Lunch & Learn Series: Student Support & Input – Effectively Structuring Office Hours and Mid-Course Feedback with Patricia Hingston and the Learning Centre team
Friday, October 9th, 2020 at noon This week, we will look into effective ways to collect student input in the form of Mid-Course Feedback as well as effectively hosting your office hours to support students. LFS has now made it mandatory for all courses to collect Mid-Course Feedback and we hope to help anyone who […]
Note regarding expanded service
The last several weeks have been an unprecedented time for us. While September is typically the busiest time of the year for us in the LFS Learning Centre, this year has seen an increase in requests. Based on service tickets, we have had twice as many requests in 2020 as we did last year at […]
2021 Resource Allocation Competitions Now Open — Apply before November 5
The Compute Canada federation invites researchers to apply, starting today, to our annual Resource Allocation Competitions (RAC). These competitions give you the opportunity to have access to more compute, storage and cloud resources. Applications submitted are evaluated for both technical feasibility and scientific excellence. How to apply All proposals must be submitted electronically through the […]
Lunch and Learn Series: Zoom Pro-Tips with the LFS Learning Centre Team
This workshop was held on Friday, September 25, 2020 at noon. The LFS LC Lunch and Learn Office Hours this week is a deep dive into Zoom. Zoom is updating its software on a weekly basis. We’ll cover some of Zoom’s specialized tools, including annotation, user roles, breakout rooms, polling and general pro-tips. This session […]
Lunch & Learn Series: Collaborative Student Projects in a Remote Era with Adrian Granchelli
This workshop was held on Friday, September 11, 2020 at noon. Key takeaways Students will find a way to collaborate and self-organize remotely (here are some possible tools) Project artefacts that are well suited to the online medium are e-portfolios, multimedia-websites, infographics, and video/audio recorded presentations Project showcase, discussion and/or peer evaluation is very easy […]