanced MyMedia features you can use in your videos with their associated links.

You can align any outcome in your account to a rubric. Rubrics are used to help students understand expectations for an assignment and how their submissions will be graded.

You can allow your students to retake their video quiz that was created in My Media by deleting their previous attempts.

Have you set up an Atomic Assessment to allow student review, but students don't have a way to review it? This is due to the "locked after" date being enabled and while using the Canvas new "Assignment Enhancements - Student" feature.

If you allow it, students can take a Proctorio enabled test at a testing center by simply launching the test in a browser other than Chrome.

How to allow third-party cookies in various browsers to allow external tools to load in Canvas.

Empowering Teaching Excellence directory - Amber Reed. The Center for Empowering Teaching Excellence elevates and promotes our culture of teaching excellence through events and programs that are open to all USU instructors.

Empowering Teaching Excellence directory - Amber Reed. The Center for Empowering Teaching Excellence elevates and promotes our culture of teaching excellence through events and programs that are open to all USU instructors.

Example data visualizations and descriptions that can be created for faculty in the promotion and tenure review process, to document teaching and learning. Contact Meghan Lewis to learn more.

The arranged delivery method at Utah State University is typically for internships, practicums, student teaching, clinicals, advanced study, or research.

Atomic Assessments has more settings options for both questions and the overall assessment than Canvas quizzes.

Information on assessment and grading including links to various sources regarding the importance of formative and summative assessment and the use of rubrics.

To assign (re-assign) a video within your MyMedia to a different user (likely from one instructor to another instructor), do the following:

Canvas lets you decide the way you want students to submit their assignments. You specify the submission type in the Submission Type box when you create the assignment.

Information on image sizes for successfully adding images to Atomic Assessments.

How to review and interpret Student Reports and Outcomes in Atomic Assessments.

Though Atomic Assessments works with Canvas blueprints, it has a history of complexity and overwriting edits after syncing.

Atomic Search is a tool available to faculty and students to make it easier to find specific content in Canvas.

The attendance tool is available in Canvas for taking roll and tracking assigned seating. Enable it in your Canvas navigation from your settings menu.

A curated list of links of each question type that are automatically graded in a Canvas quiz.

How to change your Zoom account settings to automatically start recording meetings.

How to automatically score missing assignments in the Canvas grade book and when it would be applicable.

Creating Likert scale quiz questions in a Canvas quiz and survey is best when using a multiple choice question type. How to best analyze multiple dropdown question type.

Brainstorming is a strategy to encourage students to quickly generate solutions for problem-solving or create ideas for discussion and further learning of a given topic.

Grading is the most important thing to get right in Canvas. These are the basic steps you need to know.

When you make your content more accessible it becomes easier for everyone to use. Remember that making your content more usable is a process and that lots of help and training is available to help you.

How to set up the appointment tool in your Canvas course calendar for individuals and groups of students.

Assignment groups allow you to organize the assignment list or gradebook by the type of assignment and allow you to drop a low score among the assignments listed in the group or weight the final grade based on percentages assigned to each group.

Canvas blueprint courses are a way to sync course content across several different Canvas courses. This page contains the sections Setting Up a Blueprint Course, Tips for Using a Blueprint Course, and When to NOT use a Blueprint Course.

Canvas is a platform for hosting course content, delivering online quizzes, accepting online assignment submissions, disseminating grades and feedback, and more.

The Accessibility Report is available in every course and provides a quick way to get a report on how accessible your course content is and shows you easy things that you can do to improve it.

You can decide what you want students to see on the Canvas Home page. Here are a few suggestions on how to set up a Canvas home page.

The Center for Innovative Design and Instruction is available to support teachers in providing accessible, user-friendly and effective learning experiences.

Tools and tips for teaches to make their online course more usable and accessible to make learning easier for all students in the classroom.

Badgr is a credentialing program that allows instructors to award custom badges and certificates to students who complete their requirements.

With the Due Date Modifier, you can modify all of your course due dates in one place.

The Canvas app is formatted slightly differently than the version users might find online. These instructions are to help users navigate through the Canvas app found on Android and iPhone products.

The Multi-Tool helps you set up a course shell quickly and efficiently. The Multi-Tool consists of three separate tools, a template creator, a module builder, and a due date modifier.

Utilize question banks to have Canvas select quiz or exam questions in random order or to provide a random set of questions to individual students.

The process for setting up a New Quizzes quiz to be proctored in USU Testing Centers.

Descriptions of Canvas quiz types to help you make a decision for balancing between security and complexity in assessment efforts.

My Media pages that intertwine with the Canvas platform as well as other My Media resources.

Instructions for enabling and using live captions in Zoom meetings (for hosts and participants).

Empowering Teaching Excellence directory - Chris Babits. The Center for Empowering Teaching Excellence elevates and promotes our culture of teaching excellence through events and programs that are open to all USU instructors.

Resources for teachers on classroom polling systems to help increase engagement, gauge prior knowledge, assess learning, and create opportunities for students to interact and learn from each other.

Learn how to get started in a classroom at Utah State University using our quick start guide!

Most classrooms are equipped with a classroom touch panel, located on the instructor's desk. The classroom touch panel provides a user-friendly interface to control the classroom technology in a room.

