WEBVTT 1 00:00:07.900 --> 00:00:10.010 BSPH CTL Teaching Toolkit: Hello, everyone, welcome. 2 00:00:11.060 --> 00:00:13.360 BSPH CTL Teaching Toolkit: I'm just making sure everything is 3 00:00:13.420 --> 00:00:15.590 BSPH CTL Teaching Toolkit: all right. Yep, we are recording 4 00:00:16.980 --> 00:00:35.569 BSPH CTL Teaching Toolkit: all right. So um again. Hello! And welcome to the term two course plus refresher. My name is Amy Pinkerton, and I'm. A senior instructional designer at the center for teaching and learning, or Ctl and I'm joined by a few colleagues who, i'll let introduce themselves. So why don't we go? Brian Kerry, the moron. 5 00:00:35.840 --> 00:00:45.379 Brian Klaas: Sure Hi! I'm Brian class. Uh I work in the center for teaching and learning. I also have a faculty appointment in Mmi. As part of the school's, R. Three center for innovation in science education, 6 00:00:47.360 --> 00:00:56.769 Lauren Dana: hey? My name is Lauren. I'm. An instructional design support Specialist. Um, and I will be helping you out today with the chat. So if you have any questions, just type it on in, and i'm glad everyone could make it. 7 00:00:57.870 --> 00:01:07.509 Keri McAvoy: I am Kerry Macle, boy. I am an instructional design. Support specialist with the center for teaching and learning. I'm going to help Amy and Brian present our courts plus refresh, or today. 8 00:01:08.620 --> 00:01:16.569 BSPH CTL Teaching Toolkit: Thank you. And uh, just another reminder. The session is being recorded, and the recording will be made available in a follow up email. 9 00:01:16.940 --> 00:01:19.500 BSPH CTL Teaching Toolkit: All right, Let's dive on in. 10 00:01:19.840 --> 00:01:21.520 BSPH CTL Teaching Toolkit: So um. 11 00:01:21.640 --> 00:01:37.760 BSPH CTL Teaching Toolkit: So an overview of today's workshop. Uh what I what Kerry and I will go over are some need to know course, plus tools. So um tools that we think are essential for you, as you prepare for term two, and then Brian will cover what's new and course plus, and then we'll close out the session with some Q. A. 12 00:01:39.630 --> 00:01:45.959 BSPH CTL Teaching Toolkit: All right, and as Lauren mentioned, if you have any questions, please post them in the chat, or you can save them for the Q. A. Session later. 13 00:01:46.010 --> 00:01:50.950 BSPH CTL Teaching Toolkit: So um i'll pass things off to Kerry. Now, who will take us through some tools? 14 00:01:52.000 --> 00:02:09.070 Keri McAvoy: Awesome. Thank you, Amy. I'm going to start us off with the faculty tools. Anyone in the editing role, whether that's faculty, ta course, coordinator, site, content Editor: they should always start any administrative or editing work. From this faculty tools, page 15 00:02:09.080 --> 00:02:19.859 Keri McAvoy: this page will look a little bit different, based on your course format, whether that's online on campus blended um. And whether, if you're on campus, you're using schedule builder or sessions tool. 16 00:02:20.430 --> 00:02:24.740 Keri McAvoy: One key part of the faculty tools is the navigation tool section. 17 00:02:24.860 --> 00:02:43.760 Keri McAvoy: This is essentially everything that you have listed on your schedule builder. You can click on the links, and they'll take you directly to viewing those pages in student view, so you can see exactly what the students will see when they access your course site which is really important and definitely something we recommend doing prior to starting the term. 18 00:02:44.310 --> 00:03:04.269 Keri McAvoy: The faculty Tools page is also where you'll find access to anything that falls under a category like activities and assignments, content tools, communication tools, or administrative tools. So if you, for example, ever need to access Page Builder to create a new assignment page. You would want to start at faculty tools 19 00:03:04.280 --> 00:03:15.759 Keri McAvoy: If you want to create a quiz or access your discussion, Forum, you could start at faculty tools. Really, the faculty tools Page is the place where you want to begin. Whenever editing anything in your course site. 20 00:03:17.340 --> 00:03:18.470 Keri McAvoy: Go ahead, Amy. 21 00:03:21.280 --> 00:03:25.090 Keri McAvoy: Another really important tool to know is the syllabus builder, 22 00:03:25.670 --> 00:03:36.100 Keri McAvoy: the syllabus builder tool which you can access from that faculty. Tools. Page is where you create your syllabus for your course plus site that all of your students can access. 23 00:03:36.390 --> 00:03:46.550 Keri McAvoy: One important thing to know about this is that this is available to the public before the term begins. So we do recommend leaving out anything that you don't want publicly displayed, 24 00:03:47.170 --> 00:04:02.819 Keri McAvoy: and something that Cto really emphasizes is we really recommend that this be the only syllabus you provide to your students. Um. One really great thing about this syllabus Builder tool is. There is a button that says print to Pdf. 25 00:04:02.830 --> 00:04:22.769 Keri McAvoy: That actually creates a P. A. Pdf. Of your entire finished syllabus. So students, if they want a hard copy of it, can select that and print it. So you don't need to add in a separate word documents or Pdf. Um that can sometimes get confusing for students. Um. But on the service Builder Page, you're able to do things like 26 00:04:22.780 --> 00:04:30.079 Keri McAvoy: edit. Any existing sections, add new sections or reorder any sections to make that syllabus. Look exactly what you want it to look like. 27 00:04:31.090 --> 00:04:48.480 Keri McAvoy: So, in order to create a new section, you'll see um at the top of the page, the new section button. Here you can create a completely custom section. You can also list sections of the list of sections that are required, as well as take a look at some recommended sections. 28 00:04:48.530 --> 00:05:04.720 Keri McAvoy: You also have the ability to reorder your sections really easily. All you have to do is hit those three horizontal lines next to the titles of the sections, and drag and move them to wherever you want hit. Save and you've got it in whichever order you prefer. 29 00:05:07.720 --> 00:05:25.560 Keri McAvoy: You are able to make edits to individual sections that you have listed on your syllabus builder. But one important thing to note is that the required sections do become locked once the term begins. So any edits that you need to make for those required sections. You want to make sure you finalize before day one of that term, 30 00:05:25.570 --> 00:05:33.410 Keri McAvoy: and you'll know that a section is a required section because of that chain link icon at the top left um of that section 31 00:05:33.710 --> 00:05:42.729 Keri McAvoy: when editing individual sections. All you have to do is select the pencil icon at the top, right, and that'll take you to that editing screen for that section, 32 00:05:42.990 --> 00:06:01.999 Keri McAvoy: and one really great option here, for standard sections is you'll see where it's circled. The show example. Um! That is um examples that have been created and are recommended for each of those sections, and you are able to copy um and edit any of those words if they work for you, if they don't, 33 00:06:02.710 --> 00:06:12.060 Keri McAvoy: and after making any edits. You want to remember to just hit that save button, and it'll save everything that you've edited and create your perfect syllabus. 