Summer 2022 Programming
Join our Instructional Technology Specialist (ITS) team and your fellow instructors and teaching assistants this summer as we explore the physical and remote class environments and new educational technologies. These sessions are designed to provide support across the spectrum of course delivery methods, with a particular focus on technologies supporting hybrid lecture delivery and student assessment.
On-going sessions, specific programming for May, June, July and August, and personalized sessions are available.
ON-GOING SESSIONS
Gradescope Drop-Ins
Date & Time: Ongoing
Location: Online (Zoom)
Gradescope is new to the University of Guelph (U of G) and the University of Guelph-Humber (U of GH). Beginning in F'22, Gradescope Bubble Sheets replace the University’s current Test Scoring application and Scantron technology, which will no longer be supported.
This new educational technology also offers up-to-date assignment design opportunities, for both online and in-person formats, and provides assessment features that can increase grading efficiency and consistency, and deliver extensive feedback to students.
More information on Gradescope and the various assignment types it offers can be found in the recordings and resources from our W'22 Get to Know Gradescope Series.
If you are interested in using Gradescope to set up an existing or new assignment, learn bubble sheets, or just ask some general questions about the technology, please stop by one of our Gradescope Drop-Ins.
Gradescope Drop-Ins are scheduled via Zoom every Tuesday and Wednesday from April 18 to September 1 (no registration required!).
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Weekly Online Workshop: Get Started with Gradescope
Date & Time: Ongoing
Location: Online (Zoom)
Offered directly by our partners at Gradescope, these weekly hour-long workshops are available every Thursday at 12:00 p.m.
Gradescope's team of trainers provide thorough demonstrations and answer questions about the platform. Please note that the trainers are not affiliated with the University. If you have a question about Gradescope specific to our institution, please contact CourseLink Support or stop by one of our weekly Gradescope Drop-Ins.
In the Get Started with Gradescope workshop, you will learn how to:
- Grade any type of question in minutes using answer grouping
- Easily create flexible multiple-choice assessments with Bubble Sheets
- Use exam analytics to assess student learning and adjust for future courses
Web Conferencing Classroom Orientations
Date & Time: Ongoing (by appointment)
Location: Day Hall, Room 118
If you are assigned to a teach in a Lecture Web Conferencing or Seminar Web Conferencing Classroom, you may register for an orientation session in our demo room in Day Hall.
These 30-minute, in-person orientation sessions, facilitated by an instructional technology specialist (ITS), include a walkthrough of the classroom technology, a chance to try out your laptop in the room, and an opportunity to better understand the in-person and remote student experience.
You will be asked to provide three potential availability windows when requesting an orientation. Our team will make every effort to accommodate your availability.
PERSONALIZED SESSIONS
Are you looking for a session on a specific supported educational technology for your college, department, or instructional team? Our ITS team offers personalized sessions for large and small groups and will work with you to tailor a session to your needs.
To request a session, please contact the ITS team.
