Kellogg Information Systems (KIS) Classroom & Educational Technologies

Use the checklist below as a guide to help you get ready. For technical questions, email kis@kellogg.northwestern.edu; for teaching support questions, email teachingsupport@kellogg.northwestern.edu. Optional Meeting: 12/27 @11am - Join Sunil and Ishrat and ask any question you may have as you prepare to teaching remotely the first 2 weeks of January.  Zoom link forthcoming. Remote Teaching Update the…

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If you have gotten coffee from the Faculty summit in October, you may have seen me stationed nearby with a sign hosting walk-up consultation for anything edtech. I've enjoyed our conversations and learning I'm thought of as the "Zoom Whisperer", haha. A big thanks to the following folks: Erez Levy, Yuval Salant, Nicola Persico, Sugata…

I use three different tools to engage with my class, and for my students to engage with each other. One of them is integrated with Canvas, and the other two are standalone apps which don't require students to create an account. I became aware of them while teaching remotely last year and decided to carry…

Microsoft Teams & Canvas The Microsoft Teams integration with Canvas (also called Class Teams or Microsoft Teams classes) is available in all Canvas courses and allows instructors to create a team to chat and collaborate with their students – during and in-between classes. Students can engage real-time with others in the class (in-person or remote)…

The latest version of Zoom is 5.8.0 – view instructions to update your Zoom client. There is one notable update introduced in Zoom which you may want to take advantage of this quarter. Poll access for alternative hosts  If meeting hosts add alternative hosts to their meeting, they can allow alternative hosts to add or…

Hypothesis is a social annotation tool that enables students to collaboratively comment on or annotate online texts, such as webpages, online PDFs, digital articles, or even specific course files in Canvas. Hypothesis has scheduled three info sessions for Northwestern faculty and staff – 2 intros, and 1 for advanced users. Mark your calendars to join…

Use the checklist below as a guide to help you get ready. For technical questions, email kis@kellogg.northwestern.edu; for teaching support questions, email teachingsupport@kellogg.northwestern.edu. In-Person View pictures of your classroom. Taking attendance? Ask your course specialist to setup up aPlus+ Attendance, a student self check-in app integrated with Canvas. Recording class? Make sure your course specialist has made the…

(article originally appeared in Northwestern's Canvas Minute newsletter on 8/12/2021) Dr. Roberts hears the familiar chime—a student has just entered the Zoom waiting room. As she sends them a quick message to say she’ll be with them soon, she considers how efficient this process has become. She’s no longer tethered to her office for long…

A heads up from the NU Canvas team that Friday, July 16, the page formatting for Canvas assignments will display an updated interface. This change is primarily cosmetic and will be visible to students in all course sites. The workflow for instructors building and evaluating assignments remains unchanged. A Canvas announcement for students will be…

If you've enjoyed using Zoom surveys in your online classes, consider PollEverywhere for your live or hybrid classes.  I've been using it for several years and I'm a big fan.  PollEverywhere allows you to run polls in ways that are similar to Zoom polls but better.  Here are some additional benefits: Identify which students gave…

The latest version of Zoom is version 5.7.0 – view instructions to update your Zoom client. Following are 3 notable updates introduced in Zoom which you may want to take advantage of this quarter. Share screen to all Breakout Rooms - Windows, macOS, Linux When sharing screen in the main session, the host or co-host can…

Depending on your teaching modality, use the checklist below as a guide to help you get ready. For technical questions, email kis@kellogg.northwestern.edu; for teaching support questions, email teachingsupport@kellogg.northwestern.edu. Hybrid View pictures of your classroom. You may have already visited the classroom to experience the setup. If you have questions on your room experience, sign up…

How do you best replicate the classroom whiteboard when teaching in either hybrid or full zoom modality?  This is a question many of us have been trying to solve for over the past year given how central the whiteboard often is to the teaching/learning experience. After trying several alternatives (including onscreen zoom annotation; a separate…

In an effort to help foster a sharing community amongst Kellogg faculty, we have created a space for faculty to share their edtech ideas (uses, tips and tricks) by creating a post on this site, and creating a discussion space for faculty to bounce ideas off of each other in the Faculty Forum. Links to both spaces are available from the…

Faculty use various apps to help create an immersive and engaging learning experience for students. The table the Apps Repository page contains a list of apps with a direct link to each app log in page or information page. If you using a tool not listed on the page, tell us! View Apps Repository page…

Join us for TEACHx, the Midwest's premier symposium celebrating teaching and learning through technology, May 11-13. This year's all-virtual TEACHx features three days of live, synchronous sessions in addition to a full roster of on-demand learning opportunities accessed via the Canvas LMS. And best of all, it's totally free. TEACHx 2021 asks how we can…

IMPORTANT: Remove from your Canvas course left nav if not using. To simplify finding and installing supported learning apps in a Canvas course,  a new tab for NU Learning Apps is now available in the left navigation of all Canvas course sites.  Each tool you add will be its own link in the left nav.…

The latest version of Zoom is version 5.6.0 – view instructions to update your Zoom client. Following are 2 new updates introduced in Zoom which you may want to take advantage of this quarter. Allowing guests into an authenticated meeting (Authentication Exception) – You can now designate a guest’s email address as “safe” ahead of time…

