EIU Faculty Development and Innovation Center

Upcoming Workshops

For webinar descriptions and registration, go to http://eiu.gosignmeup.com.

Pre-Fall Faculty Forum: August 10-12, 2021

The Faculty Development and Innovation Center is pleased to host the Pre-Fall Faculty Forum, 2021! These sessions are intended to spark course planning and design for the start of the academic year and will feature sessions on:

• Student engagement and motivation techniques
• New features for D2L
• Welcoming students to your online environment
• Classroom instructional technology tutorials
• Assessment strategies

Dr. Michael Gillespie, Director of the FDIC will also host a Welcome Back Faculty Forum on Tuesday August 10 from 12 noon to 3pm at the Campus Pond Pavilion to help faculty reconnect after a period of dislocation, to discuss fall classroom guidance and the UPI/VPAA Memorandum of Understanding, and other interesting and innovative plans from your Faculty Development and Innovation Center.

Open Enrollment, Self-Select Meeting Time

Webinar:  Zoom Your Way

Facilitator: Julie Lockett
Location: Online (Zoom)

Want to know more about conducting Zoom meetings and using Zoom features? What about integrating Zoom in D2L for class meetings? Zoom Your Way is a one-on-one training session for EIU faculty and staff. The session is customized to meet your needs. You schedule the Zoom Your Way session at a time convenient for you. You select the Zoom topics you want to learn more about. After registration, you will receive an email with a link to schedule your session. You must use that link to schedule a meeting time convenient for you.

Topics include:

• Scheduling Zoom meetings
• Customizing the Zoom settings in your EIU Zoom account
• Hosting a Zoom meeting (includes audio, video, participants, and chat)
• Screen Sharing and Annotations (includes the whiteboard, sharing a PowerPoint and other screen sharing options)
• Polling
• Breakout Rooms
• Recording options
• Integrating Zoom in D2L
• Attendance reports for Zoom meetings