PAST SESSIONS
May Programming
| Introduction to Gradescope Programming Assignments |
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Date & Time: Friday, May 6, 2022 | 10-11 a.m. During our Get to Know Gradescope series this past March, we showcased the four Gradescope assignment types that are applicable to most course types and subjects offered at U of G and U of GH; however, there was one assignment type that we did not cover—Programming Assignments. With Programming Assignments, students submit code projects to Gradescope and you can automatically grade student code with a custom written autograder and/or manually grade using the traditional Gradescope interface. This session demonstrates how to grade with a dynamic rubric, provide in-line comments, and how to easily check for commonalities between students’ code with Code Similarity. This session might be of interest, if you teach a course where students submit code as part of any assignment. |
| Prepare for Gradescope Bubble Sheets (Session 1) |
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Date & Time: Thursday, May 12, 2022 | 10-11 a.m. With Scantron no longer available at U of G after the S22 semester, this session is designed to help you prepare for the transition from Scantron Bubble Sheets to Gradescope Bubble Sheets. Beginning in F22, Gradescope Bubble Sheets will be the only supported option for quizzes, midterms, or exams using multiple choice responses collected on bubble sheets. If you are a current Scantron user or if you plan to use bubble sheets for your quizzes, midterms, or final exams going forward, please join us for this session. The following topics are covered:
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| CourseLink Spotlight Tool: Intelligent Agents |
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Date & Time: Thursday, May 19, 2022 | 10-11 a.m. Intelligent Agents is a lesser known but very powerful AI-based tool available in CourseLink. If you have attended any of our communication- or engagement-themed sessions in the past, you have likely heard us emphasize how this tool can be leveraged to help students and save you time. Intelligent agents are customizable messages that are automatically emailed to individual learners when they complete a particular course task; for example, you may choose to set an intelligent agent to automatically let students know when they have missed a deadline for an assignment. We often find out that instructors are eager to try using Intelligent Agents. In this session we put the spotlight the Intelligent Agents tool with information and demonstrations to cover the following:
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June Programming
| Prepare for Gradescope Bubble Sheets (Session 2) |
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Date & Time: Monday, June 13, 2022 | 2-3 p.m. Couldn’t make it to our Gradescope Bubble Sheets May session? Not to worry! We are running this session once a month throughout the summer. With Scantron no longer available at U of G after the S22 semester, this session is designed to help you prepare for the transition from Scantron Bubble Sheets to Gradescope Bubble Sheets. Beginning in F22, Gradescope Bubble Sheets will be the only supported option for quizzes, midterms, or exams using multiple choice responses collected on bubble sheets. If you are a current Scantron user or if you plan to use bubble sheets for your quizzes, midterms, or final exams going forward, please join us for this session. The following topics are covered:
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| Gradescope for Assessment of On-Paper Assignments and Tests |
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Date & Time: Thursday, June 16, 2022 | 10-11 a.m. Are you looking for ways to provide your students with more effective feedback for assignments submitted on paper? How about reducing the time spent grading paper-based quizzes and exams? Would you like to improve grading consistency across a team of graders? If you answered yes to any of these questions, we have good news! Gradescope, the latest educational technology tool supported by U of G, streamlines the process for these scenarios, and more. In this session, we showcase the two Gradescope assignment types intended to collect and assess on-paper submissions: Exams & Quizzes and Homework & Problem Sets. This 60-minute webinar session:
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| CourseLink Tune Up Series: Content |
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Date & Time: Tuesday, June 21, 2022 | 11-11:30 a.m. Content, such as the course outline and lecture slides, is one of the most used areas within a CourseLink site to share important information with students. In this session, we explore options for content organization that can make navigation easier and more intuitive for students. |
| CourseLink Tune Up Series: Grades |
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Date & Time: Tuesday, June 21, 2022 | 2-2:30 p.m. The CourseLink Grades tool allows you to easily calculate final grades and helps students keep track of their progress in a course. In this session, we explore strategies for organizing your grades for easy student navigation, and how you can employ the Groups tool to assist with grading assignments in medium to large courses. |
| CourseLink Tune Up Series: Discussions |
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Date & Time: Thursday, June 23, 2022 | 11-11:30 a.m. CourseLink Discussions is a popular tool for answering questions and student assessment. In this session, we look at small changes you can make to improve your discussion area and increase student participation. |
| CourseLink Tune Up Series: Announcements |
