Fall Faculty Summit To Be Held August 20

August 17, 2020 / Events

Academic Technology Services’ Fall Faculty Summit will be held Thursday, August 20, from 8:30 a.m. until 3:30 p.m. Please join your colleagues from Academic Technology Services, Canvas Support Services, NOVA Online and Campus Instructional Technology for a virtual Faculty Summit. We have put together a program to support effective teaching and learning practices. Please join any or all of the Zoom sessions below:

Ready, Set, Engage! Strategies That Will Transform Your Remote Instruction Environment
Bo Yang, Kirstin Riddick, Hector Revollo and Kama Storie
Faculty, are you searching for best practices to keep students engaged in order to solidify comprehension and application? Please join the representatives from your campus technology support team in this session to explore some research supported instructional strategies and technologies, and discover how to apply them to your teaching practice. Examples of these tools may include: Audacity (audio editing/ podcasting), Padlet (interactive online poster boards), Google Drive (collaborative productivity tools), Adobe Spark (video creation), or Flipgrid (alternative discussion boards), and making experiential learning accessible.

8:30 a.m. – 10 a.m.
https://vccs.zoom.us/j/96112285820
Meeting ID: 961 1228 5820

 

The Case for Authentic Assessment
Kim Grewe and Caryn Sever, NOVA Online Instructional Designers
As many courses are being offered in new instructional modalities this fall, now is a great time to review our overall course assessment strategy. Several questions come to mind:

  • Which assessments need to be proctored and which don’t? Why or why not?
  • What conditions have been created within face-to-face, hybrid, remote and online settings to ensure a high level of academic integrity and responsibility from our students?
  • How do we work to avoid unconscious bias in virtual assessment design?
  • What other ways are there to assess student learning, verify student identity and ensure academic integrity in lieu of proctored environments?

This session will consider these foundational questions. In our exploration, we will share performance assessments, essays and reflections on portfolios as potential alternatives to the traditional exam format. We make the case that these types of assessments potentially provide more accurate evidence of student learning than the more traditional exam. We have many technology-enhanced options to help us align assessment to desired course learning objectives today. We will share examples cultivated by NOVA Online instructional designers and faculty. We hope this will inspire you to reconsider the ways in which you assess learning in your courses. We want to help you craft the strongest possible assessment to gauge student learning for your fall courses and beyond and ensure a manageable workload at all points of semester grading!

10 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.
https://vccs.zoom.us/j/95121053340
Meeting ID: 951 2105 3340

 

Question Design and Best Practices for Online Exams
Beth Anderson, Des Martini, and Yanyan Huang, NOVA Online Instructional Designers
This session will give an overview of assessment design choices commonly used for online courses at the college and practical recommendations for how to strengthen multiple choice exams. Leaning on the expertise of NOVA Online instructional designers who have worked in all disciplines and across 375 online courses, we’ll share strategies for improving traditional exams. These include how to create an exam blueprint, how to tag questions to taxonomies, and how to tag questions to levels of thinking.All of these simple approaches can help ensure your assessment is balanced and gets to the heart of what students know and can do. This workshop will also go through matters to consider for exams (proctored or not): question banks, randomization of questions and answers, and time limits to minimize the impact of cheating. These tools allow faculty to more accurately pinpoint what students know and can do. Many are high-impact, sometimes overlooked strategies, that all faculty should consider regardless of instructional modality used for Fall 2020.

12 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.
https://vccs.zoom.us/j/93037378784
Meeting ID: 930 3737 8784

 

Online Exams and Remote Proctoring Tools
Lisa Anderson, Peg O’Hara, Erin McConnell and Heidi Redmond
This session will cover issues and choices involved in remote proctoring. In this session participants will learn how to use the functionalities in Canvas Quizzes to set time limits, access codes and quiz availability windows. Giving individual students access to extra time and/or extra attempts will also be shown. Instructors will be shown how to enable Respondus Lockdown Browser on the Course Navigation Bar to apply the lockdown browser to native Canvas Quizzes. Faculty will also learn how to use Zoom and Respondus Monitor for remote exam proctoring.

2 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.
https://vccs.zoom.us/j/95997726997
Meeting ID: 959 9772 6997