faculty focus fridays

The Teaching and Learning Team (TLT) is now offering a new series of Zoom workshops called Faculty Focus Fridayย every Friday from 12 to 1 p.m.

The workshops provide faculty members with clear, practical tips and guidance on useful topics such as measuring engagement instead of taking attendance and using the OAKS dropbox to grade assignments and bulk-download/upload papers and comments. The following workshops are scheduled for the spring 2021 semester:

  • February 19 โ€“ How to Use the Quiz Question Converter
  • February 26 โ€“ Setting Up Your OAKS Grade Book
  • March 5 โ€“ Leveling Up in Online Testing
  • March 12 โ€“ 5 Tips for Better Communication/Engagement in OAKS
  • March 19 โ€“ Mindfulness for Stress Relief and to Get You Into a Better Headspace
  • March 26 โ€“ Using Google Drive for Student Group Work
  • April 2 โ€“ Engagement Activities for Online and the Classroom
  • April 9 โ€“ Breakout Room Practice on Zoom
  • April 16 โ€“ Getting to know Respondus Lockdown Browser
  • April 23 โ€“ How to Transfer Zoom Recordings to YouTube

Zoom links, recorded sessions and more information about the individual workshops is available on the TLT Workshops Sessions page. No registration is required.