Universal Design for Learning (UDL) guides the design of learning experiences to proactively meet the needs of all learners. When you design through UDL, you assume that barriers to learning are in the design of the environment, not in the student. 

This workshop series explores the principles of UDL: provide multiple means of engagement, representation, and action and expression. Additionally, we will answer the following questions:

• How can I engage all students in my class?
• How can I present information in ways that reach all learners?
• How can I offer purposeful options for students to show what they know?

Workshop Details

• How Universal Design Helps Everyone
  March 4, 1:00 pm
  • Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is a framework to improve and optimize teaching and learning for all people based on scientific insights into how humans learn. The human-centered approach to design that Universal Design supports is user-friendly and convenient, but is also respectful of user dignity, rights and privacy. Learn about how incorporating UDL into your classroom helps everyone!
  • Sign up: https://my.uww.edu/SignUp/Registration/Details?id=17117

• Next Level Design: Representation
  April 1, 1:00 pm
  • In this workshop, apply next level design principles for resourceful, knowledgeable learners, present information and content in different ways.
  • Sign up: https://my.uww.edu/SignUp/Registration/Details?id=17120

• Next Level Design: Action and Expression
  April 8, 1:00 pm
  • In this workshop, apply next level design principles for strategic, goal-directed learners, differentiate the ways that students can express what they know.
  • Sign up: https://my.uww.edu/SignUp/Registration/Details?id=17121

• UW DLE Student Experience Survey
  April 15, 1:00 pm
  • In 2021, a student usability study of the University of Wisconsin System digital learning environment (DLE) was conducted. The purpose of the research is to examine the student user experience (UX) with the digital learning environment (DLE) and identify factors that influence student access and success across the University of Wisconsin System. This workshop reviews those results and discusses ways to improve your classroom and teaching to incorporate specific suggestions from the research. 
  • Sign up: https://my.uww.edu/SignUp/Registration/Details?id=17124

• Next Level Design: Engagement
  April 22, 1:00 pm
  • In this workshop, apply next level design principles for purposeful, motivated learners, stimulate interest and motivation for learning.
  • Sign up: https://my.uww.edu/SignUp/Registration/Details?id=17118

Congratulations on another successful semester, Warhawks!

The hallways might be a bit quieter over the next few weeks, but the learning never ends at the Learning Technology Center! Below you’ll find a few opportunities to help finish strong and keep the momentum going through to the Spring:

Canvas

Once you’ve marked up your students’ final exams and papers, be sure to check the settings of your gradebook to ensure accuracy and to prepare for a successful transfer to WINS. The LTC will offer multiple sessions for instructors to double-and-triple check final grades:

• Canvas Grading Lab (12/6/2021, 10am) – Check and double-check grade categories and schemes.
• Canvas Grade Submission (multiple sessions and times) – transfer grades directly from the Canvas Gradebook to WINS.

Winterim 2022

Spend Winterim at the LTC (in-person or online) with dedicated time and support to complete course preparation for Spring 2022 or for Summer/Fall 2022!

• The Winter Online Bootcamp will provide guidance and support for instructors preparing or launching Spring 2022 courses.
• The Online Blended Institute will focus on design and delivery for Summer and Fall 2022 courses.

LinkedIn Learning

LinkedIn Learning – Instructor Use Cases (12/6/2021, 2pm)
Join us as we explore how instructors on our campus integrate the wealth of learning and development resources on subjects ranging from advanced software training to soft-skills development and enrichment.

Over the break, take some time to develop deeper technical abilities, hone soft skills, or start from the beginning with new software, all within LinkedIn Learning. Check out our blog for more information and get started with your learning pathways!

Webex

Cisco Webex continues to evolve and offer new and exciting features that benefit each member of our campus community. Join us this month as we dive deeper into everything Webex!

• Learn about what’s new and improved in Webex.
• Review the basics of hybrid meetings in video-enabled meeting rooms.
• Learn the secrets to better Webex Meetings and Events.
• Don’t forget about the ways Webex (Teams) can support team communication and collaboration!

More Information

Consult our full calendar of events for more information or to register in advance!

New to campus or looking for a refresher? Sign up for “Campus Technology: Resources to Help You Succeed” or check out our on-demand technology orientation to get you started at UW-Whitewater!

The LTC offers individual and small group consultations on a variety of topics and services, please email ltc@uww.edu to learn more and get started! Subscribe to our blog for frequent technology updates and information about our workshops, campus events, and other announcements.

If you require assistance or have questions on campus technology, please feel free to contact the Help Desk. Outside of Help Desk hours, we invite you to search our Knowledge Base for helpful articles on using and troubleshooting campus technology.

What is a “Pathway”? The LTC offers a wide variety of trainings, but how are they tied together? We have organized our trainings into groups that drive towards common ideas. The “Pathway” courses are designed for users who are already familiar with the basics of tools such as a Canvas (e.g., building a Page) or Webex Teams (e.g., creating a Space). The sessions blend advanced skill development with deeper conceptual discussion into the affordances of more technology-inclusive environments on campus, regardless of whether you are an instructor or not!