34 00:06:17.110 --> 00:06:21.610 BSPH CTL Teaching Toolkit: Alright, Uh, thank you kerry um. Now i'll talk about some communication tools. 35 00:06:21.900 --> 00:06:48.609 BSPH CTL Teaching Toolkit: So um the first communication tool that i'm going to cover is uh the class email tool. And as the name suggests, it's an email tool that allows you to email your students. Um: All the students in your class, as well as uh Co. Faculty or tas. Um. And uh, if you don't want to send an email to everyone, you can also select specific individuals um under the list uh the selection list on the left hand side. You'll see everyone in your course. 36 00:06:49.120 --> 00:06:54.449 BSPH CTL Teaching Toolkit: Um: Some specific things to highlight from the email tool is um. 37 00:06:54.460 --> 00:07:17.760 BSPH CTL Teaching Toolkit: That first emails can be imported from past offerings. So say, for example, Um, this is the second year your classes run, and you'd like to reuse your welcome state, your welcome email or welcome statement from last year's offering um. You can click import message from past offering uh and bring that in um for this year's offering. So you don't have to retype all of your emails all over again. 38 00:07:17.770 --> 00:07:25.329 BSPH CTL Teaching Toolkit: Um, just make sure that you proofread it to uh for any kind of specific dates or information that has changed from offering to offering. 39 00:07:25.710 --> 00:07:43.689 BSPH CTL Teaching Toolkit: Um, You can also pre-right email messages ahead of time and select this uh enable scheduled delivery. Um, and that way you can draft your emails before term um to then be delivered at a later date. So, for example, you might know that an Uh. An assignment will be due in term three. 40 00:07:43.700 --> 00:07:47.820 BSPH CTL Teaching Toolkit: So you might have an email reminder send out in in week two 41 00:07:48.830 --> 00:07:57.570 BSPH CTL Teaching Toolkit: So um other than that, it's a basic email tool that allows you to send text images, or I believe you can even do videos to students. 42 00:07:57.670 --> 00:08:09.490 BSPH CTL Teaching Toolkit: Um: Another aspect of the email tool that i'd like to highlight are the filters. So I mentioned you can send emails to everyone in your class, but you can also send emails to specific students based on filters. 43 00:08:09.500 --> 00:08:20.650 BSPH CTL Teaching Toolkit: So um as an example, you can uh send students uh emails based on their assignment submissions. So whether or not they've turned in an assignment, or if they haven't turned in an in an assignment. 44 00:08:20.660 --> 00:08:35.240 BSPH CTL Teaching Toolkit: Um, and you can also uh filter by site visit. So uh this is a especially important in the first weeks of class if you have to. Uh, if you can. Um, if you'd like to email students who have not access the site within the first week or so of class. 45 00:08:36.299 --> 00:08:43.200 BSPH CTL Teaching Toolkit: Uh. Now let's look at announcements which emails can actually also be saved or presented as announcements as well. 46 00:08:43.500 --> 00:08:51.469 BSPH CTL Teaching Toolkit: Um. So announcements they appear on your course home page, and if I opted into in the course plus daily notifications, 47 00:08:52.020 --> 00:08:53.979 BSPH CTL Teaching Toolkit: and these um 48 00:08:54.650 --> 00:09:17.620 BSPH CTL Teaching Toolkit: some additional settings for your announcements include uh being able to post at a later date. So again, if you know that you want students to know certain information throughout, uh, on a certain day or time you can uh control the posting dates, and you can also control how long the announcement of the announcement is displayed. So I think the default is five days. Um, but it can be displayed for up to seven days. 49 00:09:19.840 --> 00:09:37.189 BSPH CTL Teaching Toolkit: All right. So um, that's it for email and announcements. So let's now look at discussion forums. So the discussion forum tool it's frequently used, and uh for a lot of different things. Um, and it's organized by category and then by topic. 50 00:09:37.460 --> 00:09:47.780 BSPH CTL Teaching Toolkit: So categories they're set up by faculty or tas. And then topics within categories can be created by either faculty and tas or students depending on the settings. 51 00:09:48.080 --> 00:10:09.300 BSPH CTL Teaching Toolkit: Um! So just a quick pro tip. I recommend creating a course. Q. A discussion Forum, where students can ask questions, and this is akin to the the types of questions that students might raise their hand in class and ask um, and some of the the benefits of having that include um that students can see the questions and answers that other students have asked, 52 00:10:09.310 --> 00:10:25.939 BSPH CTL Teaching Toolkit: and also um, you as a faculty or ta only have to answer a question once, and then refer students to that Q. A. Discussion forum as opposed to five students sending you the same question that you then have to respond to five times, so it can save you a little bit of time. 53 00:10:27.710 --> 00:10:44.169 BSPH CTL Teaching Toolkit: Um. The discussion form categories. They can be set up in a lot of different ways, depending on your needs. Uh, for example, categories can be graded and linked to the grade book which we'll talk about in a little bit. And uh, they can also be set up, so that, for example, students have to post before they can view 54 00:10:44.180 --> 00:10:52.709 BSPH CTL Teaching Toolkit: um, or they might be set up. So students only have a a limited time to edit or delete a post. So, um! 55 00:10:53.010 --> 00:11:11.859 BSPH CTL Teaching Toolkit: As you go through your your discussion from settings, you can customize it based on your needs, and uh in course, plus these icons appear uh in the discussion forum that help provide some information about how each category is set up, so that you and your students can more easily navigate what's going on in each category. 56 00:11:14.700 --> 00:11:33.620 BSPH CTL Teaching Toolkit: All right. So uh switching gears a little bit. Um, We've talked about asynchronous communication. Let's talk about synchronous communication. And in this case, uh for online courses, for fully online courses. So those dot eight, sixes and dot eight, one classes um. They have what are called faculty run 57 00:11:33.630 --> 00:11:35.050 BSPH CTL Teaching Toolkit: live talks. 58 00:11:35.350 --> 00:11:52.850 BSPH CTL Teaching Toolkit: Um! So a decision was made by its multimedia that um! They would no longer provide studio and technician support for all live talks like they have in the past. Um, Except for very, very large class sizes, which I think the number is over three hundred students and Brian, you can correct me if that's wrong. 