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Friday, November 25, 2022

1:30 PM

Switching from Collaborate Ultra to Teams

Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule: Friday, November 25, 2022, 01:30 PM – 02:00 PM
Location: Online, Anywhere
Instructors: Mark Lubrick
With the university transitioning away from Blackboard Collaborate Ultra to Microsoft Teams as our institutional virtual classroom, it is important to be aware of the similarities and differences between the two platforms. This workshop will highlight equivalent features across the platforms to help prepare instructors for synchronous teaching in this system. This is meant as a high level overview to get people thinking about what changes may be needed, and what enhancements are possible via the Teams platform. For a more detailed demonstration of the platform, participants may want to attend the Using Teams as your virtual classroom workshop.

2:30 PM

Using Teams as your virtual classroom

Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule: Friday, November 25, 2022, 02:30 PM – 03:30 PM
Location: Online, Microsoft Teams
Instructors: Mark Lubrick
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.

Friday, December 2, 2022

Switching from Collaborate Ultra to Teams

Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule: Friday, December 02, 2022, 10:00 AM – 10:30 AM
Location: Online, Microsoft Teams
Instructors: Mark Lubrick
With the university transitioning away from Blackboard Collaborate Ultra to Microsoft Teams as our institutional virtual classroom, it is important to be aware of the similarities and differences between the two platforms. This workshop will highlight equivalent features across the platforms to help prepare instructors for synchronous teaching in this system. This is meant as a high level overview to get people thinking about what changes may be needed, and what enhancements are possible via the Teams platform. For a more detailed demonstration of the platform, participants may want to attend the Using Teams as your virtual classroom workshop.

Monday, December 5, 2022

Using Teams as your virtual classroom

Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule: Monday, December 05, 2022, 01:00 PM – 02:00 PM
Location: Online, Microsoft Teams
Instructors: Mark Lubrick
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.

Tuesday, December 6, 2022

Creating free interactive content with H5P

Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule: Tuesday, December 06, 2022, 01:30 PM – 02:30 PM
Location: Online, Microsoft Teams
Instructors: Mark Lubrick
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.
In this workshop, participants will see how to create an account, find existing resources, and how to create some common popular interaction types. Additionally, they will be shown how to find examples and tutorials for any additional content types they may want to explore.

Thursday, December 8, 2022

EquatIO: A free digital math tool for UWindsor

Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule: Thursday, December 08, 2022, 02:30 PM – 03:15 PM
Location: Online, Microsoft Teams
Instructors: Mark Lubrick
The premium version of EquatIO is free for everyone at UWindsor and is an ideal tool for anyone looking for digital math tools. You can take a picture of written math and convert it to digital, editable equations, or if you prefer, just handwrite in the app itself and it will convert it to digital. The screenshot function will take any math on the web and make it accessible and editable. You can even speak your equations aloud and have them created. Of course, there is also a more traditional equation editor (LaTeX is supported, too) with a prediction feature to finish your equations, chemical symbols, and more. Some additional free features include a scientific calculator, an interactive periodic table, an interactive molecular viewer, a graph creator/editor, and an online space to work with interactive shapes.

Friday, December 9, 2022

5 tips to make your Brightspace site more accessible

Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule: Friday, December 09, 2022, 03:00 PM – 03:30 PM
Location: Online, Microsoft Teams
This short workshop sprint will introduce and demonstrate some key tools and tips for how you can improve the accessibility of your Brightspace course site. The topics will include:
  1. Content editor
  2. Accommodations e.g., extra time, or different submit date
  3. Accessibility checkers
  4. Captions
  5. Panorama (available January 2023)

Monday, December 12, 2022

Introduction to YuJa Workshop

Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule: Monday, December 12, 2022, 01:30 PM – 03:30 PM
Location: Online, Microsoft Teams
Instructors: Lorie Stolarchuk
The YuJa Enterprise Video Platform is a powerful, robust set of online tools to complement and enhance the campus’ ability to store, stream, create, edit, and embed videos into online systems such as Blackboard course sites or websites. This session will offer an introduction to using YuJa for your teaching and learning. Topics for the workshop include:
  • Accessing YuJa
  • Uploading and organizing content
  • Installing the YuJa Software Capture application
  • Creating and editing recordings
  • Distributing content, and
  • Accessibility and other features included.

Tuesday, December 13, 2022

Access for all: Tips and tools for your Brightspace course

Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule: Tuesday, December 13, 2022, 01:30 PM – 03:30 PM
Location: Online, Microsoft Teams
This session will explore digital accessibility and some customizations, including pronoun modifications, available within your Brightspace course site. We will cover the built-in features within Brightspace that can be used to enhance or check accessibility. We will also review Panorama, the accessibility audit tool that will be available in Brightspace upon request effective January 2023. This tool assists users by providing alternative formats of a document including .mp3, .txt, voice-to-text, EPUB, braille, high contrast and others. Further, instructors will also be able to view accessibility audit reports on documents they have uploaded to their site. Instructions on how to access Panorama will be given during the workshop.

Monday, December 19, 2022

Using Teams as your virtual classroom

Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule: Monday, December 19, 2022, 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM
Location: Online, Microsoft Teams
Instructors: Mark Lubrick
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.

Tuesday, December 20, 2022

Orientation to flexible delivery classrooms

Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule: Tuesday, December 20, 2022, 12:00 PM – 01:30 PM
Location: Toldo Room 204
Instructors: Mark Lubrick
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.
This session will be held onsite in one of these classrooms. We will be trying to model what you can do in this space with a flexible class design (both physically and virtually). You will be able to experience the live class and the online class (through the virtual chat). Please bring an electronic device with you to fully participate. Part of the class will be discussing flexible design principles and conditions at UWindsor and the other part will be a hands-on opportunity to test out the equipment.

Wednesday, December 21, 2022

5 tips to make your Brightspace site more accessible

Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule: Wednesday, December 21, 2022, 02:30 PM – 03:00 PM
Location: Online, Microsoft Teams
This short workshop sprint will introduce and demonstrate some key tools and tips for how you can improve the accessibility of your Brightspace course site. The topics will include:
  1. Content editor
  2. Accommodations e.g., extra time, or different submit date
  3. Accessibility checkers
  4. Captions
  5. Panorama (available January 2023)

Tuesday, January 3, 2023

Orientation to flexible delivery classrooms

Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule: Tuesday, January 03, 2023, 01:00 PM – 02:30 PM
Location: Toldo Room 204
Instructors: Mark Lubrick
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.
This session will be held onsite in one of these classrooms. We will be trying to model what you can do in this space with a flexible class design (both physically and virtually). You will be able to experience the live class and the online class (through the virtual chat). Please bring an electronic device with you to fully participate. Part of the class will be discussing flexible design principles and conditions at UWindsor and the other part will be a hands-on opportunity to test out the equipment.

Wednesday, January 4, 2023

1:00 PM

Using Teams as your virtual classroom

Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule: Wednesday, January 04, 2023, 01:00 PM – 02:00 PM
Location: Online, Microsoft Teams
Instructors: Mark Lubrick
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.

3:00 PM

5 tips to make your Brightspace site more accessible

Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule: Wednesday, January 04, 2023, 03:00 PM – 03:30 PM
Location: Online, Microsoft Teams
This short workshop sprint will introduce and demonstrate some key tools and tips for how you can improve the accessibility of your Brightspace course site. The topics will include:
  1. Content editor
  2. Accommodations e.g., extra time, or different submit date
  3. Accessibility checkers
  4. Captions
  5. Panorama (available January 2023)

Thursday, January 5, 2023

12:00 PM

Switching from Collaborate Ultra to Teams

Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule: Thursday, January 05, 2023, 12:00 PM – 12:30 PM
Location: Online, Microsoft Teams
Instructors: Mark Lubrick
With the university transitioning away from Blackboard Collaborate Ultra to Microsoft Teams as our institutional virtual classroom, it is important to be aware of the similarities and differences between the two platforms. This workshop will highlight equivalent features across the platforms to help prepare instructors for synchronous teaching in this system. This is meant as a high level overview to get people thinking about what changes may be needed, and what enhancements are possible via the Teams platform. For a more detailed demonstration of the platform, participants may want to attend the Using Teams as your virtual classroom workshop.

