7 Things You Should Know About Zoom

7 Things about Zoom

Mark Summey, Instructional Designer

1. Lecture Capture
   Flip your face-to-face classroom or just post your lectures for students to review. Canvas uses several integrations to post your lectures in the course. Panopto, Kaltura (My Media), and Zoom are all integrated to seamlessly provide video for students. Since these applications are not part of the Canvas platform, the video file storage will not count against the file storage limit for your course. You can even set your Zoom recorder to automatically upload to your My Media space. Contact a member of the Learning Technologies team for an introduction to these services.  
2. Screen Capture
   Do you rely on screen capture for instruction? Set up a Zoom meeting (just don’t invite anyone). Record the meeting and select Share Screen. Proceed with the demonstration and provide voice-over. Save the recording to your My Media space and deploy into a Canvas module.
3. Video Conferencing
   Get together with your online students in real time. Connect your face-to-face class with a guest presenter or even another class in another country. Zoom is the conferencing solution that is easy to set up and use. Offering higher definition and better flexibility than Skype, Zoom allows you to communicate with up to 50 participants in one meeting.
4. Video Assignments
   Allow your students to submit Zoom videos to assignments. Music instructors can watch and evaluate an instrumental or vocal performance. Art instructors can review student video creations. Educators can review student teacher examples. The list goes on and on. It’s simple to set your assignments for video submission. The video appears in the SpeedGrader the same as a file submission. 
5.  Assignment Comments
   Want to make your assignment comments a little more personal? Use your computer, tablet, or phone to record comments to your students in the SpeedGrader. 
6.  Announcements
   Make your announcements to the class ‘in person’ if you can’t be in the classroom or if the course is online. Student survey responses consistently indicate that students feel more engaged when instructors use video as a way to communicate with the class, both as a group and personally. Zoom is only one option for video recording. 
7. Grading with Zoom
   Did you know you can use Zoom to do markups and give feedback in SpeedGrader? Students get to hear and see your markups as you critique their submissions. The engagement is almost like a face-to-face meeting. Students get to see and hear exactly what you are talking about as you grade their submissions.

Contact any member of the Learning Technologies team (Anna Catterson, Kristy Duggan, Mark Summey) for more information or a tutorial on any of these Zoom options.

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Canvas Updates

Product Releases:

February 18^th Detailed Release Notes & Screencast

New updates included Discussions, Groups, People, and the User Interface. A nice new feature is the Student Context Card.

Canvas + Zoom

Working in concert with technologists from the University of New Hampshire, ESU is close to having automatic ZOOM recording upload capability into Canvas. This handshake utilizes Kaltura (eg My Media). In order to make this work, however, some setup needs to occur within the ZOOM admin console for each faculty user. Contact one of the Instructional Designers for information regarding this capability.

Tell Your Story

Are you interested in learning how to use Canvas better? Or perhaps you want to share an idea of how you use Canvas. What better way than to hear from your fellow faculty. Join us for Tell Your Story on March 10^th. This one-day event will include a series of mini-presentations from faculty. For more information and a sign-up form, see: http://www.emporia.edu/it/learning/tell-your-story  We strongly encourage faculty to submit a presentation for one of the 12 mini sessions. Some nice ESU swag or gift certificates will be given to the selected presenters! Anyone is welcome to attend this free learning event.

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The Online Readiness Course. We just launched our second 6-week Online Readiness Course. For more information about the ORC, see: http://www.emporia.edu/it/learning/7things/ORC.pdf

2016-2017 ESU Faculty/Student Technology Survey

In November, a technology survey was conducted for the ESU student and faculty population. The survey was based on a national study conducted each year by EDUCAUSE, an organization that helps those who lead, manage, and use information technology to shape strategic IT decisions at every level within higher education. To see the results of those surveys, refer to: http://www.emporia.edu/it/learning/research.html

Credly + Canvas

Credly Microcredentials now integrates into Canvas! This allows for rule-based pathways that trigger the award of digital badges. For information on how to set up this integration, contact one of the Instructional Designers.

Learning Technologies Blog and Twitter Feed

If you want more information about anything you read here, check out our blog at http://emporiastate.blogspot.com/ or follow us on Twitter @esulearningtech. Our Twitter feed is one of the top educational Twitter feeds in the State of Kansas!

Promethean Boards

All, over the past couple of semester Learning Technologies has introduced a few new Promethean Boards in classrooms. Joseph Kern, Instructional Designer, shares 7 Things you should know about Promethean boards in this article:

7 Things You Should Know About Promethean Boards

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Learning Technologies has started a new series of articles titled "7 Things You Should Know About...". Each month, we have been developing new topics of interest and would like to continue to do so. If you have a topic of interest that you would like to learn more about, give us an email and let us know what ideas you have at acatters@emporia.edu.

We recently published another article in our March volume on Digital Badges - hope you enjoy!

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Canvas Community Update 3/9

Good Afternoon ESU Canvas Community!

Product Release: The latest 3-week product sprint (update) will be released on Saturday, March 12^th. New features in this update are listed in detail below. They include improvements to Analytics, Assignments, Course Settings, Calendar, Course Imports, Dashboard, People, Quizzes, and several other features.

March 12^th  Detailed Release Notes & Screencast

New Canvas Interface is Coming!

Another reminder that the new Canvas interface is right around the corner - Tuesday, May 17^th - following grade submission. This is not an optional update. We chose May 17th to reduce the impact on spring and summer courses. This interface will mirror the mobile version of Canvas with a completely revised dashboard and user experience. It is designed to support newer touch interface devices, such as the Microsoft Surface. You can learn more about the interface by following this link. Or, you can watch a video that illustrates the new user experience. Dr. Anna Catterson, Mark Summey, and Joe Kern will be offering workshops on the new interface following Spring Break. Refer to our Blog for specific information and a timeline.

7 Things You Should Know…..

We’ve started a new monthly series called “7 Things You Should Know….”. Each month we’ll introduce a new topic on a variety of emergent technologies in higher education. This month we look at 3D Printing and 3D Scanning: 7 Things You Should Know About 3D Scanning and Printing. You can see a demonstration of 3D scanning and printing in VH109.

Lesser Known Tips and Tricks

We just became aware of a Microsoft product that looks pretty interesting. It’s called “Mix” and it is free. Mix is an add-in for PowerPoint that provides multimedia-like functionality, such as inline voice and video – similar to lecture capture. You store your presentations in the cloud. See https://mix.office.com/en-us/Home for more details. Several campuses are blending Mix and Canvas.

Thanks,

Rob