Collaborative Learning focuses on helping students improve their critical thinking skills, experience deeper learning, and connect concepts. What types of Collaborative Learning Activities there are and how to implement them. Resources and references on o...

In a typical classroom, students engage with each other and the instructor in a variety of formats. In an online course, the instructor must be intentional to build a variety of activities to encourage interaction.

Information on how to communicate with your students and give them access to Canvas before the semester begins.

Overview of communication channels available in Canvas for online courses. Choose from Canvas inbox, announcements, SpeedGrader.

Community-Engaged Learning is an opportunity for students to connect what they are learning in the classroom while providing service to the community and teaching civic responsibility.

Classroom computers at USU are connected to the classroom system. They come installed with a handful of applications and additional software can be installed if requested in advance.

Concept Mapping is a way to graphically represent how students think concepts relate. How to create concept maps, apply them in the classroom and other resources.

All online courses are approved by department heads each term through Service-Now.

The connect delivery method at Utah State University are courses taught from a classroom to other classrooms around the state and surrounding region.

Connecting the iClicker Cloud to your Canvas course doesn't require you to activate anything in Canvas. All of the following steps can all be done within the iClicker Cloud instructor website.

How to convert quiz questions to question bank items. How to combine question banks. Deleting duplicate quizzes.

How to copy an Atomic Assessment assignment from one course to another using the export and import functions.

How to copy all of the content from a Canvas course, including Atomic Assessments assignments and activities.

The steps you should follow if the content for your current course will be copied from another course that uses Delphinium.

An overview of Copyleaks, the university's official plagiarism detection tool. How Copyleaks works and a summary of the AI detection feature.

Being aware of your rights as a content creator and consumer is very important. Some tips and resources for copyrighting for all sorts of media, journals, articles, and other readings.

Accessibility is essential to keep in mind as you put your material online because it provides a better experience for everyone. Accessible content sends a powerful message that you care about inclusive teaching.

An introduction to resources available for course management including links for addressing disruptive behavior, managing labs, holding office hours, and syllabus development.

Course quality refers to the extent to which a course meets its stated learning objectives, engages students in meaningful ways, and provides an effective learning experience that helps students achieve their academic and professional goals.

How to create an annotation assignment in your Canvas course using Hypothesis tool.

As you create multimedia and videos for your online lectures and assignments, there are some guidelines that you should follow.

How to create an appealing Canvas course homepage with Design Tools. How to add a theme, change course number & title, add a module list, change banner image, and add instructor information.

How to create an appealing Canvas course homepage with DesignPLUS. How to add a theme, change course number & title, add a module list, customize the link grid, change banner image, and add instructor information.

How to enable Proctorio in a Canvas course, activate proctorio in a Canvas quiz, and making adjustments to a Proctorio quiz after students have taken the exam.

A "Start Here" page is an opportunity to outline the course organization, provide students with some background information on the course, and point them to resources that will be helpful for the successful completion of your online course.

There is a Google workaround in Canvas where you can create a template for your students to use as an assignment.

How to create a Canvas template with Design Tools by choosing a theme; add, remove, or rearrange sections; adding icons; and changing the theme colors

How to create a page template with DesignPLUS. How to add a theme, how to add, rearrange, or remove content blocks, how to add and remove template content.

How to enable Copyleaks to create a plagiarism detection assignment in Canvas. How Copyleaks reports appear and how to interpret the results. What students see when an assignment is submitted.

You can use the Quiz tool to create and administer online quizzes and surveys. Quizzes in Canvas are assignments that you can use to challenge student understanding and assess comprehension of course material.

How to create a new quiz using the Canvas New Quizzes and a brief explanation of the differences with the Canvas Classic quizzes

The purpose of using a rubric is to focus students' attention on critical components of an assignment and to help the instructor maintain consistency when grading.

The course syllabus is an agreement between the instructor and his or her students to establish the rules of engagement for the course and what is required of students for them to receive credit for the course.

A video playlist is a great way to organize multiple videos that will appear on the same Canvas page.

How to integrate graded or ungraded questions within your Canvas lesson content.

How to create and view your first Atomic Assessments assignment in your Canvas course.

How to create an assignment that allows students to upload a file from their My Media library.

Assignments in Canvas are used to assess students with a point value, percentage, or complete status, or as a place for students to submit non-graded activities. These are sometimes known as an assignment dropbox or assignment inbox.

Instruction on how to import a Canvas Classic Quiz as an Atomic Assessment within your Canvas course.

Canvas doesn't allow extra credit questions by default, but you can use these workaround to achieve the desired result.

You can create an online assignment that embeds a document directly from your Microsoft Office 365 (OneDrive) folder. Accepted assignment types are Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, and Excel.

Step-by-step instructions for how to set up a course with iClicker. Each semester, you will need a course in iClicker Cloud.

To use iClicker Cloud, you'll need to create an instructor account at https://instructor.reef-education.com/#/onboard/register.

Delphinium is organized by theme and function through the use of tabs. These are the steps you can take to customize the tabs.

A step-by-step walkthrough on how to create student groups in your Canvas course.

You can create a Canvas assignment for a video quiz that you created through My Media. You will need to do this if you would like it to be added to the gradebook.