59 00:11:52.860 --> 00:12:05.200 BSPH CTL Teaching Toolkit: Um. So to remedy this change, um ctl has prepared a pdf that that takes you step by step on the faculty Self run live talk process from scheduling all the way to implementing 60 00:12:05.220 --> 00:12:14.679 BSPH CTL Teaching Toolkit: um. But basically what happens is uh after you've scheduled your live talks. Um! They will appear on the live talk page of your course 61 00:12:14.740 --> 00:12:32.290 BSPH CTL Teaching Toolkit: where you'll see a uh You'll see your live talks listed, and then um! You'll see buttons where you post your zoom links. And then, after the session, you'll see manage recordings where you can add your um. The Mp. For video recording as well as like transcripts and other files. 62 00:12:32.730 --> 00:12:46.449 BSPH CTL Teaching Toolkit: So I highly, highly highly recommend uh viewing the Pdf. That we're gonna provide um, and also feel free to reach out to your instructional designer or Ctl. Help. If you have technical questions about how live talks for work, 63 00:12:48.350 --> 00:12:54.680 BSPH CTL Teaching Toolkit: all right, and then uh, now let's look at sign up sheets and course groups. 64 00:12:55.420 --> 00:13:10.900 BSPH CTL Teaching Toolkit: So with um sign up sheets. These are um. These can be used in a lot of different ways. Uh, for example, you can use. Sign up sheets for for office hours for uh selecting course groups, and then also things like claiming project topics. 65 00:13:10.910 --> 00:13:17.909 BSPH CTL Teaching Toolkit: So any reason you would need a sign up sheet. You can create that in course, plus, instead of using some third party outside tool 66 00:13:18.410 --> 00:13:26.919 BSPH CTL Teaching Toolkit: Um, Groups of sign up sheets can be used to automatically create course groups for students. So if you're assigning students into groups for like a group project 67 00:13:26.930 --> 00:13:41.199 BSPH CTL Teaching Toolkit: um, you can do that, using sign up sheets um, or switching over to course groups. Um, You can also go into the course groups tool itself and say, uh, manually or sorry, randomly assigned or manually assigned students that way as well. 68 00:13:41.860 --> 00:13:59.990 BSPH CTL Teaching Toolkit: Um. Also related to course groups. Um, you can create private uh discussion forums or wikis um for each course group, so that uh, members of that group can see those. But say, student, a student from Group B, they won't be able to see the discussion forum for students in Group A. 69 00:14:00.000 --> 00:14:04.329 BSPH CTL Teaching Toolkit: So that's just another way to help students uh organize their group work. 70 00:14:06.270 --> 00:14:14.169 BSPH CTL Teaching Toolkit: All right. So now let's look at a grade book, and I know we're going through these tools really fast. So if you have questions, please post them in the chat. 71 00:14:16.240 --> 00:14:17.550 BSPH CTL Teaching Toolkit: Um. 72 00:14:18.070 --> 00:14:47.700 BSPH CTL Teaching Toolkit: So switching gears a little bit. Once you're ready to submit your grades. Um, it's time to look at your grade book. So, firstly uh the great Book should match your syllabus, especially the percentages listed in your methods of Assessment Section that's linked to Cis Um, as Kerry mentioned earlier uh methods of assessment. That's one of those categories that become locked once the term opens to students. So if you need to change that, what that section in particular Um, now is the time to do that before term two starts, 73 00:14:47.710 --> 00:14:51.359 BSPH CTL Teaching Toolkit: and that becomes locked until the next offering. 74 00:14:51.440 --> 00:15:11.950 BSPH CTL Teaching Toolkit: Um, But once you're once you've confirmed that your grade book and your syllabus match um within grade book you have some additional options. So these options include things like using percentages or points. Um, allowing for extra credit, and also omitting created items uh, so that they are not included in the final grade calculation. 75 00:15:11.960 --> 00:15:24.699 BSPH CTL Teaching Toolkit: So again we um. We tried to make this as as uh helpful for faculty as as we can, and give you some customization so that you can uh meet the assessment needs for your students. 76 00:15:28.210 --> 00:15:30.270 BSPH CTL Teaching Toolkit: All right, Um! And then, 77 00:15:30.410 --> 00:15:47.869 BSPH CTL Teaching Toolkit: when you're um when you're ready to actually enter grades, you can enter grades by item. So, for example, you can link your dropbox, a quiz, a discussion forum, a peer assessment, or a path finder simulation directly to your grade book, and then you can grade by that item. 78 00:15:47.880 --> 00:15:54.600 BSPH CTL Teaching Toolkit: Um, you can grade by students, So say you are looking at Student A, and you integrate all of their work that they've submitted. 79 00:15:54.910 --> 00:15:58.789 BSPH CTL Teaching Toolkit: And then you can also grade by student group or course group 80 00:15:58.930 --> 00:16:09.710 BSPH CTL Teaching Toolkit: um. And again, once you've submitted grades. Uh, you can verify what the students are uh what the students can see by clicking on the uh view. The students um gradebook page 81 00:16:12.010 --> 00:16:36.029 BSPH CTL Teaching Toolkit: all right. And then finally, uh course reports. So I wanted to briefly mention that course plus uh gather some analytical student data. Um, that might be helpful for you as you're going through the term. Um, for example, you can see student activity within course, plus uh like access of specific lectures, um discussion, form activity or coresight access. 82 00:16:36.040 --> 00:16:41.129 BSPH CTL Teaching Toolkit: Um, This data can help you identify students who may be falling behind and or need to be reached out to 83 00:16:41.190 --> 00:16:49.190 BSPH CTL Teaching Toolkit: um, and then you can also look at things like discussion, forum, or live talk attendance uh for things like participation. 