Instructional Design Center

Conduct Virtual Class Sessions and Office Hours through WebEx
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 (America/New_York) | 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.
Open to faculty and staff.
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, 2020-04-03 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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Making Accommodations for Students in Canvas and Moodle
2020-04-07 13:00 - 13:50
This workshop will share best practices for making testing and assignment accommodations for students with special needs. Participants will learn best practices for making accommodations, followed by detailed instructions on how to adjust assignment and quiz settings in Canvas and Moodle. Participants will be able to practice making changes within their own courses and ask questions related to their specific course circumstances.
Pedagogy Connection: This workshop guides instructors on how to support students with special needs by using the features of an LMS to adjust tests and assignments.
Co-sponsored by OSS and IDC
Open to instructors.
Presenters: Michael Bitz and OSS Staff
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Canvas Teaching Circle
2020-04-08 11:00 - 12:00
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:

April 8, 11 a.m. – noon
April 22, 11 a.m. – noon

Open to faculty and staff.
Facilitator: Michael Bitz
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Cybersecurity Awareness
2020-04-16 13:00 - 13:50
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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Hands-on Canvas Workshop
2020-04-16 20:00 - 22:00
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
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Online Exam Proctoring with Respondus
2020-04-17 13:00 - 13:50, 2020-04-20 13:00 - 13:50
Respondus gives instructors the ability to administer proctored online exams through Moodle or Canvas. Using Respondus to proctor an online exam will reduce cheating. (Students must have a webcam in order to take a proctored exam.) This workshop reviews the Respondus tools and processes for enabling the lockdown browser, using the proctoring service, reviewing red flags, and trouble-shooting problems.
Pedagogy Connection: Online courses provide flexibility in learning, but online exams to assess student learning are difficult to monitor. This workshop on Respondus helps to ensure that the students in the class are the people taking the exam and not cheating while doing so.
Open to everyone.
Presenter: Ray Fallon
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