It is the week before classes start and your new students are nervous. Part of your role as an instructor is to make sure the learning environment is friendly, and “people” centred. A liquid Syllabus is a way to reach out to your students before the semester starts in a mobile friendly way. In this...

Are you looking for ways to maximize student success in your online course? In this workshop, participants will explore opportunities to support students in online learning as a part of their course design. Working together, we will identify strategies to guide students through online learning and explore ways to structure a course to simplify navigation...

At Niagara College, we have a number of institutionally-supported tools for recording instructional videos.  In this session, we will review four of these tools - Camtasia, Blackboard Collaborate Ultra, PowerPoint and VoiceThread - and compare their functionality, strengths and limitations so that you can select the tool(s) that will align best with your teaching needs....

Microsoft teams is a digital collaboration hub that can be used, in tandem with Blackboard course sites, to support your teaching. Host online class meetings, store information and collaborate through course documents, communicate via public/private chat feeds or 1-on-1 chats. In this webinar we will take our first steps towards creating a Class Teams Site...