Web Conferencing in Zoom

Web Conferencing in Zoom

Zoom web conferencing has become an essential tool in our current era of digital communication. It is an effective method for faculty to connect with their students and the community, and is a way of maintaining everyday conversation with the people around us - even...

Western Libraries: CEDAR

Western Libraries: CEDAR

Western CEDAR is Western Washington University’s institutional repository of scholarship and creative works.  Mission CEDAR advances the university’s commitment to enriching academic inquiry and strengthening communities by sharing the expertise and creativity of its...

Western Libraries: Faculty Resources

Western Libraries: Faculty Resources

WWU's Western Libraries has an abundance of key resources to support faculty. Consider exploring the following: Need course support? Contact your Subject Team and they will help you find an answer to your question. Information & Services for Faculty &...

WesternOnline Presents Build Bits!

WesternOnline Presents Build Bits!

We know it’s difficult to balance daily work activities with finding the time to squeeze in professional development around online teaching and learning. That’s why WesternOnline is announcing Build Bits! Build Bits are 30-minute bite-sized trainings that combine...

WesternOnline: Online Best Practices

WesternOnline: Online Best Practices

WesternOnline is a resource created by WWU's Outreach and Continuing Education to help build online courses effectively. Learn more about online basics, student engagement, accessibility, and equity... Explore: Online Best Practices WesternOnline Resources for Online...

WesternOnline: Student Engagement

WesternOnline: Student Engagement

WesternOnline is a resource created by WWU's Outreach and Continuing Education to help build online courses effectively. Learn more about strategies and methods that can help you increase student engagement in online courses--and with any course modality using online...

WesternOnline: Teaching and Learning Hub

WesternOnline: Teaching and Learning Hub

WesternOnline is a resource created by WWU's Outreach and Continuing Education to help build online courses effectively. In order to learn more about how to create high quality and engaging online courses, visit: Explore: Western Online Teaching and Learning Hub...

WesternOnline: Using Canvas Course Templates

WesternOnline: Using Canvas Course Templates

Have you ever wished you had the basic framework all set up for a Canvas course so you could just fill in your course content? Created by WesternOnline designers in Outreach and Continuing Education, these templates were created in an effort to provide an organized...

What and Why of Experiential Learning

What and Why of Experiential Learning

Experiential learning is the process of student-centered learning by doing. Instructors engage students through hands-on experiences and reflection. This process enables students to better connect knowledge from the classroom to real-world situations.1  Kolb's...

What is Specifications Grading?

What is Specifications Grading?

  Contributed to the TLCo-op by Alina Holmes, Graduate Research Assistant of the Center for Instructional Innovation and Assessment, 2020. A lot has changed with online learning. This is requiring many educators to also reconsider grading practices, and how to...

Whiteboard Options for Collaboration

Whiteboard Options for Collaboration

Last Updated: September 16, 2024   Using digital whiteboards collaboratively with and among students can help them to generate ideas for a discussion, organize thoughts for a project, build a collection of resources, or generate a flow chart. This post includes free,...

Workshop Recording: Planning for Flexible and Fantastic Courses

Workshop Recording: Planning for Flexible and Fantastic Courses

This recording of Planning for Flexible and Fantastic Courses by Justina Brown and Kevin Dixey was part of the 2021 WWU Summer Workshop Series. Session description: What do you do if your class suddenly needs to change modality this Fall? Kevin Dixey and Justina Brown...

Workshop Recording: Wonderful Warmups

Workshop Recording: Wonderful Warmups

This recording of Wonderful Warmups by Kerry Allen & Lee Posthumus was part of the 2021 WWU Summer Workshop Series. Session description: Going remote was heavy lifting for many of us and it goes without saying that there were challenges for teachers and learners....

WWU Beginning-of-Term Course Checklist

WWU Beginning-of-Term Course Checklist

The Beginning-of-Term Course Checklist is a starting point to ensure your Canvas course and teaching technologies are ready to go for student access at the start of a new term. Beginning-of-Term Course Checklist This comprehensive, customized list includes the...

Zoom Video Conferencing at Western

Zoom Video Conferencing at Western

Zoom is a videoconferencing tool available in the Pro version to all Western faculty, staff, and students. Check out Zoom: A Playlist of WWU Zoom Videos to see a collection of videos created by instructional designer, Kevin Dixey, and other ATUS staff. These videos...

Zoom Whiteboard

Zoom Whiteboard

Contributed to the TLCo-op by Alina Holmes, Graduate Research Assistant of the Center for Instructional Innovation and Assessment, 2020. Similar to a chalkboard or whiteboard that you might use in a physical classroom, Zoom also has an annotate feature you can use in...

Zoom: A Playlist of WWU Zoom Videos

Zoom: A Playlist of WWU Zoom Videos

Explore the large collection of videos created by instructional designer, Kevin Dixey, and other ATUS staff. These videos may differ from what is shown in Zoom's documentation and better represent the WWU Zoom environment. Zoom is a videoconferencing tool available in...

Zoom: Archiving Local Recordings to GoogleDrive & OneDrive

Zoom: Archiving Local Recordings to GoogleDrive & OneDrive

Learn how to archive Zoom meeting recordings that have been stored to your local computer. This can be done by moving them to GoogleDrive or OneDrive. See also: Moving Zoom Videos to Panopto and Archiving Local Recordings to Microsoft Stream. Explore more videos from...

Zoom: Archiving Local Recordings to Microsoft Stream

Zoom: Archiving Local Recordings to Microsoft Stream

Learn how to archive Zoom meeting recordings that have been stored to your local computer. This can be done by moving them to Microsoft Stream. See also: Moving Zoom Videos to Panopto and Archiving Local Recordings to GoogleDrive & OneDrive. Explore more videos...

Zoom: Cloud Cleanup

Zoom: Cloud Cleanup

Learn how to save and delete recordings from your Zoom account on the cloud in order to save space and better manage your media. See also: Zoom: Managing Zoom Recordings. Explore more videos from WWU's Instructional Design Video Library and Flexible Modality Toolkit.

Zoom: Maintenance

Zoom: Maintenance

Learn how to clean up your video "data" that is no longer needed or that can be archived off of the cloud storage on your Zoom account.  For another way to automatically move recordings from Zoom to Panopto, see: Moving Zoom Recordings to Canvas Automatically Via...

Zoom: Making Local Recordings

Zoom: Making Local Recordings

Learn about the option to record Zoom meetings with the file stored to your local computer rather than to your Zoom account on the cloud. See also: Zoom: Setting up and Sharing a Cloud Recording. Explore more videos from WWU's Instructional Design Video Library and...