Instructions for sharing media with colleagues outside of USU. Videos will be stored for up to 4 years and can be publicly shared, using the following process.

How to create a Syllabus using DesignPLUS. How to add a theme, edit content blocks, edit icons, add a Canvas Grading Scheme, Add Institutional Policies, and Add Objectives/Outcomes.

The course syllabus is an agreement between the instructor and his or her students to establish the rules of engagement for the course and what is required of students for them to receive credit for the course.

Learn how to create a Wooclap event to be used during class or shared ahead of time.

How to create question items in Atomic Assessments. How to edit, remove, rearrange, and preview question items. How to add previously created items to activities.

Once you add your videos to My Media there are a number of tools available to help you organize, manage, and find them.

As you begin to add your own content to your course, it’s important to keep things organized so your course is easy to update and maintain moving forward.

Customize your Canvas dashboard to easily access the courses you use most frequently.

Course delivery format features and options are explained for each delivery format.

Delphinium has an Achievement component where students can earn different badges for completing specific tasks. These badges will then be displayed in the leaderboards where all can see.

The Box Content Map can be customized to better cater to the instructors preferences by organizing the course modules into tabs. Below you will find the instructions on how to create those tabs as well as in-depth explanations which can help you as you tr...

The Box Content Map is a quick and easy visual layout that displays the entire course content at a glance. You can customize this component to make it easier for your students to navigate the course.

In the Delphinium Layout Editor, components are represented by "Component Tiles". Components are grouped into the following categories: Content, Progress, Dashboard, Game Elements, and Description.

If you are using 0-based grading, Delphinium will translate the %-based Canvas grading scheme into a point-based grading scheme.

The Grade Tracker component displays a student's current progress in earning points in the course grading scheme. Points are earned by completing course assignments.

After you choose a template that you would like to work with, Delphinium allows you to do additional customizations to the layout and interface. How to add components, remove components, and create columns.

Change the color of headings in a Canvas Course using DesignPlus

It's important for students to have an easy to follow, consistent experience in their online courses, so they don't have to spend a lot of time figuring out where everything is located and how to navigate and access content.

Discussion Checkpoints is a new feature in Canvas that allows instructors to create a more intentional discussion environment. In addition to the initial reply to a discussion, you can now require additional replies to peers, attach grades, and utilize ru...

Discussion Leaders provide your students an opportunity to integrate, apply, and think about course material. Instructors stand as facilitators rather than lecturers.

How to post or embed a webcam recording as a discussion reply in a Canvas discussion board.

Learn how to use a document in Utah State University classrooms. Document cameras are great for displaying books, objects, and written material.

A Double-Entry Journal is a technique used to improve active reading among students. How to implement with in-person courses and other teaching formats.

You can download a report in New Analytics that contains your class email roster, which allows you to email your students before or after the semester.

How to download the secondary video source from Kaltura Capture and My Media. Enable both videos to be downloadable. Locate and download the video source.

You can download a recording from the Media Gallery in a Canvas course. The first step is to make sure that the video has been enabled for downloading.

iClicker Cloud software is required to run a poll. It is installed on all USU classroom computers, but you'll need the software on your laptop, if you are planning on using it to present content.

Duplicating a quiz is a good way to make modifications to an existing quiz while maintaining the original within the same course.

How to duplicate question items in Atomic Assessments. Duplicate an Atomic Assessment item to use as a template for a new question.

Make a copy of an Atomic Assessment assignment to use as a template for a new activity or modify as a different version of the same activity.

An explanation of settings in a Canvas course to allow students access to designated content before the start date of the semester.

After you have recorded a lecture through Zoom, you have the control to make edits to the playback range to clip any unnecessary portions of your recording.

How to edit a Media Gallery playlist. Move, add, and remove videos in your Media Gallery playlist.

If you aren't too familiar with editing video, you can edit directly in MyMedia to make basic trimming edits.

You can edit auto-generated captions on your My Media videos to make them more accurate.

Delphinium provides many components that instructors can include on their page to make their course more interactive. This is how to edit those components to best suit each instructor's preferences.

You may embed an editable Google Doc, Sheet, or Slide into your Canvas course where your students can interact with and update the item according to your instructions.

After you create a video playlist, you are ready to embed it into a Canvas page.

No matter where you are embedding a video, whether for a Discussion, Announcement, Page, or Assignment, the best way to embed a video in your Canvas course is through your My Media repository.

Step-by-step guide on how to embed a video recording into an announcement in your Canvas course.

To embed a video recording in a Canvas course page, follow these instructions.

Instructions for embedding an image from your computer onto a Canvas page with written steps and a video tutorial.

A variety of circumstances might require you to temporarily deliver your class online with minimal notice. This guide provides you suggested actions to take quickly when making the shift from teaching in a land-based classroom to teaching anywhere.

Enable Delphinium as a tool within your Canvas course on the navigation settings.

How to enable the USU grading scale or a custom grading scale to your Canvas course. How to see a letter grade on the Grades page in Canvas. Enabling a grading scale to your course automatically fills in the letter grade when submitting your grades to Ban...

Learn how to enable an LTI tool through a courses navigation in Canvas at Utah State University.

You can enable a media gallery in your course and publish specific videos from My Media to it. Videos published to the media gallery are visible to students.

