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Development Course Request Form in Share Moodle Server for Instructors without KPU Credentials
Resources for New and Existing Faculty
Learning Technology
Document Cameras
4
How to setup ELMO MX-P in your classroom
How to setup IPEVO V4K in your classroom
Quick start guide for using ELMO MX-P document camera
Quick start guide on IPEVO V4K document camera
iPads
12
Turning on an iPad
Charging iPads
Charging iPad Pencils
Unlocking your iPad
Connecting iPads to KPU secure Wi-Fi
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Moodle
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Deleting Announcements in Moodle Forums
Hiding Resources and Activities in Moodle
Using Course Announcements in Moodle
Annotating PDF Assignments
Overriding or Revising Grades in Moodle
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Open Badges
9
How to add your open badge to your LinkedIn Profile?
How to Check for Course Completion Status
How to View Your Student's Badges in Moodle (For Instructors)
Viewing Your Badges in Moodle (Students)
Enabling Course Completion for Badging Courses
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IT Supported Tools
6
Share a OneDrive Document with no editing privileges
Share the screen during Microsoft Teams meeting
OneDrive overview
Quick Overview of Faculty Dell 7420 2 in 1 Laptop
Loan a portable DVD drive for classroom
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Mattermost
4
How do I get a Mattermost team?
How to join Mattermost team for the first time?
How to invite students to join your team?
Create Polls in your Mattermost channel
Other Tools
5
Library Equipment
Using Mentimeter at KPU: Recommendations
Privacy Guidance on the Use of Hypothesis Annotation Software
Social Annotation with Hypothes.is - A 9-Step Workshop
Simple Syllabus Phase 1 Template
Poodll
10
Using Poodll Mini Lesson in Moodle
Using Poodll ReadAloud on Moodle
Using Poodll Solo in Moodle
Using Poodll WordCards in Moodle
Adding a Video/Audio/Screen Recorder Assignment With Video/Audio Feedback
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Continue.moodle.kpu.ca
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Hiding Resources and Activities in Moodle - Continuing Professional Studies (CPS)
Revising Grades/Manually Entering Grades in Moodle - Continuing Professional Studies (CPS)
Changing the Course Format - Continuing Professional Studies (CPS)
Controlling Visibility of Moodle Gradebook Items - Continuing Professional Studies (CPS)
Exporting & Importing Grades from a Spreadsheet - Continuing Professional Studies (CPS)
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Privacy
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Padlet
11
Accessing Padlet for Students
Padlet Quickstart Guide
How to log into Padlet as Faculty
What is Padlet? - Features, Benefits and Use-Cases
How to create or copy a Padlet
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Turnitin
2
How to use Turnitin's Draft Coach Tool
Adding Turnitin Draft Coach to an Online Microsoft Word Document
Conferencing Tools
Conferencing Tools Guidelines
3
Video-Conferencing FAQ: Recording Lectures
Video-Conferencing for Teaching and Learning: Acceptable Use and Best Practices
Invigilating Exams Using KPU Supported Conferencing Tools: Guidelines
Big Blue Button
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How to Add Big Blue Button through Moodle
Setting up BigBlueButton for your Course
Recording a BigBlueButton Session
How to join the session with audio and webcam?
Features Overview in BigBlueButton
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Microsoft Teams
17
Teams Trick: Record a meeting in Microsoft Teams
Teams Trick: Pop Out Chat and Meetings
Teams Trick: Bookmark a Message in Teams
Teams Trick: MS Teams Search
Teams Trick: How to share screen on teams
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Zoom
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Zoom Meeting Controls
How to use breakout rooms in Zoom?
How to use Zoom Waiting Rooms for Office Hours?
How to do polling (in Zoom meetings)?
Creating a poll in Zoom
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Educational Media
Tips & Toolkits
6
Free stock images, videos, vectors, icons, and fonts
Audio and Music Resources
PowerPoint Templates
Making Better Videos Tip Sheet
Mobile Video Kit
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H5P
3
Self-Paced Course on H5P
(WEBSITE) H5P Example and Downloads
Transferring H5P Activity from one Moodle course to another
Kaltura
59
Downloading Kaltura video to your desktop computer
Embed Kaltura videos (from media.kpu.ca) to a website
Installing & Updating Kaltura Capture in Moodle
What is Kaltura Capture?
Create a narrated PowerPoint presentation with Kaltura Capture (in Moodle)
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Camtasia
4
Camtasia for Faculty/Instructional Staff
Working with Camtasia Files
Getting Started with Camtasia Training session #1
Getting started with Camtasia training #2 (Intermediate)
T&L Recording Studio
8
Powering on the recording studio
Selecting the backdrop
Adjust the desk height position
Adjust the microphone
Adjust the camera's height
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TV Video Demonstration Unit
4
What is TV Video Demonstration Unit?
Using the Camera
Using the Extron Controller
Using the Remote Control
Technology Enhanced e-Classroom
5
Technology Enhanced e-Classrooms at KPU
What is Classroom Capture Technology?
Starting and Stopping recording - Classroom Capture Technology
Camera, Content and Microphone - Classroom Capture Technology
What is Classroom Streaming Technology?
ePortfolios
PebblePad
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Accessing PebblePad Supports
Getting Started with Pebble+
The Difference Between Pebble+ and ATLAS
PebblePad Vendor Recorded Sessions
How to embed Kaltura videos into PebblePad
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ePortfolio Articles
3
ePortfolio Resources
Eportfolios Explained Annotated Bibliography (pdf)
(Resource) Unifying Experiences: Learner and Instructor Approaches and Reactions to ePortfolio Usage in Higher Education
WordPress
22
Getting started with a KPU hosted WordPress site?
