Live Workshop Calendar | Distance Education

The workshops listed below are offered by SRJC's Distance Education, the Online Network of Educators, and by EdTech providers. Topics include:

Various Canvas Features
Effective Online Teaching Practices
EdTech Tools to Enhance Course Interaction
Equity in Online Learning

Review the current list of workshop offerings below and click the "Register" link to sign-up. Once you submit the form, you will receive an email confirmation with a Zoom link.

FLEX code: FF:33 Distance Education Trainings

Introduction to New Quizzes Come learn about Canvas's new quizzing tool! New Quizzes can be turned on in your course shells and provides some powerful question types and advanced settings. We'll also think outside the quizzes and exams box and look at alternative uses of quizzes.	Tuesday, July 2nd 3-4 pm	REGISTER
EdTech Showcase Looking for some fresh ideas? Spice up your online courses by incorporating some interactive "cool tools"! This workshop is quick survey of SRJC's district-funded EdTech tools that can increase student engagement. We will take a look at Pronto, PlayPosit, Hypothesis, Padlet, VoiceThread and GoReact. We'll explore these tools and demo how you might use them in your classes.	Thursday, August 15th 10-11 am	REGISTER
All About the Gradebook This workshop will teach you the in's and out's of the Canvas Gradebook & Speedgrader so that you can make the most of this powerful tool and avoid confusion for yourself and your students. We will cover both how to manage the gradebook via the assignments area, the students' view, various optional tools and settings, and take a look at the feedback capabilities of Speedgrader. Join us!	Thursday, August 15th 12:30-1:30 pm	REGISTER
Discussions Redesign & Refresh Are your discussion assignments feeling dull and predictable? You're not alone! Join us for some fresh ideas to make the most of asynchronous discussions and how the new Canvas discussion redesign can help.	Thursday, August 15th 2-3 pm	REGISTER
Canvas New Analytics \With New Analytics you can quickly see whether or not your students are viewing your pages and assignments and what the average grade is on an assignment. We'll show you how to create targeted emails to students based on grades, and participation and discuss how to interpret the data that we gather from this tool. Come learn what New Analytics can do for you.	Wednesday, August 21^st 11 am-noon	REGISTER
Introduction to VoiceThread Join us to learn about VoiceThread, a tool for making interactive presentations. VoiceThread allows you to add text, audio, video and annotations to your slideshows and allows students to respond to those comments. Students can also create their own slideshows with VoiceThread, which can be commented on by you and other students. Join us to learn how VoiceThread can enhance your lectures!	Thursday August 22^nd 11 am-noon	REGISTER
EdTech Showcase Looking for some fresh ideas? Spice up your online courses by incorporating some interactive "cool tools"! This workshop is quick survey of SRJC's district-funded EdTech tools that can increase student engagement. We will take a look at Pronto, PlayPosit, Hypothesis, Padlet, VoiceThread and GoReact. We'll explore these tools and demo how you might use them in your classes.	Friday, August 23rd 10-11 am	REGISTER
All About the Gradebook This workshop will teach you the in's and out's of the Canvas Gradebook & Speedgrader so that you can make the most of this powerful tool and avoid confusion for yourself and your students. We will cover both how to manage the gradebook via the assignments area, the students' view, various optional tools and settings, and take a look at the feedback capabilities of Speedgrader. Join us!	Friday, August 23rd 12:30-1:30 pm	REGISTER
Discussions Redesign & Refresh Are your discussion assignments feeling dull and predictable? You're not alone! Join us for some fresh ideas to make the most of asynchronous discussions and how the new Canvas discussion redesign can help.	Friday, August 23rd 2-3 pm	REGISTER
Introduction to VoiceThread Join us to learn about VoiceThread, a tool for making interactive presentations. VoiceThread allows you to add text, audio, video and annotations to your slideshows and allows students to respond to those comments. Students can also create their own slideshows with VoiceThread, which can be commented on by you and other students. Join us to learn how VoiceThread can enhance your lectures!	Wednesday August 28^th 2-3 pm	REGISTER

Introduction to New Quizzes

Come learn about Canvas's new quizzing tool! New Quizzes can be turned on in your course shells and provides some powerful question types and advanced settings. We'll also think outside the quizzes and exams box and look at alternative uses of quizzes.

Tuesday, July 2nd

3-4 pm

REGISTER

EdTech Showcase

Looking for some fresh ideas? Spice up your online courses by incorporating some interactive "cool tools"! This workshop is quick survey of SRJC's district-funded EdTech tools that can increase student engagement. We will take a look at Pronto, PlayPosit, Hypothesis, Padlet, VoiceThread and GoReact. We'll explore these tools and demo how you might use them in your classes.

Thursday, August 15th

10-11 am

REGISTER

All About the Gradebook

This workshop will teach you the in's and out's of the Canvas Gradebook & Speedgrader so that you can make the most of this powerful tool and avoid confusion for yourself and your students. We will cover both how to manage the gradebook via the assignments area, the students' view, various optional tools and settings, and take a look at the feedback capabilities of Speedgrader. Join us!

Thursday, August 15th

12:30-1:30 pm

REGISTER

Discussions Redesign & Refresh

Are your discussion assignments feeling dull and predictable? You're not alone! Join us for some fresh ideas to make the most of asynchronous discussions and how the new Canvas discussion redesign can help.

Thursday, August 15th

2-3 pm

REGISTER

Canvas New Analytics

\With New Analytics you can quickly see whether or not your students are viewing your pages and assignments and what the average grade is on an assignment. We'll show you how to create targeted emails to students based on grades, and participation and discuss how to interpret the data that we gather from this tool. Come learn what New Analytics can do for you.

Wednesday, August 21^st

11 am-noon

REGISTER

Introduction to VoiceThread

Join us to learn about VoiceThread, a tool for making interactive presentations. VoiceThread allows you to add text, audio, video and annotations to your slideshows and allows students to respond to those comments. Students can also create their own slideshows with VoiceThread, which can be commented on by you and other students. Join us to learn how VoiceThread can enhance your lectures!

Thursday August 22^nd

11 am-noon

REGISTER