2:00 PM

Creating free interactive content with H5P

Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule: Thursday, January 05, 2023, 02:00 PM – 03:00 PM
Location: Online, Microsoft Teams
Instructors: Mark Lubrick
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.
In this workshop, participants will see how to create an account, find existing resources, and how to create some common popular interaction types. Additionally, they will be shown how to find examples and tutorials for any additional content types they may want to explore.

Friday, January 6, 2023

Access for all: Tips and tools for your Brightspace course

Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule: Friday, January 06, 2023, 01:00 PM – 03:00 PM
Location: Online, Microsoft Teams
This session will explore digital accessibility and some customizations, including pronoun modifications, available within your Brightspace course site. We will cover the built-in features within Brightspace that can be used to enhance or check accessibility. We will also review Panorama, the accessibility audit tool that will be available in Brightspace upon request effective January 2023. This tool assists users by providing alternative formats of a document including .mp3, .txt, voice-to-text, EPUB, braille, high contrast and others. Further, instructors will also be able to view accessibility audit reports on documents they have uploaded to their site. Instructions on how to access Panorama will be given during the workshop.

Monday, January 9, 2023

10:00 AM

Using Teams as your virtual classroom

Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule: Monday, January 09, 2023, 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM
Location: Online, Microsoft Teams
Instructors: Mark Lubrick
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.

12:00 PM

EquatIO: A free digital math tool for UWindsor

Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule: Monday, January 09, 2023, 12:00 PM – 12:45 PM
Location: Online, Microsoft Teams
Instructors: Mark Lubrick
The premium version of EquatIO is free for everyone at UWindsor and is an ideal tool for anyone looking for digital math tools. You can take a picture of written math and convert it to digital, editable equations, or if you prefer, just handwrite in the app itself and it will convert it to digital. The screenshot function will take any math on the web and make it accessible and editable. You can even speak your equations aloud and have them created. Of course, there is also a more traditional equation editor (LaTeX is supported, too) with a prediction feature to finish your equations, chemical symbols, and more. Some additional free features include a scientific calculator, an interactive periodic table, an interactive molecular viewer, a graph creator/editor, and an online space to work with interactive shapes.

Wednesday, January 11, 2023

2:00 PM

Switching from Collaborate Ultra to Teams

Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule: Wednesday, January 11, 2023, 02:00 PM – 02:30 PM
Location: Online, Microsoft Teams
Instructors: Mark Lubrick
With the university transitioning away from Blackboard Collaborate Ultra to Microsoft Teams as our institutional virtual classroom, it is important to be aware of the similarities and differences between the two platforms. This workshop will highlight equivalent features across the platforms to help prepare instructors for synchronous teaching in this system. This is meant as a high level overview to get people thinking about what changes may be needed, and what enhancements are possible via the Teams platform. For a more detailed demonstration of the platform, participants may want to attend the Using Teams as your virtual classroom workshop.

3:00 PM

Read&Write - Free Literacy and Writing Support at UWindsor

Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule: Wednesday, January 11, 2023, 03:00 PM – 04:00 PM
Location: Online, Microsoft Teams
Instructors: Anthony Gomez, Mark Lubrick
Did you know that all UWindsor students, faculty, and staff now have free access to a powerful literacy support application?
Read&Write is a suite of software tools designed to assist in the areas of research, studying, and of course, reading and writing. Whether used in conjunction with Google Chrome or as a standalone application, Read&Write can convert your spoken notes or assignments into text, as well as read your text and .PDFs out loud. This application is also helpful with Blackboard exams, online journal articles, as well as e-mails and typed assignments.

Friday, January 13, 2023

Introduction to YuJa’s Panorama Tool for Digital Accessibility (Available within Brightspace)

Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule: Friday, January 13, 2023, 01:00 PM – 02:00 PM
Location: Online, Microsoft Teams
Instructors will now have an option in the W2023 semester to opt into the Panorama Digital Accessibility tool on a course-by-course basis. Once enabled, this tool scans several document formats uploaded to a course site for many common inaccessible properties and offers solutions on how to fix them. Further, Panorama can provide several alternative formats for end-users to engage with the document, such as PDF, an Immersive Reader, text, EPUB, Braille, Audio and more! The tool generates a report for instructors for the site, which displays files processed by type, alternative formats downloaded, and Issues noticed within the site’s documents.
In this one-hour session, topics explored include:
  • Accessibility reports (locating, understanding, and noticing how to improve files)
  • Alternative formats (review of format types and understanding those differences)
  • Course reporting (accessing content summary and locating the summary of issues)
  • How to request and enable Panorama in your course site

Tuesday, January 17, 2023

5 tips to make your Brightspace site more accessible

Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule: Tuesday, January 17, 2023, 12:00 PM – 12:30 PM
Location: Online, Microsoft Teams
This short workshop sprint will introduce and demonstrate some key tools and tips for how you can improve the accessibility of your Brightspace course site. The topics will include:
  1. Content editor
  2. Accommodations e.g., extra time, or different submit date
  3. Accessibility checkers
  4. Captions
  5. Panorama (available January 2023)

Wednesday, January 18, 2023

Introduction to YuJa Workshop

Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule: Wednesday, January 18, 2023, 01:30 PM – 03:30 PM
Location: Online, Microsoft Teams
Instructors: Lorie Stolarchuk
The YuJa Enterprise Video Platform is a powerful, robust set of online tools to complement and enhance the campus’ ability to store, stream, create, edit, and embed videos into online systems such as Blackboard course sites or websites. This session will offer an introduction to using YuJa for your teaching and learning. Topics for the workshop include:
  • Accessing YuJa
  • Uploading and organizing content
  • Installing the YuJa Software Capture application
  • Creating and editing recordings
  • Distributing content, and
  • Accessibility and other features included.

Monday, February 6, 2023

Access for all: Tips and tools for your Brightspace course

Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule: Monday, February 06, 2023, 01:00 PM – 03:00 PM
Location: Online, Microsoft Teams
This session will explore digital accessibility and some customizations, including pronoun modifications, available within your Brightspace course site. We will cover the built-in features within Brightspace that can be used to enhance or check accessibility. We will also review Panorama, the accessibility audit tool that will be available in Brightspace upon request effective January 2023. This tool assists users by providing alternative formats of a document including .mp3, .txt, voice-to-text, EPUB, braille, high contrast and others. Further, instructors will also be able to view accessibility audit reports on documents they have uploaded to their site. Instructions on how to access Panorama will be given during the workshop.

Tuesday, February 7, 2023

1:00 PM

Switching from Collaborate Ultra to Teams

Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule: Tuesday, February 07, 2023, 01:00 PM – 01:30 PM
Location: Online, Microsoft Teams
Instructors: Mark Lubrick
With the university transitioning away from Blackboard Collaborate Ultra to Microsoft Teams as our institutional virtual classroom, it is important to be aware of the similarities and differences between the two platforms. This workshop will highlight equivalent features across the platforms to help prepare instructors for synchronous teaching in this system. This is meant as a high level overview to get people thinking about what changes may be needed, and what enhancements are possible via the Teams platform. For a more detailed demonstration of the platform, participants may want to attend the Using Teams as your virtual classroom workshop.