84 00:16:49.380 --> 00:17:07.130 BSPH CTL Teaching Toolkit: Um! A quick note about the live talk attendance, course report um that only tracks students that go to the live talk page in the course, and uh click on the join the live talk button from the live talk page. Um! It does not track people who just have the zoom link and join via the zoom, the direct zoom link 85 00:17:08.829 --> 00:17:16.099 BSPH CTL Teaching Toolkit: all right. And Now i'm going to pass things off to Brian, who will give us uh some information about what's new and course plus. 86 00:17:16.450 --> 00:17:44.709 Brian Klaas: Thank you. Amy much Appreciate it. Um. I gotta go ahead and share my screen to get rid of the well. The Powerpoint slides went away anyways. Um, Okay. So I want to talk about some things that are new and different in course, plus in the last few months. So if you are someone who hasn't used course in the last couple of months. You're like all right. My class starts on Wednesday. I should take a look at my site uh you might find some things that are different about it. And, uh, there's some features I want to go over and share with you, and as I go through, if you have questions, 87 00:17:44.720 --> 00:18:13.719 Brian Klaas: you can raise your hand type in the text. Chat gladly answer your questions as we go along here today. Um, So i'm gonna go ahead and share my screen so you can see my web browser. Uh, and the first stop on our tour of things that are new and different in course, plus is the schedule builder tool. So scheduled Builder is using all fully online classes. One point eight, six, all those good ones, um, and it's used by a lot of on campus courses as well, because the scheduled builder tool provides greater control over when students have access to content 88 00:18:13.730 --> 00:18:30.639 Brian Klaas: uh and visibility and all sorts of good stuff that that folks like to have. It also provides tool students with tools where they can track what work they have, and have not done directly from this page, which is a really nice feature that students certainly like that is not available via the Class Sessions tool, 89 00:18:30.710 --> 00:18:59.609 Brian Klaas: and will not ever be coming to the class sessions tool. Um, As the person who manages the team that builds. Course I can safely say that. So the schedule builder tool just recently got an overall a refresh to make it much easier to use to provide to sort of surface more useful information. And I just want to give a quick tour of this for those of you who might have used the old, old version of Schedule Builder, who would not be necessarily familiar with this new one. Um! So it looks somewhat the same in terms of Here's uh all. How all the content in your course site is going to show up, 90 00:18:59.620 --> 00:19:29.609 Brian Klaas: so I can split back and forth between the actual content page in the class and schedule builder and see things listed in the same order between the two doesn't look exactly the same, because this class starts on Wednesday. And so lots of things aren't linked or active yet. Um, but i'm still able to build it here. So the new version of the schedule builder uh streamlines sort of the user interface servicing some things that are more important than others without a lot of extra stuff on the screen. So um dates are much more prominent, invisible as to when something becomes available 91 00:19:29.620 --> 00:19:38.420 Brian Klaas: available or due to students, you can now see for each item and the schedule. What is what that item is linked to if it's linked to anything at all. And in this case 92 00:19:38.490 --> 00:20:08.400 Brian Klaas: a lot of page builder pages that is not uncommon uh in in online, fully online classes. And I can uh drill down and look at the details and make changes just by clicking on the bar for any of the items in here. Um! So by clicking on the bar for any item, I can go ahead and see what that's linked to in more detail What the available date is the due date when I want students to stop having access, all that good stuff I can hide individual events. So in case i'm like Oh, I don't want to put that on the schedule yet, because i'm not sure. I'm going to include that in my class 93 00:20:08.410 --> 00:20:37.900 Brian Klaas: I can do that as well. And um. So the schedule builder tool is is much more streamlined in terms of how you might use it much faster to use than the old version, where there was a lot of overlays and waiting around for pages to reload. That's not the case anymore. Here. Um, it's much much faster in in that sense. And as um as Kerry was showing earlier, you can drag and drop things by moving the little sort of dotted gridlines over here on the right side of the screen that can move things around very easy with drag and drop 94 00:20:37.910 --> 00:21:07.489 Brian Klaas: maneuvering there. I can add events to individual categories which are these: sort of like headers module one module two. I can create things outside of categories. Whatever I want to do um one addition to the schedule builder. Uh in terms of functionality that was not there before is the option to hide entire categories from students. So if you're still working on your class schedule, you know, like the term starts on Tuesday or Wednesday, and you're like Well, I haven't really figured out, you know, I got the first two weeks down. Those are all good. I'm waiting to hear about speakers and stuff. 95 00:21:07.500 --> 00:21:24.100 Brian Klaas: You can actually put categories of like week, four week, five week, six week, seven, and keep those hidden from student view until such time as you're ready like, Yeah, this is the content. These are the things we're gonna have during this these weeks, and then unhy that entire category. So you can be building out your schedule 96 00:21:24.140 --> 00:21:53.160 Brian Klaas: hiding categories of students. Don't see it while you're still working on that particular set segment of content. Uh, and then show it whenever you're ready to do so. Um! It's very handy and very powerful to be able to do that. Just keep in mind. You probably want to put assignment due dates out there as early as possible for students. Um! That's actually very important. You don't want to be a surprise. Students that you know they have a paper due um the second, the last day of the term, and not put that out until, like the week before. You want to make sure those assessments and assignments 97 00:21:53.170 --> 00:22:12.129 Brian Klaas: are all out there as quickly as possible. So students have access to that. The other thing that's available in the new schedule builder is a human readable version of the change history, so I can click on the change history up here, and you can see who made what changes and when and in some chronological order. So if you're like. Wait a second. Your faculty member. You're the lead. Ta on a class. You're like, Wait 98 00:22:12.140 --> 00:22:34.640 Brian Klaas: somebody change this date. You can see, like, uh, okay. It was Amy who went in there and changed the date. Uh when I didn't want her to do that. We didn't agree on changing the date, so you do have a change history there as well. So the new schedule builder really fast, really easy to use uh, very, very nice, and and works really well, I think, in terms of like making the whole process of managing, building, updating your schedule much more fluid. 