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• LinkedIn Learning Challenge #1: "" by Oliver Schinkten. This course will be a review for most instructors, but it's worth your time to check it out because it would be an excellent module for many classes.  Total time: 1 hour 30 minutes. 黑洞社区 employees receive LinkedIn Learning access as a benefit. Please sign up before accessing. 
• OLC Conference Recorded Session Suggestion #1: with Andratesha Fritzgerald, President of Building Blocks of Brilliance. This session focuses on working to enact an antiracist strategy in the classroom. You must to access this recording. Registration link is only for Wichita State employees. 
• Suggested ARC Recording from Previous Conference or Event:  with Dr. Corrie Moreau, Professor of Arthropod Biosystematics and Biodiversity at Cornell University. Dr. Moreau was a guest of the Biology Department in spring, 2021.

9:00-9:50 (Vendor Hour): ProctorU Presents: Privacy and Online Proctoring.  Since COVID, online proctoring has stepped into the limelight. This session will introduce the topic of online proctoring and privacy and how human proctoring fits into the mix.

10:00-10:50 (Rapid Sessions): Three sessions, each 15 minutes long.  Come for the first, stay for the Rest! Topics: About the Blackboard Retention Center with Carolyn Speer; About Blackboard Rubrics with Mary Morriss; About the Blackboard Goals Tool with Carolyn Speer.

• PowerPoint for Rapid Session #1 
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11:00-11:50: What Gamers can Teach Us About Streaming and Recording Interactive and Engaging Lectures with John Hammer.    

• Gamers Handout

Noon-12:50 (Panel Hour): What will You "Keep" from Your COVID Remote Experience, faculty panel.

1:00-1:50: Advanced Issues with Title IX Compliance and Enforcement with Sara Zafar.

• PDF version of Title IX presentation 

2:00-2:50: Book Discussion on with Mark Porcaro. This is a book discussion, so please have a look at the book before you attend if possible. University Libraries has a and an available, and it's also available as an audiobook on Audible if you have an account. We will discuss this book and what we think of it. Session was not recorded due to its conversational nature.

3:00-3:30 (Free Stuff for 黑洞社区 Employees): Meet Your Free Software: What You Can Get Simply by Working at 黑洞社区, panel discussion with ITS professionals. Are you unsure what software you can download free as a 黑洞社区 employee? Not sure why you might even want to change from "one version of Word to another" or try out a new program? Come to this quick session to learn more and get to upgrading your system!

• PowerPoint for Free Software 
• Microsoft 365 information 

• LinkedIn Learning Challenge #2:  with Nigel French. This is a short course (only 21 minutes!) but it goes over the theory of infographics and gives basic design tips. This is a great session to pair up with the sessions for today! 黑洞社区 employees receive LinkedIn Learning access as a benefit. Please sign up before accessing.
• OLC Conference Recorded Session Suggestion #2: with Tazin Daniels, consultant for Coach at the Pedagologist. This is an interactive session that looks at common challenges around student engagement. You must to access this recording. Registration link is only for Wichita State employees. 
• Suggested ARC Recording from Previous Conference or Event:  with Ali Levine. This session was live for the June, 2020 ARC and covers lots of tips and tricks you might not know about PowerPoint.

9:00-9:50 (Vendor Hour): Blackboard Presents: Meet Ultra!  You know it's coming, but what is it? Why is Blackboard Ultra such an upgrade over "old Blackboard"? Come to this session to learn all about Blackboard Ultra and how it can provide instructors and faculty that streamlined experience they have been wanting.

9:00-9:50 (Vendor Hour): Honorlock.  Representatives will explain how their product works and address privacy and equity concerns. . 

10:00-10:50 (Rapid Sessions): Three sessions, each 15 minutes long.  What an Ultra Class Conversion Looks Like with Carolyn Speer; Blackboard Data in Ultra with a Blackboard representative; Your Personal Ultra Timeline with Carolyn Speer.

• Faculty Timeline for Ultra 

11:00-11:50: Using PowerPoint to Create GREAT Infographics with John Hammer. Want an infographic for your class, website, or meeting but don't know how to use a graphic design program? No problem, we have you covered! And if you pair this session, with Jeremy Webster's session on infographic accessibility at 2:00pm (see below), you'll really be set!

• Handout for Infographics 

Noon-12:50 (Panel Hour): What Students Want Professors to Know, moderated by Carolyn Shaw with student panelists. This is always our most popular session at every ARC. Come hear from students across the spectrum about their experiences in class and what they would like their instructors to know.