2:00 PM

Read&Write - Free Literacy and Writing Support at UWindsor

Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule: Tuesday, February 07, 2023, 02:00 PM – 03:00 PM
Location: Online, Microsoft Teams
Instructors: Anthony Gomez, Mark Lubrick
Did you know that all UWindsor students, faculty, and staff now have free access to a powerful literacy support application?
Read&Write is a suite of software tools designed to assist in the areas of research, studying, and of course, reading and writing. Whether used in conjunction with Google Chrome or as a standalone application, Read&Write can convert your spoken notes or assignments into text, as well as read your text and .PDFs out loud. This application is also helpful with Blackboard exams, online journal articles, as well as e-mails and typed assignments.

Wednesday, February 8, 2023

1:00 PM

Creating free interactive content with H5P

Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule: Wednesday, February 08, 2023, 01:00 PM – 02:00 PM
Location: Online, Microsoft Teams
Instructors: Mark Lubrick
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.
In this workshop, participants will see how to create an account, find existing resources, and how to create some common popular interaction types. Additionally, they will be shown how to find examples and tutorials for any additional content types they may want to explore.

3:00 PM

Using Teams as your virtual classroom

Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule: Wednesday, February 08, 2023, 03:00 PM – 04:00 PM
Location: Online, Microsoft Teams
Instructors: Mark Lubrick
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.

Thursday, February 9, 2023

EquatIO: A free digital math tool for UWindsor

Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule: Thursday, February 09, 2023, 03:00 PM – 03:45 PM
Location: Online, Microsoft Teams
Instructors: Mark Lubrick
The premium version of EquatIO is free for everyone at UWindsor and is an ideal tool for anyone looking for digital math tools. You can take a picture of written math and convert it to digital, editable equations, or if you prefer, just handwrite in the app itself and it will convert it to digital. The screenshot function will take any math on the web and make it accessible and editable. You can even speak your equations aloud and have them created. Of course, there is also a more traditional equation editor (LaTeX is supported, too) with a prediction feature to finish your equations, chemical symbols, and more. Some additional free features include a scientific calculator, an interactive periodic table, an interactive molecular viewer, a graph creator/editor, and an online space to work with interactive shapes.

Monday, February 13, 2023

Introduction to YuJa’s Panorama Tool for Digital Accessibility (Available within Brightspace)

Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule: Monday, February 13, 2023, 03:00 PM – 04:00 PM
Location: Online, Microsoft Teams
Instructors will now have an option in the W2023 semester to opt into the Panorama Digital Accessibility tool on a course-by-course basis. Once enabled, this tool scans several document formats uploaded to a course site for many common inaccessible properties and offers solutions on how to fix them. Further, Panorama can provide several alternative formats for end-users to engage with the document, such as PDF, an Immersive Reader, text, EPUB, Braille, Audio and more! The tool generates a report for instructors for the site, which displays files processed by type, alternative formats downloaded, and Issues noticed within the site’s documents.
In this one-hour session, topics explored include:
  • Accessibility reports (locating, understanding, and noticing how to improve files)
  • Alternative formats (review of format types and understanding those differences)
  • Course reporting (accessing content summary and locating the summary of issues)
  • How to request and enable Panorama in your course site

Wednesday, March 8, 2023

Creating free interactive content with H5P

Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule: Wednesday, March 08, 2023, 03:00 PM – 04:00 PM
Location: Online, Microsoft Teams
Instructors: Mark Lubrick
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.
In this workshop, participants will see how to create an account, find existing resources, and how to create some common popular interaction types. Additionally, they will be shown how to find examples and tutorials for any additional content types they may want to explore.

Thursday, March 9, 2023

Read&Write - Free Literacy and Writing Support at UWindsor

Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule: Thursday, March 09, 2023, 03:00 PM – 04:00 PM
Location: Online, Microsoft Teams
Instructors: Anthony Gomez, Mark Lubrick
Did you know that all UWindsor students, faculty, and staff now have free access to a powerful literacy support application?
Read&Write is a suite of software tools designed to assist in the areas of research, studying, and of course, reading and writing. Whether used in conjunction with Google Chrome or as a standalone application, Read&Write can convert your spoken notes or assignments into text, as well as read your text and .PDFs out loud. This application is also helpful with Blackboard exams, online journal articles, as well as e-mails and typed assignments.

Thursday, March 16, 2023

Introduction to YuJa Workshop

Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule: Thursday, March 16, 2023, 01:30 PM – 03:30 PM
Location: Online, Microsoft Teams
Instructors: Lorie Stolarchuk
The YuJa Enterprise Video Platform is a powerful, robust set of online tools to complement and enhance the campus’ ability to store, stream, create, edit, and embed videos into online systems such as Blackboard course sites or websites. This session will offer an introduction to using YuJa for your teaching and learning. Topics for the workshop include:
  • Accessing YuJa
  • Uploading and organizing content
  • Installing the YuJa Software Capture application
  • Creating and editing recordings
  • Distributing content, and
  • Accessibility and other features included.

Tuesday, March 28, 2023

Switching from Collaborate Ultra to Teams

Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule: Tuesday, March 28, 2023, 03:00 PM – 03:30 PM
Location: Online, Microsoft Teams
Instructors: Mark Lubrick
With the university transitioning away from Blackboard Collaborate Ultra to Microsoft Teams as our institutional virtual classroom, it is important to be aware of the similarities and differences between the two platforms. This workshop will highlight equivalent features across the platforms to help prepare instructors for synchronous teaching in this system. This is meant as a high level overview to get people thinking about what changes may be needed, and what enhancements are possible via the Teams platform. For a more detailed demonstration of the platform, participants may want to attend the Using Teams as your virtual classroom workshop.

Wednesday, March 29, 2023

EquatIO: A free digital math tool for UWindsor

Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule: Wednesday, March 29, 2023, 01:00 PM – 01:45 PM
Location: Online, Microsoft Teams
Instructors: Mark Lubrick
The premium version of EquatIO is free for everyone at UWindsor and is an ideal tool for anyone looking for digital math tools. You can take a picture of written math and convert it to digital, editable equations, or if you prefer, just handwrite in the app itself and it will convert it to digital. The screenshot function will take any math on the web and make it accessible and editable. You can even speak your equations aloud and have them created. Of course, there is also a more traditional equation editor (LaTeX is supported, too) with a prediction feature to finish your equations, chemical symbols, and more. Some additional free features include a scientific calculator, an interactive periodic table, an interactive molecular viewer, a graph creator/editor, and an online space to work with interactive shapes.

Thursday, March 30, 2023

5 tips to make your Brightspace site more accessible

Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule: Thursday, March 30, 2023, 11:30 AM – 12:00 PM
Location: Online, Microsoft Teams
This short workshop sprint will introduce and demonstrate some key tools and tips for how you can improve the accessibility of your Brightspace course site. The topics will include:
  1. Content editor
  2. Accommodations e.g., extra time, or different submit date
  3. Accessibility checkers
  4. Captions
  5. Panorama (available January 2023)

Thursday, April 6, 2023

Introduction to YuJa Workshop

Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule: Thursday, April 06, 2023, 01:00 PM – 03:00 PM
Location: Online, Microsoft Teams
Instructors: Lorie Stolarchuk
The YuJa Enterprise Video Platform is a powerful, robust set of online tools to complement and enhance the campus’ ability to store, stream, create, edit, and embed videos into online systems such as Blackboard course sites or websites. This session will offer an introduction to using YuJa for your teaching and learning. Topics for the workshop include:
  • Accessing YuJa
  • Uploading and organizing content
  • Installing the YuJa Software Capture application
  • Creating and editing recordings
  • Distributing content, and
  • Accessibility and other features included.

Tuesday, April 11, 2023

EquatIO: A free digital math tool for UWindsor

Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule: Tuesday, April 11, 2023, 12:00 PM – 12:45 PM
Location: Online, Microsoft Teams
Instructors: Mark Lubrick
The premium version of EquatIO is free for everyone at UWindsor and is an ideal tool for anyone looking for digital math tools. You can take a picture of written math and convert it to digital, editable equations, or if you prefer, just handwrite in the app itself and it will convert it to digital. The screenshot function will take any math on the web and make it accessible and editable. You can even speak your equations aloud and have them created. Of course, there is also a more traditional equation editor (LaTeX is supported, too) with a prediction feature to finish your equations, chemical symbols, and more. Some additional free features include a scientific calculator, an interactive periodic table, an interactive molecular viewer, a graph creator/editor, and an online space to work with interactive shapes.

