If you missed “Planning for the Unknowns of Fall 2020,” you may now view the recording of it. Organized by the Institute for Excellence in Teaching and Learning and Educational Technology Services, the event features a discussion for Chapman faculty on how to plan for teaching in face-to-face, online, hybrid, or hyflex environments this fall
Beginning June 1, 2020 our drop-in support hours have changed. Join us via Zoom Monday-Friday. If you click the following link you will enter a Zoom waiting room for support: http://bit.ly/lmssupport 9:30 am to 11:30 am & 2:30 pm to 4:30 pm Drop-in support is for instructors with questions about Canvas Blackboard Zoom BigBlueButton (Canvas
On May 18, 2020, Poll Everywhere’s integration will be switched from Blackboard to Canvas. If you are using Blackboard for the Summer 2020 and/or Fall 2020 term you will have to do two things manually. Participants will need to be manually added to Poll Everywhere. If you want to use the grade feature, you will have
On April 28, the Senate Executive Board and the Institute for Excellence in Teaching & Learning co-sponsored the virtual teaching event: “When Teaching Goes Viral: Stories from Instructors Addressing COVID-19 in Their Course Content.” This event featured presentations from six faculty members who shared how they adjusted their curriculum in the online learning environment to
This blog post is authored by Derek Prate, Instructor in the Fowler School of Engineering. Hi reader! I’m Derek Prate, an Instructor for the Fowler School of Engineering, and current preschool teacher for my 4 and 5 year old kids. I’ve divided my blog up into some key points I’ve taken away from teaching remotely
This blog post is authored by Samantha Dressel, faculty in the English Department of Wilkinson College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences. When faced with suddenly switching to online teaching, I had several layers of panic. First, I don’t consider myself particularly tech savvy and do not like being under the gun for new technology.
Bring your questions to the Edutech Team! Whether your question is about Zoom, Canvas, Blackboard, Panopto, Turnitin or some other teaching technology, we have staff on standby to help you. Visit our drop-in support Zoom room any time from 9am to 5pm, Monday-Friday for help. http://bit.ly/lmssupport
It has been difficult to write this month’s dispatch from the IETL for many reasons, but primarily because of the unprecedented experience of teaching in a pandemic. It is my hope that this message finds you each well, and that you are weathering the challenges–large and small–that we have all been faced with the past
This blog post is authored by Caroline Wilson (with Ethan Vieira, Zoom videographer), faculty in the Health Sciences department of Crean College. Caroline also serves as an IETL Ambassador. In this post, I want to talk about how I worked through the process of learning to teach an online synchronous course within Canvas using Team-Based
If you’ve been asked to teach online, it will be important for you to prepare digital content to share with your students. Here are several ideas for content creation (this information is taken from Chapman University’s Course Continuity page): Tools for creating PDFs If you don’t have a scanner readily available, there are several smart