Resetting my password
Uploading documents or files to WordPress
Upload images to WordPress
Installing WordPress themes
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Videos
2
(VIDEOS) ePortfolios at KPU
Eportfolios Explained Webinar
Teaching & Learning Resources
Blended Learning
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(RESOURCE) Guide to Blended Learning
(RESEARCH) Facilitation in blended learning environments
(RESEARCH) The right mix ...blended course recipe
(WEBSITE) Blended learning Western University
(WEBSITE) Blended Learning Toolkit
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Classroom Community
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Collection of Energizers, Name Games, and Ways to Break into Small Groups
Five Strategies to Engage Today's Students
Increasing Student Engagement
Millennials our Newest Generation in Higher Education
Building Student Engagement - 15 Strategies for the Classroom
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Backwards Design
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(VIDEO) Backward Design
(TOOL) Assignment Design Worksheet
(RESEARCH) Understanding by Design
(RESEARCH) Enhancing Teaching Through Constructive Alignment (Biggs 1996)
(VIDEO) Learning Outcomes & Alignment
Summative & Formative Assessments
3
Using Assessment to Support Student Learning
Using Reflection for Assessment
[VIDEO] Academic Integrity Strategies
Online Learning
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(BLOG) Tony Bates - Online learning and Distance Ed Resources
(RESEARCH) Canadian Survey of Online Learning
(RESEARCH) Trends in Distance Education Research: A content analysis of journals 2009-2013
(RESEARCH) Interaction and communication in online learning communities
(WEBSITE) Online Learning Western University
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Student Motivation
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Creating Enabling Environments for Student Engagement
Assessment
5
Student Commitment to Academic Integrity Statement
Re-Thinking Assessment Design
Fourteen Strategies to Reduce Cheating in Online Exams
Effective Multiple Choice Design
Rubrics
Exams
1
Learning by Exams - the Impact of Two-Stage Cooperative Tests
Teaching and Learning Activities
3
Aligned Learning Outcomes
Asynchronous Online Debates
EC Portfolio Recruitment - Spring 2021
e-learning pedagogy
5
(RESEARCH) E-learning in higher education: The need for a new pedagogy.
(RESEARCH) Three generations of distance education pedagogoy
(RESEARCH) Toward effective instruction in e-learning environmnets
(RESEARCH) Are the functions of teachers in e-learning and face-to-face learning environments really different?
Tips for planning culturally inclusive courses and an overview
Gen Z
0
Rubrics
4
Portfolio for Rubric Reflection
Rieger Heiner - 2 Stage Exams
Table Sample Discussions Rubric
Moodle Rubrics
Slide Design
1
Slide Design
Student Wellness
0
Course Syllabus
2
KPU Course Syllabus Template
Frequently Asked Questions about the Simple Syllabus Technology
Tool Selection
1
How to select the best e-learning tool for your classroom?
Teaching and Learning
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An Open Resource of Learning Activities
(WEBSITE) Library Resources to Support Teaching and Learning
New Faculty Orientation Resources
Virtual Lab and Science Resource
Online Resources for Teaching Labs
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Intercultural Teaching
Intercultural Competency
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(RESEARCH) The Power of Empathy - A Critical Narrative Inquiry of Cultural Competencies in New Teachers
Universal Design for Learning
Research
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(WEBSITE) CAST.org
(RESOURCE): UDL in Post-Secondary
(ARTICLE) UDL in Practice
(ARTICLE) Curriculum Theory
(ARTICLE) UDL Implementation
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Teaching Tools
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The Basics of UDL
Accessibility Online
Engagement in an Online Environment
(RESOURCE) UDL: A Practical Guide - JIBC
Speech to Text in Online Word Docs
UDL Thoughts
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(BLOG) UDL From Where I Sit, Part 1
(BLOG) Three UDL Starters
Blog Post - Circles
(BLOG) Access
(BLOG) Informing as A Starter Step in UDL: Lessons From Singapore
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Presentations
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UDL Introduction
Quick and Dirty Dozen
Accommodations 101
Indigenizing Curriculum
Indigenization
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Actions for Reconciliation as Citizens and Educators
Decolonization
1
Talking About Residential Schools with Students: A Digital Resource Guide for Settler/Non-Indigenous Faculty
Educator Identity
Teaching Philosophy
1
Teaching Philosophies and Teaching Dossiers guide
Reflective Practice
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A Process of Becoming: In favor of a Reflexive Narrative Approach
Reflective Writing
Assessing Critical Reflection
A Short Guide to Reflective Writing
The Meanings of Teaching from the Perspective of Exemplary and Experienced Teachers
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Open Education
Open Pedagogy
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(RESOURCE) Support for Open Educational Practice
Zero Textbook Cost (ZTC) program
1
KPU Classes - With $0 for Textbooks!
Digital Literacy
Digital Natives
2
(RESEARCH) The ‘digital natives’ debate: A critical review of the evidence
(RESEARCH) Can we teach digital natives digital literacy?
Digital Literacy Framework
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(RESEARCH) Digital literacy: A conceptual framework for survival skills in the digital era
(RESEARCH) A framework for digital media literacies for teaching and learning in higher education
(RESOURCE) BC's K-12 Digital Literacy Framework
Teaching with Digital Technology
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(RESEARCH) Teaching in a Digital Age
(RESEARCH) Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge: A Framework for Teacher Knowledge
(RESEARCH) Teachers learning technology by design
(Resource) Using Media & The Great Media Debate Articles
TPCK Model
The Learning Centre
Resources for Students
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