Instructional Design Center

Cybersecurity Awareness
2019-10-10 13:00 - 13:50, 2019-10-17 13:00 - 13:50, 2019-10-21 13:00 - 13:50, 2019-10-29 13:00 - 13:50 (America/New_York) | ASB-223
Cyber crime has become a multi-billion dollar industry and many cyber crimes can be avoided by following safe computing practices. Learn valuable techniques to help protect your data, identity and avoid online fraud.

Password best practices
Identifying fraudulent emails
Safe web browsing
Social media safety
Virus protection
Backing up your data

Open to everyone.
Presenter: Trish Williams
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An Introduction to Canvas, our New Online Instructional System
2019-10-23 13:00 - 14:00, 2019-10-23 14:00 - 15:00 | B-228
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.
Presenter: Professor Karl Johnson, Canvas Online Course Faculty Fellow
Registration is not needed for this event. This event is part of Faculty Development Day and is sponsored by the Instructional Design Center.

Faculty Development Day
2019-10-23 13:00 - 16:00 | B-227 & B-228
Mark you calendar!
Wednesday, October 23 from 1 – 4 p.m. is Faculty Development Day. This is a concentrated block of time for instructors to join together, discuss teaching, and develop their skills. Multiple offerings will be scheduled at the same time to provide as many opportunities for participation as possible. All are encouraged to attend! Faculty Development Day is co-sponsored by the Faculty Resource Center and the Instructional Design Center (IDC). However, other groups on campus are encouraged to offer development opportunities on this day as well!
All sessions will be in rooms B-227 and B-228.
Please be sure to continue to check out this page for more updates as the date approaches!

Schedule
1 -2 p.m.
Option A: Custom Course Materials: How to Lower the Cost of Textbooks
Location: B-227
Option B: An Introduction to Canvas, our New Online Instructional System
Location: B-228
2 -3 p.m.
Option A: Brain-Based Techniques for Engaging Students during Class
Location: B-227
Option B: An Introduction to Canvas, our New Online Instructional System
Location: B-228
3 -4 p.m.
Option A: Open Educational Resources (OER): What’s It All About?
Location: B-227
Option B: Exploring Digital Humanities
Location: B-228

Open Educational Resources (OER): What’s It All About?
2019-10-23 15:00 - 16:00 | B-227
The cost of textbooks increases every year, but so does the availability of free web-based texts, materials, and other teaching resources that can improve the learning experience. This session introduces the concept behind OER and introduces efforts on campus to build an OER community. The workshop will also introduce available OER platforms and sites that can be implemented right away. This event is part of Faculty Development Day and is co-sponsored by the Instructional Design Center and the George T. Potter Library.
Presenter: Hilary Westgate, Reference, Instruction, and Outreach Librarian

Apple User Group
2019-10-25 12:30 - 13:30 | 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 determined by the group’s interests and will vary each meeting. We will discuss some important privacy and security features for iOS and iPadOS devices.
Register below to be added to the Apple Users Group E-mail list to receive meeting agendas.
Open to everyone.
Facilitator: Trish Williams
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An Introduction to Canvas, our New Online Instructional System
2019-10-31 13:00 - 13:50, 2019-11-14 13:00 - 13:50, 2019-12-05 13:00 - 13:50, 2020-01-23 13:00 - 13:50, 2020-01-30 13:00 - 13:50, 2020-02-06 13:00 - 13:50 | ASB-223
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 Karl Johnson, Canvas Online Course Faculty Fellow
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Web Conferencing for Snow Days, Online Learning, and More
2019-11-07 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
2019-11-12 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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Excel Basics
2019-11-19 13:00 - 13:50 | ASB-223
This workshop will introduce you to the basics of the Excel workbook and its spreadsheets. Learn to input basic data elements, perform simple functions in your spreadsheet, and save your workbook for future use.
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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Excel: Introduction to Pivot Tables
2019-11-21 13:00 - 13:50 | ASB-223
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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Apple User Group
2019-11-22 12:30 - 13:30
Join other Apple users on campus to share knowledge and learn more about Macintosh computers, iPhones and iPads. Topics of discussion will be macOS Catalina.
Register below to be added to the Apple Users Group E-mail list to receive meeting agendas.
Open to everyone.
Facilitator: Trish Williams
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An Introduction to Canvas, our New Online Instructional System
2019-12-10 13:00 - 13:50 | ASB-223
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 Karl Johnson, Canvas Online Course Faculty Fellow
WORKSHOP FULL