Establish expectations for assignment completion, due dates, grading, engagement, workload, and any other key factors for your particular course.

Office hours are an important part of any course, but the need for students to have opportunities to connect with faculty one-on-one is even greater in online courses.

Experiential Learning help students contextualize what they are learning in the classroom with what happens in the real world. What are the benefits of it, what to consider, and how to do it with an online course.

Express Capture is an in-browser recording option for capturing camera and microphone. This is a quick way for instructors or students to record and share insights with the class.

How to extend a due date for students in your Canvas course, whether it is for a singular student or multiple students.

Canvas doesn't allow extra credit questions by default, but you can use this work around to achieve the desired result.

Interactions in online courses are an important and valuable part of learning online. Here we delve deeper in understanding the best interaction strategies between teacher and student.

Discussion forums have the potential to be the most valuable learning opportunity in online environments. Here are some strategies for facilitating online discussions.

If you have been recording lectures at USU for some time and need to find a lecture that you recorded using Panopto, these tips might help.

How to add or remove courses from Canvas dashboard and course list. Additionally, how to find previously taught courses or troubleshooting why courses aren't appearing in Courses tab.

Tips for conducting a fishbowl activity in a live class. Modifications for connect and online classes are provided.

The methods for addressing potential grading issues when using the Canvas grade book.

If students mention that their quizzes are not showing up on their Canvas "To Do" list or that they don't have a submit button on assignments with no due date, here is the fix.

Video resources and external links for teachers on flipping the classroom to help them maximize student engagement during class time.

A description and examples of formative assessments used to monitor student learning.

Frameworks and Taxonomies of Learning including Bloom's Revised Taxonomy, the ADDIE Model, and Backwards Design.

The most common questions asked and mistakes made by USU instructors when they use Canvas for the first time.

USU Design Tools are some tools within Canvas that allow you to quickly build and style a course in Canvas.

How to apply Gagne's 9 Events of Instruction in the classroom. Description of each event and practical application examples.

How to adjust and navigate through the major features in the Canvas grade book.

If you teach a general education course, you have likely been asked to assess whether students are meeting specific outcomes. Canvas can make the reporting of those outcomes easier. There are two ways to measure the outcomes.

If you teach a general education course, you have likely been asked to assess whether students are meeting specific outcomes. Canvas can make the reporting of those outcomes easier. There are two ways to measure the outcomes.

Instructions to attach a rubric to an assignment for assessing general education outcomes in general education courses.

How to switch between Design Tools and DesignPLUS and how to switch back. Options in DesignPLUS, including Edit Current Element, Add New Elements, Accessibility/Usability, User Guides/Tutorials, and More Options.

How to allow students extra time when taking quizzes or exams using the New Quizzes feature in Canvas.

The grade posting policy determines whether grades that are yet to be entered will be shown to students. The Hide Grades feature will hide grades that have already been entered, while new grades will still show.

How to transfer high school concurrent enrollment students' Canvas grades to the university instance of Canvas. And how to transfer university grades to high school Canvas instance.

How to analyze and review graded discussions in Canvas for all of your courses at Utah State University.

The Assignments page is arguably the most central to Canvas’s operation. In this page you'll learn of the various features that are associated with grading an assignment in Canvas.

In order to enable grading and syncing with iClicker Cloud, you'll need to follow the instructions below.

Procedures for grading, exams, and evaluation at USU for teaching during the transition to online.

How to create a group discussion on Canvas, manage groups, and view discussion board of each group

Tips, ideas, and projects for utilizing group or teamwork to add some great opportunities for student engagement.

As an activity for improving note-taking accuracy, guided notes provide the students with an improvement in academic performance in the classroom.

Generally, students should be able to deal with the inevitable ups and downs of life. However, in serious circumstances, students may lose their academic focus and be unable to concentrate on anything other than their present adverse situation.

High-stakes assignment are a form of assessment that hold a significant weight on the student’s grade. They should be a way for students to be motivated to apply what they have learned.

How to grade Hypothesis annotation assignments using the Canvas SpeedGrader.

How teachers can grade quizzes that were created with the Canvas New Quizzes feature.

How to integrate and activate the Zoom tool into your Canvas course side navigation.

All USU students, faculty, and staff have access to Canvas and can log on to Canvas at canvas.usu.edu.

Walkthrough on how to simplify your Canvas course navigation to be more user-friendly and enhance the overall student experience.

How to export your high school concurrent enrollment course content to transfer it to your university course.

A resource for teachers with instructions and a short video about how to use breakout rooms in Zoom.

CIDI has developed two templates to help you organize your course materials and provide a consistent experience for students across USU.

The hybrid delivery method at Utah State University are courses that are a mix of in-person and online/virtual learning sessions.

Hypothesis is a Canvas integrated tool that allows you to collaborate and annotate most online sources.

Answers to common questions that you may have while using iClicker in your Canvas course.

What the IDEA objectives are; Selecting Objectives, and tips on helping your students make the connection between your IDEA objectives and the course objectives.

This is a group activity for students to get to know each other better and share their own strengths and special skills.

Getting ready for the new semester and have content from this semester you'd like to reuse? Great! You can import content from another Canvas course.