1:00-1:50: Life Changing Tricks with Microsoft Office with Ali Levine. This session will reveal some life-changing tricks in popular Microsoft Office Applications (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Teams). We will discuss new features in Office 365, how you can use Artificial Intelligence (AI) to boost performance, and also uncover some secret, hidden tools in your favorite MS Office programs.

2:00-2:50: Ensuring Infographic Accessibility with Jeremy Webster. Using the same infographic images that John Hammer used in his 10:00am session, Jeremy Webster will show you how to ensure your infographics are accessible. Didn't come to Hammer's 10:00 session? No problem, this one also works as a stand-alone option.

• PDF Remediation Webpage
• Alt-Text Webpage
• PowerPoint Slides for Infographic Accessibility

3:00-3:30 (Free Stuff for 黑洞社区 Employees and interested others): Meet the OIR Website: Your Destination for Resources for University Instructors with Carolyn Speer.  

• LinkedIn Learning Challenge #3: with Nir Eyal and Arianna Huffington. This is another short course (32 minutes) and will be invaluable for both instructors and students. Take this course for yourself now, and use this course later in your own classes! 黑洞社区 employees receive LinkedIn Learning access as a benefit. Please sign up before accessing.
• OLC Conference Recorded Session Suggestion #3: with Patrick Dempsey of the Office of Digital Teaching at Loyola University Maryland and Matthew Aranda, from Micro-credentialing at Education Design Lab. This session has some interesting statistics and some ideas for addressing the "massive skills gap" they discuss in the presentation. You must to access this recording. Registration link is only for Wichita State employees. 
• Suggested ARC Recording from Previous Conference or Event:  with John Jones. This is one of our most popular sessions in any ARC, and since we are not offering it live, we wanted to make it available as a recording. This is from the June 2020 ARC.

9:00-9:50 (Vendor Hour): Panopto Presents: Panopto Tips and Tricks. Panopto is a powerful video creation and hosting platform, and if you are just getting started with it, you are likely not aware of all the cool things it can do. Come to this vendor presentation on the unexpected tricks in Panopto.  

• Panopto training from start to finish 
• More Panopoto training 

9:00-9:50 (Vendor Hour): Examity. Representatives will speak on their product, privacy, and equity.

10:00-10:50 (Rapid Sessions): Three sessions, each 15 minutes long. LightBoard Studios with John Jones, Master Classroom Capabilities with Ryan Corcoran, and Understanding the Zoom-to-Panopto Integration with Carolyn Speer.  

11:00-11:50:  Using GoodNotes on iPad as an infinite, Flexible, Shareable Whiteboard for Remote or In-Person Teaching with David MacDonald.

Noon-12:50 (Panel Hour): Meet Your Ultra Pilots! Panel discussion with instructors who have piloted the Ultra classroom. Want to know the real story? Come ask and participate!  

1:00-1:50: Library Services for Savvy Instructors with Angela Paul. Your University Libraries have so much good content and so many services. Are you getting what you could be? Savvy instructors leverage resrouces at hand, and this session will help you better understand what is available to you as a 黑洞社区 instructor.

2:00-2:50: 21st Century Workforce Skills with Megan Madasz, and Brian Austin.  This session will be designed to be a discussion about research into necessary 21st century skills. Come prepared to interact and discuss these topics with other interested instructors.

• Presentation Slides for 21st Century Workforce 
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3:00-3:30 (Free Stuff for 黑洞社区 Employees and Students): Meet LinkedIn Learning: Your Ready to Use Option with Carolyn Speer.  Carolyn will share how she uses LinkedIn Learning in her classes, where she leverages this content for both classroom assignments and extra credit. Have you been wanting to know more about LinkedIn Learning but just haven't found the time? This session is for you.

• LinkedIn Learning Instructions for Instructors

• LinkedIn Learning Challenge #4: , offered by "Chill Anywhere." It's hard to believe the pace of change will be slowing down soon, and this course offers useful tools for managing change from a position of mindfulness. 黑洞社区 employees receive LinkedIn Learning access as a benefit. Please sign up before accessing.
• OLC Conference Recorded Session Suggestion #4: with Sean Nufer, Director of Teaching and Learning at TCS Education System. This session is a little technical, but it recommends using Snagit, a tool you have free access to at Wichita State. Really cool results! You must to access this recording. Registration link is only for Wichita State employees. 
• EXTRA OLC Conference Recorded Suggestion! panel presentation. If you don't know what MERLOT is, you really need to checkout this session. We have a presentation on it later in the day, and it would be ideal if you could make time for both.
• Suggested ARC Recording from Previous Conference or Event:  , panel presentation. This outstanding presentation was the gem of August 2020's ARC. If you missed it, now's your chance to catch up with this valuable information.

