Past Workshops
Webinar recordings, presentation slides, and resources are listed for each webinar when available.
Fall 2020
- November 18 - Demystifying Hybrid Classes: Principles and Pedagogies
- November 11 - Personalize Your Course Interactions Using Video Note in D2L
- November 4 - Zoom in Education Webinar: Polling and Breakout Rooms in a Zoom Meeting
- November 4 - Zoom in Education Webinar: Zoom Meeting Recording Options
- October 28 - Zoom in Education Webinar: Screen Sharing and Annotations in a Zoom Meeting
- October 28 - Zoom in Education Webinar: Hosting a Zoom Meeting
- October 27 - Webinar: Communicating Your Passion: On Zoom or Teams
- October 21 - Zoom in Education Webinar: Integrating Zoom in D2L
- October 21 - Zoom in Education Webinar: Your EIU Zoom Account
- September 25 - Webinar: Life Off the Syllabus: Student-Faculty Engagement, Empathy, and Resilience
- September 9 - Webinar: How to Grade Student Work in D2L
November 17, 2020
Webinar: Demystifying Hybrid Classes: Principles and Pedagogies
Facilitator: Dr. Lu Ding
Location: Online
In this webinar, Dr. Lu Ding, an instructional designer from the Faculty Development and Innovation Center, presented some effective learning activities based on proven principles of designing and implementing hybrid or mixed modality courses. She used breakout groups, polling and whiteboard in Zoom, so that participants could experience what students experience in active learning environments.
Webinar Resources:
- Webinar Recording
(42:33) - Recording requires EIU Net ID to view. - Presentation Slides (PDF)
November 11, 2020; 2:00 - 2:45 PM
Webinar: Personalize Your Course Interactions Using Video Note in D2L
Facilitator: Julie Lockett
Location: Online
In this webinar, Julie Lockett demonstrated how Video Note in D2L Brightspace could be used to create and post a video message for students in a news announcement within a course without special software or the need to download, upload, and link to video files. She also demonstrated how to provide a video overview of a content module or an assignment for students. With Video Note, students can introduce themselves in a discussion forum by posting a video introduction. Instructors can also provide assignment feedback for students as a video note instead of typing comments. With Video Note, instructors and students can record a video note anywhere that they have access to the HTML editor within a course (news, content, discussions, dropbox folders, quizzes, grades, feedback, and more). The only equipment needed is a computer, webcam, and microphone.
Topics included:
- How to record and insert a video note
- How to generate captions for a video note
- Differences between adding a video note and using the record video option
- Suggested uses and best practices
Webinar Resources:
November 4, 2020
Zoom in Education Webinar: Polling and Breakout Rooms in a Zoom Meeting
Facilitator: Julie Lockett
Location: Online
Topics for this webinar included:
- Enabling Polling
- Creating a Poll live or in advance
- Launching and ending a poll
- Downloading a report of polling results
- Enabling Breakout Rooms
- Assigning participants to Breakout Rooms
- Pre-assigning participants to Breakout Rooms
- Managing Breakout Rooms
- Limitations of Breakout Rooms
Webinar Resources:
- Webinar Recording (42:59)
- Presentation Slides (PDF)
- EIU Zoom Support Page
Zoom Resources:
- Polling for Meetings
- Managing Breakout Rooms
- Pre-Assigning Participants to Breakout Rooms
- Participating in Breakout Rooms
November 4, 2020
Zoom in Education Webinar: Zoom Meeting Recording Options
Facilitator: Julie Lockett
Location: Online
Topics for this webinar included:
- Recording a Zoom meeting
- Automatic recording
- Accessing and sharing Cloud recordings
- Frequently asked questions about Local and Cloud recording
- Managing recordings
- Downloading and publishing Zoom recordings
- Audio transcript and closed captioning for Cloud recordings
Webinar Resources:
- Webinar Recording (38:59)
- Presentation Slides (PDF)
- EIU Zoom Support Page
Zoom Resources:
- Cloud Recording
- Local Recording
- Automatic Recording
- Frequently Asked Questions about Local and Cloud Recording
- Using Audio Transcription for Cloud Recordings
October 28, 2020
Zoom in Education Webinar: Screen Sharing and Annotations in a Zoom Meeting
Facilitator: Julie Lockett
Location: Online
