Non-Boring Zoom Breakout Groups
How to make Zoom breakout groups less boring. This is a list of ideas crowdsourced from Twitter. For all links and info, visit the slide deck! Slide Deck
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The Death of Rigor
CoLab faculty and staff host a panel discussion about “rigor” in higher education: what is it, what does it mean, how do we enact it or push against it? Video Recording of Webinar Slides of Presentation (Google)
Teams How-To: Adding Zoom Link Tab
Hannah walks through the process of adding a Zoom room tab to a Microsoft Teams. This might be helpful if you are planning on using Teams in your classes in the fall and beyond and want it to be a navigational one-stop-shop for students. Video tutorial:
Faculty Websites: What, Why, How?
Martha Burtis talks about why faculty might want to bring their scholarship or teaching to a personal/professional web domain of their own, and offers some thoughts about how to get started. Recording of Webinar Google Slide Deck
PT&E Workshop on the Boyer Scholarship Model
The PT&E Advisory Group ran a virtual workshop through the CoLab for anyone who has scholarship requirements as part of their jobs and for those who are responsible for evaluating scholarship. Link to Resource Page Link to Recording of Workshop
Ungrading Webinar
Do you sometimes feel concerned that traditional approaches to grading undermine the pedagogical framework of your course? Are you interested in strategies for assessing student work and course performance that are more aligned with process-oriented, learner-centered, and collaborative ecosystems? In this webinar, faculty and students from Plymouth State will discuss their questions and experiences with […]
Accessible Presentations
Join Hannah Davidson and Lindsay Page for this Accessibility Fast Blast! Many instructors use Google Slides to display content during their lectures. During this fast blast, the CAS team (Lindsay and Hannah) will model how to use this instructional tool in a way that reaches most learners, including demonstrations of how to add alt-text to […]
Grade Speculation Calculator for Students
“What’s my grade?” The honest answers “It depends” or “It’s complicated” might do more harm than good. For a student with limited quantitative literacy, grade weights and conditional grades can be overwhelming. To help students understand that they have a range of grade possibilities, we’ve created a Grade Speculation Calculator. This is a spreadsheet into […]
Advising
In this workshop, Prof. Mark Fischler focuses on our advising processes and techniques here at PSU. As retention becomes even more critical to our very survival the role of effective academic advising is of paramount importance. There are multiple approaches to consider. Let’s explore them together. Mark’s Slides Video of Workshop