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This webinar covers the Final Grade feature of the myCourses Gradebook.

Instructors have many options to control how a student sees that final grade, or if they even see it at all!

Learn the difference between the Final Calculated and the Final Adjusted grade, and why you might choose one over the other.

NOTE: Releasing final grades in myCourses does NOT fulfill the requirement of posting grades in SIS for the Registrar's records.

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myCourses offers a Quizzing tool to offer your tests and exams with. It can also be used as a basic homework tool to help with the acceptance and grading of assignments.

This online webinar event will cover the basics of the myCourses quizzes tool:

• Creating your questions
• How to build a quiz
• And features such as auto-grading

Log in to the URL below, from the comfort of your home or office, to learn more.

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Are you using clickers in your classes? If so, the best way to give feedback to your students on their use of clickers in your class is through the myCourses grade book. All data is automatically saved when you use clickers, but there are a few steps you will need to take to import that information into myCourses so your students can see it as well. This webinar will walk you through that process step by step.

*This webinar will not cover the basic set up of clickers or how to use them in the classroom. This webinar in designed for faculty who are already using clickers in their classes.

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This webinar is an abbreviated introduction for Instructors teaching with myCourses. We cover some of the core tools to help with the basics of myCourses and to begin sharing your content with Student. Future webinars will cover additional myCourses topics.

• The Content tool for sharing your syllabus, documents, and other files with students.
• The Classlist for email communication and reviewing your enrollments.
• The News tool for important course announcements.
• The timeline of how myCourses is integrated at RIT.

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This webinar covers the Final Grade feature of the myCourses Gradebook.

Instructors have many options to control how a student sees that final grade, or if they even see it at all!

Learn the difference between the Final Calculated and the Final Adjusted grade, and why you might choose one over the other.

NOTE: Releasing final grades in myCourses does NOT fulfill the requirement of posting grades in SIS.

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myCourses will soon undergo an upgrade! What can you expect? Join Online Learning staff members Ken Kindler and Ian Mikutel for this preview.

This is also your opportunity to ask any question about myCourses, in an open Q & A format.

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The Online Learning department at RIT will join hundreds of other exhibitors at the Imagine RIT Innovation + Creativity Festival on Saturday, May 2!

The staff will have family-friendly activities in the WOW Center in the Gordon Field House, i-Clicker demonstrations in the Online Learning office, and demonstrations of the innovative Teaching & Learning Technology Studio in the lower level of Wallace Library.

Join us for this webinar, as Online Learning offers a preview of it's exhibits and interactive activities.

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Second Life is a virtual world on the internet. Through customized avatars, users can spend money to purchase virtual goods & services, visit countless "islands" by either walking, flying or teleporting, and experience situations that simply are not possible in the "real world".

The Online Learning department at RIT has built an "island" in Second Life. It includes virtual representations of various campus buildings, meeting areas, and science experiments that simply are not possible in the real world, yet have real-world applications.

In this webinar, Online Learning Instructional Technologist Katie McDonald and Media Specialist Ian Webber will show you how Second Life can be incorporated as a teaching and learning tool in your course.

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This webinar will focus on the Learning Repository of myCourses. This tool allows faculty to easily share and reuse content across courses. The repository can also be used to search the RIT Digital Media Library and MERLOT - The Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching, and bring those materials in to your course.

Online Learning staff member Ken Kindler and Marianne Buehler of the Wallace Library, will host this webinar.

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The Online Learning Student Community (OLSC) provides information for first-time and continuing online learners, such as computer performance requirements, course information, and discussion forums dedicated to online learning issues and solutions.

The Online Writing Lab (OWL) is available only to online students. It is a service much like that found on-campus at the Academic Support Center, providing guidance for writing projects.

Learn how these services aid and benefit your online students in this webinar presented by Online Learning staff members Ken Kindler and Marybeth Koon.

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The room's high-tech tools include:

Flexible room furniture:26 chairs and 14 tables, all rolling and stacking, allowing for a virtually unlimited number of customizable configurations.