Topics for this webinar included:
- Screen sharing options including Basic, Advanced, and Files
- Sharing your screen or content
- Screen sharing a PowerPoint presentation
- Sharing a Whiteboard
- Using annotation tools on a shared screen or whiteboard
- Saving shared screens with annotations
Webinar Resources:
- Webinar Recording (46:50)
- Presentation Slides (PDF)
- EIU Zoom Support Page
Zoom Resources:
- Sharing Your Screen, Content, or Second Camera
- Sharing Slides as a Virtual Background
- Sharing Computer Sound During Screen Sharing
- Screen Sharing a PowerPoint Presentation
- Sharing a Whiteboard
- Using Annotation Tools on a Shared Screen or Whiteboard
October 28, 2020
Zoom in Education Webinar: Hosting a Zoom Meeting
Facilitator: Julie Lockett
Location: Online
Topics for this webinar included:
- Starting the Zoom meeting
- Navigating the Zoom meeting interface
- Zoom toolbar
- Zoom side panel including the participants list and chat
- Default settings and other options
- Meeting best practices
- Ending the meeting
Webinar Resources:
- Webinar Recording (42:14)
- Presentation Slides (PDF)
- Presentation Notes (PDF)
- EIU Zoom Support Page
Zoom Resources:
- How to Start the Zoom Meeting as the Host
- Zoom Meeting Controls (10:16)
- Zoom Meetings Reference Guide (PDF)
- Zoom Online Event Best Practices (PDF)
October 27, 2020
Communicating Your Passion: On Zoom or Teams
Facilitator: Dr. Anne Thibault Geen
Location: Online
Prof. Anne Thibault Geen (Theatre Arts) presented this webinar to help faculty find the silver linings in teaching online. She covered best practices for connecting with your class in a virtual environment. The webinar helped faculty identify unconscious habits that sabotage their message and showed how faculty can more meaningfully engage students and audiences with authenticity and clarity.
October 21, 2020
Zoom in Education Webinar: Integrating Zoom in D2L
Facilitator: Julie Lockett
Location: Online
Topics for this webinar included:
- Adding Zoom to your course in D2L
- Zoom interface in D2L
- Scheduling a new Zoom meeting in D2L
- Zoom meeting options
- Managing Zoom meetings in D2L
- How students join a Zoom meeting from D2L
- How to invite others (not enrolled in your course) to the meeting
- How to start a Zoom meeting from D2L as the host
Webinar Resources:
- Webinar Recording (41:12)
- Note: During this webinar it is indicated that Zoom cloud recordings are automatically deleted after 30 days. That information was incorrect. We later found out that Zoom cloud recordings are not automatically deleted and will remain in the cloud until the host deletes the recording.
- Presentation Notes (PDF)
- EIU Zoom in D2L
October 21, 2020
Zoom in Education Webinar: Your EIU Zoom Account
Facilitator: Julie Lockett
Location: Online
Topics for this webinar included:
- How to access your Zoom account on the EIU Zoom Web Portal
- EIU Zoom Web Portal interface
- Scheduling a Zoom meeting
- Zoom Outlook plugin
- Zoom meeting options
- Managing Zoom meetings
- How to invite others to the meeting
- How to start a Zoom meeting as the host
- Default settings and other options
Webinar Resources:
- Webinar Recording (42:43)
- Note: During this webinar it is indicated that Zoom cloud recordings are automatically deleted after 30 days. That information was incorrect. We later found out that Zoom cloud recordings are not automatically deleted and will remain in the cloud until the host deletes the recording.
- Presentation Slides (PDF)
- Presentation Notes (PDF)
- EIU Zoom Support Page
September 25, 2020
Webinar: Life Off the Syllabus: Student-Faculty Engagement, Empathy, and Resilience
Facilitator: Dr. Michael Gillespie
Location: Online
In this webinar, Associate Professor of Sociology Dr. Michael Gillespie, drawing from his experience as Faculty Fellows Coordinator and other student-focused roles, as well as research on positive informal interactions between students and faculty, presented practical suggestions to heighten positive relationships outside of the classroom to build faculty empathy and student resilience.
Webinar Resources:
September 9, 2020
Webinar: How to Grade Student Work in D2L
Facilitator: Jeff Cranstoun
Location: Online
In this webinar, Jeff demonstrated how to set up grade items in D2L, how to grade and provide feedback in D2L, and how to set up a grade book in D2L.
Webinar Resources:
- Webinar Recording (34:57)
