We hope you'll join us for an upcoming February 2021 EdTech event!
Jump to an Upcoming Session:
- Feb 11: Select Your Online Assessment Tool: Which Tool Should You Use and Why?
- Feb 09: Part 01 of 02: Facilitating Effective Online Discussions in Quercus: Asynchronous Tools and Techniques (attend one or both sessions!)
- Feb 23: Part 02 of 02: Facilitating Effective Online Discussions in Quercus: Synchronous Tools and Techniques (attend one or both sessions!)
Upcoming Lessons from your FASE Colleagues
Adapting group projects and software development skills training to online teaching: CIV550 Case Example
Register now! Facilitated by: Prof. Jennifer Drake | Feb 02, 2021 | 2:00 – 3:00 PM
The move to online delivery meant that the curriculum for CIV550 Water Resources Engineering needed to undergo substantial restructuring. Throughout the course, a Group Floodplain Mapping project served as a teaching tool that linked Lecture materials all term. Students were introduced to numerous GIS webtools, R (a statistical package), OTTHYMO (a hydrologic modelling program) and HEC-RAS (a hydraulic modelling project) through asynchronous modules and applied these analysis tools to evaluate flood risks to an Ontario community. This presentation will discuss the advantages and challenges encountered executing such an ambitious group project and teaching software remotely.
See previous webinars in the Lessons from you Colleagues Webinar Series!
Upcoming EdTech How To Sessions
Online Assessment
Assessing student learning online can be challenging, but there are several tools that can help support your assessment strategy. Join us for a session where we'll explore the benefits and drawbacks of the assessment tools that are part of the Academic Toolbox (including Quercus Classic Quizzes, Quercus Assignments, and Crowdmark Assessments).
Select Your Online Assessment Tool: Which Tool Should You Use and Why?
Register now! Facilitated by Anna Limanni | Feb 11, 2021 | 2:00 - 3:00 pm
This session is intended to help support your decision process as you decide how to build your online assessments(see Select your assessment tool). While we will talk extensively about the functionality (and the limitations) of each assessment tool, we will not be building the assessments during this session. After you've decided which tool works best for you, you can schedule a consultation to build the assessment in your course.
In this webinar, we will:
- provide an overview and feature comparison of Quercus Assignments, Quercus Quizzes, and Crowdmark Assigned Assessments, and
- explore how these tools can be used both on their own and in combination with other tools in the Academic Toolbox to support different types of traditional and alternative assessments, including oral assessments.
Online Course Discussions
Discussions can be a great way to engage students in the online environment. They can be flexibly integrated into your course, offering real time (synchronous) or self-directed (asynchronous) opportunities for students to interact with the instructor and with each other, and to explore and reflect on course content. Join us for one or both of our 2-part series on Synchronous (real time) and Ascynchronous (on your own time) discussion tool options.
Part 01 of 02: Facilitating Effective Online Discussions in Quercus: Asynchronous Tools and Techniques
Register now! Facilitated by Anna Limanni | Feb 09, 2021 | 2:00 - 3:00 pm
This session aims to support you in incorporating effective asynchronous discussions into your course using various tools in the Academic Toolbox (for example, see the comparison table of different discussion board tools for asynchronous discussion available within the U of T Academic Toolbox: Which tool should I use for asynchronous discussions?).
In this webinar, we will:
- explore how to use these tools to design discussions that are aligned with your course learning outcomes, content, and activities,
- review some strategies for facilitating effective discussions that foster student learning and create a more active and engaging course, and
- provide an overview and feature comparison of the tools that support asynchronous (Piazza, PeppeR, Ed Discussion, and Quercus Discussions).
Part 02 of 02: Facilitating Effective Online Discussions in Quercus: Synchronous Tools and Techniques
Register now! Facilitated by Anna Limanni | Feb 23, 2021 | 2:00 - 3:00 pm
This session aims to support you in incorporating effective synchronous discussions into your course using the tools available in your preferred webinar tool.
In this webinar, we will:
- explore how to use these tools to design discussions that are aligned with your course learning outcomes, content, and activities,
- review some strategies for facilitating effective discussions that foster student learning and create a more active and engaging course, and
- provide an overview of the tools (e.g., breakout rooms, polling) and techniques that support participation.
Can I get a recording of the session? Absolutely! If you can't attend the session, please register anyway and we'd be happy to send you a link to the recording as well as the follow up blog post (with session materials).
