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Canvas Clinic
CANVAS Canvas Clinic, selected Thursdays, 12:00-1:00 PM, Register here. Canvas Clinic is a 14-session workshop dedicated to covering the main features of Canvas beginning August 2018 and running until March 2019. For each session, the CIL team will cover the basic and intermediate details of a single Canvas feature. You’ll have the opportunity to explore […]
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Blended Learning Series Registration
Selected Mondays, September 2018 – April 2019, 11:30 am – 1:00 PM, LIB 400 See session descriptions. Research has shown faculty often need assistance to move into a blended learning delivery paradigm. In this interactive series, the facilitators will guide participants in articulating their needs related to blended learning in order to identify possible ways […]
Students, faculty, and staff are getting a new studio space for videos, webcasts, distance learning and more
UNTHSC is opening up two new studio spaces for faculty, staff, and students. Faculty and staff will have access to a reservable studio space featuring a configurable design to promote the creation of high-quality educational media. Students will have access to a walk-in studio and editing room and will be able to check out additional […]
Mindomo Concept Mapping Tool
Mindomo Handout
How to Set Up a Canvas Conference
The Conferences tool in Canvas allows the instructor and students to communicate in real-time using video (via webcam), audio (via USB headset) and text (via the Chat pod). Conferences allows you to broadcast real-time audio, video, demo applications on your desktop, share presentation slides, or demo any online resources. Currently, Canvas integrates with BigBlueButton. Note: BigBlueButton […]
Coming Soon: Blended Learning Series
Blended Learning Faculty Development Series Selected Mondays, September 2018 – April 2019 LIB 400, 11:30 AM – 1:00 PM REGISTER HERE STARTING JULY 2. Research has shown faculty often need assistance to move into a blended learning delivery paradigm In this interactive series, the facilitators will guide participants in articulating their needs related to […]
2018-2019 Teaching Excellence Seminar Series
Coming in September, 2018. See the tentative schedule below. Teaching Excellence Seminar Series Teach for the Stars! Please see detailed information on each session here. Summary: Quality learning begins with quality teaching. This seminar series is designed to provide a brief overview of educational philosophy, and research supporting a variety of effective teaching practices […]
DxR Clinician
DxR Clinician is a web based patient simulation package that allows the student to question the patient, conduct a simulated physical examination, and order lab tests. At each step, the student can review the results and responses before making diagnostic and management choices. Find out more about DRX Clincian Here. Need an account for DxR […]
Teaching Assistant Requirements and Process at UNTHSC
In order to have a Teaching Assistant added to a course, please complete the following steps: The TA Name, course name and number, instructor and level of TA access (masters or PhD) is emailed to canvas@unthsc.edu and copied to registrar@unthsc.edu Canvas confirms the student has/has not completed TA BootCamp If not, the student must register and […]
Together We…A Message from the UNTHSC System Chancellor
TOGETHER WE … A MESSAGE FROM THE CHANCELLOR February 22, 2018 UNT System Faculty & Staff: This morning at our quarterly Board of Regents meeting I discussed a unified vision for our system — inclusive of our universities. The board, our university presidents, and I are aligned in this vision. We believe in the talent […]
Using Audacity to create portable lecture podcasts
Do you wish to create portable audio lectures for your students? One tool to consider is Audacity. Audacity is a simple, free program for recording and editing audio and saving them in a small, portable format. A great place to begin to learn Audacity would be Lynda.com. Since the UNT University System recently purchased Lynda […]
Assessment and Test Question brown bag lunches
Do you want help writing your quiz or exam questions? Do you have questions about your questions? Come and join your peers and Dr. Kim Meyer, Director of the Center for Innovative Learning and Assistant Professor, for a brown bag lunch to improve existing questions and write new questions for your tests and quizzes. Bring […]
Discussion Board Issues from Laura March and Mark Anthoney, Instructional Designers
Mark Anthoney and Laura March, members of the Instructional Designer to Instructional Designer group have created a fabulous infographic resources to help fix discussion board issues. The online version (which includes live hyperlinks) is available here: http://bit.ly/discussiondoctor. Full information is available here: http://bit.ly/fulldiscussiondoctor Do you need help with online discussion boards? Contact CIL@unthsc.edu
Learning Glass
The Center for Innovative Learning now offers faculty the Learning Glass, a transparent glass board, to enhance their instruction. Contact the CIL at canvas@unthsc.edu for more information on how to use this service! Image from Eller College of Management on Vimeo The Learning Glass offers faculty the ability to create high quality, compelling recordings of […]
Quality Matters Training Courses
Quality Matters (QM) is a faculty-centered, peer review process designed to certify the quality of online and blended courses. The principles behind Quality Matters’ Standards are not limited in application to online and blended courses, but can be applied to face-to-face traditional courses as well. Quality Matters Certification Courses Applying the Quality Matters Rubric 2 […]
A tool for interactive learning: Articulate Rise
Rise is an online authoring tool that supports an up/down navigation approach between screens, with scrolling of individual screen content where required. It includes pre-built lesson templates optimized for different devices types and orientations, and also allows you to use learning blocks to create custom lessons. Example Rise page Click here for a printable RISE […]
Canvas New GradeBook
A New GradeBook Experience The New Gradebook is a beta feature that allows instructors to view an improved version of the Gradebook. This feature makes grading more flexible and intuitive and elevates the Gradebook user experience. At the course level, instructors can use the New Gradebook by enabling in Course Settings. The New Gradebook replaces […]
Introduction to Canvas Workshop
January 30th 12:00-1:30, LIB 400 This workshop is targeted to faculty and staff who are new to using Canvas for their courses, or who think they could use a refresher on some fundamental features of Canvas. This workshop will show you how to create and organize modules, create content pages, create and configure assignments, attach […]