The steps to import your Media Gallery videos from one course to another. This is an all or nothing process, you must import all videos.

You can import specific content from one Canvas course to another, if you are a Teacher, TA, or Course Designer of both courses.

This on-demand workshop walks you through how to properly import content from one Canvas course into another and what things you need to review and consider before beginning your course for the semester.

Sometimes grades are collected using another source, such as i>clicker, scantron tests, and publisher websites. Or you may just prefer to organize your grades on a spreadsheet.

Adding in-class writing to your teaching repertoire can increase student learning and engagement with course materials and support better participation discussion and group activities.

The in-person delivery method at Utah State University are courses taught where students and instructors are expected to be in the same place at the same time.

The Incomplete (I) Grade Policy states that the student may petition the instructor for time beyond the end of the semester to finish the work.

A listing of Colleges and Departments at Utah State University assigned to specific Instructional Designers.

Curated list of the instructional designers assigned to assist all departments at Utah State University.

Steps and facts for what instructors can do to engage with their students and improve communication in their online courses.

Integrative Learning helps students critically analyze information. How to encourage and implement integrative learning with examples and resources.

A description of a jigsaw activity that engages students by getting them to participate in cooperative learning.

Just-in-Time Teaching is meant to get students to engage with the material and provide feedback on student thinking. It will help faculty identify students' strengths, weaknesses, and learning styles.

The purpose of this page is to show you how to view video quiz results and see the status of the gradebook sync for Kaltura Video Quizzes in a Canvas course.

The Kaltura Video Quiz is a tool that can seamlessly embed multiple choice questions at any point in a video found in your My Media repository.

If you are using the most recent version of the Mac OS, there are some security settings that might prevent you from being able to record your screen.

Tips to accomplish your course goals without meeting in person, so you can keep teaching remotely during an emergency.

Under FERPA, exams, papers, and grade books are educational records and should be maintained in a secure location.

Knotty Problems help get students over any obstacles or roadblocks they are experiencing through peer feedback. Knotty problems are a way for students to also learn from other students.

Learn how to connect a laptop in classrooms at Utah State University using an HDMI cable or wirelessly through AirMedia and Zoom.

Within Delphinium the Layout Coach will walk you through all of these settings. This page serves as a reference to be able to see descriptions of all settings at once.

Establishing learning objectives should be the starting point for your course. If these have not been developed, this section will help you understand the process of developing and writing learning objectives.

Tips for managing in-person classes with forty or more students enrolled in them.

Faculty, staff, and students can create a Zoom account which will allow them to host Zoom meetings.

Low-stakes assignments are designed to help students with opportunities to improve their skills and receive feedback without of an impact on their overall grade. These assignments should be used to encourage students to learn topics without the stress of

At this time, the University is planning on offering options for students to attend classes in-person. This could change and it is a good idea to be prepared with a plan to pivot to fully-remote teaching.

The instructions required to make grades, comments, and annotations unavailable until grading is complete and grades are manually posted.

You can remove a published media item from all media galleries by making it private.

As the instructor and meeting host, you have some muting controls in Zoom that can help with the potential disruption. Get instructions for microphone privileges and muting.

Why, when, and how to use question banks in your Utah State University Canvas course quizzes.

UI/UX practice

Laboratory experiences in higher education cover a wide range of configurations, intended outcomes, and locations. This page is intended to direct you to ideas and resources you can use to plan your lab experience.

The steps to manage outcomes with the new system in the New Quizzes tool in Canvas.

Different methods of manually graded Canvas quizzes, how to implement them, and suggestions on managing the complex problems that arise with them.

Mastery Paths allows you to customize learning experiences for students based on performance. You can enable Mastery Paths to automatically assign coursework based on the score achieved for a previous assignment.

In order to allow students the option of downloading the video, you must perform the following steps:

Overview of the Kaltura My Media repository for instructor videos at Utah State University.

A collection of keystrokes to use while recording media with the Kaltura Capture application for both Mac and Windows.

Overview of Zoom's cameras, microphones, audio, attendee privileges and access, chats, and reactions meeting features.

New Analytics in Canvas allows you to filter outgoing messages to send to your students that fall within a specific grade range.

Metacognition is the process of how learners discover how they learn and how to improve their learning. Methods to use metacognition in the classroom.

Learn how to use microphones in classrooms at Utah State University. Microphones are great for Kaltura recordings, Connect classes, and in-room sound reinforcement (amplification).

Mid-semester feedback provides an opportunity for instructors to "check the pulse” of their class partway through the semester.

How to troubleshoot discussion posts showing in canvas but missing in SpeedGrader. Also, guides for assigning students to discussion groups.

How to troubleshoot discussion posts showing in canvas but missing in SpeedGrader. Also, guides for assigning students to discussion groups.

If a student has been participating in polls but isn't getting points assigned in the iClicker grade book.

The purpose of mnemonics is to help students learn new material and assist in the memory of past learning.

How to extend time limit for students and give extra attempts on quizzes and exams through the Canvas Moderate Quiz setting.

Tips for using the Kaltura or MyMedia. How to add third party cookies to Chrome and troubleshoot issues. What each button is used for.

An overview of the Canvas New Quizzes tool which provides additional question types and tools that are not available in Classic Quizzes.

