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.
Workshops
Office Hours
Drop in to our virtual office hours every Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday to have your learning technology questions answered.
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/
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.
Learning Without Walls is a student-focused Moodle course with resources on learning technology support. Please direct your students here for help, or check it out yourself.
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
Some samples of what WordPress can do are in this gallery. Many more examples are on this LT&I Showcase site.
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://workshops.trubox.ca. Scroll through to see past descriptions and let us know if there is something you are interested in learning more about!
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 Moodle, and we will be offering a supported cohort again later this year.
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.
Are you looking for ways to create more dynamic online activities? H5P is a set of “no code required” interactive tools that are integrated with both Moodle and WordPress. Check out these examples below, and contact us for help to create your own.
- Image Hotspots – https://oledmedia.trubox.ca/course-media/envs-3991-topic-9/
- Timeline – https://oledmedia.trubox.ca/biol-4141/
- Simple Quiz – https://biol1594review.trubox.ca/slide-3-epithelial-tissues/
- Video Annotation – https://brenna.trubox.ca/video-annotation-exercise/
- Documentation Tool – https://brenna.trubox.ca/thesis-development-exercise/
- Essay Tool – https://brenna.trubox.ca/summary-assignment
Check out Teaching Unbound for more help. Teaching Unbound is a resource developed by TRU’s Learning Technology and Innovation Department, Open Learning, and the Centre for Excellence in Learning and Teaching. This site brings together all the just-in-time resources and programming we developed during the Covid-19 crisis. A wider range of learning design, learning technology and other resources, mostly assembled during the pandemic period are found at https://teaching.trubox.ca
The LT&I Tool Kit is a learning technology tool repository where you can browse for TRU-supported tech tools, and Design Guides to assist you with the selection, design, and integration of learning technologies. https://toolkit.trubox.ca/
Meet the TRU community
Listen to the 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
Coordinators, Educational Technologies: Jamie Drozda, Brenna Clarke Gray, Melanie Latham
Learning Technologist: Brad Forsyth
Email:
moodlesupport@tru.ca and/or learningtech@tru.ca