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A list of the key characteristics of USU's teaching formats including hybrid face-to-face, web broadcast, online, and traditional face-to-face or IVC.

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.

Examples of syllabus statements to encourage or discourage use of generative AI tools, such as ChatGPT, in academic courses.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

Adding captions to your videos is important for accessibility, helps learners for whom language may be a 2nd language and helps student to learn content.

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

Office of Empowering Teaching Excellence Directory - Addy Kirkham. The Office of Empowering Teaching Excellence elevates and promotes our culture of teaching excellence through events and programs that are open to all USU instructors.

This page hosts a collection of advanced MyMedia features you can use in your videos.

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.

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.

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.

Description of the arranged delivery method and examples of various courses offered in this format

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.

This tutorial will go over how to review 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.

This page describes the type of automatically graded question types associated with an automatically graded quiz.

You can change your Zoom settings so that they automatically begin to record as you start your lecture.

This page describes how to automatically score missing assignments in the Canvas grade book.

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

This is the Blended Course Application Form for teachers along with instructions for the needed steps to make this transition.

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.

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.

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.

Do you have a student who can't take the quiz or exam by the same due date as the other students? Add a due date for that student.

This page describes some 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.

There is a new tool in Canvas to help you set-up groups. You can designate which locations and how many students will be allowed in that location on each given day.

There is a new tool in Canvas to help you set-up groups. You can designate which locations and how many students will be allowed in that location on each given day.

The Similarity Report is the result of comparison between the text of the submission against the search targets in Turnitin's repositories. Any matching or highly similar text is detailed in the Similarity Report.

Turnitin is a software program that helps you identify potential instances of plagiarism. It does this by matching text from a student assignment to a database of outside sources.

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

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.

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.

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

Description of the connect delivery method and examples of various courses offered in this format

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 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.

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.

Course management refers to the process of designing, organizing, delivering, and evaluating academic courses. It involves the use of various strategies, tools, and techniques to ensure that the learning objectives are met, and the students are engaged an...

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.

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

Utah State University has partnered with Proctorio to provide virtual proctoring options for courses with online exams. Proctorio is a remote proctoring service software that works within your web browser to monitor test takers for suspicious behaviors.

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.

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.

Turnitin is a software program that helps you detect plagiarism by comparing text from student assignments to a database of outside sources. You can enable Turnitin in Canvas as an External Tool submission type.

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

This tutorial is for faculty who would like to integrate a variety of questions within their Canvas lesson content. These questions can be graded or ungraded.

This tutorial covers how to create and view your first assignment in Atomic Assessments.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Getting started as a student with Crowd Mics—an application that allows students in a classroom to use their mobile device as a microphone, which can be transmitted over Zoom and over the classroom speakers.

The Crowd Mics application, installed in some USU classrooms, allows students to connect their mobile devices to the classroom microphone system.

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.

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.

Before class, all students will need to come to class prepared with quotes and questions to lead the discussion. Teachers will need to help students with the resources needed to be sure they come to class prepared.

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

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.

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.

Atomic Assessments allows you to duplicate question items, which could be useful if you would like to duplicate an 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.

This page describes what settings in your Canvas course will control access to various content in the course.

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.

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

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.

This page will help teach you how to embed a video recording in a Canvas announcement through a step-by-step process.

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.

If you want to see a letter grade on the Grades page, or if you want to submit grades directly from Canvas to Banner you need to enable the course grading scheme.

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.

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.

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.

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

This page describes methods for addressing potential grading issues when using the Canvas gradebook.

Flip is a video discussion platform that makes teaching and learning more personal, fun, and engaging. This page goes over how to set up Flip in Canvas and how to create a Flip assignment.

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.

This FAQ addresses the most common questions asked 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.

This page will offer advice on navigating a few of the major features inside the Canvas Gradebook.

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.

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.

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 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 get your students to participate in group discussions on Canvas and how you can effectively review and grade your students.

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

This page describes the process of integrating the Zoom tool into your Canvas course shell.

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.

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

Description of the hybrid delivery method and examples of various courses offered in this format

This page is meant to answer some common questions that you may have while using iClicker.

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

An IVC-Zoom integration has been provided in IVC Broadcast courses to allow any student, regardless of reason, to attend IVC classes using Zoom from a place of their choosing.

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.

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

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.

Description of the in-person delivery method and examples of various courses offered in this format

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.

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

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 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.