Tips and guides on how to access all of the features of the Kaltura New Video Player. General features including changing the video layout, downloading the video, and adjusting playback speed.

Suggestions for setting Canvas notifications to determine how often you will receive alerts about new assignment submissions, submission comments, etc.

How to use a Zoom Meeting ID for multiple courses through the Zoom link found in Canvas.

Instructions for setting up office hours via Zoom, so you can include the meeting ID in your syllabus, an announcement, or Canvas homepage.

Tips and video instructions for providing a simple digital notebook design with the ability to integrate with Canvas courses.

A general schedule of the progression of the online course development bootcamp.

This cohort-based program is designed to help faculty systematically build or rebuild an online or hybrid course from scratch.

The online delivery method at Utah State University are courses that are facilitated using online learning materials and activities with a flexible schedule.

Suggestions for setting up online essay question types in Canvas exams and quizzes for enhanced security.

The easiest way to open your My Media repository is from your Canvas dashboard.

Moving from Panopto to Kaltura you might be frustrated that there are no folders. Kaltura uses tags instead of folders.

As you design and plan your assessments, remember the two primary types: formative and summative.

Guidelines from the Department of Education (DOE) of what is meant by "regular and substantive" interaction between instructors and students in online courses.

Consider the different types of activities and assessments that you will use that should align with module and course learning objectives.

Portfolium is an academic portfolio network allowing you to showcase your education and work accomplishments and connect with other professionals.

Recordings made on your Zoom account can be imported into your course recordings menu.

It is possible to pre-assign breakout rooms. You will need to set them up on the Zoom website, https://zoom.usu.edu. You should have already scheduled your class meetings in Canvas first.

A quick checklist to help teachers ensure their online courses offered at Utah State University are ready to go.

Students can participate using iClicker via Reef by accessing the iClicker Cloud sync feature within the Canvas course.

You have successfully used Canvas to grade all the assignments in your class, now you can save some time by submitting your grades directly to Banner.

Learn how to present a Wooclap event in class. Wooclap is USU’s interactive polling tool that lets instructors collect live responses from students, display results instantly, and encourage participation through a variety of question types and real-time f...

If you have used the Design Tools or Canvas formatting to prepare your syllabus in Canvas, the easiest way to print a properly formatted syllabus is from the USU Canvas Course Syllabus Tracker.

Procedures and FAQs for teachers on topics like how to report course materials prior to classes, how to submit grades, FERPA, copyright, and other issues.

Information for setting up test proctoring for on-campus students in the Academic Testing Center and for off-campus students taking online classes.

Curated list of Canvas quiz questions that are automatically graded along with different proctoring options and how to implement them.

Proctorio is used for remote testing in online courses. If your instructor has allowed you to use Proctorio for testing, the guides below are a useful resource.

Quizzes, test scores, and written feedback on essays are perhaps the most obvious forms of feedback that you utilize in your courses. All types of activities and assessments allow for feedback in the form of a grade and/or written feedback.

When content is ready for students to view publish your Canvas course to allow students access.

Videos from your My Media library can be published to a course media gallery, where they are visible to students in the course.

HB261 requires courses that are mandatory for a program of study to be published 14 days before classes begin. This page provides details and FAQs for complying with this requirement.

The purpose of using question banks is to re-use questions on multiple assessments, randomize the order of questions, display a random sub-set of questions from a set of like items, or to assess whether specifically articulated outcomes are being met.

Description and instruction on Atomic Assessment question settings, such as question scoring, scoring type, non autoscored questions, advanced math scoring, and more.

Overview of the different types of quiz questions available in Atomic Assessments, and their capability.

An introduction of the various options for quizzing using tools available through Canvas.

The settings that we recommend you enable for the most effective learning activity. Including how to allow students to check their answers, have multiple attempts per question, and multiple attempts to complete the assignment.

How to record your in-person lectures when teaching an in-person class in a classroom with Zoom Rooms equipment.

Kaltura Classroom is software that allows you to easily record presentations that occur in a classroom.

You can use the Kaltura CaptureSpace tool to record a presentation on your computer (computer requirements) and make it available in your Canvas course.

You may want to use a laptop, tablet, or document camera while teaching your class. In order to record the screen or output of that device, you'll need to select the capture source on the classroom touch panel.

When you record a lecture in Zoom, there will be a file saved for each source (audio, display, and camera). You can change the settings to be able to save all of these sources into a single file.

If you want the breakout sessions recorded, someone within those groups needs to start their own recordings and then send them/make them available to the host after the meeting.

Tips and best practices for recording lectures and using media in the online classroom. Practical guidelines for teachers to create a professional media product.

If you started your meeting through Canvas and saved the recording through the Cloud, find your recording by going into the Zoom tab in your Canvas course and selecting the Cloud Recordings tab.

A tutorial for renaming an activity in Atomic Assessments. In Atomic Assessments, an “activity” refers to an assessment that has Questions or groups of questions.

Instructions on replacing the instructor photo on your Canvas course home page using design tools.

If an approved LTI Tool cannot be enabled in Canvas through the navigation, by adding it to a module, or selecting it in assignment details, contact a Canvas admin to request it.

