Workshop Descriptions (six listed) Note that CETL and EdTech will customize workshops for any department to meet its needs more specifically. Psychology, Applied Physiology, LCC, Chemistry, AFROTC, and the Library are a few of the departments that have requested this service.

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Sakai Basic Tools – Basic Course

This 1-hour, hands-on training will acquaint users with the basics of Sakai . Participants will set up a course using materials they bring with them. Handouts will be provided.

Participants should bring: a thumb drive with files to create any/all of the following:

• a syllabus,
• assignments,
• documents for their students,
• content modules

File formats may include PowerPoint, Excel, MSWord, Notepad, Zip files, tar files, images, video clips, and audio clips.

Upon completion of this workshop participants should be able to:

• set up a basic course using the GT course template
• utilize the basic tools in Sakai

Migrating from WebCT to Sakai – Quizzes and Content Modules

This 1-hour, hands-on course has the “Sakai Basic Tools – Basic Course” as a prerequisite (having taught in Sakai during one of the pilots will also meet this requirement).

Participants will migrate content modules and WebCT quizzes into Sakai . Handouts and a CD with migration programs will be provided.

Participants should bring: a thumb drive with exported content modules from a WebCT course. Participants will need to know their WebCT login to extract the necessary quizzes.

Upon completion of this workshop participants should be able to:

• Convert their own content modules from WebCT and import them into Sakai .
• Convert WebCT quizzes and import them into Sakai 's Testing & Quizzing tool.

Course Design Techniques in T-Square

This 1-hour workshop will focus on design decisions to help make your course

• more user-friendly for students,

• more user-friendly for you, and

• better pedagogically designed for improved student outcomes.

The workshop looks at design in the

• presentation of content,

• the types and ways for interaction with students, and

• innovative ways to use the tools to accomplish your academic goals.

Tools examined may include some of the following:

• Modules

• Resources

• Syllabus

• Assignments

• Test and Quizzes

• Drop Box

• Wiki

• Web Content

• Section Info

• Gradebook

Assignments– Flexible, Individual, Group, Formative and Summative Tool (Dropbox, Resources, and Gradebook tools that can work together with Assignments or against each other)

This 1-hour workshop offers insight into the flexibility of these tool and the variety of uses it offers the online medium.

Some tools in T-square are adopted immediately because of the time and effort saved the instructor. However, these tools such as Assignments can end up complicating an instructor's life because of the very flexibility it offers, or because the instructor doesn't incorporate the talents of the TAs to make the assessment of students less problematic.

We will examine a variety of scenarios for using Assignments along with pitfalls and tips.

• Group aware assignments (done to save time and make downloading easy)

• Group aware assignments to cover multiple aspects of a topic or problem.

• Formative assignments that can be graded or ungraded.

• Grading assignments in multi-setion courses

• Using Dropbox, Resources, Gradebook, and Assignments together.

• Downloading student submissions without breaking your computer.

• Things to be wary of: large classes not divided into sections, using Auto Submit and trying to import into another course, changing assignment title does not change it in grade book, needing to edit grades in gradebook, and other issues, import from another site creates “Draft” which must be edited before students can see it and change the settings “Associate with existing Gradebook assignment” which will be checked to “Add Assignment to Gradebook” which will add the column to the gradebook in the new course...

Working with Large Classes and Classes with Sections in T-Square

Overview: Large classes 50-1000 students require more effort on the instructor's part. This workshop is designed to reduce that effort to a manageable task. T-Square has both section and group tools, often these are interchangeable, but at Tech the Section tool is integrated with Banner and can create and populate sections in classes that use multiple sections either to manage the number of students in one class or to separate them into different classes. Groups are not generated but created by the instructor often on an ad hoc basis.

This workshop will demonstrate the reasons for use one or the other or both to achieve your goals. In T-Square many tools are “section aware” meaning that they recognize the sections and/or groups within a course.

These tools include: Announcements, Resources, Assignments, and Grade book. Other T-Square tools will soon be adding this ability.

Working with Helpdesk Personnel in T-Square

Solving user problems quickly is the standard for support in many institutions and with many different applications. It is a high standard and one that common sense, triage, and a customer service mentality can handle.