Register in advance and be sure to tell your colleagues!

Read below about our two Pathways, Blending My In-Person Course with Online Elements and Creating Dynamic Course Content!

Blending My In-Person Course with Online Elements

This pathways approaches “blended” classrooms from a larger perspective, namely the integration of technology to enhance learning, streamline instructor workload, and maximize student engagement. Instructors will utilize materials created during the 2020 school year to improve face to face, and blended courses. Leveraging recently digitized content, while making small adjustments to it, to engage students and get the most use out of content.

• Google Apps for Education
  Learn about the different Google Apps for Education you can use to collaborate and file-share on the go! This workshop is an overview of Google Apps including Google Drive, Docs, Sheets, Presentations, Forms, Drawing, and Sites. Learn the basics of each program to get you up and running quickly with Google applications.
  
  September 10, 9:00AM | Register here
  October 19, 1:00PM | Register here (hybrid session)
  November 9, 1:00PM | Register here
  December 1, 9:00AM | Register here (hybrid session)

• Better Courses Through Better Pages
  Have you moved past the basics of how to get content into Canvas, and looking for a simple way to improve the learning experience for your students? This synchronous training is meant as a supplement to our asynchronous, self-paced resource designed to help instructors take lengthy modules, and turn them into sleek pages.
  
  September 14, 1:00PM | Register here
  November 2, 1:00PM | Register here
  November 10, 9:00AM | Register here
  On-demand : https://uwwtw.instructure.com/enroll/DFPGRA

• DX1 – Culture: Design for the Student Perspective
  This is the first of a three partworkshop series exploring impacts of Digital Transformation on Higher Education.
  Digital Transformation #1 — Culture: Designing with the Student Perspective in Mind.
  
  September 14, 3:00PM | Register here
  Learn more about this series from the blog post.
  

• Breakouts in Webex Meetings
  Would you like to breakout your meeting participants into smaller groups allowing them to collaborate and share ideas over audio and video? Use Webex Meetings new integrated breakout sessions for workshops, classrooms, or for when you need a moment to talk privately with a few participants, outside of the main meeting. Join this lively class and check out what you can do in breakout sessions as a meeting host, co-host, or attendee.
  
  September 16, 9:00AM | Register here
  October 8, 9:00AM | Register here
  November 5, 1:00PM | Register here
  December 14, 1:00PM | Register here
  

• Improving Navigation
  This session explores modular organization, use cases like the FAQ syllabus, links and tricks to save you time copying courses from one section to another, and other tips to reuse modules.
  
  September 18, 2:00PM | Register here
  September 21, 1:00PM | Register here
  September 22, 9:00AM | Register here

• Teaching with Webex (Teams)
  Searching for ways to build community with students in your online class? Looking for a way to facilitate communication and collaboration between your students in your face-to-face class? You may benefit from the Learning Technology Center’s (LTC) “Teaching with Webex.” (Webex is the application formerly known as Webex Teams.)
  The facilitator will provide examples to help participants understand what Webex is (and is not), how it works, and the purpose in using it. We will also provide some examples of instructors who have integrated Webex into their course and some “best practices” for use.
  
  September 20, 9:00AM | Register here (hybrid session)
  October 7, 3:00PM | Register here
  December 3, 10:00AM | Register here (hybrid session)
  

• Canvas Higher Integrity Quizzes
  This session will focus on the things you can do with your quizzes besides monitoring software to improve the integrity of your quizzes. We will use the description area of the assignment to remind students what they can and can’t do during your quizzes, set up timing and randomized questions, use different question types to make looking up answers more difficult, and try to change the focus of questions to application of skills.
  Feel free to review this phenomenal seven minute video to try some of these on your own.
  
  September 29, 2021, 1:00PM | Register here
  October 7, 2021, 10:00AM | Register here
  Note: To get the most out of this session, we recommend that you are already familiar with the following tools: Quizzes

• Suggestions for Effective Webex Meetings & Events
  Do you know how to schedule a Webex Meeting and/or Event, but are looking to make them more smooth, efficient, productive, and comfortable? We’ll cover some pre-meeting details that can help as well as and facilitation techniques to help you and your attendees have better virtual meeting experiences. We’ll focus on tips and tricks found in Webex Meetings and Events to take your baseline skills to the next level.
  
  October 15, 2:00PM | Register here
  November 16, 3:00PM | Register here
  December 7, 1:00PM | Register here
  

• Interactive Polling with Slido
  Polls are a great way for hosts to get input from meeting participants. Use them to engage your audience, test knowledge, and ask for feedback. Webex Meetings now has an interactive polling feature built right into the meeting so you can easily engage with your participants.
  In this session, you’ll learn how to:
  • Create, edit, delete and activate a poll, quiz or survey;
  • Share the poll;
  • View poll results and reset a poll;
  • Export and share poll results after a meeting;
  • Add guest collaborators; and
  • Access your Slido account from https://slido.com and manage your polls.
    