Import quizzes or exams from a Microsoft Word or other word processing format into a format the Canvas can read with Respondus, an application licensed by USU.

Previously saved content can be restored if it gets accidentally deleted. This includes assignments, classic quizzes, pages, etc.

If you already taught a course once in Canvas, this page is to help you understand how you can best reuse and refine that course to have a successful time teaching your new incoming students.

Students’ performances can help the instructor assess their understanding of these concepts, identifying possible gaps in knowledge or weak points, which should then be the focus for later lessons.

Round Table is a teaching strategy that acts as a way for students to collaborate with others in a round table of ideas.

Use rubrics and outcomes to help students understand assignment requirements. Resources for Canvas tutorials regarding rubrics.

To begin running polls in iClicker Cloud, follow the following steps and for a detailed walkthrough of running polls with iClicker Cloud, see McMillan's website.

Academic Media Production directory information - Ryan Christensen. Academic Media Production is committed to providing faculty with the resources and professional staff they need to produce engaging, effective educational videos.

To schedule a Kaltura Classroom recording, you will need to authorize your “My Media” account and enable the “Media Gallery” in the course you are scheduling the recording for. Then, submit a recording request form.

How to set up a Zoom meeting within Canvas, outside of Canvas, and how to invite guest speakers.

Search all of the instructional content to learn how to use Canvas, Zoom, My Media, Media Gallery, iClicker, Atomic Assessments, and much more!

To provide clarity, and differentiate your video, you may want to customize the thumbnail for your Kaltura recordings. Follow these directions to customize your video thumbnails.

Basic information about self-regulation as it pertains to student learning to help instructors in course planning.

The first step in using Atomic Assessments is to add the tool to your course in the left-hand navigation.

Exams in Atomic Assessments can be proctored or used in the Logan Testing Center like Canvas quizzes. Currently, only Classic Quizzes (Canvas) work with Proctorio.

An elaboration on Chickering and Gamson's Seven Principles of Good Practice in Undergraduate Education and how to apply them.

Directory info - Shane Thomas. Shane is the Director of the Classroom Technologies.

Learn the easiest way to share Atomic Assessment activities with another instructor.

Not only do you no longer need to convert your files to PDF format, there are even advantages to sharing files in their original format!

Instructions to share a PowerPoint presentation in Zoom. Describes how to view the PowerPoint in presenter view along with seeing the Zoom participants.

How to post or embed a Kaltura screen recording as a discussion reply in a Canvas discussion board.

My Media allows you to share editing, publishing, or viewing rights on a video to a different user (likely with another instructor). Below are the instructions how to do so.

There may be times where you only want to give specific students access to view a video. Since Zoom recordings get sent to your My Media account, this is a great way to share class recordings with just specific students.

Share a Zoom link that can be accessed by all students in the class through Canvas.

Share a Zoom link with an individual student or only specific students via email.

How to share your Zoom recordings with individual students or a specific group of students.

You can share your Zoom recordings with all of the students in your class directly through Canvas by publishing them in the Cloud Recordings settings.

Share a Zoom Whiteboard with students in your class through the Canvas course.

How to share content with students from your computer while in a Zoom meeting.

Overview of how to share your video from a document camera through Zoom at Utah State University.

By default, Canvas adds several extra menu items to your course that you are probably not using that make it difficult for students to find the resources that you are using.

Purpose of and conducting a Socratic Seminar in place of a standard lecture for in-person, connect, hybrid, and virtual courses.

Zoom will allow you to create a specific number of groups and students can choose for themselves which room they will join. This resource for teachers provides instructions about how to use breakout rooms in Zoom.

The elevator pitch teaching strategy is meant to give students multiple opportunities to share their ideas and get feedback. This activity is similar to the Speed Networking and Speed Dating teaching strategies.

Students learn better when they're paying attention. Selecting the proper engagement strategy can improve the learning environment and the overall learning experience.

Students need feedback to learn from their performance. But what about instructors? How do you gather useful feedback from your students to facilitate continued learning?

Socially distanced teaching methods require more logistics and benefit greatly from advanced planning. Get documents and resources for getting started.

The instructions below will show you how to create a self evaluation for your students based on a rubric outline that you have for your assignment.

Periscope view allows the instructor to see what a specific student will see when he logs into Delphinium.

Federal legislation requires all course expenses, including textbooks, be published before students can register. Instructors must submit textbook information for their courses every semester.

How to submit final grades to Banner through Canvas. Submitting failing grades through Canvas, submitting individual grades, and verifying if grades were submitted.

A description of summative assessments and how they are used to evaluate student learning.

How to switch between Design Tools and DesignPLUS. Also, how to switch back to Design Tools from DesignPLUS in Canvas.

Resources for teachers regarding syllabus development including a general syllabus outline and instructions for creating a syllabus in Canvas.

University policies and procedures that USU faculty are encouraged to include in their course syllabus and share with their students.

How to sync your Canvas Calendar with either your Microsoft Outlook or Google Calendar accounts.

The system and network connection requirements for a successful Zoom class meeting.

Instructions on using Zoom to teach from a classroom in a hybrid environment.

Instructions on preparing for and using Zoom in the classroom to teach students.