Non-verbal feedback, which is now included in meeting reactions, will return to the previous behavior, in which they are persistent until the attendee or host removes them (does not automatically disappear). This includes the Yes, No, Slower, and Faster options. Other useful features part of Zoom’s update latest update 5.5.0 include: Share and play video files directly into meeting -…

Visit the Teach Hybrid from Classroom page for pictures of our tiered and flat classrooms in the Global Hub, Allen Center and Wieboldt hall. VIEW classroom PICTURES >

Starting Winter 2021 KIS will no longer be supporting video downloading from websites. You can download videos you find online, for example from YouTube, into your presentation. To achieve this, there are 2 options: For YouTube videos, you can install and use the free Firefox add-on "Download YouTube". Or purchase and download the Wondershare Uniconverter.…

Useful features part of Zoom's update latest update 5.4.6 include: Enhanced co-host privileges over Breakout Rooms Co-hosts have the same breakout room controls as the meeting host, such as starting or ending breakout rooms, assigning participants, etc. Move participants to main session from breakout room Hosts and co-hosts have the option to assign a participant…

Here is a quick workaround if you only have one screen for content and want to use Presenter View in PowerPoint or Presenter Mode in Keynote, while only showing the active slide to your students. Zoom has a sharing feature called "Portion of Screen", that when selected shows a green box on your screen which…

How can we guarantee a minimum quality of the livestream experience and offer a more consistent livestream experience for students across faculty? This new Virtual Presence page helps guide faculty on how to achieve good virtual presence with examples for the elements below, a Virtual and Teaching Presence Checklist, and a link to sign up…

It's finally here, the ability to share multiple programs at the same time! The benefit: You don't have to keep clicking on New Share to toggle back/forth between programs. Simply select the programs (ex. PPT and Excel), and they are automatically visible to your students when you display them on your computer. How to get…

View the latest Canvas & Zoom updates covered in the recent 10-minute zoom session on 10/14: Canvas: New Rich Content Editor (RCE), Dec 2020 A side-by-side comparison of the current RCE and the new one Read the detailed post >  Zoom: “Keeping Up Appearances”, Zoom Style Adjusting your lighting Adjusting your audio level See the…

The Northwestern Canvas team will be enabling the new rich content editor (RCE) in Canvas on December 16, 2020.  The biggest change you will see is the removal of the right nav (to add links, files and images) and instead replaced with icons in the text editor ribbon. The new RCE replaces the current RCE…

From lighting, audio and use of a green screen to fun facial feature and accessories, Zoom has options you can edit for an optimal experience. Lighting Natural light, such as facing the window or being in a well lit room usually produces the best outcome. However, if your home setup is a little further away…

NU's Keep Teaching video series In the new Keep Teaching video series, Northwestern instructors (several Kellogg faculty are featured) share their insights into teaching online. Gathered from interviews with faculty members across schools and disciplines, the 12-part series, produced by Northwestern IT Media & Technology Innovation in partnership with Teaching & Learning Technologies, offers practical…

View the latest Canvas & Zoom updates covered in the recent 10-minute zoom session on 9/30: Zoom: Recent updates (customize gallery view, multi spotlight, self select breakout rooms) Canvas: Student analytics tool, ”what else is due that day” Canvas: See student time zones, app NU Worldwide Canvas: Pronouns available MS Bookings: App for scheduling office…

Instructions for finding out who/how many students accessed a particular file in your Canvas site. View course access report for an individual user Canvas basic reporting tells you who last viewed a particular document and number of times they viewed it - this information is in the Access Report which you can pull by going…

Microsoft Bookings is an online scheduling tool (part of our Microsoft suite) which you can use for students to sign up for office hours. Faculty can establish specific hours of availability including: Custom available hours and duration of appointments. Bookings checks against your Kellogg email calendar for availability during those hours. Students see available times…

Useful features part of Zoom's latest update 5.3.0 include: Students self-select breakout room and move amongst breakout rooms, if you enable this in Breakout Rooms Students can self-spotlight As host, you can still join any room but the Join link doesn't immediately appear. Click on Breakout Rooms --> Click the number next to a grouping…

NU Teaching and Learning Technologies team has created a Canvas dashboard that shows when students have assignments due in other other classes. This can help you determine when to place an exam or what day of the week would work best to make an assignment due. More info here: https://canvaspost.northwestern.edu/2020/08/18/new-time-zone-and-student-analytics-tools-in-canvas Get it: email canvas@northwestern.edu NU…

Pronouns have been enabled in Canvas. They appear next to a person's name in: Comment Fields Discussions Inbox People Page (Course and Groups) User Navigation Menu User Profile Page User Settings Page To enable, any Canvas user (students, faculty, staff) should: Log in to Canvas Click on Account on the left-hand navigation Click on Settings…

NU Teaching and Learning Technologies team (who manages Canvas) has built a tool in Canvas that allows instructors to easily see which students are in different time zones from the instructor. NU Worldwide sorts students so that instructors can quickly view which time zones students have indicated in Canvas and use a time simulator to check…