Touch-panel control system: All of the room's equipment is run by a touch-panel control system, operated at the podium and remotely.

Multi-image projection: The TLT Studio uses three digital projectors with high-resolution optics, offering more than three times the resolution of a typical classroom projector.

Multi-camera capture: Three broadcast-quality, robotic, SDI cameras that feed into the Educational Technology Center production suite for live, high-end production recording.

Tablet PCs and collaboration software: The room is equipped with 26 Hewlett Packard 2710 tablet PC laptop computers, running DyKnow collaboration software

Telephone audio conferencing: The TLT studio is outfitted with an array of speakers and microphones - all controlled by the touch-panel control system - for conducting audio conferences.

Learn more about this unique classroom, and how to apply to use it, in this webinar presented by Online Learning staff member Michael Starenko.

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myCourses also allows you to grade each topic entry, and lets participants rate other postings.

Learn some of the best practices for using myCourses asynchronous discussion in this webinar.

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This webinar will focus on getting started with the myCourses Grades tool. We will start at the beginning to help you choose the options that best fit your grading approach and then walk you through creating your grade items. Then we will show you how to grade those items and enter comments for your students.

Final Grades are covered in a webinar dedicated to the topic at the end of the quarter.

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This webinar will provide an introduction to the Confluence wiki. The Confluence wiki is an opportunity for RIT faculty to utilize a supported, secure wiki, available through Online Learning.

If you are interested in learning more about the Confluence wiki, as well as getting a basic overview of how you might be able to use a wiki in your course, please join us for this webinar.

Faculty teaching online, blended or campus courses are invited to attend.

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Respondus and the Respondus Lockdown Browser are two tools licensed by Online Learning to assist faculty in managing and administering quizzes on-campus and online. Respondus is a quiz management system which allows you to manage question and quiz libraries and then generate print quizzes for use in a face to face class or export those same quizzes for use online through myCourses. With this program for Microsoft Windows/Vista you can leverage your work on tests in the classroom or online.

The Respondus LockDown Browser is a customized browser that increases the security of online testing in myCourses. When students use Respondus LockDown Browser to access a quiz, they are unable to print, copy, go to another URL, access other applications or close a quiz until it is submitted for grading.

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myCourses offers two tools to help you manage groups, and group evaluation: the Groups tool and the Peer2Peer evaluation tool.

The Groups tool gives faculty a number of options for creating groups. Additionally, each group can have its own dropbox for assignments, its own discussion forum, and its own "locker" for document storage.

The online peer evaluation tool, peer2peer, lets each work group member evaluate the performance of their teammates, as well as their own performance. The instructor can view the evaluation results, and even allow students to view the ratings they received from other group members. peer2peer can be a helpful tool when evaluating the performance of a group on a specific project.

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The Attendance tool allows the professor to track attendance, instead of creating an attendance category in Grades. You can also track different attendance groups, such as a class that has lectures and labs.

Intelligent Agents allow you to setup “agents” that will monitor certain course conditions, and send out messages when those conditions are met. For example, you can have an email sent to you if a student has not logged into the course for a period of time, or you can set it to email students who scored low on a midterm to alert them to coaching or tutoring opportunities.

Join us for an introduction to these tools and help us provide feedback to the vendor to shape their development.

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Adobe Captivate is an extremely versatile program that lets you build and edit interactive lessons, podcasts and demonstrations. By using existing powerpoints or creating new ones, users can:

-Input and edit voice narrations;

-Add captions, clickable "hotspots" and moving mouse pointers;

-Change the timing for each item to appear and disappear, and much more.

This webinar will be presented by Adobe trainer Tim Plumer.

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myCourses offers two tools to help with feedback on your course and your student's work: the Mid-Quarter Survey and the Peer2Peer evaluation tool.

The Mid-Quarter Survey allows faculty to collect anonymous feedback on their course, in time to address student concerns and misconceptions. Online Learning has a sample survey you can easily import into myCourses.