Thursday, April 13, 2023

Access for all: Tips and tools for your Brightspace course

Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule: Thursday, April 13, 2023, 01:00 PM – 03:00 PM
Location: Online, Microsoft Teams
This session will explore digital accessibility and some customizations, including pronoun modifications, available within your Brightspace course site. We will cover the built-in features within Brightspace that can be used to enhance or check accessibility. We will also review Panorama, the accessibility audit tool that will be available in Brightspace upon request effective January 2023. This tool assists users by providing alternative formats of a document including .mp3, .txt, voice-to-text, EPUB, braille, high contrast and others. Further, instructors will also be able to view accessibility audit reports on documents they have uploaded to their site. Instructions on how to access Panorama will be given during the workshop.

Friday, April 14, 2023

2:00 PM

Creating free interactive content with H5P

Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule: Friday, April 14, 2023, 02:00 PM – 03:00 PM
Location: Online, Microsoft Teams
Instructors: Mark Lubrick
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.
In this workshop, participants will see how to create an account, find existing resources, and how to create some common popular interaction types. Additionally, they will be shown how to find examples and tutorials for any additional content types they may want to explore.

3:30 PM

Using Teams as your virtual classroom

Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule: Friday, April 14, 2023, 03:30 PM – 04:30 PM
Location: Online, Microsoft Teams
Instructors: Mark Lubrick
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.

Monday, May 8, 2023

10:00 AM

Using Teams as your virtual classroom

Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule: Monday, May 08, 2023, 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM
Location: Online, Microsoft Teams
Instructors: Mark Lubrick
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.

12:00 PM

Creating free interactive content with H5P

Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule: Monday, May 08, 2023, 12:00 PM – 02:00 PM
Location: Online, Microsoft Teams
Instructors: Mark Lubrick
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.
In this workshop, participants will see how to create an account, find existing resources, and how to create some common popular interaction types. Additionally, they will be shown how to find examples and tutorials for any additional content types they may want to explore.

3:00 PM

Orientation to flexible delivery classrooms

Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule: Monday, May 08, 2023, 03:00 PM – 04:30 PM
Location: Toldo Room 204
Instructors: Mark Lubrick
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.
This session will be held onsite in one of these classrooms. We will be trying to model what you can do in this space with a flexible class design (both physically and virtually). You will be able to experience the live class and the online class (through the virtual chat). Please bring an electronic device with you to fully participate. Part of the class will be discussing flexible design principles and conditions at UWindsor and the other part will be a hands-on opportunity to test out the equipment.

Tuesday, May 9, 2023

12:00 PM

Read&Write - Free Literacy and Writing Support at UWindsor

Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule: Tuesday, May 09, 2023, 12:00 PM – 01:00 PM
Location: Online, Microsoft Teams
Instructors: Anthony Gomez, Mark Lubrick
Did you know that all UWindsor students, faculty, and staff now have free access to a powerful literacy support application?
Read&Write is a suite of software tools designed to assist in the areas of research, studying, and of course, reading and writing. Whether used in conjunction with Google Chrome or as a standalone application, Read&Write can convert your spoken notes or assignments into text, as well as read your text and .PDFs out loud. This application is also helpful with Blackboard exams, online journal articles, as well as e-mails and typed assignments.

3:00 PM

5 tips to make your Brightspace site more accessible

Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule: Tuesday, May 09, 2023, 03:00 PM – 03:30 PM
Location: Online (Blackboard Collaborate)
This short workshop sprint will introduce and demonstrate some key tools and tips for how you can improve the accessibility of your Brightspace course site. The topics will include:
  1. Content editor
  2. Accommodations e.g., extra time, or different submit date
  3. Accessibility checkers
  4. Captions
  5. Panorama (available January 2023)

Wednesday, May 10, 2023

EquatIO: A free digital math tool for UWindsor

Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule: Wednesday, May 10, 2023, 03:30 PM – 04:15 PM
Location: Online, Microsoft Teams
Instructors: Mark Lubrick
The premium version of EquatIO is free for everyone at UWindsor and is an ideal tool for anyone looking for digital math tools. You can take a picture of written math and convert it to digital, editable equations, or if you prefer, just handwrite in the app itself and it will convert it to digital. The screenshot function will take any math on the web and make it accessible and editable. You can even speak your equations aloud and have them created. Of course, there is also a more traditional equation editor (LaTeX is supported, too) with a prediction feature to finish your equations, chemical symbols, and more. Some additional free features include a scientific calculator, an interactive periodic table, an interactive molecular viewer, a graph creator/editor, and an online space to work with interactive shapes.

Monday, May 29, 2023

Access for all: Tips and tools for your Brightspace course

Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule: Monday, May 29, 2023, 11:00 AM – 01:00 PM
Location: Online, Microsoft Teams
This session will explore digital accessibility and some customizations, including pronoun modifications, available within your Brightspace course site. We will cover the built-in features within Brightspace that can be used to enhance or check accessibility. We will also review Panorama, the accessibility audit tool that will be available in Brightspace upon request effective January 2023. This tool assists users by providing alternative formats of a document including .mp3, .txt, voice-to-text, EPUB, braille, high contrast and others. Further, instructors will also be able to view accessibility audit reports on documents they have uploaded to their site. Instructions on how to access Panorama will be given during the workshop.

Tuesday, June 20, 2023

Using Teams as your virtual classroom

Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule: Tuesday, June 20, 2023, 12:00 PM – 01:00 PM
Location: Online, Microsoft Teams
Instructors: Mark Lubrick
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.

Thursday, June 22, 2023

Creating free interactive content with H5P

Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule: Thursday, June 22, 2023, 12:00 PM – 01:00 PM
Location: Online, Microsoft Teams
Instructors: Mark Lubrick
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.
In this workshop, participants will see how to create an account, find existing resources, and how to create some common popular interaction types. Additionally, they will be shown how to find examples and tutorials for any additional content types they may want to explore.

Tuesday, July 4, 2023

EquatIO: A free digital math tool for UWindsor

Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule: Tuesday, July 04, 2023, 01:00 PM – 01:45 PM
Location: Online, Microsoft Teams
Instructors: Mark Lubrick
The premium version of EquatIO is free for everyone at UWindsor and is an ideal tool for anyone looking for digital math tools. You can take a picture of written math and convert it to digital, editable equations, or if you prefer, just handwrite in the app itself and it will convert it to digital. The screenshot function will take any math on the web and make it accessible and editable. You can even speak your equations aloud and have them created. Of course, there is also a more traditional equation editor (LaTeX is supported, too) with a prediction feature to finish your equations, chemical symbols, and more. Some additional free features include a scientific calculator, an interactive periodic table, an interactive molecular viewer, a graph creator/editor, and an online space to work with interactive shapes.

Wednesday, July 5, 2023

Creating free interactive content with H5P

Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule: Wednesday, July 05, 2023, 03:00 PM – 04:00 PM
Location: Online, Microsoft Teams
Instructors: Mark Lubrick
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.
In this workshop, participants will see how to create an account, find existing resources, and how to create some common popular interaction types. Additionally, they will be shown how to find examples and tutorials for any additional content types they may want to explore.

Thursday, July 6, 2023

Using Teams as your virtual classroom

Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule: Thursday, July 06, 2023, 03:00 PM – 04:00 PM
Location: Online, Microsoft Teams
Instructors: Mark Lubrick
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.