Instructions for how to use connect a laptop to display on a projector or TV in a classroom using an HDMI or VGA cable, or through AirMedia.

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.

This page explains the purpose for using question banks on quizzes with a link to a resource from Instructure Canvas on how to create question banks for Canvas Classic Quizzes.

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.

This page describes the type of manually grading Canvas quizzes with complex problems or question types.

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:

This page provides an overview of the Kaltura My Media repository for instructor video.

This page is a collection of keystrokes to use while recording media with the Kaltura Capture application for both Mac and Windows.

This page provides an overview to cameras, microphones, audio, attendee privileges and access, chats, and reactions that are available as features of a Zoom meeting.

New Analytics 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.

Empowering Teaching Excellence directory - Michelle Arnold. The Office of Empowering Teaching Excellence elevates and promotes our culture of teaching excellence through events and programs that are open to all USU instructors.

Instructions for how to use microphones found in many classrooms for Kaltura recordings, broadcast classes, and in some cases, in-room sound reinforcement (amplification).

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

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.

Moderate Quiz allows you to see whether students have taken a quiz, how long students have been taking the quiz, extend the time limit, override the date settings, or provide additional attempts for one student.

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.

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

This page describes the process for using a Zoom Meeting ID for multiple courses through the Zoom link found in Canvas. This allows you to hold office hours for multiple courses with just one link.

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.

Description of the online delivery method and examples of various courses offered in this format

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.

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.

This page describes the type of automatically graded question types associated with a proctored, automatically graded, and restricted quiz.

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.

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

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.

This tutorial will go over the different types of quiz questions available in Atomic Assessments, and their capability.

Learn how to get started in a classroom at Utah State University, including how to start a web broadcast and a recording.

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

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.

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.

This page describes the process for setting up a Zoom meeting within Canvas, outside of Canvas, and inviting guest speakers.

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.

A tutorial for creating items in Atomic Assessments. In Atomic Assessments, an “item” may refer to a single question or a group of questions that will appear together.

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.

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

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.

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

This page provides an overview to sharing video from a document camera through Zoom.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

This page describes the system and network requirements for a successful Zoom class meeting.

This page will be used to demonstrate tips and general documentation on creating and editing pages in Omni CMS for the new Teach website.

Instructions on teaching courses that connect to classrooms at the statewide campuses.

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.

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.

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.

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.

This page describes the type of automatically graded question 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.

This tutorial is for instructors who would like to import a QTI file or use an existing Canvas quiz in Atomic Assessments.

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.

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

How to reset the classroom system if you come across a classroom displaying a gray screen on a display instead of your desired content.

This page helps you secure your Zoom meetings and provides tips and resources.

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.

This page teaches you how to add dates to Canvas modules so that the current module will be highlighted (text will be bold and icon to the left of the title will turn green).

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.

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.

CSV (comma-separated values) data sets can be used in most question types. Datasets are useful in assessments with math and plain text when you would like questions to pull from a bank of options.

Turnitin’s Quick Submit feature allows instructors to submit papers and receive Similarity Reports on an ad hoc basis. This is ideal for instructors who do not require students to submit assignments to Turnitin, but want to generate similarity reports for...

Amazon Alexa is available in select classrooms at Utah State University and can be used to control classroom equipment using voice commands.

This page will help you create a gradebook as a CSV file to import into Excel to help calculate a custom final grade column.

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.

Many classrooms at Utah State University have a document camera. Document cameras are great for displaying books, objects, and written material.

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.

A video overview and instructions for how to use and annotate with a Smart Podium—an interactive display and stylus connected to a classroom computer.

A video overview and instructions for how to use the Surface Studio, an all-in-one computer with a large, interactive display and stylus that provides excellent annotation features.

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.

This tutorial is for faculty who would like to include a video from YouTube in their assessment.

Learn how to use the whiteboard tool within a Zoom meeting to share or create notes with students.

Instructions for how to use the HP Touch Monitors, an interactive display that allows one to interact with a classroom computer using their fingers. It also provides basic annotation capabilities.

This page walks you through the process of using polling within a Zoom meeting to enhance engagement among students during the class session.

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.

When students submit a Turnitin assignment in Canvas, Turnitin generates an originality report and similarity index that lets the instructor know of much of the assignment is original.

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.

Description of the virtual delivery method and examples of various courses offered in this format

Request a special workshop for your department or group. Choose from our list of available topics, or make a special request.

This page walks you through troubleshooting 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.