Rapidly Moving Courses Online: Workshops and Webinars

Our Assessing Readiness for Rapidly Moving a Course Online chart can help you select an appropriate workshop or webinar.

Workshops will be offered in person. Webinars are offered live and will also be recorded and made available online.

Registration is capped for each session in order to enable social distancing. Please register in advance.

How to Register

  1. Login to Western Connect with your Western username and password.
  2. Go to the Centre for Teaching and Learning section and select Event Calendar.
  3. Search for and select the program or event. Details and a description of the program will appear.
  4. Select the Register for this Event button. If the event has reached capacity, you may have the option to register on the waitlist.
  5. Once you have successfully registered for an event, you will receive an automated confirmation email to your Western email account.

OWL Basic

This session will introduce participants to:

  • creating your course site in OWL
  • uploading content
  • leveraging tools such as “Resources”, “Assignments” and “Announcements” in OWL to rapidly move courses online.

Please bring your own device to the session.

Social Science Centre 2050

Monday, March 16 10:30AM, 11:30AM, 12:30PM, 2:30PM, 3:30PM
Tuesday, March 17: 10:30AM, 11:30AM, 12:30PM

Webinar

Monday, March 16, 9:30AM & 1:30PM
Tuesday, March 17: 9:30AM

Office 365 Suite

This session will review the online capabilities of MS Word, MS OneDrive, MS PowerPoint, and MS Teams. Participants will learn how to:

  • Share and collaboratively edit documents and presentations with students
  • Record lectures using PowerPoint

Please bring your own device to the session.

Social Science Centre 2024

Monday, March 16: 12:30PM, 2:30PM
Tuesday, March 17: 10:30AM, 12:30PM

Webinar

Monday, March 16, 10:30AM

Zoom, Blackboard Collaborate, and VoiceThread

In this session, we will introduce participants to:

  • Recording and posting lectures to OWL
  • Facilitating discussions using VoiceThread
  • Annotating PowerPoints or other documents.

Please bring your own device to the session.

Social Science Centre 2024

Monday, March 16 11:30AM, 1:30PM, 3:30PM
Tuesday, March 17: 11:30AM

Webinar

Monday, March 16, 9:30AM
Tuesday, March 17: 9:30AM

Lessons Tool (Advanced) & Resource organization

This session will discuss the advanced capabilities of the OWL Lessons tool. Participants will learn how to:

  • Embed videos or other media from external sources into their OWL site
  • Use subpages to effectively organize content and resources in OWL

Please bring your own device to the session.

Webinar only

Monday, March 16, 11:30AM
Tuesday, March 17: 9:30AM

Groupwork

This session will provide you with ideas for facilitating groupwork online. Participants will be asked to view a video before the webinar and use webinar time as a Q&A

Webinar only

Monday, March 16, 3:30PM
Tuesday, March 17: 11:30AM