  
  October 26, 1:00PM | Register here
  November 3, 10:00AM | Register here
  

• What Students Want in Canvas
  There are many good ways to set up a course. This training will focus on making a series of small, easy, and optional, shifts from your current course design to a setup backed by feedback from student panels conducted right here at UW-Whitewater.
  
  November 3, 2021, 9:00AM | Register here
  November 9, 2021, 1:00PM | Register here
  Note: To get the most out of this session, we recommend that you are already familiar with the following tools: Assignments, Announcements, Pages, Modules, Rubrics.

Creating Dynamic Course Content

Instructors will be able to create Canvas content that uses embedded video, active links to content both inside of and out of the Canvas course, and/or utilizes other campus supported technologies, while remaining accessible for all users. Dynamic course content has been shown to improve student engagement. This pathway will explore ways that instructors can produce and recycle dynamic, multimodal and multimedia course materials that strengthens student content interactions.

• “Next-Level” Design in Canvas – Chunking and Modular Design
  This session explores modular organization, use cases like the FAQ syllabus, links and tricks to save you time copying courses from one section to another, and other tips to reuse modules.
  
  September 24:  1:00-3:00PM | Register here

• “Next-Level” Design in Canvas – Navigation and Gating
  This session explores how faculty use gating and timed releases, prerequisites in Canvas, and use cases when – and when not — to use these techniques.
  
  October 8: 1:00PM-3:00PM | Register here

• “Next-Level” Multimedia – Creative Use Cases
  This session explores how faculty use multimedia in creative ways, from intro videos to weekly video “to-do” lists, to short podcasts.  We will also explore how to incorporate multimedia into student assignments, video presentations, and discussion boards.
  
  October 22:  1:00-3:00PM | Register here

• Campus Technology Resources to Help You Succeed
  The goal of this session is to create awareness of the campus-supported communication, collaboration, and work productivity tools that apply to all staff and introduce participants to support resources. This session will be particularly helpful to those new to campus, however, all staff may benefit from hearing about technology tools they might not be aware of or changes to technology that make the tools more useful for their work.
  
  September 8, 9:00AM | Register here (hybrid session)
  October 21, 1:00PM | Register here
  November 27, 1:00PM | Register here (hybrid session)

• Google Apps for Education
  Learn about the different Google Apps for Education you can use to collaborate and file-share on the go! This workshop is an overview of Google Apps including Google Drive, Docs, Sheets, Presentations, Forms, Drawing, and Sites. Learn the basics of each program to get you up and running quickly with Google applications.
  
  September 10, 9:00AM | Register here
  October 19, 1:00PM | Register here
  November 9, 1:00PM | Register here
  December 1, 9:00AM | Register here
  

• Better Courses Through Better Pages:
  Have you moved past the basics of how to get content into Canvas, and looking for a simple way to improve the learning experience for your students? This synchronous training is meant as a supplement to our asynchronous, self-paced resource designed to help instructors take lengthy modules, and turn them into sleek pages.
  Not only is the content of the course about how to create more engaging pages, it also demonstrates simple steps you can take to do this with your own courses, by showing the transition from a typical course design to one based on a more dynamic page.
  
  September 14, 1:00PM | Register here
  November 2, 1:00PM | Register here
  November 10, 9:00AM | Register here
  Or, check out this on-demand course: https://uwwtw.instructure.com/enroll/DFPGRA

• Faster Grading With Better Feedback:
  Be prepared to edit an upcoming assessment in this hands-on session. We will focus on transforming existing quiz questions into tools able to remediate student misconceptions, and point them back to the relevant materials in your course. We will also go through updating rubrics to include targeted feedback about specific reasons students lose points. We will also go over the new Comment Library available in SpeedGrader.
  
  September 28, 2021, 1:00PM | Register here
  October 6, 2021, 9:00AM | Register here
  October 14, 2021, 2:00PM | Register here
  October 27, 2021, 9:00AM | Register here
  November 16, 2021, 1:00PM | Register here
  November 17, 2021, 9:00AM | Register here
  Note: To get the most out of this session, we recommend that you are already familiar with the following tools: Assignments, Rubrics, Quizzes.

• “What Students Want in Canvas“:
  There are many good ways to set up a course. This training will focus on making a series of small, easy, and optional, shifts from your current course design to a setup backed by feedback from student panels conducted right here at UW-Whitewater.
  
  November 3, 2021, 9:00AM | Register here
  November 9, 2021, 1:00PM | Register here
  Note: To get the most out of this session, we recommend that you are already familiar with the following tools: Assignments, Announcements, Pages, Modules, Rubrics.

• Building a Better Syllabus:
  What makes a good syllabus, and what makes a good syllabus better? This session will talk about what can be done to improve an existing syllabus, and interesting reworks from the ground up. You can get started on your own with these great resources:
  
  Mandatory Information for Course Syllabi
  Instructions for Online Syllabi
  Course Catalog and Syllabi
  LEARN Center Tips for Improving Your Syllabus
  We will be providing the examples we show during the session.
  
  November 23, 2021, 1:00PM | Register here
  November 24, 2021, 9:00AM | Register here