Monday, July 31, 2023

Getting Started with Pressbooks

Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule: Monday, July 31, 2023, 01:00 PM – 02:00 PM
Location: Online, Microsoft Teams
Instructors: Ashlyne O'Neil
This workshop will provide an introduction to the power and versatility of Pressbooks as an open-publishing authoring tool, and equip you with the tools you need to get started. Pressbooks is a free, user-friendly, and provincially supported system that allows you to create and adapt various forms of content (e.g., online books, learning modules, embedded videos, H5P interactions, etc.) for your courses, workshops, and more.
We will review the following topics: 1) getting your free account; 2) starting a book; 3) behind-the-scenes admin stuff for creators; 4) accessibility considerations; 5) import and export files; and 6) formatting.

Tuesday, August 8, 2023

Introduction to YuJa

Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule: Tuesday, August 08, 2023, 01:30 PM – 03:30 PM
Location: Online, Microsoft Teams
Instructors: Lorie Stolarchuk
The YuJa Enterprise Video Platform is a powerful, robust set of online tools to complement and enhance the campus’ ability to store, stream, create, edit, and embed videos into online systems such as Blackboard course sites or websites. This session will offer an introduction to using YuJa for your teaching and learning. Topics for the workshop include:
  • Accessing YuJa
  • Uploading and organizing content
  • Installing the YuJa Software Capture application
  • Creating and editing recordings
  • Distributing content, and
  • Accessibility and other features included.
It is recommended that you have a web camera and microphone for the session and are familiar with configuring and using them before the session. You will also need to be familiar with switching between using a web browser, preferably Chrome, simultaneously with the MS Teams application. Please contact lorie@uwindsor.ca if this is unfamiliar to you in advance of the session.

Wednesday, August 30, 2023

5 tips to make your Brightspace site more accessible

Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule: Wednesday, August 30, 2023, 03:00 PM – 03:30 PM
Location: Online, Zoom
This short workshop sprint will introduce and demonstrate some key tools and tips for how you can improve the accessibility of your Brightspace course site. The topics will include:
  1. Content editor
  2. Accommodations e.g., extra time, or different submit date
  3. Accessibility checkers
  4. Captions
  5. Panorama (available January 2023)

Friday, September 1, 2023

10:00 AM

Orientation to flexible delivery classrooms

Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule: Friday, September 01, 2023, 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM
Location: Toldo Room 204
Instructors: Mark Lubrick
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.
This session will be held onsite in one of these classrooms. We will be trying to model what you can do in this space with a flexible class design (both physically and virtually). You will be able to experience the live class and the online class (through the virtual chat). Please bring an electronic device with you to fully participate. Part of the class will be discussing flexible design principles and conditions at UWindsor and the other part will be a hands-on opportunity to test out the equipment.

12:00 PM

Using Teams as your virtual classroom

Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule: Friday, September 01, 2023, 12:00 PM – 01:00 PM
Location: Online, Microsoft Teams
Instructors: Mark Lubrick
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.

2:00 PM

Creating free interactive content with H5P

Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule: Friday, September 01, 2023, 02:00 PM – 03:00 PM
Location: Online, Microsoft Teams
Instructors: Mark Lubrick
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.
In this workshop, participants will see how to create an account, find existing resources, and how to create some common popular interaction types. Additionally, they will be shown how to find examples and tutorials for any additional content types they may want to explore.

Tuesday, September 5, 2023

Access for all: Tips and tools for your Brightspace course

Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule: Tuesday, September 05, 2023, 01:00 PM – 03:00 PM
Location: Online, Microsoft Teams
This session will explore digital accessibility and some customizations, including pronoun modifications, available within your Brightspace course site. We will cover the built-in features within Brightspace that can be used to enhance or check accessibility. We will also review Panorama, the accessibility audit tool that will be available in Brightspace upon request effective January 2023. This tool assists users by providing alternative formats of a document including .mp3, .txt, voice-to-text, EPUB, braille, high contrast and others. Further, instructors will also be able to view accessibility audit reports on documents they have uploaded to their site. Instructions on how to access Panorama will be given during the workshop.

Wednesday, September 6, 2023

Using Teams as your virtual classroom

Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule: Wednesday, September 06, 2023, 02:00 PM – 03:00 PM
Location: Online, Microsoft Teams
Instructors: Mark Lubrick
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.

Thursday, September 7, 2023

12:00 PM

EquatIO: A free digital math tool for UWindsor

Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule: Thursday, September 07, 2023, 12:00 PM – 12:45 PM
Location: Online, Microsoft Teams
Instructors: Mark Lubrick
The premium version of EquatIO is free for everyone at UWindsor and is an ideal tool for anyone looking for digital math tools. You can take a picture of written math and convert it to digital, editable equations, or if you prefer, just handwrite in the app itself and it will convert it to digital. The screenshot function will take any math on the web and make it accessible and editable. You can even speak your equations aloud and have them created. Of course, there is also a more traditional equation editor (LaTeX is supported, too) with a prediction feature to finish your equations, chemical symbols, and more. Some additional free features include a scientific calculator, an interactive periodic table, an interactive molecular viewer, a graph creator/editor, and an online space to work with interactive shapes.

3:00 PM

Read&Write - Free Literacy and Writing Support at UWindsor

Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule: Thursday, September 07, 2023, 03:00 PM – 04:00 PM
Location: Online, Microsoft Teams
Instructors: Anthony Gomez, Mark Lubrick
Did you know that all UWindsor students, faculty, and staff now have free access to a powerful literacy support application?
Read&Write is a suite of software tools designed to assist in the areas of research, studying, and of course, reading and writing. Whether used in conjunction with Google Chrome or as a standalone application, Read&Write can convert your spoken notes or assignments into text, as well as read your text and .PDFs out loud. This application is also helpful with Blackboard exams, online journal articles, as well as e-mails and typed assignments.

Friday, September 8, 2023

10:30 AM

Creating free interactive content with H5P

Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule: Friday, September 08, 2023, 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM
Location: Online, Microsoft Teams
Instructors: Mark Lubrick
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.
In this workshop, participants will see how to create an account, find existing resources, and how to create some common popular interaction types. Additionally, they will be shown how to find examples and tutorials for any additional content types they may want to explore.

1:30 PM

5 tips to make your Brightspace site more accessible

Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule: Friday, September 08, 2023, 01:30 PM – 02:00 PM
Location: Online, Microsoft Teams
This short workshop sprint will introduce and demonstrate some key tools and tips for how you can improve the accessibility of your Brightspace course site. The topics will include:
  1. Content editor
  2. Accommodations e.g., extra time, or different submit date
  3. Accessibility checkers
  4. Captions
  5. Panorama (available January 2023)

Monday, September 11, 2023

Using Teams as your virtual classroom

Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule: Monday, September 11, 2023, 01:00 PM – 02:00 PM
Location: Online, Microsoft Teams
Instructors: Mark Lubrick
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.

Friday, September 22, 2023

Getting Started with Pressbooks

Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule: Friday, September 22, 2023, 01:00 PM – 02:00 PM
Location: Online, Microsoft Teams
Instructors: Ashlyne O'Neil
This workshop will provide an introduction to the power and versatility of Pressbooks as an open-publishing authoring tool, and equip you with the tools you need to get started. Pressbooks is a free, user-friendly, and provincially supported system that allows you to create and adapt various forms of content (e.g., online books, learning modules, embedded videos, H5P interactions, etc.) for your courses, workshops, and more.
We will review the following topics: 1) getting your free account; 2) starting a book; 3) behind-the-scenes admin stuff for creators; 4) accessibility considerations; 5) import and export files; and 6) formatting.

Tuesday, October 10, 2023

Read&Write - Free Literacy and Writing Support at UWindsor

Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule: Tuesday, October 10, 2023, 12:00 PM – 01:00 PM
Location: Online, Microsoft Teams
Instructors: Anthony Gomez, Mark Lubrick
Did you know that all UWindsor students, faculty, and staff now have free access to a powerful literacy support application?
Read&Write is a suite of software tools designed to assist in the areas of research, studying, and of course, reading and writing. Whether used in conjunction with Google Chrome or as a standalone application, Read&Write can convert your spoken notes or assignments into text, as well as read your text and .PDFs out loud. This application is also helpful with Blackboard exams, online journal articles, as well as e-mails and typed assignments.

