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Workshops are Available Every Semester
Please visit www.svsu.edu/workshops to look for session topics and times. Please note the related articles on the right-hand side of the page.
Webinars Offered Outside of SVSU
Request EchoVideo in Your Course
Canvas Tools to Help You Teach
- Announcements: Send timely course communication messages to students or delay them for a specific date. Students can make comments if enabled. Show recent announcements on your course Home Page.
- Quiz: Online testing, surveying, and quizzing (graded/non-graded).
- Respondus Lockdown Browser and Monitor: Used for online exams that restrict students from accessing websites/applications and monitor via webcam (must be enabled). View the Respondus Student Guide.
- Discussion: Asynchronous text discussions with and among students.
- Use Microsoft Teams in Canvas - Create MS Teams online meetings in your course within Canvas from the Announcement tool. MS Teams is available in the Rich Content Editor (plug-shaped icon). Teams is great for collaboration (file sharing), online office hours, sharing your screen, there is a Lobby, breakout rooms for group activities, reactions, chat, and more. Microsoft Teams is the default conferencing tool for web conferencing in Canvas, set up your Team's class in Canvas.
- Big Blue Button Conference: We recommend Microsoft Teams (MS Teams) in place of Canvas Conferences (Big Blue Button (BBB). Still, intend to use the Big Blue Button Conference tool? You can use it for synchronous meetings, it offers real-time video/audio, computer screen share, chat, a whiteboard, and reactions. View our article with a comparison table of what applications we recommend for synchronous and asynchronous teaching tools.
Canvas Quick Start Video by Instructure
Watch this YouTube video "Canvas Quick Start Guide" by Instructure, it is a condensed version of the needed essentials to help teach using Canvas. For full training on using Canvas's tools register for our training workshops at svsu.edu/workshops
Tools to Help You Teach Outside of Canvas
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Microsoft Stream (on SharePoint) - This is an online video maker, comes with white board, backgrounds, a teleprompter, and more. There is s maximum recording limit of 15 minutes. We recommend that students use Microsoft Stream for biographies and presentations. Available for faculty, staff, and registered students.
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Prezi Video - This is an online video maker. The video is created with you and the content right along the side of you on the screen. It comes with pre-made templates and is FREE for educators and students.
- PowerPoint - Recording Narratives of Class Lectures
Web Conferencing Tools
- EchoVideo: It is SVSU's chosen lecture capture system. You can pre-record your video lectures or stream them live in your Canvas courses. Record your screen, audio, yourself, and engage your students. Learn more lecture capture and visit our help page at svsu.edu/echohelp view our EchoVideo Student Guide.
- Microsoft Teams: Use MS Teams for Features two-way communication using chat (private/public), video/audio, break-out rooms, file/screen sharing capabilities, meeting lobby, ability to record your online meeting with live transcription, present live with PowerPoint, raise your hand virtually or react in a meeting, join all your colleagues with Together Mode, and more. MS Teams is our RECOMMENDED collaboration platform. Learn more about MS Teams.
- Zoom: Free/basic Zoom accounts have a 40-minute time limit, it is one of our supported online meeting tools. For video training see Zoom's collection of resources be sure to check out our Zoom Video Conferencing Guide.
Teaching Apps for a Touchscreen Device
- Microsoft Whiteboard: This is a collaborative digital canvas that integrates with Microsoft Teams, you can use it during an online meeting. Use the Whiteboard app online via the Microsoft 365 app launcher. Available from the Microsoft Store and iOS devices. Coming soon for Android.
- Microsoft Draw feature: Use your touchscreen device (Windows, Mac, and iOS/Android) and sketch your ideas and teach lessons within Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote. You can annotate, highlight, and emphasize content. Math faculty use the Ink to Math or Math Assistant in OneNote. Learn how to "Use the Draw feature in Microsoft Apps with your Touch Device".
Teach Without a Touchscreen Device
Use EchoVideo Universal Capture Personal. You can record 2 inputs on your screen and written content on a document camera.
Use a Wacom Drawing Tablet to Teach. Write, draw, paint, and more. Explain concepts visually, sketch, and annotate on your screen. Use it in Microsoft apps link
PowerPoint, OneNote, MS Word, and more.
You can request equipment needed for teaching just fill out our
Equipment Request form.