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Creating Activities with Softchalk™

SoftchalkTM is well-known as an easy-to-learn authoring tool for creating rich content. But did you know that you could also use it just for the specific purpose of making formative activities to put in D2L? This webinar will demonstrate how that is done.

D2L! How to Get a Course Up That Starts Tomorrow! 
Have you ever received a last-minute course assignment? One commonly-used option is to copy a colleague’s course, but if that is not available to you, what then? This workshop will show you how to get a course start-ready in 20 minutes. 

D2L™ on Handheld Devices
These days, many students—and some faculty—are engaging D2LTM on hand-held devices, like phones or tablets. This webinar will go over some hardware recommendations for accomplishing this, as well as review Brightspace Pulse, a mobile app that helps students keep track of important updates such as news, deadlines, and grades.

Gene Expression - Word Game - by Dr. Asitha Silva
In this workshop Dr. Silva shares content related to Gene Expression and a method to simplify the topic as a word game.

Interactive Teaching Method for Biology - Instructor: Dr. Asitha Silva
Students' difficulties in understanding complex topics have been one of the major factors that affect their motivation and achievement. Therefore, designing learning environments with creative teaching methods have a high demand. The aim of this PD is to highlight the use of comprehensible analogies and active learning methods to enhance students' understanding of a complex topic. Even though the example discusses here is a biology topic, similar methods can be applicable to other disciplines. 

Using Universal Design for Inclusive Learning - Instructors: Mark Congdon Jr. PhD and Lindsay Scott
This session discusses cultural identities and universal design for learning (Tobin & Behling, 2018) to explore a more robust student-centered approach to learning.

Zen and the Art of Brightspace®
Many faculty will take a recipe-only approach to using D2LTM; they require a step-by-step guide to accomplishing tasks. This means having to write down and document everything, or having to memorize quite a bit. How do support people accomplish this daunting task of seeming to know it all? This webinar will discuss strategies for seeing patterns within Brightspace, and learning the operational rules.

Suggested Techniques for Teaching Online: From Beginners to Advance

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Instructor: Harlan Williams, Online Instructional Designer & D2L Support

5 Really Really Basic Windows Skills 
At some point, you will likely need help from the OTS Service Desk or LSC-Online. As part of the assistance, they may ask you to refresh a web page, minimize a window, or send a screen capture. Everything grinds to a halt if you are unable to do basic tasks like these. This seminar will identify the 5 most basic skills you must have. A webinar by Harlan Williams. 

Check-in Quizzes
Suggestions are offered that you can implement now to make your course more resilient if your classes are affected by disaster.

Communicating with your Students
A review of synchronous and asynchronous channels of communication within D2L

Designing for Disaster
Suggestions are offered that you can implement now to make your course more resilient if your classes are affected by disaster.

Proctoring Solutions Featuring SmarterProctoring
In addition to the challenges facing all faculty as courses move online, dual credit instructors are faced with the additional challenge of having to set up SmarterProctoring as a proctoring solution for their Chromebook students. This webinar will guide faculty directly to the resources needed to do this, and provide current information regarding the status of proctoring solutions at Lone Star College.

Proctorless Quizzes
Proctorless online exams leverage the existing online testing environment to create exams suitable for low-stakes, self-assessment and diagnostic quizzes, all the way up to high-stakes midterms and final exams.

Release Conditions
Release conditions allow you to create a custom learning path through the materials in your course. When you attach a release condition to an item, students cannot see that item until they meet the associated condition.

Semester Start Checklist
Highlights the 6 most important things to do at the start of each semester for an online course.

Student Engagement
Increase student engagement by communicating in multiple formats, including active learning opportunities, and providing timely and useful feedback.

Suggestions for Subjective Assessments
Subjective assessments are a form of querying which may have more than one correct answer, or perhaps more than one way of expressing a correct answer.  They do not require proctoring, therefore lending themselves to remote instruction. Moreover, they often land higher on Bloom’s Taxonomy (BT), as they are capable of assessing higher-order cognitive skills

Best Practices in Online Teaching

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Health & Science / Business & Industry

First Year Foundation / Arts, Behavioral, and Social Sciences

More Professional Development OnDemand

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For more information on Recorded Webinars, contact Kentrie LeDee at KLeDee@lonestar.edu.

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