Instructional Design Center

Apple User Group
2020-02-21 12:30 - 13:30 (America/New_York) | ASB-008
Join other Apple users on campus to share knowledge and learn more about Macintosh computers, iPhones and iPads. Topics of discussion will be decided by the group.
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Open to everyone.
Facilitator: Trish Williams
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Grading with Canvas: Assignments, Gradebook, and Analytics
2020-02-27 13:00 - 13:50 | ASB-223
Canvas is a powerful tool for creating and grading assignments in your course. This workshop focuses on best practices for creating assignments, providing feedback, and organizing your grades. Participants will view sample assignments from a current course and explore a range of feedback options. We will also examine a gradebook in progress along with the analytics tool to highlight individual and class performance.
Pedagogy Connection: Canvas will become Ramapo’s Learning Management System over the course of this year. This workshop guides instructors on how to use Canvas as a tool for creating and delivering assignments to promote student learning and content acquisition.
Open to instructors.
Presenter: Professor Michael Bitz
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Web Conferencing for Snow Days, Online Learning, and More
2020-03-05 13:00 - 13:50 | ASB-223
Webex is a powerful teaching and conferencing platform that enables instructors to conduct live online classes and office hours. This workshop will introduce the basics of Webex and demonstrate its tools, including chat, screenshare, polling, and more. Webex is an ideal platform for synchronous learning for online and hybrid courses, and it makes for a great way to hold class even on snow days.
Pedagogy Connection: This online learning platform is ideal for online and hybrid courses. Webex enables students to collaborate online, present research, and participate in chats and forums. Instructors are able to use the platform as a vehicle for delivering quality online synchronous instruction through the microphone/webcam, screen sharing, polling, and much more.
Open to faculty and staff.
Presenter: Professor Michael Bitz
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Capture and Share Your Lectures with the New TechSmith Relay
2020-03-10 13:00 - 13:50 | ASB-223
This session will introduce you to the capabilities of the newest version of TechSmith Relay to record lectures and presentations that can be shared with students. Capture everything that you can display on a computer screen, including PowerPoint presentations, and interactions with software or web sites. Along with the video from the computer screen, record your voice and other audio, and optionally your face with a webcam. The simplicity of Relay makes it easy to record, publish and share your videos. Relay allows you to add quiz questions to your videos, as well. Relay is installed in classrooms on all PC teaching stations. Relay is available for students to use as well.
Pedagogy Connection: TechSmith Relay enables instructors to create high quality and engaging instructional videos for any course. This mode of instructional delivery helps students to learn course content at their own pace and on their own time. Instructional videos also enable instructors to “flip” the classroom by covering the content online and helping students to practice or discuss the concepts in class.
Open to faculty and staff.
Presenter: Trish Williams
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Increasing Student Engagement with Canvas: Discussions, Forums, and More
2020-03-12 13:00 - 13:50 | ASB-223
Canvas features robust tools for increasing student engagement in a course. This workshop focuses on communications with students through tools like discussions, forums, multimedia feedback, and more. Participants will view examples from a current course and explore how communication tools can enhance the student experience and increase student engagement.
Pedagogy Connection: Canvas will become Ramapo’s Learning Management System over the course of this year. This workshop guides instructors on how to use Canvas as a tool for increasing student engagement through communication tools, including discussions, forums, and more.
Open to instructors.
Presenter: Professor Michael Bitz
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Record and Share Your Lectures with the New TechSmith Relay
2020-03-13 13:00 - 13:50 | ASB-223

