Webinar
Digital Learning Innovations, a division of Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment,
offers a series of Webinars designed specifically for online educators. These brief
Webinars provide the latest insights and best practices in the field of digital education.
Our sessions are interactive and engaging, providing opportunities for participants
to ask questions and exchange ideas with peers at KSU. Whether you have been teaching
online for a while or new to the field, our webinars can help you enhance your teaching
skills, become more comfortable in the online course environment, and achieve better
student outcomes. Join us for an enriching learning experience and take your online
teaching skills to the next level.
Discover the webinars we offer below!
Rubrics
Discussion
Equidox: PDF
Equidox: Features
Equidox: OCR
D2L: IA
SoftChalk
Zoom
Using Rubrics for Grading Assessments
The webinar “Using Rubrics for Grading Assessments” will focus on how rubrics can
help improve student performance and the quality of student learning. During the
webinar we will discuss how instructors can use the rubrics tool in D2L and can evaluate
student assignments using a fair and impartial process to grade student work.
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The webinar will also focus on how Rubrics can be a valuable tool to provide comprehensive
feedback. The target audience for this webinar is KSU faculty (part-and full-time)
and other KSU staff who might be interested in how rubrics can be used in online course
design and development.
🕑 Session Duration: 1 hour.
🏆 Digital Credential: Souvenir ✅
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Using Discussions Effectively in Online Courses
The “Using Discussions Effectively in Online Courses” webinar session aims to demonstrate
how instructors can effectively include discussions in their online courses by focusing
on experiential learning that can help instructors and students create an online community
of inquiry which promotes critical thinking and helps students become active participants
in their own learning.
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The target audience is the faculty at KSU, part- and full-time instructors and anyone
else who would like to attend. The objective of the webinar is to showcase how to
include Discussions in an online course (asynchronous, synchronous or hybrid modalities),
by using pedagogy practices backed by the Community of Inquiry Framework and evidence-based
research.
🕑 Session Duration: 1 hour.
🏆 Digital Credential: Souvenir ✅
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Equidox: PDF Accessibility Remediation
This is our basic Equidox webinar. If you have taken one of our previous PDF remediation
webinars, you may have felt more informed but also a little overwhelmed! Working with
Adobe Acrobat Pro can be very difficult and time-consuming.
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The good news is that KSU has just acquired a new PDF remediation software that makes
PDF remediation quicker and much easier! This webinar will give you a brief introduction
to help you get started.
🕑 Session Duration: 1 hour.
🏆 Digital Credential: Souvenir ✅
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Equidox: Exploring Advanced Features
In our basic Equidox webinar, we focus on introducing you to the things Equidox can
do. In this one, we will explore more advanced features, such as include tagging
multiple languages, advanced table settings, and complex lists.
🕑 Session Duration: 1 hour.
🏆 Digital Credential: Souvenir ✅
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Equidox Advanced: OCR and Scanned Docs
The most difficult PDFs to work with are always those scanned documents--but sometimes
they contain the most essential content. In this webinar, we explore the OCR functions
of Equidox and discover how we can make a scanned document even more accessible to
your students who use assistive technology.
🕑 Session Duration: 1 hour.
🏆 Digital Credential: Souvenir ✅
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Getting Started with Intelligent Agents in D2L
In this webinar we will examine the basics of Intelligent Agents. This tool within
D2L allows instructors to gain insight into their course. For example, instructors
may wish to determine who has or hasn’t submitted an assignment. These agents can
also send customizable messages to individual students when they fulfill a particular
task in D2L.
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An instructor may also choose to set an intelligent agent to let a student know when
they have missed a deadline on an assignment. Intelligent Agents can help boost engagement
with students and help instructors monitor course activity.
🕑 Session Duration: 1 hour.
🏆 Digital Credential: Souvenir ✅
* REGISTRATION WILL BE AVAILABLE SOON
Creating Content with SoftChalk
In this webinar, you will see how SoftChalk allows you to a create highly engaging,
interactive content for your online and hybrid courses. SoftChalk has an impressive
collection of tools and resources that will allow for a variety of accessible lessons
for your students.
🕑 Session Duration: 1 hour.
🏆 Digital Credential: Souvenir ✅
* REGISTRATION WILL BE AVAILABLE SOON
Conducting Class Meetings with Zoom
In this webinar, you will learn the basic of using Zoom for class meetings. You will
learning how to do things like set up meetings, record your classes, and use breakout
groups.
🕑 Session Duration: 1 hour.
🏆 Digital Credential: Souvenir ✅
* REGISTRATION WILL BE AVAILABLE SOON