99 00:22:34.650 --> 00:22:38.160 Brian Klaas: And one last thing that people don't often know about in the schedule builder, is 100 00:22:38.170 --> 00:22:55.070 Brian Klaas: It's down in the bottom of this schedule Builder Page. There's this button that says updates all schedule dates. So uh, when you set up a site for? Uh, in course, plus, we copy over the dates to the best of our ability, but sometimes dates will get shifted by a day or two based on the start of the academic term, and we try to 101 00:22:55.080 --> 00:23:14.839 Brian Klaas: keep that into account. But it doesn't always dates. All don't always match up. So you might need to shift all the dates by like one day, forward or negative. One days back. This little tool update all schedule dates, allows you to go ahead and do that, and updates all the dates on your schedule in one click. So you don't have to click through each individual item and update the dates, which is 102 00:23:14.990 --> 00:23:17.980 Brian Klaas: tedious and terrible, and you wouldn't want to have to do that 103 00:23:18.160 --> 00:23:47.689 Brian Klaas: all right next up. That's my content, Page, when you do that next up Page Builder. For those of you who do not know what Page builder is. It is the tool that uh is used in a courses that you schedule builder to create pages, full pages uh lecture pages, lectures that are produced by the center for teaching and learning, as well as pages that might describe activities uh for your for your class or pages that might have resources or guides, or something like that. Um. So this page also got a refresh over the summer, 104 00:23:47.700 --> 00:24:17.690 Brian Klaas: just making the information display a bit more condensed. Used to be like this long list of links for every action item you could do with the page. Those have all been replaced by icons over here on um the left, or sorry the right side of the screen, and We also changed a little bit of the terminology in Page Builder. We used to call things lecture versus activity pages. Well, now, they're just lecture pages or standard pages, because you can create as many pages as you want, populate it with whatever kind of information you want in here. Um, which is super handy. Um, I do this a lot in the class 105 00:24:17.700 --> 00:24:24.190 Brian Klaas: that I teach You can see I have these rather lengthy pages for 106 00:24:24.200 --> 00:24:53.710 Brian Klaas: my activities in my classes uh that I teach lots of details, lots of information. Whenever this page decides to come up there it is uh there. So again, you can provide a lot of detail about the the assignments, the assessments, the activities you're going to be doing in the class through page builder. And again the page builder main page that I show just a second ago has a nice little refresh That makes it easier to find information, especially when you have lots of pages which I do. I have lots and lots of pages in my class, and I have lots of pages that Don't exist anymore, Right? 107 00:24:53.720 --> 00:25:14.969 Brian Klaas: So again, you can build stuff, not link it up, not show it to students. Or if you're sort of done with that version of the assignment you're like i'm not going to do the op-ed assignment anymore. You can go ahead and move that into these kind of like archive section or a page that's not linked to anything at all, and still have access to that content, even though students would not ever see that information inside, of course, plus 108 00:25:15.050 --> 00:25:44.069 Brian Klaas: alright, so moving on to something else, it's not really new. This is actually been around for a while, but because you are a captive audience for me here. Uh, and many of you are. Tas and faculty are most of your tas and faculty who are going to be working on classes. I wanted to take just a minute to give another plug to what we call tag based quizzes. So when you create a quiz questions in the quiz generator inside, of course, you can add tags to them just like hashtags, only without 109 00:25:44.080 --> 00:25:49.959 Brian Klaas: the hash sign in front of it. Right? Uh I So I have, and this is one of the classes that I teach. Uh, and 110 00:25:50.030 --> 00:26:02.219 Brian Klaas: I have tags associated with each one of the questions that are in this particular quiz, because what tag rule quizzes, allow me to do is ensure a high degree of randomization 111 00:26:02.230 --> 00:26:22.210 Brian Klaas: and appropriate content coverage at the same time. Because if you simply say, okay, i'm gonna create fifty questions and whichever ones get picked. Well, you might miss the course plus doesn't know. You know that when it randomly selects ten out of fifty questions that it's gonna be skipping entire lectures right? It doesn't know that because you just randomly picking questions, 112 00:26:22.220 --> 00:26:40.880 Brian Klaas: but with tags you can say, make sure that all these areas that I want covered are covered, based on the tags associated with my questions. So you see, I have a bunch of different tags. Campbell design lectures, Monroe's motivated sequence, multiple choice Swabis science, learning true falls, 113 00:26:41.100 --> 00:26:52.670 Brian Klaas: and if I go into the page here, where it says, you know, edit tag selection rules, I can create a series of rules about how, what kind of content I want students to be asked about in my quiz. 114 00:26:52.680 --> 00:27:22.669 Brian Klaas: So here I have a bunch of rules uh the first one is. I only want one question. I can click on this. You can see what it is. One question that matches the tag. Monroe's motivated sequence so correspondingly pick one of the two questions for every student, and I ensure that that lecture on when Rose motivated sequence is being covered by the quiz. It's not going to get skipped over. Everybody still gets asked about that particular lecture. The same thing about Joseph Campbell's heroes journey, and then I have more broad categories like, Okay, I want six questions. 115 00:27:22.680 --> 00:27:30.170 Brian Klaas: Match the tags lectures that are from the lectures multiple choice, and are about the science of learning. And so, 116 00:27:30.180 --> 00:27:58.290 Brian Klaas: course, plus when you set up all these rules will then, when it comes to comes time for a student to take a quiz or exam, use these rules to determine what questions get displayed to students. So you have a high degree of randomization, because not all students will get the same questions. But you also ensure that all of the content areas that you want covered are being covered, and I can even click on this button that says test existing rules down here, and it will show me 117 00:27:58.660 --> 00:28:01.789 Brian Klaas: an example of what students might see 118 00:28:01.800 --> 00:28:31.090 Brian Klaas: right, and I can. I can look into here. I could say, Okay, there's one question that matches Monroe's motivated sequence. One question that matches Campbell, and there should be three three questions that match lectures and True falls right, and I can see all of that there. If I click test again potentially, hopefully. Probably another set of questions will come up that match those tag rules. So this is enormously powerful, especially when you combine it. If you're dealing with multiple choice questions or truth, well, multiple choice really. Um 119 00:28:31.630 --> 00:28:38.810 Brian Klaas: with randomization of this, of the display of answers to make sure that every student gets essentially a different quiz or exam, 120 00:28:39.240 --> 00:28:45.710 Brian Klaas: and that the each are being assessed uh in an equivalent way, based on the content you want to cover. 