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Date & Time: Thursday, June 23, 2022 | 2-2:30 p.m. CourseLink Announcements is a great way to introduce yourself to your students and provide important, timely information. In this session, we’ll look at tips and tricks for getting the most out of the Announcements tool. |
| Transitioning from Crowdmark to Gradescope for On-Paper Assessments |
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Date & Time: Tuesday, June 28, 2022 | 2-3 p.m. Please note, this session is intended primarily for instructors who currently use Crowdmark to perform assessments of paper-based tests and assignments. Hosted by Kenneth Rogers, a Gradescope training consultant, in partnership with our Instructional Technology Specialist team, this session demonstrates Gradescope’s assessment features and workflows. It also provides an opportunity for our community of Crowdmark users to ask questions about how they might adapt some of their current Crowdmark workflows in Gradescope. In this session you will learn how to:
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July Programming
| Zoom for Hybrid and Synchronous Delivery |
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Date & Time: Wednesday, July 6, 2022 | 10-11 a.m. Zoom is a popular web conferencing platform to support the delivery of synchronous classes from remote locations and campus Web Conferencing Classrooms. In this session, explore:
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| Prepare for Gradescope Bubble Sheets (Session 3) |
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Date & Time: Thursday, July 14, 2022 | 10-11 a.m. Couldn’t make it to our previous Gradescope Bubble Sheets sessions? Not to worry! We are running this session once a month throughout the summer. With Scantron no longer available at U of G after the S22 semester, this session is designed to help you prepare for the transition from Scantron Bubble Sheets to Gradescope Bubble Sheets. Beginning in F22, Gradescope Bubble Sheets will be the only supported option for quizzes, midterms, or exams using multiple choice responses collected on bubble sheets. If you are a current Scantron user or if you plan to use bubble sheets for your quizzes, midterms, or final exams going forward, please join us for this session. The following topics are covered:
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| PEAR Workshop: Adding an Online Peer Review or Group Assessment Component to Your Course |
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Date & Time: Thursday, July 28, 2022 | 2-3:30 p.m. Join our Instructional Technology Specialist (ITS) team and the PEAR Tool’s lead developer, Rich Couto, a courseware architect with our Information Systems and Development (ISD) unit, for a brief overview of U of G’s Peer Evaluation, Assessment and Review Tool (PEAR). The session will also showcase some simple use case examples of how a peer review component can be added to an existing assignment that utilizes online submission, as well as how a Group Assessment component can be easily created in PEAR for any course site utilizing CourseLink’s Groups tool. The final portion of the session is an optional workshop, where participants are invited to discuss or even begin to implement their PEAR components with their course sites with on-hand assistance from the OpenEd team. |
August Sessions
| End of Semester Ed Tech Tips |
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Date & Time: Cancelled End of Semester Ed Tech Tips session recording and presentation slides (W22) As we head toward the end of the semester, we have created a series of tips for preparing final grades and securely backing up grade item data. This session also explores ways to encourage students to provide feedback and the various technologies to collect that feedback. The session concludes with information on how to work ahead and prepare your next course offering before your official CourseLink course site is available. |
| Prepare for Gradescope Bubble Sheets (Session 4) |
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Date & Time: Thursday, August 18, 2022 | 2-3 p.m. Don’t miss out on our final summer offering of this session! With Scantron no longer available at U of G after the S22 semester, this session is designed to help you prepare for the transition from Scantron Bubble Sheets to Gradescope Bubble Sheets. Beginning in F22, Gradescope Bubble Sheets will be the only supported option for quizzes, midterms, or exams using multiple choice responses collected on bubble sheets. If you are a current Scantron user or if you plan to use bubble sheets for your quizzes, midterms, or final exams going forward, please join us for this session. The following topics are covered:
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Classlist-linked Microsoft Security Groups and Zoom Transfer Tool |
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Date & Time: Cancelled (rescheduled for W23) Looking for a secure way to share lecture recordings and other materials with your class? Join us to explore two tools that can help! Classlist-linked Microsoft Security Groups (CLMSGs) provide a means of creating a sharing group populated from your CourseLink site’s Classlist tool that you may use to share and/or secure access to any files or resources through Microsoft-based tools like OneDrive or Stream. The Zoom Transfer Tool allows you to copy your Zoom recordings from the Zoom cloud to your personal U of G OneDrive account. It also allows for automated copying of all new Zoom cloud recordings to OneDrive through a simple option toggle. Once copied to OneDrive, these recordings can be leveraged in future course offerings using CLMSGs. In this session you will learn:
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