9:00-9:50 (Vendor Hour): Respondus Presents: Privacy and AI-Based Proctoring. If you attended the ProctorU presentation on privacy and human proctoring, you are going to want to come to this one as well. In it, Respondus representatives will be discussing AI proctoring including privacy issues.

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10:00-10:50 (Rapid Sessions): Three sessions, each 15 minutes long. Managing Your New Normal Classroom with Carolyn Shaw, When Ideologies Clash in the Class with Neal Allen, and the Freedom of Expression Curriculum with Carolyn Speer.

• Freedom of Expression Curriculum information and request form

11:00-11:50: Using a "Free" App (or other new technology)? What You Need to Know about the Accessibility Auditing Process with Heather Merchant. There are many educational technologies out there available for free, but all technologies, regardless of cost (or lack of it!) must coomply with policy 8.11. Come to this session to learn how 黑洞社区 evaluates the apps you want to use in class and what you can do if you find your favorite app choice is not fully accessible.

• PowerPoint Slides for Accessibility Auditing

Noon-12:50 (Panel Hour): Educational Technology at Wichita State with Ryan Corcoran, John Jones, and Carolyn Speer. Do you have questions about how decisions are made, technologies are chosen, and classrooms are designed for tech? This is the panel discussion for you. Come withe questions and we will try to answer them. Links coming soon:

1:00-1:50: Is This Accessible? With John Jones.  As the Accessibility Coordinator for the University, John regularly gets the question "is this accessible?" Come to this session to learn how that question gets answered and to pick up some skills along the way so you can start to answer it for yourself.

2:00-2:50: Beyond the Discussion Board: Learning Other Ways to Interact with Online Students with Mary Morriss. Have you already leveraged your discussion board? Or maybe you just don't like it? Come to this session to learn about other ways to interact with your online students. Bring your own ideas too as this session will be conversational.  

• PowerPoint Slides for Beyond the Discussion Board 

3:00-3:30 (Free Stuff for EVERYONE): Meet MERLOT: Your Blackboard-Integrated OER Solution with Carolyn Speer. Would you like to use OER but "there just anything available" for your class? Well, have you checked MERLOT? This peer-reviewed repository for OER learning objects may just get you a few steps closer to an OAT designation for your class! . 

• Meet MERLOT Handout

If you are brand new to Blackboard Learn, you will want to go through some recorded trainings to get started in the right direction. The Office of Instructional Resources suggests you do the following:

• Review the resources on this page, making sure to watch the video "Introduction to Blackboard" on the page, and if you require more training, check out the "faculty training videos" link and look for Intermediate and Advanced Blackboard.
• If you are using Blackboard to deliver much or all of your course. Consider using a template to help speed the development of your content.
• Many people find the Blackboard rubrics tool to be very useful when it comes time to grade. Check out the Rapid Session from Monday, May 17 (above) for this and other tools. If you are interested in only rubrics,
• If you need any help at all, contact the Office of Instructional Resources at OIR@wichita.edu. We serve all instructors from GTAs through tenured professors and will help you!

If you are just getting started with Zoom, make sure you have requested a Zoom Pro account, which is free if you are a 黑洞社区 instructor of any rank. You can also find Zoom information and training online here, and be sure to check the "In This Section" area for all the resources.  If you prefer your training in the video format, we would suggest:

• with Ryan Corcoran, ARC 2020, August.
• , created by Instructional Design and Access (now OIR). Full playlist of targeted training videos.

Panopto is a powerful video creation and hosting solution, but if you don't know how to use it, it does you little good! To learn about Panopto, please consider reviewing the following resources, and you may also want to attend the Panopto Tips and Tricks vendor session on May 19 (or by recording):

• Our online Panopto training can be found here. Make sure to click "In this Section" at the top right to see all resources.
• with Taylor Moore, recorded session from ARC 2020, August.

If you are new to teaching online, you likely have a number of questions.  The Office of Instructional Resources is here to help you with whatever you need. We would suggest you review:

• Resources for new online teachers, there is so much here for you. Make sure to click "In This Section" in the top right to see everything.
• 10-Step Program for Getting Online
• , with Carolyn Speer, recorded session from ARC 2020 June.

Classroom management challenges all instructors, but if you are just getting started, you may be especially concerned about it.  The Office of Instructional Resources has put together a series of short articlees for you to read before you step into your classroom and to re-read later if you encounter challenges.

• Resources for new teachers, there is so much here for you. Make sure to click "In This Section" in the top right to see everything.