New Faculty Orientation
We are Learning Technology & Innovation (LT&I)
LT&I complement CELT, and TRU IT, supporting teaching and learning. Our Production and Media teams build online and distance courses for Open Learning, while the Learning Technology team is focused on supporting TRU’s learners, teachers, and campus community. Our site: https://lti.trubox.ca
Office Hours
Drop in to our virtual office hours every Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday to have your learning technology questions answered.
The Learning Management system
Access: https://moodle.tru.ca – Login using your TRU ID. Course “shells”, instructor assignment and student enrolments mirror the Course Schedule
Moodle Orientation is our best and most concise resource for help documentation, tutorials and FAQs. https://moodleorientation.trubox.ca.
Teaching and meeting online
‘BBB’ is integrated into Moodle, but you can access it for your private use as well.
BigBlueButton is integrated into Moodle for virtual office hours, meetings and online classes. Recordings are automatically archived into your Moodle course, (although you are not able to edit them directly).
Zoom accounts are also available to all TRU users: https://tru-ca.zoom.us/
Upload and share your videos
Students can watch your videos in Moodle or you can share to a wider audience.
Kaltura is used for hosting videos, and is fully integrated into Moodle as well. Create and embed videos into your Moodle course, or have students submit video assignments. Kaltura Recorder is available to make simple screencasts but get in touch if you need to do a more complex presentation.
Publish online courses, e-portfolios, research
We maintain an instance of WordPress at https://trubox.ca and are founding partners of the BC OpenETC.
Some samples of what WordPress can do are on this LT&I Showcase site.
The TRU Open Press
“empowers students and educators to create educational
resources with professional support and financial opportunities.”
Artificial Intelligence and Education
Are you concerned and confused about the impacts of AI on our practice as educators? So are we! We’ve been developing an iterative resource with resources, classroom ideas, and suggested language for a syllabus: https://aieducation.trubox.ca/
Our LT&I site has starter resources on accessibility, multimedia design, video creation, alternative assessments and more.
LT&I also offer a suit of workshops each semester that are not just on Moodle, while we offer those to, we like to include a range of online learning tools and strategies. Join us to learn more about what Moodle can do for you, get a creative spark to learn and try something new or gain a little professional development. Check out our offerings at https://lti.trubox.ca/workshops-courses/. Browse the opportunities and let us know if there is something you are interested in learning more about that isn’t offered!
Of special interest is the Inclusive Digital Design Course, this program gives faculty and staff the opportunity to learn how to make learning materials more inclusive and learner-centered. The self-study materials are on Open Courses (TRU’s version of Open Moodle), and we will be offering a supported cohort again later this year.
Supported tools can be viewed at: https://lti.trubox.ca/browse-tools/
Communicating with students and/or amongst teams can be hard. LT&I offers Mattermost as an alternative online communication system, an open source system similar to Slack: https://matter.tru.ca. Contact us for more information regarding Mattermost.
Meet the TRU community
While on hiatus this year, You Got This! for a wonderful series of conversations with a broad and diverse representation of TRU’s learning and teaching community. https://yougotthis.trubox.ca/
Contact us:
Director of LT&I: Brian Lamb blamb@tru.ca
Support team:
Coordinators, Educational Technologies: Jamie Drozda, Melanie Latham, Brad Forsyth, Brenna Clarke Gray (on leave)
Learning Technologist: Amanda Smith
Email:
moodlesupport@tru.ca and/or learningtech@tru.ca