What is Tech Day?
Every August IT hosts an annual ed tech innovation day for faculty, with multiple tracks and virtual sessions centered on a new theme each year.
Both URI ed tech support staff and faculty present use case studies, best practices, ideas, solutions, technology curriculum design, and emerging educational technology innovations. Tech Day participants may pick and choose sessions of interest to take technology enhanced learning to the next level.
Past Tech Day Videos
See all IT Tls VideosAugust 2024 Tech Day Topic: Tools and Technology for Evaluating Learning.
August 2024 Tech Day Agenda
| Session Title | Session Description |
|---|---|
| AI Tools and Tech for Authentic Assessment of Student Achievement Presenters: Dr. Michelle Rogers and Jim McGwin | AI has exploded and become widely available as it is implemented in many tools, software and apps as well as AI bots being published across the Internet and app stores for tablets and phones. Industry is expecting students to use AI to increase work and business productivity. However, some faculty have expressed concerns about their students cheating on exams with AI, and want to know how to authentically assess student knowledge and learning achievement outside of AI use. This session is a consultation session centered on this challenge: Several examples will be shared. And faculty may bring a use-case and share what assignment, task or project with which they are having this challenge. Based on the use-case the speakers will suggest specific educational technologies and aligned learning design to solve this dilemma. |
| Connecting Outcomes and Assignments within Brightspace Presenter: Dr Amanda Jensen | Do you have course outcomes that connect directly to assignments submitted in Brightspace, perhaps even across multiple courses that you would like to track? This session is for you. Learn about the recent and coming upgrades in D2L this summer that can meet your needs. It will be available this summer at the course level and if your department is interested it creating and maintaining them it can be done at a department level. Come and learn about this great new upgrade.. |
| Online Exam Proctoring: Pros and cons Presenter: Kevin Gray | Online Exam proctoring is needed for some online programs. Come hear about our upcoming new tool at URI – Integrity Advocate – available through certain colleges to meet their specific needs. |
| Gradescope: An automated tool to help grade student programming projects Presenter: Noah Daniels | Do your students need to submit assignments using computer programming? Come and learn about Gradescope, an automated option for grading these types of assignments. |
| Using Panopto in Brightspace for Engaging Assessments Presenter: Lisa Chen | Panopto is the tool used to share videos with students in your Brightspace course. Come to this session and learn how to adapt access permissions, set-up recordings, and utilize Panopto to maximize your efforts. |
| Online Make-up Exam Option Presenters: Lisa Chen and Mary Jane Palm | Discover a method using Microsoft O365 Teams to proctor small groups of remote students who need to make up a quiz using current software available at URI. Come and learn steps for instructor and student in setting up, taking, and administering quizzes using this tool. |
| Enhancing Student Engagement with PointSolutions for Polling Presenter: Dr George Dombi | Learn from a URI Chemistry professor how he used polling in large intro classes to foster the teaching and learning process and gage real-time assessment of student understanding. |
| Rubrics Set-up and Use within Brightspace Presenters: Claire Kozar and Gideon Sears | Explore the set-up and functionality of Brightspace rubrics to facilitate assessment of learning. This session is presented by a Brightspace specialist. |
Want to Share a Topic?
Faculty or staff interested in submitting a session proposal may email Amanda: amanda.jensen@uri.edu.
The full schedule of speakers and topics will be posed by July 15th, 2024.