Faculty Forum on communication technologies we use with our students - Summary Video from Dr. Andy
Dear Faculty Colleagues,
Thanks to everyone who joined us for our Faculty Forum about communication technologies we use with our students on February 18, 2022. Please enjoy the brief 5-minute summary of what we heard from you during the event and also the full event recording.
Please join us on Friday, March 4, for our next event!
Event resources:
Resources shared in the chat:
- Canvas Announcements: https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Canvas-Basics-Guide/What-are-Announcements/ta-p/39
- Story of professor who offered $50 in the syllabus: https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/18/us/tennessee-professor-syllabus-money-trnd/index.html
- About Piazza: https://servicehub.ucdavis.edu/servicehub?id=it_catalog_content&sys_id=24fbaded1b9bd8103f4286ae6e4bcb27
- Knowledge Base article: “How can I use Piazza for class collaboration and discussion?”: https://kb.ucdavis.edu/?id=0811
- Canvas Discussions overview (video): https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Video-Guide/Discussions-Overview-Instructors/ta-p/383769
- How do I send a message to students from the Gradebook?: https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Instructor-Guide/How-do-I-send-a-message-to-students-from-the-Gradebook/ta-p/741 ← This tells how to send messages only to certain categories of students - “message students who…” haven’t submitted, etc.
- Discord: https://discord.com/
- How to use Discord for your classroom (K-12 focused, but maybe useful): https://discord.com/blog/how-to-use-discord-for-your-classroom
- For the list of approved tools integrated with Canvas: https://canvashelp.ucdavis.edu/campus-supported-tools
- “Inside Discord’s risky push to position itself as the anti-Facebook” (a May, 2021 article in Fast Company): https://www.fastcompany.com/90635684/inside-discords-risky-push-to-position-itself-as-the-anti-facebook
- With all the caveats mentioned, here is a resource for creating a discord channel if you want: https://support.discord.com/hc/en-us/articles/360040613072-How-to-Use-Discord-for-Your-Classroom#:~:text=To%20set%20up%20a%20new,to%20read%20at%20any%20time
- Some information about that vetting process for tools / apps: https://canvashelp.ucdavis.edu/lti-app-requests
- What are Groups in Canvas?: https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Canvas-Basics-Guide/What-are-Groups/ta-p/16
- https://miro.com/
- With a nod to the Bakersfield College Academic Technology blog author Ahlam Alamamy for sharing it, here is a short video about how Discord works: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJ13BA3-NR4