ITRS Pathways

Assignments: The Assignments tool allows you to create, distribute, collect, and grade online assignments. Learn how to add, edit, and grade an assignment, as well as how to enable student peer review and group submissions.

Tests & Quizzes: The Tests & Quizzes tool allows you to create online assessments, including exams, quizzes, and surveys. Learn how to decide between assessment types, how to create different types of questions, and how to customize your assessment settings to support learner needs.

Rubrics: The Rubrics tool allows you to compose and apply criteria for grading in rubrics associated with different learning activities in Sakai, as well as share feedback with students. In addition, find out how to collaborate and share rubrics with other instructors in Sakai.

Gradebook: The Gradebook tool allows you to set up grading for a course securely shared with your students. Learn how to set up a Gradebook to reflect your course grading schema and values, calculate final grades, and how to enter grades and feedback for students to view. In addition, see how to associate different Sakai learning activities with the Gradebook.

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Announcements and Calendar: The Announcements tool enables instructors to communicate with small groups or their entire class. Additionally, this session will address how to effectively use the Calendar tool to help organize course content and activities.

Email, Chat, and Messages: The Email, Chat, and Messages tools facilitate one-to-one and one-to-many communications via Sakai. Gain insights into the logistics and advantages of each tool, as well as hands-on practice using these tools to communicate with other session participants.

Discussions: The Discussions tool allows instructors to facilitate asynchronous dialogue in their course. Learn how to create forums and topics, customize settings, grade student contributions, and gain strategies to promote collaborative learning.

Conversations: The Conversations tool assists instructors with facilitating short-answer questions or longer discussions, along with tagging key posts. Learn how to create a new topic, post a question, answer questions, hide/delete/lock posts, bookmark topics, and more.

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Session 1: Zoom 

This session focuses on Zoom Pro as an integrated tool within your Sakai Site. Topics include scheduling meetings, sharing recordings, and Zoom security features. It meets one of the four requirements to earn a Sakai Integrated Tools digital badge. (45 minutes) 

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Session 2: Panopto 

This session focuses on Panopto as an integrated tool within your Sakai site. Topics include recording, editing, and sharing Panopto videos, as well as evaluating student engagement and work submitted within Panopto. (45 minutes) 

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Session 3: VoiceThread 
This session focuses on VoiceThread as an integrated tool within your Sakai site. VoiceThread is used for presenting narrated slideshow lectures, narrated student presentations, and rich multimedia discussions. Topics include creating a VoiceThread, using the VoiceThread assignment builder, and options for sharing threads with colleagues and students. (45 minutes) 

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Session 4: Plug and Play

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

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