Canvas Course Development Workshop
2020-01-07 09:00 - 15:00, 2020-01-08 09:00 - 15:00 | AC-108 & 109
Come and learn how to get started with Canvas! A Canvas Trainer will be onsite to work with instructors and answer your questions as we continue to roll out Canvas to our faculty and students! This will be a hands-on session in a PC computer lab where you will be working on developing your course. Laptops welcome. Faculty can attend this training on either January 7 or January 8, whichever date works best.
Recommended for all faculty.
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9 am – noon — Canvas Introduction/Basics
Getting Started

Accessing Canvas

Global Navigation

Dashboard/Courses
Account
Communication Tools
Help

Courses

Course Navigation
Announcements
Syllabus

Creating Pages

Content Pages
Rich Content Editor
Home Pages

Modules

Building a Module
Adding Content to Module

Resources

Student View
Canvas Community

Questions
12-12:30 p.m. — Lunch
12:30-3 p.m. — Canvas Beyond Basics
Discussions

Building Discussions

Assignments

Building Assignments
Adding Rubrics

Quizzes

Quiz Details
Quiz Questions
Question Banks
Quiz Management

Grading

Gradebook
Speedgrader
Feedback
Assignment Groups

Course Wrap Up

Course Navigation
Student View

Questions
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Canvas for Administrators
2020-01-09 10:00 - 12:00 | ASB-429
A professional trainer from Canvas will be on campus to help you learn how to use Canvas for the purpose of assessment, program evaluation, and accreditation purposes. Take advantage of this opportunity to learn how Canvas can facilitate your assessment needs.
Recommended for assessment coordinators, deans reps and program coordinators.
Agenda:

Users/Permissions/Admin Accounts
Data

Analytics
Reports

Shared Resources

Outcomes
Rubrics
Question Banks

Support

Community Resources

Questions

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Canvas for ITS Administrators
2020-01-09 12:00 - 14:00 | ASB-429
This training is recommended for ITS Administrators
Topics covered:

Structuring Your Account
Users and Permissions
Admin Tools and Settings
Support
Questions

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An Introduction to Canvas, our New Online Instructional System
2020-01-28 13:00 - 13:50, 2020-02-04 13:00 - 13:50, 2020-02-11 13:00 - 13:50 | ASB-223
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: Trish Williams
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Canvas Teaching Circle
2020-02-05 11:00 - 12:00 | ASB-223
Canvas is the new Learning Management System for the college. Faculty have the choice of using Canvas this semester; Canvas is the mandatory LMS beginning Summer, 2020. This teaching circle focuses on the use of Canvas. Participants will share their experiences with Canvas, including their successes and challenges. We will also review the Canvas tools for content delivery, assignments, and grading. This teaching circle is also open to those interested in Canvas but not using it this semester.
Meeting Schedule:

February 5, 11 a.m. – noon, ASB-223
February 19, 11 a.m. – noon
March 4, 11 a.m. – noon
March 25, 11 a.m. – noon
April 8, 11 a.m. – noon
April 22, 11 a.m. – noon

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Hands-on Canvas Workshop
2020-02-12 13:00 - 16:00 | Adler Center room 109
This workshop will give participants the opportunity to explore how to use Canvas while building their courses within the system. We will cover options for account and course-level settings, structuring a course with Modules and Pages, uploading and importing content, creating assignments, grading student work, and providing feedback. Participants will be able to work on their own courses as the presenter leads through examples. IDC staff and student aides will be on hand to assist individuals each step of the way.
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
* This workshop is being repeated on May 5
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