Conduct Virtual Class Sessions and Office Hours through WebEx
2020-03-16 11:00 - 12:00, 2020-03-16 14:00 - 15:00, 2020-03-17 11:00 - 12:00, 2020-03-17 14:00 - 15:00, 2020-03-18 11:00 - 12:00, 2020-03-18 14:00 - 15:00, 2020-03-19 11:00 - 12:00, 2020-03-19 14:00 - 15:00 | ASB-429
Webex is a powerful teaching and conferencing platform that enables instructors to conduct live online classes and office hours. This workshop will introduce the basics of Webex and demonstrate its tools, including chat, screenshare, polling, and more. Webex is an ideal platform for synchronous learning for online and hybrid courses, and it makes for a great way to hold class even on snow days.
Pedagogy Connection: This online learning platform is ideal for online and hybrid courses. Webex enables students to collaborate online, present research, and participate in chats and forums. Instructors are able to use the platform as a vehicle for delivering quality online synchronous instruction through the microphone/webcam, screen sharing, polling, and much more.
Open to faculty and staff.
Presenter: Trish Williams
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Record and Share Your Lectures with TechSmith Relay
2020-03-16 19:00 - 20:00, 2020-03-17 19:00 - 20:00, 2020-03-19 19:00 - 20:00, 2020-03-26 11:00 - 12:00, 2020-04-02 11:00 - 12:00
This session will introduce you to the capabilities of the newest version of TechSmith Relay to record lectures and presentations that can be shared with students. Capture everything that you can display on a computer screen, including PowerPoint presentations, and interactions with software or web sites. Along with the video from the computer screen, record your voice and other audio, and optionally your face with a webcam. The simplicity of Relay makes it easy to record, publish and share your videos. Relay allows you to add quiz questions to your videos, as well. Relay is installed in classrooms on all PC teaching stations. Relay is available for students to use as well.
Pedagogy Connection: TechSmith Relay enables instructors to create high quality and engaging instructional videos for any course. This mode of instructional delivery helps students to learn course content at their own pace and on their own time. Instructional videos also enable instructors to “flip” the classroom by covering the content online and helping students to practice or discuss the concepts in class.
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Presenter: Michael Bitz
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Get Up and Running in Canvas in One Hour
2020-03-16 20:00 - 21:00, 2020-03-17 20:00 - 21:00, 2020-03-19 20:00 - 21:00
Ramapo is switching from Moodle to Canvas by Summer, 2020! Learn the basics of using Canvas for your course, such as navigating the platform, uploading files, adding website links, and embedding multimedia elements onto your course page. An introduction to the quiz and gradebook functions will also be provided. This course is highly recommended for all faculty.
Pedagogy Connection: Canvas will become Ramapo’s Learning Management System over the course of this year. This workshop guides instructors on how to use Canvas as a tool for delivering and managing assignments, facilitating group work, and enhancing the student experience in the classroom.
Open to instructors.
Presenter: Professor Michael Bitz
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Conduct Virtual Class Sessions and Office Hours through WebEx
2020-03-23 11:00 - 12:00, 2020-03-25 11:00 - 12:00, 2020-03-30 11:00 - 12:00, 2020-04-01 11:00 - 12:00

Best Practices for Online Instruction
2020-03-24 11:00 - 12:00, 2020-03-27 11:00 - 12:00, 2020-03-31 11:00 - 12:00
This workshop presents best practices from research and faculty experience for teaching online courses. Topics include synchronous vs. asynchronous course delivery, course management, student engagement, forums and chats, projects and research, and assessment.
Pedagogy Connection: This workshop provides an in-depth look at strategies and ideas for successful online course implementation.
Open to faculty and staff.
Presenter: Michael Bitz

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Excel: Introduction to Pivot Tables
2020-03-26 13:00 - 13:50
This workshop will introduce you to the Excel Pivot Table feature for analyzing worksheet data. Analyzing data can help you in decision making. Sometimes it’s hard to know where to start, especially when you have a lot of data. Pivot Tables help to summarize, analyze, explore, and present your data. They are highly flexible and can be quickly adjusted depending on how you need to display your results.
Please bring a Excel spreadsheet with data for your Pivot Table demonstration.
Pedagogy Connection: A strong grasp of the Microsoft Office suite helps instructors to deliver assignments effectively (Word), present content to the class in an engaging manner (Powerpoint), and analyze assessments of student work (Excel).
Open to everyone.
Presenter: Ray Fallon
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