121 00:28:45.720 --> 00:29:05.929 Brian Klaas: So these are called tag rule quizzes. These are really straightforward. To set up The most difficult part of setting these up honestly is in your questions, adding tags to your questions. But if you make it a habit, if you make it work with your course team and say, Okay, what are the kinds of tags we want? Make it? Have it every time you add a question to any quiz or exam, becomes vastly simpler 122 00:29:05.940 --> 00:29:25.630 Brian Klaas: to create these tag rule quizzes, and you can also use these tags to like search for things right like I want to see all the multiple choice questions I have in my question. Bank. I can do that right there. I can, you know, have match multiple um tags at the same time, and that's kind of a cool thing if you're especially in classes with lots and lots of questions in their question Bank. So 123 00:29:25.720 --> 00:29:36.399 Brian Klaas: if you're using quizzes or exams in your classes think about tag rule quizzes. They really make a big difference in terms of exam or quiz security uh and uh, making sure you have adequate content coverage 124 00:29:36.550 --> 00:29:59.340 Brian Klaas: alright, five different quizzes. So the last new feature I want to cover here today is something you have may have seen in the slides that um. Amy and and Kerry were showing earlier. Uh, and in their slides you may have noticed that course plus looked a little bit different. It was the font isn't exactly the same font that you were seeing on my screen as I was going through. Course plus, 125 00:29:59.350 --> 00:30:27.880 Brian Klaas: and that's because back over the summer Well, for a long time actually make sort of take a step back. We have, in course, plus for about four years, now offered the option for a dyslexic friendly font to be displayed instead of the default Font in course plus, and the dyslexia friendly font is was generated by a research group that works in dyslexia uh, through a series of trials that basically creates letter forms that are very are much more difficult for those with dyslexia to actually switch. 126 00:30:27.890 --> 00:30:50.389 Brian Klaas: So I could actually, for the last, like four years, I could have said, I want to look at course, plus using this dyslexic friendly font update my preferences. And there we go. This is the dyslexia friendly font that's available. You'll notice the letter forms are quite different. They're weighted towards the bottom. Um, There are ligatures on certain characters to make sure that you don't mess up the order. The reading orders more difficult to swap reading. Order with this font. 127 00:30:50.500 --> 00:31:02.550 Brian Klaas: Most people don't know this, but it is an option, and if you know students, or you have students in your classes who have it might be selection, and they tell you this. They share that with you. You might want to share this with them. But, uh, this summer we added a second 128 00:31:02.560 --> 00:31:30.989 Brian Klaas: font option that a number of people in the center for teaching and learning use as their default font option uh, because in some ways it's easier for them to read. And this is a font called Atkinson Hyper legible. It's It was Gen. Developed Um. By University of Oxford, with a bunch of uh with their blind faculty students, and in conjunction with the national health system in uh the Uk uh to help people who have low vision issues not necessarily blindness, but low vision issues. See letter forms more clearly on websites, 129 00:31:31.000 --> 00:31:53.559 Brian Klaas: and so I can say, I want to use a low vision, friendly font where possible, and course plus update my preferences. And you'll notice again the font changed here as well, and anywhere I go, in course, plus with sort of the default. User interface. I'm going to be using that font um. It's a bit more sort of mono space, which makes it a bit easier to read. Zeros and o's are very distinctly distinguished by 130 00:31:53.570 --> 00:32:17.000 Brian Klaas: it gives me a slash through the zero. There's a whole bunch of stuff like that in there. Um! So again we have these font display options. We've had the dyslexia friendly font uh for a long time. Now we've add the low vision. Font, you might want to turn those on for yourself, and you can do that if you again, I sort of show this in the beginning without going over it specifically. You can say, edit my course plus account. And then the the second option is Update your course, plus 131 00:32:17.010 --> 00:32:46.159 Brian Klaas: it preferences. You click on that, and that's the page that lets you uh select a different font inside, of course, plus. So that's all the new things I want to show you. I just want to remind everybody that there is this course plus updates page uh that's available. It's at Ctl Jhsph Edu Slash Cpu, not central processing unit, but course plus updates that list. All the changes that we make in course, plus big and small, because there's lots of other changes that we have made to course plus 132 00:32:46.170 --> 00:33:15.759 Brian Klaas: um in the last few months. Certainly the last year I don't have time to cover them all some our time. Some of these are really small changes. Some of these are surprisingly big changes, even though they don't get a lot of detail on this page. Um, but this page will list all the stuff that changed every single month in course plus. So if you ever want to find out what's new and different beyond what's on the Ctl blog, which i'm sure Amy is going to talk about later. Um! Beyond that you can see all the nitty-gritty details of everything that's changed in course, plus 133 00:33:15.770 --> 00:33:32.499 Brian Klaas: on this page as well and I can uh type that into the chat here. Um! Oh, and Lauren already did it for me. Look at that. So thank you, Lauren, very much. Um. So yeah, uh see. Coursewise updates Page very handy if you want to know the day degree gritty details of what's new and course plus, 134 00:33:32.510 --> 00:33:36.820 Brian Klaas: so that's it for me and everything that I want to cover today. I'm going to turn it back over to Amy. 135 00:33:38.180 --> 00:33:48.980 BSPH CTL Teaching Toolkit: Alright. Thank you so much. Brian. Um. So now uh we'll actually open it up to everyone for open. Q. A. Um. First i'll ask Lauren. Is there Are there any um unanswered questions in Chat? 136 00:33:49.750 --> 00:34:01.380 BSPH CTL Teaching Toolkit: Nope, We are all good with the chat, Amy, all right. That's great. So if anyone has any questions, feel free to post that in the chat, or if you'd like, you can raise your hand in zoom. And uh, we'll just answer all your questions, 137 00:34:08.239 --> 00:34:14.869 BSPH CTL Teaching Toolkit: or maybe there are no questions. Maybe you got this, and you're just ready to dive right into course plus. Oh, Kathy, 138 00:34:15.489 --> 00:34:19.050 Kathy Gresh: Oh, yeah, I just was wondering. I was looking at the chat 139 00:34:19.190 --> 00:34:35.139 Kathy Gresh: So for a live talk training sessions this week. Can um you still register for those, even though it's so close to the session. Or do you have to send a note to your instructional