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Build Your Online Course Development Skills with OIT’s Zoom-Based and Self-Paced Workshops

OIT is offering a number of workshops to help you build your skills with creating materials for your online course and engaging your students via teaching tools (Canvas, Zoom, Clickers, etc.). Sign up for a workshop with OIT this summer. All of our “face-to-face” workshops are being delivered in Zoom and allow time for questions. There are also several self-paced online workshops that can be taken at any time.
This list of OIT workshops was curated just for faculty, instructors and GTA’s! You can also request a consultation or a workshop for your team at help.utk.edu.
Instructor-Led Workshops
Accessibility & UDL
- Course Design for Everyone
Learn the theory and practice of Universal Design for Learning (UDL), which provides a framework for designing courses, assessments, materials, methods, and learning environments that proactively account for variability of all learners.
Adobe
- Adobe Acrobat: Basics
Learn how to use Acrobat Pro for editing, mark-up, updating a PDF, designing a form. Learn to collaborate and co-author work as well as having your students work together or comment on peer writing.
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- Adobe Acrobat: Indexing, Searching, Combining – Going Beyond the Basics
Learn even more about Acrobat Pro, including indexing large documents, searching large documents and combining multiple PDFs.
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Camtasia
- Camtasia: Creating Instruction
Create lectures that require screen recording, visual effects, callouts, image and video annotation, and incorporate simple quiz questions.
Canvas
- Canvas: Analytics for Student Success
- Canvas: Assignments, Assessments, and Grades
- Canvas: Foundations
If you are new to Canvas, start here to learn the basics
- Canvas: Getting Started with Canvas Studio
Learn to use the video platform integrated within Canvas that allows you to create media interactions and active learning experiences in the online classroom. It also provides viewing analytics, generates captions, and allows students to comment on videos.
Classroom Technology
- Classroom Tech: Clickers for Online Learning
Learn the basics using clickers while teaching via Zoom
Instructing
- Instructing: Augmented Reality for Experiential Learning
Learn what augmented reality is and how you can apply it within your classes.
- Instructing: Lecture Creation Using Zoom
Learn the process for recording a lecture via Zoom from the technical aspects of looking and sounding good to prepare your content for online viewing.
- Instructing: One-Shot Video
Learn several simple techniques to produce short, single-topic videos using your cell phone or own available video recording technology.
- Instructing: Screencasting Tips to Enhance Teaching and Learning
Learn to record actions on your screen, referred to as screencasting, by using your own video capture technology, save it as video and upload it to YouTube or your Canvas course.
Microsoft
- Microsoft OneNote: Collaboration in OneNote
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- Microsoft PowerPoint: Creating Presentations for Online Learning
Learn practical tips to get your PowerPoint presentation looking great.
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- Microsoft PowerPoint: How to Run Your Presentation Live via Zoom
Learn how to present your PowerPoint slides seamlessly via Zoom.
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- Microsoft Sway: Building a Quick Online Presentation
Quickly create web-based, shareable presentations from existing Word documents.
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- Microsoft Teams: Best Practices
Manage your office communication easily with Teams.
Zoom
- Zoom: Introduction to LiveOnline@UT
If you are new to Zoom, start here to learn the basics.
Online Self-Paced
Accessibility & UDL
- Accessibility & UDL: Designing Accessible Course Materials:
Choose one of the following topics to access only what you need within the course:- Closed Captioning Videos for Everyone!
- Making Documents Accessible
- Making PowerPoints Accessible
- Using Read&Write to Enhance Accessibility
- Implementing UDL on Canvas
Instructions on how to make your Canvas course sites accessible using the tools available within Canvas.
Canvas
- Canvas Training for Faculty
If you are new to Canvas, start here to learn the basics.
- Implementing UDL on Canvas
Instructions on how to make your Canvas course sites accessible using the tools available within Canvas.
- Canvas: Teaching Online Reboot
Learn the general framework for easily creating Canvas course sites by applying a new streamline course template.