Have you heard about the flexible delivery classrooms we have on campus? These rooms are ideal for instructors who wish to engage with students in person and online at the same time. The equipment enables you to seamlessly change between feeds such as your personal device, document camera, podium, and in-room camera, all while sending these feeds to the projector and online students.

Panorama is a tool that assists instructors and students with creating a more accessible learning environment within Brightspace. Panorama will review files for instructors, provide reports, and assist with fixing common accessibility issues. Students will have access to alternate formats that might support their needs better. Panorama even allows users to customize how their Brightspace page will look for them.,
This workshop will show participants how to use the various features of Panorama to enhance accessibility as they navigate Brightspace sites. This session is aimed at instructors and will explore features not available to students. Students should consider signing up for the student focused version.

Are you creating a large enrolment course with online elements? This workshop will offer practical advice from experienced instructors to help you. We will review UWindsor's new course modalities and explore the expectations for each of these for course design. The workshop will discuss assessment considerations to balance assessment integrity in an AI-enabled world, and manageable grading load. We will review strategies and tools for creating and delivering accessible course content, including a Universal Design for Learning (UDL) approach. Finally, we will discuss the support available for designing and building your online or hybrid courses.

This workshop will introduce you to the H5P tool, which all Ontario educators can use for free. Whether you want to explore those resources that have already been created and openly shared, or create your own, H5P has incredible potential. With H5P you can add quizzes, pop ups, and other interactions to videos, create interactive presentations, provide fillable and downloadable forms, allow audio input, create scenarios where the result depends on the choices you make, create virtual 360 degree tours, and much more.

Do you need to record or stream a class? Do you need to meet with students online (as a group or privately)? The Teams platform can handle this and more. This session will review the features of Teams most useful for facilitating a class, conducting a presentation, or meeting with students. It will also highlight how you can activate a team associated with your course site and the options you have to meet with the students in your class.

Whether you need to record your screen, multiple screens, your webcam, or all of these at once, this workshop will teach you how. We will also review how to edit these videos including cutting any unwanted parts, overlaying other material (images, text, etc.) on top of your video, or even splitting/combining videos. The other key focus of this workshop is how you can share your videos with others by embedding them in Brightspace, other sites, or controlling who can access direct links. We will also look at how YuJa can automatically caption your videos and how you can edit the captions.
This session type is fast paced where I will demonstrate how to do things without a break for you to try them.

Perhaps unsurprisingly, PowerPoint can be an ideal tool to record your PowerPoint presentation, as you can record slide by slide, edit each slide, and even replace the recorded section for individual slides. This short workshop will focus on the basics of creating a video. We will look at what is important for planning your video and review practical tips/suggestions. There will also be a demonstration of how you could use PowerPoint to create multiple videos types, including recording anything on your screen.

Did you know you can add quizzes on top of your videos for students to complete? These can even be gradable with the grades sent to your Brightspace course. There are a mix of question types including auto-graded ones and short answer questions you would grade yourself. You can also create a quiz that grades people based on the amount of the video they have watched. In this workshop we will teach you how to create these quizzes, embed them in Brightspace or otherwise distribute them, and access the grades.
This session type is fast paced where I will demonstrate how to do things without a break for you to try them.

Have you heard about the flexible delivery classrooms we have on campus? These rooms are ideal for instructors who wish to engage with students in person and online at the same time. The equipment enables you to seamlessly change between feeds such as your personal device, document camera, podium, and in-room camera, all while sending these feeds to the projector and online students.

Panorama is a tool that can help meet the accessibility needs of students within Brightspace. Panorama can be used to create alternate formats of documents available on course sites, including audio podcasts, braille versions, EPUB, and even language translations. Panorama also has an accessibility widget that allows users to customize how Brightspace looks for them, allowing you to change font size/colour, colour contrast, and much more. This workshop will demonstrate how students can use the features of Panorama to improve accessibility within their Brightspace sites. This session is aimed at students and will not demonstrate features only available to instructors. Instructors should consider signing up for the instructor focused version.