Faculty Resources
NSU's Learning and Education Center serves as a faculty resource center for promoting pedagogical innovation and teaching excellence. Resources are available to support teaching practices and strategies.
Getting Started with Canvas
Empower your teaching with Canvas, NSU's Learning Management System. Canvas offers a robust and intuitive platform to enhance your teaching and learning experience. Explore our curated collection of resources designed to get you started so you can effectively manage your courses within Canvas at NSU. Explore the guides, tutorials, and community forums to unlock the full potential of Canvas and streamline your online classroom.
Academic Applications
Respondus Monitor is a remote proctoring solution that works in conjunction with LockDown Browser to ensure exam integrity in online assessments. Students use their webcam to record themselves during exams, and the system flags any suspicious activity for instructors to review later. It seamlessly integrates with various learning management systems and publisher platforms, requiring no scheduling or separate registration for students or instructors
Streamline your course documentation and ensure consistency with the Syllabus Management System, a tool designed to support NSU's commitment to innovation and academic excellence. This centralized platform empowers colleges to maintain standardized information across all syllabi while providing faculty with customizable content areas.
Turning Point is an interactive classroom response system that consists of remote devices that can be used to poll large groups, gauge comprehension or gather statistical information.
The Turning Point system is used in a live classroom setting and can work in conjunction with presentation programs such as PowerPoint.
The system works by distributing wireless response card keypads to students to record their answers when a question is asked during a lecture or presentation. The recorded responses can then be gathered and either immediately displayed or saved for later analysis.
You will need to make sure that you have the correct version, 5.3.2 installed on your computer. If not, please download it from the NSU App Store.
Support Documents
Turnitin provides plagiarism prevention services, and digital grading products to educational institutions around the world. The Turnitin Building Block extension in Canvas gives users of the Canvas Learning System the ability to use Turnitin products within their Canvas interface. Turnitin has two different tools that instructors can use in their courses, and both are automatically enabled in Canvas. Turnitin can be used within the Canvas Plagiarism Framework or as an External Tool.
Turnitin Documents
- Differences between Turnitin LTI and Plagiarism Framework
- Creating an Assignment using the Plagiarism Framework
Turnitin Video Guides
Zoom is an online presentation tool similar to GoToTraining or Collaborate, allowing you to host an online meeting with optional web camera and audio access for all attendees. Additional information on Zoom and the Technical information can be found here.
Documentation
- An Administrator's Guide to the Zoom for Education Platform
- Zoom Video Tips - Control Student Video and Audio Sharing
Videos
- How do I manage Course Navigation Links in Canvas?
- Zoom Web Settings
- Zoom Scheduling via Canvas
- Zoom Scheduling via the Web
- Zoom Student Demo
- Setting up Zoom Polling in Advance
- Setting up Breakout Rooms in Advance
- Zoom via Smartphones
- Pulling the Attendance and Attentiveness Report from Zoom
- Recording for Zoom EDU Training
- Zoom 101: Breakout Rooms
- Zoom 101: Polling (In-meeting)
There are 15 videos broken out into playlists on the SharkMedia Zoom channel. Topics include basic and advanced subject material, including Whiteboarding and breakout rooms.
Community of Practice
MAKO Commons is NSU's virtual community of practice (vCoP) in Canvas for faculty who are interested in improving teaching and learning. It's a space to connect, share ideas and resources, and learn collaboratively. All NSU faculty involved in teaching are welcome. You'll find discussion forums and opportunities for live sessions. Stay updated through Canvas announcements.
Courses
The purpose of this self-enroll course is to introduce the basics of teaching and learning in online and blended learning environments.
Some of the topics we will explore include:
- What is online learning and how is it different from other learning modalities?
- How can we apply learning theories, instructional design theories and models, and other useful frameworks to create optimal learning experiences for our students?
- What tools and technologies can we use to facilitate learning?
- What are some methods for enhancing learner engagement, accessibility, student success, and more?
This course is divided into six modules. Each module includes the following:
- Module Introduction
- Video Presentation
- Knowledge Check
- Wrap-up and Reflect
- Module References and Additional Resources
In order to receive a Certificate of Completion, you will need to complete each of the six modules, which includes watching the video presentation and completing the knowledge check with a minimum score of 80%. We also encourage you to take time after each module to reflect on your learning and view the module's references and additional resources.
You can also use the course as a resource and participate in single modules without the option for a certificate.
Professional Development
Stay informed with "This Week in the LEC," our weekly faculty communication delivering timely tips, best practices, updates, and upcoming professional development workshop information.
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Templates
The LEC offers Canvas Course Templates designed to provide accessible, mobile-friendly, and appealing frameworks for your courses. These templates include core content like University policies, student resources, and technical help, along with an example module showcasing content, assignments, and discussion boards. Three template options with slightly different appearances are available.