designer um to get you into the session, or will it show the link, since it's so close to the 140 00:34:35.260 --> 00:34:37.770 Kathy Gresh: date? Just checking 141 00:34:38.000 --> 00:34:41.199 Brian Klaas: uh you could just send an email to our contacts. Ctl. Help 142 00:34:41.210 --> 00:35:10.210 Brian Klaas: and Ctl. Help will get you registered will register you, for we'll register you. So you don't have to do that work. So you can email ctl help, or something else that I forgot to show off in case you haven't seen it. Uh is that there is a new Ctl help website um for those of you who may not have seen that. Um, that was launched. I want to say, back in the first term, maybe Yeah. So this new website, vastly simpler, searching, vastly better searching, completely updated for, like you know, 143 00:35:10.220 --> 00:35:39.519 Brian Klaas: the latest and latest and latest, and all the changes in course, plus uh you can open a help. Call up at the top of the screen here and just say, Hey, i'd like to um attend one of the live talk training sessions. Can you please register me? There's also a very comprehensive guide for all the tools and course plus in case you have not seen this Um, Each of the individual tools, whether it's course, groups discussion, forum page builder, sign up sheets. They all have step by step guides about how to get things done, and uh, some of the more complicated tools, like grade, book and quiz generator 144 00:35:39.530 --> 00:35:52.119 Brian Klaas: have walkthroughs of like Here's how you would set up a grade book with three uh papers and a midterm, and a final or something like that. You know More complex Workflows are also explained in there as well, 145 00:35:52.650 --> 00:36:22.339 Brian Klaas: and that's the new Ctl: help uh website. Um. But no one wants to know when viewing the class session tool is, it appears how it would for students. Yeah. Well, So when you're editing on the editing side, it doesn't exactly appear as it would, for students know it simply because you have a few extra tools in there right like add delete, reorder sessions. Things like that. However, if you go to the content page whether it's you're using class sessions or schedule builder, the content. Page appears to everyone exactly as it does to students, 146 00:36:22.390 --> 00:36:32.689 Brian Klaas: exactly as it does so you can always see exactly what students are seeing on that content page just by visiting it, regardless of you. Schedule Builder or um, The Class Sessions tool. 147 00:36:33.290 --> 00:36:39.060 Noah Baker: Okay, perfect. Thank you. The content page was exactly what I was asking about. Thank you. 148 00:36:42.990 --> 00:37:01.810 Celine Greene: It It might be worth pointing out the difference between what is seen publicly versus for registered students on that page, because the schedule versus the content is slightly different. For instance, the zoom links for class sessions and everything. I don't know. If you have a at your fingertips 149 00:37:02.170 --> 00:37:05.180 Celine Greene: display of the differences. 150 00:37:06.490 --> 00:37:10.780 BSPH CTL Teaching Toolkit: Uh: let me. Yeah, Let me see if I can pull that up really quickly, 151 00:37:11.840 --> 00:37:22.849 Celine Greene: because we do want to make sure that we're um. I'm sorry my videos off. I didn't realize that we do want to make sure that we're not sharing publicly zoom links, for instance, and a 152 00:37:22.860 --> 00:37:37.479 Celine Greene: old school way of just putting things in a text box on the sessions page would make that visible to the public display of the schedule. But if you use, if you are using sessions. There is a special uh 153 00:37:38.100 --> 00:37:50.370 Celine Greene: content area to put in a zoom link. If you have a hybrid class, for instance, and that will not show on the public display of the schedule. So we want to use the tools that are there um for efficiency, 154 00:37:50.380 --> 00:38:03.639 Celine Greene: and also the whole routineness of students knowing where to go, but also there is a safety and security aspect to that, because, even though we haven't heard about it in the news lately, there are still zoom bombers out there. 155 00:38:09.120 --> 00:38:19.069 Celine Greene: I guess I should have come up with a page before I put you guys on the spot. I'm sorry that's a good. I think I I found um an example, so i'll just share my screen very quickly. 156 00:38:19.080 --> 00:38:41.979 Celine Greene: And then I apologize that I missed the beginning. But did we talk about how the sessions to schedule builder conversion is when and done, if we choose to do that. Oh, that's actually that's a great point. So. Um, if you're currently using class sessions and you'd like to switch to schedule Builder um. You can do that by going to the Faculty Pools page and hitting the button at the top, but with a really big asterisk. 157 00:38:41.990 --> 00:38:45.759 BSPH CTL Teaching Toolkit: Uh, we do not recommend that you do that while the course is live. 158 00:38:45.770 --> 00:39:13.129 BSPH CTL Teaching Toolkit: Um! And since it's so close to term um, unless you know that I would give yourself enough time to check through and make sure that everything translates correctly after hitting that button. So. Um, because we we had some issues in term one where faculty switched over um during the term while the course was live to students. So um! If you would like to switch uh uh do that sooner rather than later, and not while the course is live. But that's just one button in uh the faculty tools. Page 159 00:39:13.140 --> 00:39:31.539 BSPH CTL Teaching Toolkit: um! And then uh, what's going with that mentioned earlier which you should be able to see uh, hopefully, my the slide and not my notes. But um! There is a place. If you're using Class Sessions tool where you can enter the zoom link for this session. If you're using zoom in a class session. Um, and that will. That will be uh 160 00:39:31.550 --> 00:39:55.349 BSPH CTL Teaching Toolkit: private that won't um be posted publicly, I believe. Um, I believe that's correct. Uh whereas um Oh, thank you, Brian. Um. Whereas if you just post the link, say in this text box over here as just you know, you're just putting it in the text. That would be public. Um! So that was uh what Sean mentioned earlier about being what's public versus what's private? Um? And if you're using the um, 161 00:39:55.360 --> 00:40:24.269 BSPH CTL Teaching Toolkit: the schedule builder again, we don't recommend that you post zoom links on the schedule instead. Um, You should be posting those on the live talk page of the course. Or if you're using scheduled builder and you don't have a live talk page say you're a dot o one. Course that's using schedule Builder. Um, We recommend that you create a an a standard page and then put the zoom link on that page and then link the page to the schedule, so that it's public. It's private and not public, which, if you have questions about that, we can um. We'll be happy to 162 00:40:24.300 --> 00:40:27.110 BSPH CTL Teaching Toolkit: uh elaborate or work with you to set that up. 163 00:40:27.920 --> 00:40:31.359 BSPH CTL Teaching Toolkit: I think I think that answered that question 164 00:40:33.320 --> 00:40:34.970 BSPH CTL Teaching Toolkit: All right. Um, 165 00:40:35.970 --> 00:40:46.819 BSPH CTL Teaching Toolkit: uh, yes, Kathy, and the chat said, do not switch to schedule Builder just to test and then flip back again um, and then back again. That will cost some issues. So thank you, Kathy, for highlighting that as well. 166 00:40:48.050 --> 00:40:50.640 BSPH CTL Teaching Toolkit: All right. Um! Any other questions. 