The online peer evaluation tool, peer2peer, lets each work group member evaluate the performance of their teammates, as well as their own performance. The instructor can view the evaluation results, and even allow students to view the ratings they received from other group members. peer2peer can be a helpful tool when evaluating the performance of a group on a specific project.

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Adobe Presenter lets you create self-running, smooth-flowing powerpoints and rich media presentations that you can produce right on your own computer.

Install it as a menu item on Microsoft powerpoint, then add your own voice narration and lecture notes to create a self-contained lesson viewable for online learners, or as a supplement to your in-class activities.

This webinar will get you started on the basics of Adobe Presenter.

NOTE: Adobe Presenter is compatible only with a PC, or the "virtual PC" side of your Mac.

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Adobe Connect is a web-based tool for conducting meetings and presentations online, in real-time. Use it to present lessons to your online class, for online office hours, or for class presentations by groups of online students!

This webinar will focus on the basics of conducting a class or meeting in Adobe Connect.

It will cover:

-Creating and managing the "meeting room";

-Sharing documents and powerpoints with viewers;

-Recording your meeting for future access;

-And best pedagogical practices for using Adobe Connect.

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Online Learning will give a walk through of the upcoming upgrade taking place on the break before Summer quarter May 29th-30th. We will preview the tools and highlight improvements that will be coming up. We're really excited about this upgrade, a lot of requests we've heard have been added to the product by the vendor.

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myCourses offers two tools to help with feedback on your course and your student's work, the Mid-Quarter Survey and the Peer2Peer evaluation tool.

The mid-quarter survey is a way for faculty to collect anonymous feedback on their course at a point in the term when they can still address concerns. They can help highlight issues you might not have been aware of, or misconceptions you might want to take a moment to clarify in class. The myCourses survey tool is a great way to offer this survey to your students and Online Learning has a sample survey you can easily import right into your course to use.

The online peer evaluation tool, peer2peer, can be used to allow the members of your groups to evaluate the performance of their teammates as well as their own performance if you wish. The instructor can view the results of the evaluation and can choose to allow student to also view the ratings they received from other group members. peer2peer can be a helpful tool when evaluating the performance of a group on a specific project in addition to the actual materials submitted.

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Learn how to increase your efficiency when setting up your course area in myCourses with the “Copying Components” feature. This is useful to instructors that teach the same course from quarter to quarter. Our webinar facilitator will demonstrate how to copy course structure and content from one course to another easily and quickly. Since course information is duplicated to the new course area, instructors are also able to make changes as needed or delete outdated or unneeded information to the newer area without having to start from scratch.

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Do you find the empty course shell you receive at the beginning of every quarter to be daunting? Do you want to use a template to build your myCourses course shell? The Model Course 2.0 is a tool built into myCourses that can help you build your own course by using a template that is designed to improve faculty productivity and share common best practices that have been compiled from other courses and the experiences of the Online Learning team. This webinar will cover what the Model Course consists of and how to use it in your own course.

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This week the whole hour will be devoted to Online Learning staff answering your questions about myCourses. Is there a feature you want to learn more about? A tool you haven't quite been able to figure out? Ask away, we're here to answer!

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The mid-quarter survey is a way for faculty to collect anonymous feedback on their course at a point in the term when they can still address concerns. They can help highlight issues you might not have been aware of, or misconceptions you might want to take a moment to clarify in class. The myCourses survey tool is a great way to offer this survey to your students and Online Learning has a sample survey you can easily import right into your course to use. This webinar will walk you through the process of importing the survey and offering it to your students, then show you how to review the responses.

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Using the News and Calendar features in myCourses are great ways to keep your students informed and on track with course updates and timelines. This webinar will focus on how to set up News and Calendar events and how they can be used. The News tool is a great way to welcome your students at the beginning of the quarter, provide any week-to-week course highlights, and general information. The Calendar not only provides some standard RIT Calendar Events right on the myCourses’ home page, but you can also use this feature right within your own course to push out important dates to help both you and students manage time and course-related tasks.

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