Wednesday, October 11, 2023

Creating free interactive content with H5P

Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule: Wednesday, October 11, 2023, 01:00 PM – 02:00 PM
Location: Online, Microsoft Teams
Instructors: Mark Lubrick
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.
In this workshop, participants will see how to create an account, find existing resources, and how to create some common popular interaction types. Additionally, they will be shown how to find examples and tutorials for any additional content types they may want to explore.

Thursday, October 12, 2023

Using Teams as your virtual classroom

Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule: Thursday, October 12, 2023, 12:00 PM – 01:00 PM
Location: Online, Microsoft Teams
Instructors: Mark Lubrick
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.

Monday, October 16, 2023

EquatIO: A free digital math tool for UWindsor

Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule: Monday, October 16, 2023, 11:00 AM – 11:45 AM
Location: Online, Microsoft Teams
Instructors: Mark Lubrick
The premium version of EquatIO is free for everyone at UWindsor and is an ideal tool for anyone looking for digital math tools. You can take a picture of written math and convert it to digital, editable equations, or if you prefer, just handwrite in the app itself and it will convert it to digital. The screenshot function will take any math on the web and make it accessible and editable. You can even speak your equations aloud and have them created. Of course, there is also a more traditional equation editor (LaTeX is supported, too) with a prediction feature to finish your equations, chemical symbols, and more. Some additional free features include a scientific calculator, an interactive periodic table, an interactive molecular viewer, a graph creator/editor, and an online space to work with interactive shapes.

Monday, November 13, 2023

Access for all: Tips and tools for your Brightspace course

Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule: Monday, November 13, 2023, 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Location: Online, Microsoft Teams
This session will explore digital accessibility and some customizations, including pronoun modifications, available within your Brightspace course site. We will cover the built-in features within Brightspace that can be used to enhance or check accessibility. We will also review Panorama, the accessibility audit tool that will be available in Brightspace upon request effective January 2023. This tool assists users by providing alternative formats of a document including .mp3, .txt, voice-to-text, EPUB, braille, high contrast and others. Further, instructors will also be able to view accessibility audit reports on documents they have uploaded to their site. Instructions on how to access Panorama will be given during the workshop.

Tuesday, December 5, 2023

Introduction to YuJa

Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule: Tuesday, December 05, 2023, 01:30 PM – 03:30 PM
Location: Online, Microsoft Teams
Instructors: Lorie Stolarchuk
The YuJa Enterprise Video Platform is a powerful, robust set of online tools to complement and enhance the campus’ ability to store, stream, create, edit, and embed videos into online systems such as Blackboard course sites or websites. This session will offer an introduction to using YuJa for your teaching and learning. Topics for the workshop include:
  • Accessing YuJa
  • Uploading and organizing content
  • Installing the YuJa Software Capture application
  • Creating and editing recordings
  • Distributing content, and
  • Accessibility and other features included.
It is recommended that you have a web camera and microphone for the session and are familiar with configuring and using them before the session. You will also need to be familiar with switching between using a web browser, preferably Chrome, simultaneously with the MS Teams application

Friday, December 8, 2023

Advanced Options in YuJa

Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule: Friday, December 08, 2023, 01:30 PM – 03:30 PM
Location: Online, Microsoft Teams
Instructors: Mark Lubrick
For instructors or their assistants who have used YuJa to create, distribute and/or edit their videos already, or those who have taken the Introduction to YuJa workshop. Join us to find out how to unleash some of the powerful elements of the YuJa Video Enterprise System. You will need to have at least one video prepared in your YuJa account for this workshop.
Topics include:
  • Quizzes – Identifying and creating different types of YuJa quizzes, and question types, exploring settings, and accessing /understanding the Audit Logs
  • Usage and Analytics – identifying Video and YuJa Course analytics and accessing the YuJa Gradebook for quiz management
  • Content Distribution – Exploring how to embed the quiz into Brightspace and troubleshooting

Wednesday, December 13, 2023

EquatIO: A free digital math tool for UWindsor

Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule: Wednesday, December 13, 2023, 03:00 PM – 03:45 PM
Location: Online, Microsoft Teams
Instructors: Mark Lubrick
The premium version of EquatIO is free for everyone at UWindsor and is an ideal tool for anyone looking for digital math tools. You can take a picture of written math and convert it to digital, editable equations, or if you prefer, just handwrite in the app itself and it will convert it to digital. The screenshot function will take any math on the web and make it accessible and editable. You can even speak your equations aloud and have them created. Of course, there is also a more traditional equation editor (LaTeX is supported, too) with a prediction feature to finish your equations, chemical symbols, and more. Some additional free features include a scientific calculator, an interactive periodic table, an interactive molecular viewer, a graph creator/editor, and an online space to work with interactive shapes.

Tuesday, December 19, 2023

12:00 PM

Creating free interactive content with H5P

Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule: Tuesday, December 19, 2023, 12:00 PM – 01:00 PM
Location: Online, Microsoft Teams
Instructors: Mark Lubrick
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.
In this workshop, participants will see how to create an account, find existing resources, and how to create some common popular interaction types. Additionally, they will be shown how to find examples and tutorials for any additional content types they may want to explore.

1:00 PM

Getting Started with Pressbooks

Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule: Tuesday, December 19, 2023, 01:00 PM – 02:00 PM
Location: Online, Microsoft Teams
Instructors: Ashlyne O'Neil
This workshop will provide an introduction to the power and versatility of Pressbooks as an open-publishing authoring tool, and equip you with the tools you need to get started. Pressbooks is a free, user-friendly, and provincially supported system that allows you to create and adapt various forms of content (e.g., online books, learning modules, embedded videos, H5P interactions, etc.) for your courses, workshops, and more. We will review the following topics: 1) getting your free account; 2) starting a book; 3) behind-the-scenes admin stuff for creators; 4) accessibility considerations; 5) import and export files; and 6) formatting.

Friday, January 5, 2024

Orientation to flexible delivery classrooms

Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule: Friday, January 05, 2024, 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM
Location: Toldo Room 204
Instructors: Mark Lubrick
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.
This session will be held onsite in one of these classrooms. We will be trying to model what you can do in this space with a flexible class design (both physically and virtually). You will be able to experience the live class and the online class (through the virtual chat). Please bring an electronic device with you to fully participate. Part of the class will be discussing flexible design principles and conditions at UWindsor and the other part will be a hands-on opportunity to test out the equipment.

Monday, January 8, 2024

Using Teams as your virtual classroom

Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule: Monday, January 08, 2024, 12:00 PM – 01:00 PM
Location: Online, Microsoft Teams
Instructors: Mark Lubrick
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.

Tuesday, January 9, 2024

EquatIO: A free digital math tool for UWindsor

Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule: Tuesday, January 09, 2024, 01:00 PM – 01:45 PM
Location: Online, Microsoft Teams
Instructors: Mark Lubrick
The premium version of EquatIO is free for everyone at UWindsor and is an ideal tool for anyone looking for digital math tools. You can take a picture of written math and convert it to digital, editable equations, or if you prefer, just handwrite in the app itself and it will convert it to digital. The screenshot function will take any math on the web and make it accessible and editable. You can even speak your equations aloud and have them created. Of course, there is also a more traditional equation editor (LaTeX is supported, too) with a prediction feature to finish your equations, chemical symbols, and more. Some additional free features include a scientific calculator, an interactive periodic table, an interactive molecular viewer, a graph creator/editor, and an online space to work with interactive shapes.

