Moraine Valley Center for Teaching & Learning

FERPA Training
2019-05-14 10:00 - 11:00 (America/Chicago) | S225, United States
This workshop will be an overview of FERPA regulations and how they impact everyone’s daily interactions with students.

UPDATES TO CANVAS GRADE BOOK
2019-05-13 17:00 - 17:45, 2019-05-10 09:00 - 09:45, 2019-04-30 15:00 - 15:45, 2019-03-06 12:00 - 12:45 | L243
In this session, participants will learn about changes to the Canvas gradebook.

FACULTY/STAFF/RETIREE RECOGNITION RECEPTION
2019-05-07 15:00 - 17:00 | Moraine Rooms, United States

LOCATING QUALITY FREE CONTENT
2019-04-24 15:15 - 15:45, 2019-04-16 11:15 - 11:45 | Online Webinar, United States
Today?s Internet offers a wealth of information for instructors, including free content to use with courses. This session will focus on finding various sources of media and other instructional content that can be used to engage students.

TITLE IX TRAINING
2019-04-17 13:00 - 14:00, 2019-03-14 16:00 - 17:00 | TBD, United States
Members of the Moraine Valley community have the right to be free from all forms of sexual discrimination, harassment and misconduct, examples of which include acts of sexual violence, sexual harassment, domestic violence, dating violence, and stalking. This session will give an overview of Moraine Valley?s comprehensive policy, including: reporting options, interim measures, investigation and resolution procedures, and resources and support services. Participants will leave with everything they need to effectively respond, refer and report.

REVIEW/REFRESH ONLINE COURSE
2019-04-09 14:15 - 15:15 | L243
This workshop will introduce existing online faculty to the Open SUNY Quality Review Rubric (OSCQR) standards to review and refresh online courses.

COPYRIGHT FOR INSTRUCTORS
2019-04-09 12:00 - 13:30 | L243
Copyright in nonprofit public education is flexible, but becomes troublesome when using digitized media and online distribution. Librarian Lee Semmerling will present an easy-to-understand overview of copyright in education. Strategies for making the best choices in using other people?s material and presenting your own copyrighted work.

ORGANIZE MATERIALS IN CANVAS
2019-04-08 14:45 - 15:15 | L243
This workshop will share strategies to simplify module content and duplicate modules for consistency.

ACCESSIBILITY IN CANVAS
2019-04-04 13:45 - 14:45 | L243
Accessibility is an important aspect in the success of all students, especially those using Canvas. We will focus on utilizing the easy-to-use UDOIT tool in Canvas, which can help scan courses for accessibility issues and offer corrections. This session will allow time for you to scan your own classes, learn about accessibility issues, and receive assistance with corrections.

COL101 CANVAS AND NEW TEXTBOOK
2019-04-02 10:30 - 12:00 | L243
This training is designed to help COL101 move smoothly into the new textbook while incorporating one of the courses new objectives, MVCC Technology. A course shell has been created to allow easy adoption of the material and get students and instructors comfortable with the online tools through the introduction of college life, success skills, and transitions.
All COL101 instructors will be provided a course shell to copy into their own master course shell.

CANVAS QUIZZES AND SURVEYS
2019-03-21 13:45 - 14:45 | L243
Through demonstrations and hands-on experience, this training has been developed to provide an introduction to the quiz and survey features available in Canvas.

NEW IN WINDOWS10 & OFFICE2016
2019-03-20 16:00 - 17:00 | L243
In this hands-on workshop, participants will acclimate to the changes in Windows 10 and Office 2016.

BRAIN-BASED LEARNING-IT WORKS! - Runs Online through Fri.
2019-03-20 | A280
If you would like to improve student engagement, motivation and performance, this is the ‘online’ workshop for you! Thanks to strides in technology, 12 principles of student-centered, active brain-based methods founded in neuroscience are proven to trigger learning in engaging and exciting ways. Create memorable lessons in any area or subject! Explore brain-based: movement, five senses, patterning, collaboration/secure environment, parallel processing and peripheral perception; music, down-time: mid-line breaks, celebrations, energizers; visualization, imagery/relaxed alertness, and emotions. Your students will benefit from great rewards of engaged, energized, on-task, and active learning. A recent study at Moraine Valley resulted in 13.46 percent performance improvement, and 71 percent of students preferred brain-based learning. Workbook, resources, and ‘how to’ with examples are included.Participants may work at their own pace and complete the workshop at any point during the three day time-frame.

NO TECH OPTIONS
2019-03-14 13:00 - 13:50 | L243
Are you looking for strategies to engage your student that you can begin using immediately without technology? This workshop will focus on no tech options to engage your students including collaborative and active learning techniques.

CAREER CONNECTIONS YOUTH PGM
2019-03-08 11:00 - 12:00 | TBD, United States
Career Connections helps young adults to win at work and win at life through attending the FOCUS workshop.
FOCUS stands for Financial and Occupational Coaching for Universal Success. This workshop focuses on 7 values that will make every employer want to hire you and fight to keep you. Come and see how.

CANVAS COMMUNICATIONS
2019-03-07 13:45 - 14:45 | L243
Through demonstrations and hands-on experience, this training has been developed to provide an introduction to the various communication features available in Canvas.

PIE Training
2019-03-07 10:00 - 11:30, 2019-03-04 14:00 - 15:30 | L243
Training will include:

An introduction to the PIE process and form.
Personalized assistance for your department’s FY20 PIEs. This could include a draft PIE form or your notes/thoughts about anticipated plans for FY20. Trainers will be available to assist you with formalizing your PIE plan(s), including defining the 1) current situation/baseline data/objective; 2) action steps; and 3) evaluation measures.
Instructions on how to enter a PIE form into the MVConnect Portal.
An opportunity for you to enter your own PIE form into the portal.

NEW STAFF WELCOME RECEPTION
2019-03-05 15:30 - 17:00 | L-Atrium, United States

ARAB-AMERICAN STUDENTS
2019-03-05 15:30 - 16:45 | TBD, United States
With the large and growing number of Arab students at Moraine Valley and the growing Arab population in the surrounding community, it is important to understand their background, culture and traditions. This workshop will offer some basic information about Arab community demographics, cultural norms, language, and religion. Participants will walk away with a better understanding of the Arab students they interact with.

CANVAS: GETTING STARTED
2019-03-04 16:15 - 17:05 | L243
This workshop will provide an introduction to the Canvas learning management system from an instructor perspective. In this session, participants will learn how to navigate Canvas, post a course syllabus, create a simple module, edit the course menu, post announcements, and make the course and its resources available to students.

ADVANCED EXCEL USING STUDENT DATA
2019-03-01 10:00 - 12:00 | L243
We will discuss various tips and tricks to make your work with Excel quicker and more efficient. This session will be customized to working specifically with student data. Topics include:- Automate Reporting with Macros
– Advanced Charting and Visualizations
– Data Validation, functions, arrays, and what-if analysis.
– Intermediate Pivot tables and charts

LEARNING COLLEGE DAY
2019-02-26

FY20 Budgeting Workshop
2019-02-21 10:00 - 11:00 | L243
This session is designed for budget owners and will cover how to use budget developer to complete the FY20 budget.

GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES AND FILM
2019-02-20 15:30 - 17:00 | L243
Learn of free digital resources and lesson plans for incorporating global perspectives and diversity through high impact film, photo essays, and articles.
