The Digital Learning Team offers a few training opportunities to learn useful academic technology tools to assist you with the new semester. All faculty and TAs are welcome to attend the training sessions on August 16-18.
Join Sessions: https://gatech.zoom.us/j/94800369616 (*Note: All training times are EST)
- Canvas Overview, 9:00 am-10:00 am, Wednesday, Aug. 16 | Add to your calendar
Join the session to get an overview of Canvas including general navigation, content creation, and assessments.
- Teaching and Learning with MATLAB (including MATLAB Grader/Canvas integration), 10:30 am-11:30 am, Wednesday, Aug. 16 | Add to your calendar
Join the session to learn MatLab cloud-based tools to afford instructors and students anytime, anywhere access to their course content. MatLab Grader is integrated with Canvas. In this session, you will explore how MatLab tools fit together to support your course development and delivery workflow, and how to enlist their immediate use in the classroom.
- Ed Discussion, 9:00 am-10:00 am, Thursday, Aug. 17 | Add to your calendar
Ed Discussion has been widely used for class Q&A to increase student engagement and peer learning. In this session, you will learn how to save time and reduce student emails by leveraging the class Q&A, how to post an icebreaker thread to encourage and engage students from week 1, and how to set up course categories and subcategories to keep questions organized and searchable, and other functionality and usability.
- LabArchives, 1:00 pm-2:00 pm, Aug. 17 | Add to your calendar
This session is for Instructors, Course Coordinators, TA’s, and all grading staff. This session will cover your need to use LabArchives ELN as a digital lab notebook. Learn how to integrate your STEM material into LabArchives for introductory and upper-level courses, organize and create templates, manage your course, and facilitate grading.
- Turnitin and AI Indicator, 2:30 pm-3:30 pm, Thursday, Aug. 17 | Add to your calendar
Join us to review a framework for using the Turnitin AI indicator. This session will review: what the AI Indicator is telling us about student writing, a demonstration of how the tool works in a sample of student papers , information about how the reliability score is generated , and answers to the most frequently asked questions.
- Using Course Template in Canvas, 9:00 am-10:00 am, Friday, Aug. 18 | Add to your calendar
Join the session to learn how to effortlessly design student-friendly Canvas courses with the Georgia Tech Canvas Course Template. We will demonstrate how to import the template to Canvas shells and customize it to meet your course needs.
- Using Zoom in Canvas, 10:30 am-11:30 am, Friday, Aug. 18 | Add to your calendar
Get up and running on Zoom quickly! Join us to learn more about using Zoom in Canvas. The session will cover how to schedule, host, record, and share Zoom recordings and other settings.