Wednesday, January 10, 2024

5 tips to make your Brightspace site more accessible

Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule: Wednesday, January 10, 2024, 02:00 PM – 02:30 PM
Location: Online, Microsoft Teams
This short workshop sprint will introduce and demonstrate some key tools and tips for how you can improve the accessibility of your Brightspace course site. The topics will include:
  1. Content editor
  2. Accommodations e.g., extra time, or different submit date
  3. Accessibility checkers
  4. Captions
  5. Panorama (available January 2023)

Thursday, January 11, 2024

A practical guide to creating PowerPoint videos

Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule: Thursday, January 11, 2024, 02:00 PM – 02:45 PM
Location: Online, Microsoft Teams
Instructors: Mark Lubrick
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.

Friday, January 12, 2024

Access for all: Tips and tools for your Brightspace course

Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule: Friday, January 12, 2024, 02:00 PM – 04:00 PM
Location: Online, Microsoft Teams
This session will explore digital accessibility and some customizations, including pronoun modifications, available within your Brightspace course site. We will cover the built-in features within Brightspace that can be used to enhance or check accessibility. We will also review Panorama, the accessibility audit tool that will be available in Brightspace upon request effective January 2023. This tool assists users by providing alternative formats of a document including .mp3, .txt, voice-to-text, EPUB, braille, high contrast and others. Further, instructors will also be able to view accessibility audit reports on documents they have uploaded to their site. Instructions on how to access Panorama will be given during the workshop.

Monday, January 15, 2024

Read&Write - Free Literacy and Writing Support at UWindsor

Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule: Monday, January 15, 2024, 12:00 PM – 01:00 PM
Location: Online, Microsoft Teams
Instructors: Anthony Gomez, Mark Lubrick
Did you know that all UWindsor students, faculty, and staff now have free access to a powerful literacy support application?
Read&Write is a suite of software tools designed to assist in the areas of research, studying, and of course, reading and writing. Whether used in conjunction with Google Chrome or as a standalone application, Read&Write can convert your spoken notes or assignments into text, as well as read your text and .PDFs out loud. This application is also helpful with Blackboard exams, online journal articles, as well as e-mails and typed assignments.

Wednesday, January 17, 2024

Introduction to YuJa

Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule: Wednesday, January 17, 2024, 01:30 PM – 03:30 PM
Location: Online, Microsoft Teams
Instructors: Lorie Stolarchuk
The YuJa Enterprise Video Platform is a powerful, robust set of online tools to complement and enhance the campus’ ability to store, stream, create, edit, and embed videos into online systems such as Blackboard course sites or websites. This session will offer an introduction to using YuJa for your teaching and learning. Topics for the workshop include:
  • Accessing YuJa
  • Uploading and organizing content
  • Installing the YuJa Software Capture application
  • Creating and editing recordings
  • Distributing content, and
  • Accessibility and other features included.

Thursday, January 25, 2024

Advanced Options in YuJa

Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule: Thursday, January 25, 2024, 01:30 PM – 03:30 PM
Location: Online, Microsoft Teams
Instructors: Lorie Stolarchuk
For instructors or their assistants who have used YuJa to create, distribute and/or edit their videos already, or those who have taken the Introduction to YuJa workshop. Join us to find out how to unleash some of the powerful elements of the YuJa Video Enterprise System. You will need to have at least one video prepared in your YuJa account for this workshop.
Topics include:
  • Quizzes – Identifying and creating different types of YuJa quizzes, and question types, exploring settings, and accessing /understanding the Audit Logs
  • Usage and Analytics – identifying Video and YuJa Course analytics and accessing the YuJa Gradebook for quiz management
  • Content Distribution – Exploring how to embed the quiz into Brightspace and troubleshooting

Thursday, February 1, 2024

H5P Working Group

Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule: Thursday, February 01, 2024, 02:00 PM – 03:00 PM
Location: Online, Microsoft Teams
This informal group will meet once a month to explore the H5P tool, and to build H5P interactions together. Supported by OOL team members, meetings will generally start with a brief demonstration of an H5P interaction type and how to create it, followed by time to work on H5P interactions, share our work, and provide constructive feedback with OOL team members there to assist. Offered both in-person and online, participants may choose how to participate, and may join only the meetings they are available for. Teams meeting invites will be sent prior to the day of the meeting, and once you have signed up for one event, you will be added to future Teams invites unless you ask to be removed. Come out and see what we can build together and feel free to bring a friend.

Monday, February 5, 2024

A practical guide to creating PowerPoint videos

Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule: Monday, February 05, 2024, 11:00 AM – 11:45 AM
Location: Online, Microsoft Teams
Instructors: Mark Lubrick
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.

Tuesday, February 6, 2024

EquatIO: A free digital math tool for UWindsor

Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule: Tuesday, February 06, 2024, 12:00 PM – 12:45 PM
Location: Online, Microsoft Teams
Instructors: Mark Lubrick
The premium version of EquatIO is free for everyone at UWindsor and is an ideal tool for anyone looking for digital math tools. You can take a picture of written math and convert it to digital, editable equations, or if you prefer, just handwrite in the app itself and it will convert it to digital. The screenshot function will take any math on the web and make it accessible and editable. You can even speak your equations aloud and have them created. Of course, there is also a more traditional equation editor (LaTeX is supported, too) with a prediction feature to finish your equations, chemical symbols, and more. Some additional free features include a scientific calculator, an interactive periodic table, an interactive molecular viewer, a graph creator/editor, and an online space to work with interactive shapes.

Wednesday, February 7, 2024

Using Teams as your virtual classroom

Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule: Wednesday, February 07, 2024, 02:00 PM – 03:00 PM
Location: Online, Microsoft Teams
Instructors: Mark Lubrick
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.

Monday, February 12, 2024

Creating free interactive content with H5P

Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule: Monday, February 12, 2024, 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM
Location: Online, Microsoft Teams
Instructors: Mark Lubrick
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.
In this workshop, participants will see how to create an account, find existing resources, and how to create some common popular interaction types. Additionally, they will be shown how to find examples and tutorials for any additional content types they may want to explore.

Wednesday, February 14, 2024

2:00 PM

Access for all: Tips and tools for your Brightspace course

Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule: Wednesday, February 14, 2024, 02:00 PM – 04:00 PM
Location: Online, Microsoft Teams
This session will explore digital accessibility and some customizations, including pronoun modifications, available within your Brightspace course site. We will cover the built-in features within Brightspace that can be used to enhance or check accessibility. We will also review Panorama, the accessibility audit tool that will be available in Brightspace upon request effective January 2023. This tool assists users by providing alternative formats of a document including .mp3, .txt, voice-to-text, EPUB, braille, high contrast and others. Further, instructors will also be able to view accessibility audit reports on documents they have uploaded to their site. Instructions on how to access Panorama will be given during the workshop.

3:30 PM

Getting Started with Pressbooks

Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule: Wednesday, February 14, 2024, 03:30 PM – 04:30 PM
Location: Online, Microsoft Teams
Instructors: Ashlyne O'Neil
This workshop will provide an introduction to the power and versatility of Pressbooks as an open-publishing authoring tool, and equip you with the tools you need to get started. Pressbooks is a free, user-friendly, and provincially supported system that allows you to create and adapt various forms of content (e.g., online books, learning modules, embedded videos, H5P interactions, etc.) for your courses, workshops, and more. We will review the following topics: 1) getting your free account; 2) starting a book; 3) behind-the-scenes admin stuff for creators; 4) accessibility considerations; 5) import and export files; and 6) formatting.

Thursday, February 29, 2024

2:00 PM

H5P Working Group

Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule: Thursday, February 29, 2024, 02:00 PM – 03:30 PM
Location: CEI 1232
This informal group will meet once a month to explore the H5P tool, and to build H5P interactions together. Supported by OOL team members, meetings will generally start with a brief demonstration of an H5P interaction type and how to create it, followed by time to work on H5P interactions, share our work, and provide constructive feedback with OOL team members there to assist. Offered both in-person and online, participants may choose how to participate, and may join only the meetings they are available for. Teams meeting invites will be sent prior to the day of the meeting, and once you have signed up for one event, you will be added to future Teams invites unless you ask to be removed. Come out and see what we can build together and feel free to bring a friend.

