The Learning Technology & Innovations team provides workshops and drop-in sessions on using Moodle, WordPress and other tools, as well as exploring how to best use learning technology in your practice.
Upcoming Workshops
A calendar view of upcoming sessions and brief descriptions of what we offer are provided below. In addition to our hosted sessions, we are always happy to set-up targeted workshops and training for you and your colleagues wherever is best. And if you have a learning technology interest or need that is not addressed here, please drop us a line and let’s start a conversation.
Select Workshop Type: Moodle | WordPress & Communication | H5P & Multimedia | More
Workshop Descriptions
Moodle
Moodle is TRU’s primary learning platform. It provides classroom administration and teaching tools, as well as private communication spaces. You can access it with your TRU network login.
Learn how to run a quiz, set up an assignment dropbox, have students generate content, and connect assignments to the gradebook.
Learn how to add engaging, interactive learning activities to your Moodle course or WordPress site using H5P. You’ll be building multimedia in minutes.
BBB allows for live classroom and web conferencing. It can be launched from Moodle, Mattermost, or as a standalone tool for webinars.
A beginner-level introduction to Moodle, TRU’s learning management system, and an overview of the essential steps.
A hands-on session focusing on Moodle’s assessment and grade reporting tools.
Moodle’s Scheduler function allows you to define time slots or office hours and allow students to schedule meetings with you.
WordPress & Communication
If you are interested in opening up your online activities to the wider web, WordPress offers a near-limitless range of options. Whether it’s a simple class blog or ePortfolios, or something more specialized, we’d love to work with you to see what is possible. We also host an instance of Mattermost, an open source team collaboration and messaging platform.
Explore how Wikipedia and the Wikimedia Commons can provide a wealth of open resources and powerful learning activities. Get acquainted with TRU’s own instance of…
SPLOTs strip down online publishing to its most basic form, and respect privacy by not requiring accounts or logins for authoring.
BBB allows for live classroom and web conferencing. It can be launched from Moodle, Mattermost, or as a standalone tool for webinars.
Pressbooks is a WordPress-based platform focused on print and electronic book creation. It’s BC’s preferred system for creating and customizing open textbooks.
Mattermost is an open-source communication platform which allows for rapid and flexible collaboration. It’s especially powerful for distributed teams.
WordPress has been successfully used by hundreds of students at TRU to build customized online portfolios. Come see what’s possible!
H5P & Multimedia
We love working with H5P, which allows users to easily create, share and reuse interactive content that runs on any web platform. It is also integrated with Moodle and WordPress. We also love to work with a wide range of other multimedia creation and presentation tools.
Learn how to add engaging, interactive learning activities to your Moodle course or WordPress site using H5P. You’ll be building multimedia in minutes.
We’ll go over how to record, edit, and share digital audio for your course and beyond.
Lightboards allow you produce a video while writing or drawing on a board of illuminated glass in front of you. Let’s make some explainers!
Explore with Us
Learning technology is constantly evolving, and also opens up questions around topics ethical use, privacy and IP rights. We are always trying new things, and encourage the TRU community to come to us with ideas, suggestions and thorny problems.
In this workshop we’ll discuss how the kinds of technology we use to teach courses can affect students’ learning.
We will explore Open Educational Resource (OER) repositories and identify curricular materials that are free to use and to adapt.
What is it? And how can it inform course and program development?
A “toolkit” or “sandbox site” in Moodle or WordPress can give you a place to experiment, as well as develop resources or learning activities before…
TRU faculty, students, and staff now have access to 5300+ online courses through LinkedIn Learning (formerly Lynda.com).
We will identify and describe some of the leading publications which deal with learning technology and SoTL, and brainstorm ideas for educational technology-focused studies.
We’ll identify sources of learning analytics in Moodle and other applications, brainstorm how analytics can be used, and discuss why it is important to be…
Share experiences and insights with like-minded faculty and staff. Plan your project or discover ideas for a project.
In this discussion-focused workshop we will explore the affordances, constraints, capabilities, and areas of overlap between and among learning management software applications (LMS) such as…
We will review the legal and ethical dimensions of online data collection. This will cover both TRU-hosted applications as well as external tools.
We will explore concepts and principles associated with UDL and discuss how these relate to participants’ specific teaching situations.
