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Academic Technology Skillshops are an additional resources for Carleton faculty to learn about software solutions, features, and practices through short (30-minutes or less) videos based on live sessions. These Skillshops offer choices in using instructional technologies for different teaching and learning tasks and strategies.  

If you are new or returning to Carleton, please lean on us to explore how to think through the use of instructional technologies for your courses. If you have experience with some of these tools, please consider leveling up with skills and ideas offered in the Skillshops. (See the Panopto recordings below.)

In addition to the synchronous online conversations around instructional technology, we offer a Moodle course, Resilient Teaching with Technology. It contains deeper readings, activities to connect with colleagues, and asynchronous tutorials, both for your convenience and as a model to share with your learners.  (This +1 method of teaching is based in Thomas J. Tobin’s and Kirsten T. Behling’s Reach Everyone, Teach Everyone: Universal Design for Learning in Higher Education (2018), a guide to create more inclusive and equitable learning opportunities.)


Click below for the tool or goal of your choice.



Tool-based Skillshops

Moodle Skillshop videos

Specification Grading in Moodle (2023)

Managing Groups in Moodle (2023)

Agenda Tools in Moodle (2023)

Level up with Moodle Quizzing (2023)

Leveling up in Moodle (2021)

New Moodle Options (2021)

Moodle 099 — Moodle for absolute beginners. (2020)

Moodle 185 — Communication tools in Moodle (2020)

Fora, announcements, embedded Zoom, and more useful bits to help you stay in touch with your students.

Moodle 110 — Let Moodle do more of the work for you! (2020)

Moodle 210 — Online collaboration (2020)

Moodle 325 — Time management tricks (2020)

Moodle 360 — Formative and summative assessments (2020)

Poll Everywhere Skillshop videos

Poll Everywhere: Getting Started (2023)

Poll Everywhere: Navigation and Activity Creation (2023)

Poll Everywhere: Activate, Present, and Report (2023)

Ally Skillshop videos

Panopto Skillshop videos

Panopto recording, editing and delivering via Moodle (2023)

Leveling up in Panopto (2021)

Effective use of Panopto (2020)

Panopto Quizzes (2020)

Hypothes.is Skillshop videos

Hypothes.is tags and annotating YouTube transcripts (2023)

Engaging Students with Hypothes.is (2023)

Hypothes.is at Carleton (2021)

Introducing Hypothes.is (2020)

Gradescope Skillshop videos

New Features in Gradescope (2023)

Gradescope and how to use it at Carleton (2021)

Introducing Gradescope (2020)

Click for Gradescope video, which will open in its own player.

LinkedIn Learning Skillshop videos

LinkedIn Learning Learning Paths (2023)

LinkedIn Learning for courses (2020)

Google Storage Skillshop videos

File Storage for Wellbeing (2023)

Quick Tour through your Google Storage (2023)

Zoom Skillshop videos

Leveling up in Zoom (2021)

Connecting safely with students in Zoom (2020)

Collaborating in Zoom with Breakout Rooms (2020)

Zoom, Meet and other collaboration tools (2020)

iPad Skillshop videos

iPad and Explain Everything (2020)

iPads for Annotation and Grading (2020)

Goal-based Skillshops

Create, edit and deliver great videos (2023)

Effective Postermaking

Effective Postermaking (2023)

Designing an effective research poster (2021)

Managing your class materials with their life cycle in mind (2021)

Great student presentations (2020)

Using blogs for student projects (2020)

Technology for asynchronous and synchronous meetings (2021)