167 00:41:00.570 --> 00:41:12.189 BSPH CTL Teaching Toolkit: Oh, we just got a question in the chat. Um, This is a very specific question, but some of my pages and page builder are listed as lecture, while others are listed as standard. Uh yes, there is a meaningful difference. 168 00:41:12.200 --> 00:41:38.070 BSPH CTL Teaching Toolkit: Um! So uh a standard page is a page that's completely um that starts out as completely blank and faculty and tas and say, course coordinators and course site content. Editors um can do anything they want with that page. Um! They can add text to that page, or images or um link things to that page like dropboxes or discussion forums. Um, and post that page to the scheduled builder. 169 00:41:38.080 --> 00:42:07.079 BSPH CTL Teaching Toolkit: Um, They have free rein of that standard page. Now, lecture pages. Those are usually those are created uh by Ctl um, usually by your instructional designer or someone on the production team. And uh, those pages are special because they have a lecture materials box where Ctl uh publishes uh course, materials that have been produced by Ctl: So those um like videos, or uh narrated Powerpoints, those types, of course materials, 170 00:42:07.090 --> 00:42:34.089 BSPH CTL Teaching Toolkit: and because it's so, those pages are so closely tied to production. Um faculty have a little less freedom, and what they can do with those pages. So, for example, Um, when they're linked to the schedule page uh faculty might not be able to move the or change the open to student date. Um until the second offering that it's that it's available, or um, or move things around as much so um the key differences uh tied to production. Um, so 171 00:42:34.100 --> 00:42:54.090 BSPH CTL Teaching Toolkit: uh otherwise you faculty can still add text to this lecture page. They just can't do some other things with it. Um! And if you have questions about that, just let your let you, uh, I would say, reach out to your instructional designer to let them know what you'd like to do with that page. Uh, if it's a lecture page so that they'll um. They can work with you to make sure it's. It appears as you want it to appear 172 00:42:55.870 --> 00:42:58.610 BSPH CTL Teaching Toolkit: all right. Um, thank you. 173 00:42:58.770 --> 00:43:02.700 BSPH CTL Teaching Toolkit: Uh any other questions. That was a really good question, 174 00:43:11.400 --> 00:43:20.810 BSPH CTL Teaching Toolkit: and i'm joined by some Ctl uh colleagues as well. So if you have any tips or uh comments that you'd like to share. Um. Please feel free to do so as well. 175 00:43:23.860 --> 00:43:32.860 Celine Greene: I I just want to. Um. I apologize for them at the beginning of it, I mean, I put a link in there about subscribing to the discussion Forum. I know that right now 176 00:43:32.890 --> 00:43:51.989 Celine Greene: people are getting ready to start off the term. So get ready to create your email. You can schedule it to be sent on Wednesday. If you don't want to send it right now it goes to everybody who's in the roster. The course site, however, isn't actually available to them until the first day of term, unless they spend a special permission, 177 00:43:52.000 --> 00:44:05.060 Celine Greene: um, which Brian actually would set that special permission by request to open a course site earlier. But again, you can write your email now and have it scheduled to sent, and also making sure to subscribe to the Uh 178 00:44:05.070 --> 00:44:13.169 Celine Greene: discussion form, especially if you ask students to introduce themselves. Or maybe you're using a voicemail or something, then subscribe to the voicethread. Just don't 179 00:44:13.230 --> 00:44:29.709 Celine Greene: Don't. Have your course site ready for students, and you not show up like just again. Be ready to welcome your students and engage them from day. One and the best design in the world doesn't mean anything if it's not actually facilitated purposely. So 180 00:44:29.720 --> 00:44:34.399 Celine Greene: we're talking about course bus. But there's tools and course bus to help you be more engaging. 181 00:44:34.880 --> 00:44:36.839 BSPH CTL Teaching Toolkit: Very good. Thank you, Seleen. 182 00:44:40.150 --> 00:44:43.239 BSPH CTL Teaching Toolkit: All right. Any other questions or comments. 183 00:44:46.710 --> 00:44:55.509 BSPH CTL Teaching Toolkit: Alright, uh, if not, then um, i'll go ahead and uh again Share highlight some resources that we will also share in a follow up email. 184 00:44:55.840 --> 00:45:02.060 BSPH CTL Teaching Toolkit: So. Um! You should be able to see my my um screen here. 185 00:45:02.070 --> 00:45:29.720 BSPH CTL Teaching Toolkit: So um as I, as we mentioned earlier. If you go to um this link which all the links will be shared by Lauren in the chat. Uh you can uh look at the um course plus guide for faculty um for faculty. Uh tas, also have the same permissions as faculty. So if your ta you would go to the faculty, guide um, and this there's also a student guide as well. Um. And I also recommend looking at these frequently asked questions, because I myself have needed to go to this to have a question answered. 186 00:45:29.730 --> 00:45:43.379 BSPH CTL Teaching Toolkit: Um, so go there if you need, uh any kind of technical assistance, or have a technical question about some how something works, in course, plus um. Brian mentioned the Ctl blog. Um. This is a blog that we update 187 00:45:43.930 --> 00:45:56.169 BSPH CTL Teaching Toolkit: somewhat regularly uh, but it's definitely where we we post things that are um like just in time uh resources or information, as well as uh overviews of like updates and course, plus. 188 00:45:56.180 --> 00:46:11.239 BSPH CTL Teaching Toolkit: Speaking of updates, if you want a very detailed uh update on what's happening in course, plus uh, you can go here uh and see all of the uh detailed updates that are happening. Um! That our web developers are working on. 189 00:46:11.250 --> 00:46:28.990 BSPH CTL Teaching Toolkit: And finally, if you'd like to get to know us um, we'll also provide this uh Ctl instructional design team bio page, where you can see uh, you know again. Get to know your your instructional designers a little bit better. So uh, I will go ahead and stop sharing my screen. 190 00:46:29.330 --> 00:46:38.030 BSPH CTL Teaching Toolkit: And uh, just. I want to thank everybody for coming to today's session. We hope that you found this a valuable use of your time and good luck in term to you.