Training and Workshops

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. 

Pedagogy Connection: Canvas is Ramapo’s Learning Management System. 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 faculty and staff.

Facilitator: Professor Michael Bitz

Meeting Schedule (be sure to register for each date)

• Thursday, March 4, 1-2 p.m.
• Thursday, April 1, 1-2 p.m.
• Thursday, April 29, 1-2 p.m.

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Enabling students to synthesize the content in creative ways helps them to stay engaged in the course and further the depth of their understanding. Topics include storyboarding, digital narratives, infographics, flowcharts, and mapping. These are free, web-based tools that can be aligned with practically any course content.

Pedagogy Connection: This workshop presents strategies and resources to increase student engagement and content acquisition through the pathway of creativity. 

Open to faculty and staff.

Presenter: Professor Michael Bitz

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This Webinar workshop will review the basics of WebEx. This includes how to Join a Meeting, how to Schedule a Meeting, and functionality in the meeting.

Open to faculty, staff and students.

Presenter: Professional Webex Trainer

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This session will cover Webex Meetings and will include a review of meeting basics. such as how to schedule, join, and functions within a meeting.  It will address best practices, and tips for educators and will highlight new features capabilities. Webex meetings can be used to teach synchronous class sessions, as well as other virtual meetings.

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 everyone.

Presenter: Salina Neuhaus, Professional Webex Trainer

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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.

Open to everyone.

Facilitator: Trish Williams

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This session will cover Webex Events and Teams.  Events are used for larger scale, auditorium style events where you want to limit how the attendees participate. It will include a review of Webex Event basics, such as how to schedule, join, and functions within an Event.  It will address best practices for hosts.  Additionally, we will review Webex Teams. Teams provides a collaborative, persistent environment organized into Spaces and Teams. Teams allows for both asynchronous and synchronous features. Teams allows chat discussion, sharing of files, whiteboards, links, launch Webex Meetings, and more.

Open to everyone.

Presenter: Salina Neuhaus, Professional Webex Trainer

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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. 

Pedagogy Connection: Canvas is Ramapo’s Learning Management System. 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 faculty and staff.

Facilitator: Professor Michael Bitz

Meeting Schedule (be sure to register for each date)

• Thursday, April 1, 1-2 p.m.
• Thursday, April 29, 1-2 p.m.

Register

Create your Qualtrics account and get an overview of Qualtrics so you can begin your first survey. Learn about the available question types, survey options, methods of distributing your survey, and viewing survey reports.

Pedagogical Connection: Survey development has a wide range of pedagogical applications. Instructors can develop surveys to ascertain student feedback on course content  Surveys can also serve as assessment and data collection tools. Qualtrics surveys have extensive options that can help instructors tailor the surveys to their specific needs.

Open to faculty and staff.

Presenter: Trish Williams

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This Webinar workshop will review the basics of WebEx. This includes how to Join a Meeting, how to Schedule a Meeting, and functionality in the meeting.

Open to faculty, staff and students.

Presenter: Professional Webex Trainer

Register

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.

Open to everyone.

Facilitator: Trish Williams

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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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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. 

Pedagogy Connection: Canvas is Ramapo’s Learning Management System. 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 faculty and staff.

Facilitator: Professor Michael Bitz

Register