Upcoming Training
The TEL department provides staff training throughout the year, addressing a range of topics to ensure that everyone is getting the most out of the tools and platforms we provide. We also continue to update our self-paced Canvas-based courses for staff and students, including Canvas Learn for Staff, Canvas Learn for Students and the Student Assessment Guide
As always, please feel free to reach out to our team with questions or comments at edtech@mtu.ie
Strategies for Teaching on Online Modules and Programmes at MTU
This session offers practical strategies to help you design effective and engaging learning experiences for MTU's growing suite of online and blended mode programmes. Built around key learning principles, the workshop will guide you in planning activities, evaluating selecting appropriate tools and resources, fostering a sense of community among your online students , and supporting them throughout their online learning journey. Ideal for those teaching online for the first time and of use to everyone seeking to enhance their online teaching skills with actionable and proven strategies.
Design Engaging Visuals for Teaching and Learning
This session focuses on practical strategies for creating clear, impactful visuals using Canvas and Office applications. Participants will explore how to use visual design principles to scaffold content, signpost key learning activities, and build intuitive module layouts in Canvas. The session will also cover effective slide design for different teaching scenarios (lectures, flipped classrooms, online modules), ensuring materials are accessible, consistent with MTU branding, and engaging for learners.
Designing & Delivering Media-Based Assessment
This session explores how media forms - such as video and audio/podcasting - can be used as authentic alternatives to traditional assessment. While often associated with media-focused courses, these approaches have significant value across all disciplines, incl. science and technology, where they can help students communicate complex ideas, demonstrate applied understanding, collaborate and engage in real-world knowledge production.
This session will highlight the pedagogical benefits of media-based assessment, including its potential to enhance student engagement, foster creativity, and develop transferable communication and digital skills. The session will provide examples of good practice in the area, to illustrate how you might devise and implement these types of assessments in your subject area, from developing clear briefs and rubrics to managing workflows, supporting students' technical skills (none needed to start), and ensuring equitable and inclusive participation.
Canvas Essentials: A Refresher for Staff
Start the new term with confidence by brushing up on key Canvas features and best practices. This session provides a focused refresher on the essentials of managing and structuring your modules in Canvas, streamlining assessments, and communicating effectively with your students. We’ll also highlight recent Canvas feature updates to ensure you’re making the most of the platform.
Zoom - Beyond the Basics
Zoom - Beyond the Basics will focus on lesser-known Zoom features that can improve your teaching and meetings. This session is for anyone that is used to using Zoom but wants to get more out of it. This session also introduces a new feature, Zoom Clips, which offers a convenient solution for capturing your video and screen content, allowing you to share the recordings with others effortlessly and quickly. In this session we will cover:
Virtual Office Hours
Q&A
Whiteboards
Slide control
Notes
Zoom Clips
and more
Design Engaging Visuals for Teaching and Learning
This session focuses on practical strategies for creating clear, impactful visuals using Canvas and Office applications. Participants will explore how to use visual design principles to scaffold content, signpost key learning activities, and build intuitive module layouts in Canvas. The session will also cover effective slide design for different teaching scenarios (lectures, flipped classrooms, online modules), ensuring materials are accessible, consistent with MTU branding, and engaging for learners.
Vevox Hidden Gems - A Showcase of the Lesser-Known Features
This is a showcase of Vevox's lesser-known features, designed for all higher education staff who already know the basics but want to get more value from the tool. In this session we will cover:
Different question types
Leaderboard
Non polling content
Imported content
Scheduling surveys and quizzes
AI questions and quizzing
Turnitin Refresher
This session will guide you through the essentials of using Turnitin within Canvas to support academic integrity and enhance your grading process. You’ll learn what Turnitin is, how to create a Turnitin assignment, and how to access and interpret the plagiarism reports generated for student submissions. The workshop also covers Turnitin’s submission storage options and provides strategies for using Turnitin effectively to promote originality and constructive feedback. Ideal for educators seeking to integrate Turnitin seamlessly into their workflow, this session offers practical tips to ensure you can confidently utilize this powerful tool.
Assessment and Feedback in Canvas
This session offers practical strategies to help you streamline grading and feedback processes using Canvas, making the end of the semester more manageable. Focused on efficient feedback and assessment management, the workshop will guide you through time-saving tips for grading assignments, providing meaningful feedback, and utilizing Canvas tools to track student progress. Whether you’re new to Canvas or looking to optimize your workflow, this session equips you with actionable techniques to simplify your grading tasks and support your students effectively as they complete their learning journey.
Assessment and Feedback in Canvas
This session offers practical strategies to help you streamline grading and feedback processes using Canvas, making the end of the semester more manageable. Focused on efficient feedback and assessment management, the workshop will guide you through time-saving tips for grading assignments, providing meaningful feedback, and utilizing Canvas tools to track student progress. Whether you’re new to Canvas or looking to optimize your workflow, this session equips you with actionable techniques to simplify your grading tasks and support your students effectively as they complete their learning journey.
Zoom - Beyond the Basics
Zoom - Beyond the Basics will focus on lesser-known Zoom features that can improve your teaching and meetings. This session is for anyone that is used to using Zoom but wants to get more out of it. This session also introduces a new feature, Zoom Clips, which offers a convenient solution for capturing your video and screen content, allowing you to share the recordings with others effortlessly and quickly. In this session we will cover:
Virtual Office Hours | Q&A | Whiteboards | Slide control | Notes | Zoom Clips and more
Designing & Delivering Media-Based Assessment
This session explores how media forms - such as video and audio/podcasting - can be used as authentic alternatives to traditional assessment. While often associated with media-focused courses, these approaches have significant value across all disciplines, incl. science and technology, where they can help students communicate complex ideas, demonstrate applied understanding, collaborate and engage in real-world knowledge production.
