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

If you or your department has a need for a workshop on a particular topic, please reach out Matt Pearson (mpearson@santarosa.edu) or Lauren Mitchell (lnahas@santarosa.edu). We'd love to design a workshop to fit your needs!

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

Workshop

Date & Time

Registration Link

Hypothesis: Annotation Starter Assignments

This workshop is ideal for instructors who are interested in using social annotation in their courses but aren’t exactly sure how to provide guidance to students. The Hypothesis team will review ideas for annotation starter assignments and provide you with ready-to-use instructions for a variety of disciplines and modalities. The presentation will especially focus on our most popular annotation activity, syllabus annotation. It doesn’t matter if you’re teaching humanities, business, STEM, or the health professions, or if you’re teaching face-to-face or online — you’ll get strategies from this workshop that you can add immediately to an assignment in your course.

January 13

11 AM

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Hypothesis New Features

The Hypothesis team will host a review of recently released Hypothesis features, including autograding, image annotation, instructor dashboards, and video annotation. Ideally, attendees will already be familiar with using Hypothesis.

January 15

11 AM to 12 PM

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Improve the accessibility of your Canvas courses!

Distance Ed will be holding a training for Panorama, our tool for making digital course materials accessible for all students. This training will focus on identifying issues and efficient fixes for digital content in their Canvas courses. There will be time at the end for questions.

January 16

10 to 11 AM

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Using VoiceThread in Canvas

In this workshop, you will learn how to create VoiceThreads and then add them to your Canvas course as lessons, discussions, or assessments. This will be a hand-on workshop where you can follow along with the activities and add VoiceThreads into your course modules.

January 20

10 to 11 AM

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Transitioning From PlayPosit to WeVideo: Next-Level Interactive Learning

This session is designed to help PlayPosit user's fully leverage WeVideo’s integrated video creation and interactivity tools following your transition from PlayPosit.

This webinar provides a guided overview of key features and workflows to support a smooth transition and enable the creation of high-quality, engaging instructional content.

Participants will gain practical knowledge and confidence using the WeVideo platform to design effective, interactive learning experiences.

What’s New in WeVideo

• AI-Powered Efficiency
Explore the AI Interaction Generator to quickly add
questions and checks for understanding, reducing
design time.

• Enhanced Creation Tools
Utilize WeVideo’s video editor, extensive royalty-free
stock media library, and built-in screen recording tools to
streamline content development.

January 20

11:30 AM to 12:30 PM

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Hypothesis: Modeling and Prompting Meaningful Annotations

Social annotation offers students a way to build community while they annotate course documents, but just because we create an annotation assignment does not mean that students automatically know how to write meaningful annotations. This session provides strategies for increasing instructor presence in annotation activities, prompting meaningful original annotations from students, and inviting students to respond to each other. You will leave with strategies that you can apply to your assignment prompts to start seeing better results from student annotations & discussions immediately.

January 22

11:30 AM - 12:30 PM

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Transitioning From PlayPosit to WeVideo: Next-Level Interactive Learning

This session is designed to help PlayPosit user's fully leverage WeVideo’s integrated video creation and interactivity tools following your transition from PlayPosit.

This webinar provides a guided overview of key features and workflows to support a smooth transition and enable the creation of high-quality, engaging instructional content.

Participants will gain practical knowledge and confidence using the WeVideo platform to design effective, interactive learning experiences.

What’s New in WeVideo

• AI-Powered Efficiency
Explore the AI Interaction Generator to quickly add
questions and checks for understanding, reducing
design time.

• Enhanced Creation Tools
Utilize WeVideo’s video editor, extensive royalty-free
stock media library, and built-in screen recording tools to
streamline content development.

January 27

11:30 AM - 12:30 PM

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Hypothesis: Social Annotation for Digital Reading in the Age of AI

How do digital environments and generative AI shape student reading? This workshop explores how social annotation with Hypothesis supports active, critical, and mindful reading in the digital age. Participants will examine research on digital reading, learn how annotation can reduce distractions and deepen comprehension, and explore ways to foster authentic engagement with or without AI tools. The session includes best practices for integrating Hypothesis with AI and a demo of setting up readings in your LMS. Participants will leave with practical strategies and ready-to-use assignments to enhance digital reading and interaction.

January 29

11:30 AM to 12:30 PM

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