4:00 PM

Getting Started with Pressbooks

Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule: Thursday, February 29, 2024, 04:00 PM – 05:00 PM
Location: Online, Microsoft Teams
Instructors: Ashlyne O'Neil
This workshop will provide an introduction to the power and versatility of Pressbooks as an open-publishing authoring tool, and equip you with the tools you need to get started. Pressbooks is a free, user-friendly, and provincially supported system that allows you to create and adapt various forms of content (e.g., online books, learning modules, embedded videos, H5P interactions, etc.) for your courses, workshops, and more. We will review the following topics: 1) getting your free account; 2) starting a book; 3) behind-the-scenes admin stuff for creators; 4) accessibility considerations; 5) import and export files; and 6) formatting.

Monday, March 11, 2024

1:00 PM

Inclusive Slide Design

Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule: Monday, March 11, 2024, 01:00 PM – 02:00 PM
Location: Online, Microsoft Teams
Instructors: Ashlyne O'Neil
This workshop will explore principles of and approaches for designing inclusive and accessible presentation slides. We will discuss some of the common slide design programs (e.g., PowerPoint, Google Slides, Canva, and Mentimeter), their accessibility functions, and considerations for slides for live presentations vs. slides for distribution. Whether you are teaching a course, facilitating a workshop, or preparing for your next conference presentation, this session will help you develop slides to engage all learners and attendees.

2:00 PM

EquatIO: A free digital math tool for UWindsor

Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule: Monday, March 11, 2024, 02:00 PM – 02:45 PM
Location: Online, Microsoft Teams
Instructors: Mark Lubrick
The premium version of EquatIO is free for everyone at UWindsor and is an ideal tool for anyone looking for digital math tools. You can take a picture of written math and convert it to digital, editable equations, or if you prefer, just handwrite in the app itself and it will convert it to digital. The screenshot function will take any math on the web and make it accessible and editable. You can even speak your equations aloud and have them created. Of course, there is also a more traditional equation editor (LaTeX is supported, too) with a prediction feature to finish your equations, chemical symbols, and more. Some additional free features include a scientific calculator, an interactive periodic table, an interactive molecular viewer, a graph creator/editor, and an online space to work with interactive shapes.

Tuesday, March 12, 2024

12:00 PM

Using Teams as your virtual classroom

Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule: Tuesday, March 12, 2024, 12:00 PM – 01:00 PM
Location: Online, Microsoft Teams
Instructors: Mark Lubrick
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.

3:00 PM

5 tips to make your Brightspace site more accessible

Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule: Tuesday, March 12, 2024, 03:00 PM – 03:30 PM
Location: Online, Microsoft Teams
This short workshop sprint will introduce and demonstrate some key tools and tips for how you can improve the accessibility of your Brightspace course site. The topics will include:
  1. Content editor
  2. Accommodations e.g., extra time, or different submit date
  3. Accessibility checkers
  4. Captions
  5. Panorama (available January 2023)

Wednesday, March 13, 2024

1:30 PM

Introduction to YuJa

Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule: Wednesday, March 13, 2024, 01:30 PM – 03:30 PM
Location: Online, Microsoft Teams
Instructors: Lorie Stolarchuk
The YuJa Enterprise Video Platform is a powerful, robust set of online tools to complement and enhance the campus’ ability to store, stream, create, edit, and embed videos into online systems such as Blackboard course sites or websites. This session will offer an introduction to using YuJa for your teaching and learning. Topics for the workshop include:
  • Accessing YuJa
  • Uploading and organizing content
  • Installing the YuJa Software Capture application
  • Creating and editing recordings
  • Distributing content, and
  • Accessibility and other features included.

3:30 PM

A practical guide to creating PowerPoint videos

Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule: Wednesday, March 13, 2024, 03:30 PM – 04:15 PM
Location: Online, Microsoft Teams
Instructors: Mark Lubrick
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.

Friday, March 15, 2024

10:00 AM

Read&Write - Free Literacy and Writing Support at UWindsor

Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule: Friday, March 15, 2024, 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM
Location: Online, Microsoft Teams
Instructors: Anthony Gomez, Mark Lubrick
Did you know that all UWindsor students, faculty, and staff now have free access to a powerful literacy support application?
Read&Write is a suite of software tools designed to assist in the areas of research, studying, and of course, reading and writing. Whether used in conjunction with Google Chrome or as a standalone application, Read&Write can convert your spoken notes or assignments into text, as well as read your text and .PDFs out loud. This application is also helpful with Blackboard exams, online journal articles, as well as e-mails and typed assignments.

2:00 PM

Creating free interactive content with H5P

Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule: Friday, March 15, 2024, 02:00 PM – 03:00 PM
Location: Online, Microsoft Teams
Instructors: Mark Lubrick
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.
In this workshop, participants will see how to create an account, find existing resources, and how to create some common popular interaction types. Additionally, they will be shown how to find examples and tutorials for any additional content types they may want to explore.

Thursday, April 4, 2024

H5P working group

Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule: Thursday, April 04, 2024, 02:00 PM – 03:30 PM
Location: Online, Microsoft Teams
This informal group will meet once a month to explore the H5P tool, and to build H5P interactions together. Supported by OOL team members, meetings will generally start with a brief demonstration of an H5P interaction type and how to create it, followed by time to work on H5P interactions, share our work, and provide constructive feedback with OOL team members there to assist. Offered both in-person and online, participants may choose how to participate, and may join only the meetings they are available for. Teams meeting invites will be sent prior to the day of the meeting, and once you have signed up for one event, you will be added to future Teams invites unless you ask to be removed. Come out and see what we can build together and feel free to bring a friend.

Tuesday, April 9, 2024

Creating free interactive content with H5P

Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule: Tuesday, April 09, 2024, 12:00 PM – 01:00 PM
Location: Online, Microsoft Teams
Instructors: Mark Lubrick
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.
In this workshop, participants will see how to create an account, find existing resources, and how to create some common popular interaction types. Additionally, they will be shown how to find examples and tutorials for any additional content types they may want to explore.

Friday, April 12, 2024

5 tips to make your Brightspace site more accessible

Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule: Friday, April 12, 2024, 10:00 AM – 10:30 AM
Location: Online, Microsoft Teams
This short workshop sprint will introduce and demonstrate some key tools and tips for how you can improve the accessibility of your Brightspace course site. The topics will include:
  1. Content editor
  2. Accommodations e.g., extra time, or different submit date
  3. Accessibility checkers
  4. Captions
  5. Panorama (available January 2023)

Tuesday, April 23, 2024

Orientation to flexible delivery classrooms

Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule: Tuesday, April 23, 2024, 03:00 PM – 04:30 PM
Location: Toldo 104
Instructors: Mark Lubrick
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.
This session will be held onsite in one of these classrooms. We will be trying to model what you can do in this space with a flexible class design (both physically and virtually). You will be able to experience the live class and the online class (through the virtual chat). Please bring an electronic device with you to fully participate. Part of the class will be discussing flexible design principles and conditions at UWindsor and the other part will be a hands-on opportunity to test out the equipment.

Thursday, April 25, 2024

Inclusive Slide Design

Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule: Thursday, April 25, 2024, 02:00 PM – 03:00 PM
Location: Online, Microsoft Teams
Instructors: Ashlyne O'Neil
This workshop will explore principles of and approaches for designing inclusive and accessible presentation slides. We will discuss some of the common slide design programs (e.g., PowerPoint, Google Slides, Canva, and Mentimeter), their accessibility functions, and considerations for slides for live presentations vs. slides for distribution. Whether you are teaching a course, facilitating a workshop, or preparing for your next conference presentation, this session will help you develop slides to engage all learners and attendees.