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Faculty Workshop Descriptions
CCRI Options for Storing and Retrieving Files
Creating Electronic Image Collections
Creating Games for Review and Practice
Creating Electronic Image Collections
Grouping images together in online collections is a great review and
practice strategy for your students. Whether you use Pipeline courses, a
faculty web page or a WebCT course, there is an option for you. They are
all easy and fun to do. Come explore your options and get some new ideas
for your courses.
View handouts for Online Image
Databases on the IT for Faculty website
Creating Games
Creating Interactive Games for Reviewing
and Practice
Games are a natural choice for faculty
who are trying to bring more interactivity into their courses and provide an
alternate way to review material before an exam or as a formative assessment.
Games involve friendly competition and cooperation with teammates as students
apply what they've learned on a topic. This session will cover the use of a
PowerPoint template for a Jeopardy-like game; the use of free Hot Potatoes
software to create quick crossword puzzles; and easy Excel flashcards.
Bring your course materials with you to start on your first game.
View handouts, templates
and many more game ideas on the IT For Faculty website
CCRI Options for Storing and Retrieving Files
Files, files everywhere! This session will explore the different ways
for faculty to store and retrieve files at CCRI. Options will include
logging in to your departmental share drive and creating your own folder
to store your files so they are accessible to you from your office or
any classroom on any campus, using flash drives (also known as USB,
jump, or key drives) to store and retrieve files, and the best way to
burn CDs from your home computer that will work in our classrooms.
View
information on using Departmental Share (Network) Drives on the IT For
Faculty website
View the handout on
burning CDs on the IT For Faculty website
Exploring Nursing Simulations
The Nursing Labs on Warwick, Lincoln and Providence campuses have been upgraded
over the summer in order to support some exciting new learning tools being
utilized at the Newport campus. Come try out these new nursing simulations and
explore how they would enhance your curriculum.
Microsoft Excel
Creating an Electronic
Grade Book in Excel
An electronic grade book is a quick and easy way to
maintain student grades from semester to semester. Having your rosters
available in Pipeline make it even easier to get your students'
transferred to the spreadsheet. After the initial steps to set up your
grade book, all you have to do is enter the grades from week to week for
the rest of the semester.
This tutorial will just cover copying and pasting your
roster into a spreadsheet and plugging in new labels and grades. However once
you get comfortable with this, you can also explore using the powerful Excel
tools to calculate your grades by quiz and for the term. If you are a WebCT
user, you can even download a copy of your student database into Excel and then
upload your grade book back into WebCT so that your students can access their
current grades whenever they wish.
View handout
on creating an Excel grade book from Pipeline
Working with an Electronic Grade Book in Excel
This session will cover common features in Excel that are useful to
faculty in building and maintaining their electronic grade book. Some of
the functions covered will include how to: enter labels, values and
formulas in columns; expand column widths to correctly display labels;
wrap text in a cell; use the functions for AutoSum, Average, Count; and
instantly copy formulas to other cells. Bring a copy of your course grade book in
Excel on disk to practice.
Microsoft PowerPoint
Supercharging
PowerPoint Presentations with Multimedia
Okay, you've worked hard on creating PowerPoint presentations for your
classes highlighting the main topics of your lecture. Now, how about
adding some audio, graphics, or video clips to bring in even more
interest and engage all the different learning styles of your students?
This session will cover the process for adding different types of
multimedia to your presentations.
View the
different handouts for adding audio, graphics, and video clips to a
PowerPoint presentation on the IT For Faculty website
Note: For a different use of PowerPoint, see information on creating games with PowerPoint above
Microsoft Word
Editing Student Work Electronically
If your students submit their documents as e-mail attachments or upload
files into Pipeline or WebCT, you can open them in Word and insert
comments and/or make changes to their text easily and quickly. You can
then e-mail the document back to the student and they will see the
suggestions, comments and changes you have made. The student can accept
or reject the changes you have made. (Note that the student must have
Word on their computer to see the revisions.)
If the assignment is one that entails several
revisions, you may save versions of the document so that you can see the
progress that has been made since the original and even compare
different versions. By the end of this session, you will learn how to
use each of the Word reviewing tools available for editing student
work.
View the handout on using the Word Reviewing Tools
Converting Word Documents
for Electronic Distribution
When distributing Word documents via the Web or as e-mail attachments, faculty
sometimes run into difficulties with students who do not have Word on their home
computers and are not able to open the files. This session will review options
for converting Word files to .htm, .rtf and .pdf formats.
View
handouts on converting Word documents on the IT For Faculty website
Pipeline
Optimizing Pipeline Course Tools
Pipeline offers a wealth of tools to make your interaction with students easier and more productive. This session will focus on the course tools available on the My Courses tab in Pipeline. These include:
- Sending e-mail to your entire class simultaneously (with or without attachments)
- Distributing documents through your Pipeline course (e.g. syllabus, handouts, PowerPoint presentations, etc.)
- Managing a Course Message Board to extend discussion beyond your class
- Sending instant announcements to your students
- Using a course calendar to keep students on track
- Consolidating several sections of a course into a consolidated course for ease of communication and distribution of files
See handouts on all these tasks on the Pipeline Documentation page on the IT website
Scanning Text and Graphics
There are scanners in all of the Centers for Instructional Technology (CITs)
on each campus that allow faculty to scan in text documents and/or graphics and
photos to create electronic files. This session will review the procedures for
getting the best results from your scanning while controlling the size and
quality of your files.
View handouts on
scanning graphics/photos on the IT For Faculty website
View handout on
scanning text
View video demo on scanning graphics
View demo on scanning slides
WebCT
Creating Multiple Choice Quizzes
or Anonymous Surveys
One of the strengths of WebCT is the ability to do online assessment.
You can create quizzes or anonymous surveys that are automatically
scored for students and entered into the electronic grade book for you.
This session will cover the steps in creating quizzes or surveys
in WebCT. Although there are five different types of question formats
available for WebCT this session will focus on the creation of a
multiple choice quiz.
View extensive handout (on-campus only)
Once your students have taken a quiz you can look at their individual
submissions as well as group statistics. This session will cover the
process of looking at individual student quizzes and/or surveys and also the detailed
statistics of questions and quizzes.
View extensive handout (on-campus only)
Calculating Grades in WebCT's Grade
Book
The grade book in WebCT holds all the quiz and assignment grades for
students, whether they are electronically scored by the program or
manually entered by you. The grade book has a calculation capability
that allows you to weight scores for quizzes, exams and assignments
differently. This session will provide an overview for using
calculations in the WebCT grade book as well as the option for
downloading to Excel for editing.
View handout (off-site)
What Can WebCT E-Packs Do for Your
Students?
WebCT e-Packs consist of publisher-created digital content that is ready
to use in WebCT. With WebCT e-Packs, you can offer your students
immediate access to a suite of media-rich online course materials,
including video animations, interactive media, critical-thinking
activities, quiz and test banks, flashcards, and much more! Your
students will benefit from accessing engaging online course components
that help to encourage participation and involvement in the online
learning environment. Best of all...you don't have to spend time
creating these materials! This session will explore the use of e-packs,
including how to evaluate an e-pack and steps to get started with an
e-pack.
