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BCEL CloudDeakin – Designing and Teaching in Unit Sites
February 20, 2018 @ 10:30 am - 12:30 pm
Overview
CloudDeakin is Deakin University’s cloud learning environment. CloudDeakin incorporates a range of applications and educational technologies to enable interactive and engaging learning. This is a practical session where participants will engage in hands-on design and set up of a unit site as well as gain ideas to effectively use appropriate tools to support their teaching in the cloud environment.
Learning Objectives
By completing this session, staff should be able to:
- Use DeakinSync to access CloudDeakin unit and course sites.
- Incorporate the Faculty CloudDeakin unit site minimum standards into unit design.
- Design, build and manage learning resources in CloudDeakin. Tools include: Learning Resources, HTML editor with stylesheets, embedding media and using templates.
- Communicate, collaborate, and engage effectively online. Tools include: video post widget, news items, classlist, discussion forum and topics, calendar, intelligent agents, FAQs, user progress, attendance, selective release, groups tool, class management tool and more.
- Manage assessment and provide feedback online. Tools include: quizzes, assignment submission dropboxes, feedback, rubrics, grades, Turnitin and video/audio tools.
- Understand how other CloudDeakin technologies work: EchoSystem, DeakinAir, Cloud Synchronous Classroom tool, Reading List (eReadings), Talis Aspire and WordPress.
- Know where to get help and support.
Useful Resources
- Faculty of Business and Law CloudDeakin Minimum Standards (pdf)
- Giving Audio-Video Feedback for Assessment Tasks
- Deakin Digital Asset Bank Management System (Deakin login required. Junos Pulse required off-site)
- Image usage on websites and Copyright
Please bring your laptop for the session
Location – LB5.208 OR *VMP BL 1 36921