Health Sciences Edition Newsletter

Health Sciences Edition: August 2023

Last Chance to Register: Sakai Essentials for Faculty

If you are new or returning to teach this fall, please join us for Sakai Essentials for Faculty on August 2nd at 2:00pm CT. This live webinar will cover Sakai native teaching and learning tools, such as Calendar, Lessons, Assignments, Tests & Quizzes, Rubrics, Gradebook, and more. It will also quickly introduce Sakai integrated tools like Zoom, Panopto, and VoiceThread. A panel of moderators will be available to ask questions throughout the session.

Intro to Sakai for Students

If you are teaching this fall, please encourage your students to join us for Intro to Sakai for Students on Thursday, August 24th, 1:00pm CT. This live webinar will provide a guided tour of learning tools found within Sakai, so that students understand how to engage with course activities and lessons, submit coursework, take quizzes, and view grades or feedback. It will also introduce integrated learning technologies for multimedia and communication. A panel of moderators will be available to ask questions throughout the session.

Fall 2023 Courses

Fall 2023 courses are now available and you can login to Sakai to view and start building them. Please contact us for support with any of the following:

Course development and learning design
Instructional technologies
Learning analytics
Academic research technologies

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Gradescope: New Features for Fall

Join us on Tuesday, August 22nd, 2pm CT, for a special fall faculty session facilitated by Howard Fooksman from Gradescope, former Midwest instructional technologist in higher education, and now purveyor of institutional partnerships and faculty training for Gradescope. As a newer tool within Loyola's catalog of instructional technologies, this session offers a closer look at the new improvements and features recently launched by Gradescope, such as richer ways to annotate and evaluate assignments.

ITRS Pathways: Sakai Integrated Tools Series

ITRS Pathways provide flexible opportunities for learning throughout the year. An ongoing schedule of live, interactive sessions is now available. You can register for a single session or complete all four sessions in a series to earn a digital badge (3 contact hours). Digital badges are issued through Credly, providing many ways to share your badge to popular destinations such as LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter.

Session 1: Zoom

This session focuses on Zoom as an integrated tool within your Sakai site. Zoom is a cloud-based video conferencing service. The session will cover scheduling meetings, security settings, and sharing recordings. (45 minutes)

Tuesday, August 8th, 10:00am CT

Session 2: Panopto

This session focuses on Panopto as an integrated tool within your Sakai site. Panopto is a tool for capturing lectures and prerecording content. The session will cover recording, editing, and sharing videos; as well as evaluating student work. (45 minutes)

Tuesday, August 8th, 11:00am CT

Session 3: VoiceThread

This session focuses on VoiceThread as an integrated tool within your Sakai site. VoiceThread is a tool for presenting narrated slideshow lectures, narrated student presentations, and rich multimedia discussions. This session will cover creating a VoiceThread, using the VoiceThread assignment builder, and options for sharing threads with colleagues and students. (45 minutes)

Thursday, August 10th, 10:00am CT

Session 4: Plug and Play: Using Readymade Learning Assets in Sakai

This session focuses on on-demand, self-directed learning tools available in Loyola's catalog of instructional technologies. Tools such as Labster and Learning Cloud provide extensive libraries of topic-based learning for use in courses, as supplemental lessons, or for your own independent professional development. This session will provide an overview of Labster and Learning Cloud and will cover locating and adding relevant on-demand content to your courses. (45 minutes)

Thursday, August 10th, 11:00am CT

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