Discussion-based – MacDigital

Copying Perusall Content To a New Course

If you’ve added lots of readings and assignments to Perusall and want to reuse them for new classes, you’re in luck: there’s a straight-forward process to copy materials from one course to another. It even preserves your assignment links on Moodle. The trickiest part is remembering the right order of operations. These instructions walk you through the process step-by-step. In...

Annotation/Asynchronous/Discussion-based

Using Groups in Perusall

Overview In Perusall, you can organize students into groups that limit whose comments they see. This can be useful when you have a large class and want to reduce the volume of annotations any single student is seeing, or if you want to create smaller cohorts where students might assume certain roles (skeptic, synthesizer, etc.) as readers and responders. You...

Asynchronous/Discussion/Discussion-based/Group Work

Engineering Student Collaboration and Group Work

Knox College colleague Eric Dickens, in collaboration with his colleague Cate Denial, also from Knox, facilitated a session focused on student collaboration and group work. Watch the ACM workshop and use the additional resources to learn how to encourage remote student engagement and collaboration.

Community Building/Discussion/Discussion-based/Group Work

RefWorks

RefWorks allows you to both manage citations in a personal-to-you database and annotate PDFs asynchronously.

Annotation/Asynchronous/Discussion-based/Practice-based

Hypothes.is

Hypothes.is a free annotation tool in which you can create groups and privately share annotations, on a PDF, or even a webpage.

Annotation/Asynchronous/Digital Projects/Discussion-based/Flipped Classroom/Practice-based

Slack

You can use Slack to create a communal workspace where users can chat or share documents and links.

Asynchronous/Community Building/Discussion/Discussion-based/Group Work/Synchronous

Google Slides Presentations with Poll Everywhere

Poll Everywhere allows users to embed interactive components into a Google Slides presentation. Use this how-to to learn how to create a Google Slides presentation with an embedded Poll Everywhere component!

Discussion-based/Lecture/Polling/Presentations/Synchronous

Hosting Zoom Meetings

This guide contains information on the different roles of Zoom hosts and how they can manage the participants and chat during a Zoom meeting.

Discussion/Discussion-based/Synchronous

Zoom Meeting Polling

Zoom Polls allow the host to ask questions during Zoom meetings and review and share the results after the meeting. Use this how-to to learn how to create Zoom Polls!

Discussion-based/Lecture/Polling/Synchronous

Recording Zoom Meetings

Zoom Recording allows the host to record and save their Zoom meeting, including the meeting’s audio, video, and the content shared via screen share. Use this how-to to learn how to record your Zoom meeting!

Asynchronous/Discussion/Discussion-based/Flipped Classroom/Lecture/Presentations/Synchronous

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