Faculty and Staff Training and Workshops
ETS offers professional development for faculty and staff through training and workshops throughout the academic year. Training is available as small group, one-on-one, or customized for special projects and departmental requests. To consult with one of our ETS staff, please book a consultation appointment. All training is currently offered online through Zoom.
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Spring 2021 Beyond the Basics Remote Instruction Workshop Series |
USF's Instructional Design team presents Beyond the Basics, our Spring 2021 peer-interactive workshop series, targeting improved strategies for remote instruction. Visit our page to learn more and register.
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Next Level Video Lectures |
In this workshop, we will explore ways to enhance your recorded lectures considering structure and visual design as well as how to include accountability for students. We will also look at options to streamline lecture development and recording. Facilitators: Mishiara Baker |
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Supercharge Learning in Breakout Groups |
Using breakout rooms engages students with each other and helps with their learning. In this workshop, we'll go beyond the basics and explore activities you might apply to increase student learning during breakout groups. Facilitators: Angie Portacio |
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Balancing Sync & Async Course Components |
Integrating asynchronous activities enriches a remote course, but what mix is best? In this workshop, we'll go beyond the basics to discover how to strategically determine and connect asynchronous components to strengthen your course—and even reduce your synchronous delivery. Facilitators: Jill Ballard |
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Spring 2021 Remote Instruction Workshop |
Spring 2021 Remote Instruction Workshop Workshops will be offered weekly from November 12 to January 19, 2021. Participation is highly recommended for all full time and adjunct faculty teaching in spring 2021 by the Provost's office, School/College Deans, and ETS. Facilitators: The Instructional Design team |
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Canvas Essentials / Setting up Your Course |
(Prerequisites: No prior Canvas knowledge needed)
Instructor: Greg Crum |
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Canvas Online Assessments with Canvas Quizzing |
(Prerequisites: Setting up Your Canvas Course/Canvas Essentials or basic knowledge of Canvas)
Instructor, Greg Crum |
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Canvas Gradebook, Feedback and Collaboration Tools |
(Prerequisites: Setting up Your Canvas Course/Canvas Essentials or basic knowledge of Canvas)
Instructor, Greg Crum. |
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Canvas- Create a Department Site/Training Module |
(Prerequisites: No prior Canvas knowledge needed) Instructor, Greg Crum. |
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Secure your Zoom Meeting |
This class covers the settings and strategies to safeguard your meetings and classrooms before and during your session. Instructor, Ken Yoshioka. |
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Introduction to Zoom Web Conferencing |
This class covers an introduction to Zoom web conferencing, including setting up your account, installing the software, scheduling meetings, as well as meeting tools. Instructor, Ken Yoshioka. |
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Engagement Tools in your Zoom Classroom |
Learn about the tools and strategies to manage your classroom in Zoom including using chat, managing participants, working with breakout rooms and more. Instructor, Ken Yoshioka. |
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Secure and Proctored Online Exams with Respondus LockDown Browser/Monitor |
LockDown Browser is a custom browser that locks down the testing environment within Canvas. LockDown Browser is the “gold standard” for securing online exams in classrooms or proctored environments. Monitor allows for secure testing from a remote location using a webcam and LockDown Browser software. Learn how to use Respondus Lockdown Browser/Monitor to conduct secure and proctored online quizzes and exams. Instructor, John Bansavich. |
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Engage Your Students with Poll Everywhere |
Attend this workshop to learn about a tool that will support student engagement in the classroom. Poll Everywhere is a software based product that will allow you to create polls that students can respond to on their smartphones or on their computer web browsers. Learn how to embed polls in Powerpoint, Google Slides and how to create a variety of questions to break up the lecture time and increase participation. Instructor, Ken Yoshioka. |
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Lecture Capture Made Easy with Echo360 |
Want to allow students to review the lecture? Choose to have your lecture recorded. Echo360 Classroom Capture is an automated solution for recording a lecture, student presentations, or guest lectures in the classroom. Additionally, turn any office, home or lab into an educational studio with personal capture! The Active Learning Platform from Echo360 allows instructors to manage Echo recordings, Link them into Canvas, upload media and track student engagement of the media for your course. Learn more about Echo360 online. Instructor, Ken Yoshioka. |
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Labster - Virtual Simulation Lab |
Would you like to enhance your students' knowledge using a virtual lab? Check out the comprehensive, virtual learning module that can be implemented right in your Canvas course. Learn more about Labster, Virtual Simulation Lab that is ready-to-use for all faculty members at USF. Instructor, Insun He
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Podcast Like a Pro for the Classroom |
Learn the craft of voice recording for podcasts, whether as content for your class or as student projects. This class introduces methods for recording from digital recorders, your computer or a mobile device. Learn to edit the recordings with the free open source audio editor Audacity and then finally to share the podcasts through Canvas sand other podcast hosting solutions. Instructor, Ken Yoshioka. |
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Portfolium for Canvas (ePortfolio) |
Portfolium is an ePortfolio tool inside Canvas that will help students to easily create digital portfolios to showcase their best work. Students can share their projects, skills, and connections with prospective employers. Learn more. Instructors, John Bansavich/Eileen Lai. |
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Digital Storytelling for the Classroom |
This class covers the strategies and tools to setup up digital storytelling assignments for your class. Learn how to develop the steps for implementing both audio and video projects in your course and of course the software and hardware tools to capture, edit and publish the final products. Instructor, Ken Yoshioka. |
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Getting Started with Digital Badges |
Learn how to use digital badges to recognize learning achievements. Use Canvas to organize your program then grant badges to share on a resume, ePortfolio, or LinkedIn social media. Instructor, Insun He. |
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Adobe Spark for the Classroom |
Adobe Spark is a bundle of 3 tools, which allows you to create webpage, video, and social media graphics. It is web-based, and can be used on different platforms and devices such as iPads, iPhones, tablets, Android devices, and desktop computers. All you need is to create a free Adobe ID to start your projects. Share projects with images, video and music to Facebook, and Twitter, share through email link, or even embed it on a website. This class focuses on creating Spark Page. Instructor, Eileen Lai. |
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Storytelling with Adobe Spark Video |
Spark video is web-based, and can be used on different platforms and mobile devices. All you need is to create a free Adobe ID to start your projects. All projects are stored online and can be retrieved for edit on any devices. You will learn how to create projects with still images, video clips and music, and then share on social media or via email. Instructor, Eileen Lai. |
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AR Prototyping with Reality Composer |
Offered in two sessions, this class provide you an introductory, step-by-step instructions to create an augmented reality prototype using Reality Composer. Option 2: Design using an iPad Instructor, Insun He |
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Getting Started with Piazza Discussion Board in Canvas |
Piazza is a robust, Wiki-style discussion platform that can be installed right in your Canvas course The rich text editor allows LaTeX equations as well as code typing, making it easy to teach or discuss any subjects in online format. The participations in Piazza can be made public or anonymous and the discussion posts can be set to be public or private as needed. Instructor, Insun He |
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Online Training Resources
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ITT Online Video Training Library
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ITT Training Documents Download
All ITT training documents are available for you to download as reference.