Trouble connecting? See UMN IT Service Status for updates on network outages.
FAQs specific to IT in Psychology
- Training required for working in Psychology Labs: Training and Data Security
- Access shared drives for your lab (the S: drive) or to wts.umn.edu for special software: Network Resources
- Connect with Network Printers
- Department available software (Matlab, SPSS, Office, Adobe, MPlus, plus more): Software
- Data access for graduates? visitors? remote colleagues? Sponsored Accounts
- Check-out equipment from PsyIT: Projectors, laptops portable web conferencing, more are available in N211
Academic Technology Resources
- Canvas Instructor Guide
- OIT Knowledge base articles
- Psych Foundation Online Teaching Course (contact smoeller@umn.edu to get access)
- Academic Technology Support Services (ATSS)
- Teaching with Technology Newsletter: Subscribe
- Center of Educational Innovations (CEI)
- Pedagogical Innovations Journal Club
- ZOOM - Short Tutorial Videos
- Writing Enriched Curriculum (WEC) and Writing in Psychology
- Libraries Digital Course Packs; Psychology liaisons, Amy Riegelman
General
- Manage Your Emails (Inbox Zero)
- For headshot photos, contact Silke Moeller, smoeller@umn.edu
- Make sure your presentations, documentations, and Canvas courses are accessible! Accessibility presentation Sep 2019
"I believe that accessibility is everyone's everyday responsibility." Bernie Gulachek, Vice President and Chief Information Officer, Office of Information Technology - Class Workload Calculator
Exam Options
- Reserve S121 for exams (64 computers)
- Quiz options in Canvas
Using Quizzes in Canvas offers several advantages:- Instant update in Gradebook
- Feedback via Quiz statistics and analytics
- Print Canvas Quiz: Chrome extension "Canvas Quiz Printer"
- Handout Compare Tools - ATSS
- Proctorio can be used for exams in class or online, from locking the browser to fully online recorded eProctoriong (detailed instructions). FYI, in Fall 2019 the Dept of Psychology administered 3,356 exams using Proctorio.
Student Guide
International Access For Proctored Online Exams
Proctorio tips: - Adding Academic Integrity quiz question
- Paper exams and Gradescope (OMS offers to scan exams: order form); CSE demonstration of Gradescope
Canvas
- Student resources
- Instructor resources
- Canvas templates
- Checklists: Start of semester
- Mass Edit of Assignment Dates: see the main menu (three dots) in Canvas Assignments
- Canvas Notifications:Explanations and settings
- End of semester: Finalize grades in Canvas, Final grade overwrite in Canvas, Send grades to PeopleSoft from Canvas,
- The New Gradebook Introduction [3:27] and Grade Posting Policy [2:45]
- Feedback (Comments) in Canvas Assignment [4:14]
- Teaching remotely with Zoom Canvas Integration
Assessments
- Creating online assessments - ATSS
- Develop an Online Assessment Plan - ATSS
Teaching: Group Projects and Collaborations
- Faculty Guide to Team Projects
- Teamwork: Surviving Group Projects
- Canvas Workshop: Groups and Collaborations
Tools for Student Engagement in Learning
- Ideas about engaging students using Zoom meetings
- ChimeIn: Using ChimeIn in Canvas, Taking Attendance with ChimeIn
- PollEverywhere and Kahoot
- FlipGrid (Canvas integrated), 15 Ways to Flipgrid in Higher Ed, Building a Higher Education Community
- VideoThread (Canvas integrated)
VT New Assignment (Gallery, Grader): Overview video, Details - Ice Breaker activities
- Powtoon animation creator
- Hypothes.is (or Perusall)
- KnightLab
- Teaching with StoryMaps (Argis Storymaps, Survey 123)
- ThingLink
- Pressbook (creating an online book)
- Zotero
- Kialo (discussion tool)
- Doozy Quizzes, explanations
- Gather Town, synchronous meeting tool (fun), free for < 25 people
- Easily turn Google Sheets into online cool stuff like Jeopardy boards: Flippity.net
RATE Tool and Assignments
- RATE tool
- RATE Instructor Guide
- Integrating a RATE assignment in Canvas (Canvas integrated)
Library Resources for Courses
Teaching Remote
- Concrete Ideas for Building Community and Making Online Learning More Engaging
- PSY CLA Foundation of Online Teaching Program (FOTP)
- Fostering Student Success with Learning Online 101
- Active Learning Strategies for Remote Instruction - CEHD (Comparison)
- Handout: Online Assessment Strategies and Tools
- Online Course Evaluation Guidelines
- HyFlex Teaching at UMN: Considerations for Instructor
- Classroom & Video Support
- HyFlex CEI consultation: Kris Gorman
- Preparing to Teach the First Week of an Online Course (slides and templates)
Zoom: Videoconferencing
- Zoom
- Webcams, microphones, laptops can be checked out in N211
- Zoom Training (Get started, Host online meetings and webinars)
- Students are able to host online meetings with Zoom
- Use Zoom for: Teach Online Class Sessions, Zoom Canvas Integration, Preassigned Breakout Room
- Teaching Remotely with Zoom
- Short Video Tutorials Channel
- Manage Auto Transcripts
- Advanced Breakout Rooms
- MMhMM.app for creative virtual presentations
Recording and Hosting Media
For lecture recordings or questions about media, please contact Silke Moeller, <smoeller@umn.edu>, Elliott N211
- Recording Studio Elliott N108B
- KalturaCapture for screen recording
- KalturaMediaspace for hosting and organizing media (provides auto-captions, creating channels and playlists, Canvas integrated, In-Video-Quizzes)
- Mediasite for hosting and organizing lecture videos (Mediasite desktop recorder available on-demand, contact Silke Moeller <smoeller@umn.edu>)
- Screencast-O-Matic for screen recording and editing
- YouTube for hosting media (part of your UMN Google Suite, not available for BAA accounts)
- Zoom screen recording: create a meeting with yourself and share the screen; record locally (MP4) or to the Cloud (recording available for a limited time)
- Loom, Chrome extension for free and easy screen recording
- Audacity, free audio recording and editing