USU teaching resources AI chatbot sources all of its information from official university webpages. Ask questions and search content regarding teaching tips and strategies, and tools like Canvas, Zoom, My Media (Kaltura).

Instructions for using Zoom to teach class from an office, including the equipment required and support contacts.

Instructions for teaching with Zoom from a classroom or origination room on campus.

Team-based learning is a cooperative learning strategy shown to have a positive effect on student achievement. How to form teams and how to design and implement Team-based learning.

Make accommodations to allow your student(s) to take an exam or quiz with Proctorio while the rest of your students take the exam or quiz in a testing center. Instructions to make the exam flexible in Canvas with the Moderate This Quiz feature.

The purpose of the Think/Write, Pair, Share strategy is to give students time to consider and develop their ideas about the topic before being asked to share their understanding with the class.

TidyUP is available in your Canvas course to help you quickly identify and clean up the content in your course.

Descriptions of the automatically graded questions types associated with a time-restricted and automatically graded quiz.

Transferring a classic Canvas quiz into the New Quizzes format to take advantage of new question types.

Canvas makes it easy to transfer content from one semester to the next. Here are some steps to ensure everything is ready to go in your new course.

Academic Media Production directory information - Trent Hunsaker. Academic Media Production is committed to providing faculty with the resources and professional staff they need to produce engaging, effective educational videos.

Occasionally the scoring gets stuck in an Atomic Assessment. In order to correct this issue, re-calculate the scores.

Copyleaks has replaced Turnitin for plagiarism checking within Canvas assignments at Utah State University.

How to secure your Zoom meetings, manage screen sharing, enable the waiting room, lock the meeting, enable focus mode, and how to handle zoombombing.

Dr. John Scott of Blackboard gave the following workshop in fall of 2019 at Utah State University on how to better support diverse online learners as part of the 2019 Ally Road Tour.

You can remove or "unpublish" media from a course media gallery. Unpublishing media from a gallery does not delete it from your My Media repository; however, it does remove it from the course Media Gallery page.

How to add dates to the module list on your Canvas homepage to highlight and open the most current module.

Instructions for how to update Canvas content pages using the Design Tools. Change the unit, content title, etc in the template using the side bar.

If you have previously typed dates to appear in your module titles in your homepage, you'll want to update them through the Multi Tool.

How to update the dates for the modules on the home page by using the features on design tools.

The Visual Template comes with a pre-styled homepage containing a general university image and replaceable banner text. Be sure to change the course number and title. Changing the image is optional.

How to upgrade the content designed with the legacy (Design Tools) sidebar to utilize DesignPLUS formatting.

You can upload a video from your local computer to your My Media repository. After the video is uploaded to My Media, you can publish it to one or more course media galleries.

The basics of adding a file to a Canvas course either in the Files tool or within a module.

How to use CSV datasets within your Atomic Assessment questions. How to create dynamic questions and variables. Using Question datasets for plain text and math questions.

How to convert your Canvas gradebook to a CSV file to import into Excel to calculate a custom final grade.

Record a lecture (lecture capture) in supported classrooms using the computer application Kaltura Classroom. Lectures are uploaded to My Media and can be published to one or more courses for students to view later.

How to include a YouTube video in an Atomic Assessment assignment, quiz, or exam in your Canvas course.

Learn how to use the whiteboard tool within a Zoom meeting to share or create notes with students with new added features for AI and voting.

Learn how to integrate Wooclap with Canvas to track attendance, participation, and grading. This guide covers setting up Wooclap events as Canvas assignments, choosing grading modes, and syncing scores to the Gradebook.

How to add an image to any Canvas page using DesignPLUS. How to add alt text and captions to any image in Canvas using DesignPLUS.

How to use polling within a Zoom meeting to enhance engagement among students during the class session.

The Assign Access tool allows you to adjust availability and due dates for specific students or groups. It's useful for individual students who need different dates due to travel, illness, or other reasons.

How to view a student's Copyleaks report through the SpeedGrader and Grading. How to review the matching sources of a plagiarism detection report using Copyleaks.

View all discussion posts and replies to skim through the full conversation on a Canvas discussion board.

With media analytics, you can determine which students have viewed a video, how much of the video they have viewed, and how many times the video has been accessed.

Canvas allows the option to change which identifying information an instructor sees for a student.

Tutorials for generating attendance reports, which are available through the Zoom link in Canvas or through the Zoom website. If the meeting recurrence is set for "no fixed time" you will have to pull the reports from the Zoom website.

The virtual delivery method at Utah State University are courses taught via Zoom with pre-scheduled meeting times.

Find quick links to Wooclap’s guides, webinars, and tutorials, plus details on where to get help—whether you need technical support from Wooclap or instructional guidance from USU.

Zoom has created an AI Companion Tool to assist participants in Zoom calls. This too allows auto captioning, meeting summaries, and can even answer questions about what has occurred in the meeting. Once the settings are selected, your meetings can be elev...

Instructors can set up student sign-ups for Zoom appointments within the Zoom link in Canvas

How to troubleshoot for common issues in Zoom, such as lagging, no audio, choppy video, or missing features.

Utah State University has a limited number of Zoom Webinar 500 licenses that can be used by faculty and staff. Read through the meeting and webinar comparison to determine if a Zoom Webinar will meet your event needs.