Events

Do you want to foster connection and engagement with your students when teaching remotely?

Icebreakers can help!

In this 45 min session you will experience 10 quick icebreakers to use in Zoom, all of which can be easily modified for different disciplines and contexts.

This workshop is aimed towards teaching staff at VU who want to learn about the use of Zoom virtual classes for teaching.  

We will cover how to schedule the virtual classrooms and use all its key functions for teaching which include: 

sharing screens  using the chat  managing participants creating breakout rooms creating polls managing security and your meeting settings 

The workshop is held online using Zoom. Get access by going to the VU Collaborate Essentials space, selecting the Communication tab then choosing Zoom Classroom from the dropdown list. You then click on Join next to the title and date of the workshop to get started.  See this 20 second video for how to get there.  

You can add some interactivity and collaboration to your Zoom classes using Office 365 shared documents and Padlet. 

Office 365 allows you to create shared documents which work like Google docs. 

Padlet is web based software that enables people to add virtual 'post it notes' to a virtual 'wall', so they can record and share their ideas. 

In this one hour session you'll see some examples, then get hands on and learn how to: 

create a Padlet   embed a Padlet directly into your VU Collaborate site create a shared document share the link with students in VU Collabroate and Zoom 

In this session we will discuss and demonstrate the capabilities of the Originality Check (Urkund by Ouriginal) for the dropbox in VU Collaborate.   

The session will cover:  

Accessing and switching on the originality check  Viewing originality check results  Managing originality check issues  

The workshop is held online using Zoom. Get access by going to the VU Collaborate Essentials space, selecting the Communication tab then choosing Zoom Classroom from the dropdown list. You then click on Join next to the title and date of the workshop to get started.  See this 20 second video for how to get there.   

This workshop is aimed towards teaching staff at VU who want to learn about the use of Zoom virtual classes for teaching.  

We will cover how to schedule the virtual classrooms and use all its key functions for teaching which include: 

sharing screens  using the chat  managing participants creating breakout rooms creating polls managing security and your meeting settings 

The workshop is held online using Zoom. Get access by going to the VU Collaborate Essentials space, selecting the Communication tab then choosing Zoom Classroom from the dropdown list. You then click on Join next to the title and date of the workshop to get started.  See this 20 second video for how to get there.