This session will highlight the pedagogical benefits of media-based assessment, including its potential to enhance student engagement, foster creativity, and develop transferable communication and digital skills. The session will provide examples of good practice in the area, to illustrate how you might devise and implement these types of assessments in your subject area, from developing clear briefs and rubrics to managing workflows, supporting students' technical skills (none needed to start), and ensuring equitable and inclusive participation.
Turnitin Refresher
This session will guide you through the essentials of using Turnitin within Canvas to support academic integrity and enhance your grading process. You’ll learn what Turnitin is, how to create a Turnitin assignment, and how to access and interpret the plagiarism reports generated for student submissions. The workshop also covers Turnitin’s submission storage options and provides strategies for using Turnitin effectively to promote originality and constructive feedback. Ideal for educators seeking to integrate Turnitin seamlessly into their workflow, this session offers practical tips to ensure you can confidently utilize this powerful tool.
Canvas Essentials: A Refresher for Staff
Start the new term with confidence by brushing up on key Canvas features and best practices. This session provides a focused refresher on the essentials of managing and structuring your modules in Canvas, streamlining assessments, and communicating effectively with your students. We’ll also highlight recent Canvas feature updates to ensure you’re making the most of the platform.
Designing Interactive H5P Activities in Canvas
This session showcases how to use H5P to design interactive learning experiences that captivate and engage your students. Through demonstrations and examples, you’ll explore H5P’s versatile features and learn how to create dynamic, on-demand content within Canvas that fosters active learning and supports diverse teaching goals. Whether you’re new to H5P or looking to expand your skills, this session equips you with practical tools and ideas to transform your course content and enhance student engagement.
Vevox Hidden Gems - A Showcase of the Lesser-Known Features
This is a showcase of Vevox's lesser-known features, designed for all higher education staff who already know the basics but want to get more value from the tool. In this session we will cover:
Different question types
Leaderboard
Non polling content
Imported content
Scheduling surveys and quizzes
AI questions and quizzing
Strategies for Teaching on Online Modules and Programmes at MTU
This session offers practical strategies to help you design effective and engaging learning experiences for MTU's growing suite of online and blended mode programmes. Built around key learning principles, the workshop will guide you in planning activities, evaluating selecting appropriate tools and resources, fostering a sense of community among your online students , and supporting them throughout their online learning journey. Ideal for those teaching online for the first time and of use to everyone seeking to enhance their online teaching skills with actionable and proven strategies.
End-of-Semester Grading and Feedback for Staff
The sessions will focus on:
How to Understand and Use Reports from MTU’s Turnitin Plagiarism Detection System
Managing and releasing Grades and Feedback in Canvas
New and advanced marking and feedback tools in Canvas
End-of-Semester Grading and Feedback for Staff
The sessions will focus on:
How to Understand and Use Reports from MTU’s Turnitin Plagiarism Detection System
Managing and releasing Grades and Feedback in Canvas
New and advanced marking and feedback tools in Canvas
End-of-Semester Grading and Feedback for Staff
The sessions will focus on:
How to Understand and Use Reports from MTU’s Turnitin Plagiarism Detection System
Managing and releasing Grades and Feedback in Canvas
New and advanced marking and feedback tools in Canvas
Designing Engaging Visuals for Teaching and Learning - A Focus on Visuals
This session focuses on practical strategies for creating clear, impactful visuals using Canvas and Office applications. Participants will explore how to use visual design principles to scaffold content, signpost key learning activities, and build intuitive module layouts in Canvas. The session will also cover effective slide design for different teaching scenarios (lectures, flipped classrooms, online modules), ensuring materials are accessible, consistent with MTU branding, and engaging for learners.
Digital Teaching Tools Spotlight
This session introduces you to three of MTU’s key digital learning tools: H5P for creating interactive content, ScreenPal for simple yet effective video recording, and Vevox for real-time student polling and feedback.
Designing Engaging Visuals for Teaching and Learning - A Focus on Visuals
This session focuses on practical strategies for creating clear, impactful visuals using Canvas and Office applications. Participants will explore how to use visual design principles to scaffold content, signpost key learning activities, and build intuitive module layouts in Canvas. The session will also cover effective slide design for different teaching scenarios (lectures, flipped classrooms, online modules), ensuring materials are accessible, consistent with MTU branding, and engaging for learners.
Real-Time Student Engagement and Polling: MTU's Vevox platform
This session introduces you to Vevox, MTU’s new platform for real-time student engagement. Designed to enhance interaction in your classes, the workshop explores Vevox’s key features, including live polling, Q&A, surveys, and quizzes. Learn how to seamlessly integrate these tools into your teaching to foster active participation, gather instant feedback, and create dynamic learning experiences. Perfect for educators seeking to engage students in both in-person and online settings, this session provides everything you need to get started with Vevox and make your teaching more interactive and impactful.
Digital Teaching Tools Spotlight
This session introduces you to three of MTU’s key digital learning tools: H5P for creating interactive content, ScreenPal for simple yet effective video recording, and Vevox for real-time student polling and feedback.
Building Digital Competencies with Video
Video is one of the most engaging formats for both in-class and online learning. Whether used to flip the classroom, provide just-in-time explanations, or enrich modules, short video can enhance student engagement and understanding. Yet staff sometimes feel unsure of how to use the tools at hand (Zoom, H5P, