Can't make it to a scheduled workshop session?
Online courses and on-demand videos are available on a range of topics that can help you leverage CarmenCanvas and other Ohio State tools in your teaching, support student success in online courses, create inclusive and engaging online learning spaces, and much more.
Learn on your own time by exploring the asynchronous learning opportunities below.
Explore Online Courses
Introduction to Teaching Online
Introduction to Teaching Online is a fully online, self-paced experience delivered via CarmenCanvas. Designed to support Ohio State instructors who will be teaching online, this course explores the key considerations and affordances of the online learning environment and guides you to begin making choices for your online teaching.
Technology-Enhanced Teaching
This 5-hour, fully asynchronous online course provides Ohio State instructors with evidence-based best practices and examples of practical applications to effectively incorporate technology into class activities, assignments, and teaching strategies.
Explore Videos
Academic Integrity in Online Courses
Helping students avoid academic misconduct can be tricky in any modality. This video focuses on many aspects of academic integrity, including what it looks like in the online environment, why students choose to cheat, and what you can do about it in your own online courses.
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Active Learning with Technology
Engaging students with lectures, course materials, and each other positively contributes to their academic success. In this video, we will help you build a basic understanding of active learning, review some useful active learning strategies, and explore how technology can enhance active learning to foster a more engaging and student-centered experience.
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Carmen Essentials for Student Success
Whether you’re teaching online or in person, setting up your course effectively in CarmenCanvas will be crucial for you and your students. This video explores best practices for sharing your syllabus, using the Gradebook, posting course materials, communicating with students, and more.
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Designing Assignments for Your Online Course
Whether you're new to online assignment design or wish to improve an existing assignment, this video workshop will offer strategies for creating effective assignments that best meet the needs of your students, with an emphasis on authenticity, inclusivity, and alignment to your course outcomes.
Effective Grading in Carmen
Using Carmen to grade and give feedback helps you be more efficient, organized, and transparent, while allowing students to easily find and interpret their grades. In this video, we share best practices for developing a meaningful rubric, because the Carmen rubric tool is only as useful as the rubric you create.
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Engaging Students in Online Collaboration
Whether you're teaching face-to-face or online, student-to-student interaction is essential. But we don’t always have time to let students collaborate during class, and it’s easy to get stuck in a discussion board rut. This video will spark your creativity for other ways to engage students in collaborative learning in online spaces.
Fostering Inclusive Teaching Online
What is inclusive teaching, and why does it matter for the online spaces where our students engage with us and each other? In this video, we address challenges to creating inclusive environments and explore the affordances CarmenCanvas provides us to do so.
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Increasing Student Engagement with Top Hat
Top Hat is a web-based student response system that enables you to poll your class, present discussion prompts, and display lecture material for a more interactive experience. In this session, you'll learn how Top Hat can help you engage your students and create opportunities for active learning.
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Instructional Approaches to Hybrid Courses
Hybrid courses offer unique opportunities for both instructors and students. In this workshop, we explore design principles for hybrid courses that help students meet learning outcomes in effective and engaging ways.
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Making Your Course Accessible to All Learners
What is accessibility, and why does it matter? This video session will get you started in making your course accessible to all learners. You'll consider how to adjust or reinvent your course materials, activities, and assignments to improve the learning experience for your students.
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Promoting Interaction and Engagement in CarmenZoom
CarmenZoom provides an excellent way for students to connect with us, our course, and each other in online or mixed delivery classes. How can we best engage them and promote learning in this space? This video focuses on gauging student reactions, checking for understanding, and creating opportunities for peer interaction in CarmenZoom.
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