Courses and Workshops

Quality Matters Standards Course Review

Are you developing or working on improving the design of an online or hybrid course? We can help! Guided by the Quality Matters rubric and a course development checklist, a certified Quality Matters (QM) Peer Reviewer will evaluate your course on Quality Matters Standards 1–8. Any Hawkeye instructor, full-time or adjunct, can submit their course for review.

Submit your course for Quality Matters Standards review.

AI Topics & Platforms

This session explores the applications of Generative AI, focusing on its potential to enhance teaching, learning, and research. We will learn about and explore the top AI platforms that you and your students may use including ChatGPT, Google Gemini, Grammarly, Slidesgo, Pixlr, and more. We will spend time discussing how you can use these tools and how you can guide your students to use these tools appropriately.

• Wednesday, February 5, 9:00 – 10:00am, Tama 109
• Thursday, March 6, 1:00 – 2:00pm, ZOOM
• Monday, April 7, 3:00 – 4:00pm, Tama 109
• Tuesday, May 6, 12:00 – 1:00pm, ZOOM

Canvas: New Features, Key Elements and the Basics

See some of the newest Canvas features demonstrated and learn about key timesaving features and essential course design elements you should be using to prepare your courses. We will also review best practices that will benefit your students in your course.

• Thursday, February 13, 2:00 – 3:00pm, Tama 109
• Wednesday, March 12, 12:00 – 1:00pm, ZOOM
• Thursday, April 10, 1:00 – 2:00pm, Tama 109
• Tuesday, April 29, 11:00am – 12:00pm, ZOOM

Canvas: New Quizzes

New Quizzes will eventually replace the classic quizzes functionality currently in Canvas. Instructors can use New Quizzes to build quizzes with several new question types. We will walk through how to use and select various quiz settings then build your quizzes. You will also be shown how to add questions from other quizzes as well as adding questions from question banks located in your other courses.

• Tuesday, February 18, 11:00am – 12:00pm, ZOOM
• Wednesday, March 5, 1:00 – 2:00pm, Tama 109
• Friday, April 25, 11:00am – 12:00pm, Tama 109

Google Sites for Quality Faculty Plan Portfolio

The college has adopted Google Sites for creating Quality Faculty Plan (QFP) portfolios. Faculty should attend this training to learn how to begin creating their QFP portfolio or how to migrate their existing paper-based QFP binder into an electronic portfolio in Google Sites. Participants will learn where to find the QFP template in Google Sites, how to begin adding items into their portfolio, and how to publish their portfolio site for their dean or others to view.

• Thursday, February 6, 2:00 – 3:00pm, Tama 109
• Wednesday, February 19, 1:00 – 2:00pm, ZOOM
• Tuesday, March 4, 1:00 – 2:00pm, ZOOM
• Friday, March 14, 1:00 – 2:00pm, Tama 109
• Friday, March 28, 11:00am – 12:00pm, Tama 109
• Wednesday, April 9, 2:00 – 3:00pm, ZOOM
• Tuesday, April 22, 12:00 – 1:00pm, Tama 109

Khanimgo Teacher Tools & Lucid Whiteboard

Come for a session discussing Khanmigo Teacher Tools and the Lucid Whiteboard. Khanmigo uses generative AI to assist you with writing clear directions, creating discussion prompts, developing quiz questions, and more! Lucid Whiteboard offers a collaborative workspace for discussion and diagramming while boosting student engagement. You will learn how to use the tools and how to integrate each into your Canvas courses. We will look at different components of each tool and will practice using both platforms.

• Tuesday, February 25, 10:00 – 11:00am, Zoom
• Friday, March 28, 9:30 – 10:30am, Tama 109
• Tuesday, April 15, 2:00 – 3:00pm, ZOOM

Panopto 1: The Basics

Panopto is a user-friendly and flexible video capture and streaming solution that empowers instructors and students to enhance learning through the use of video. Panopto provides a method for delivering content and tools as a third-party integration for instructors to enable within their Canvas courses.

This training session will walk you through the basics of capturing, uploading, and sharing recordings/videos of any classroom dynamic using Panopto.

• Friday, February 14, 9:30 – 10:30am, Tama 109
• Monday, April 21, 2:00 – 3:00pm, Tama 109

Panopto 2: Beyond the Basics

If you have attended Panopto 1: The Basics Training, this hands-on session will explore advanced options such as; editing, enabling student recording, adding captions, creating quiz questions, adding web page links in recordings, adding YouTube clips and creating Panopto assignments that can be added directly into Canvas. Participants will also exchange tips and tricks for getting the most out of Panopto.

Attending a Panopto 1: The Basics Training is required before attending Panopto 2: Beyond the Basics.

• Tuesday, March 11, 12:00 – 1:00pm, Tama 109
• Friday, May 2, 2:00 – 3:00pm, Tama 109

Strategies for Effective Online Learning

Hawkeye Community College is committed to providing a quality experience for the online student and recognizes that course development and delivery require a level of organization and preparedness different from the traditional classroom. For online and hybrid instructors, and increasingly for face-to-face instructors supplementing their courses with online resources, it is important to pay careful attention to course organization and design that improves student engagement, learning, and retention. During this short course, participants will experience online learning from the student perspective and examine learner-centered practices for designing virtual environments. Effective strategies for teaching and learning online as well as virtual components for face-to-face courses will be covered.

This workshop is online for three weeks, open to all faculty, and fulfills one of the requirements for Hawkeye's two-year faculty induction program.

• Monday, February 17–March 10, 9:00am – 5:00pm, Online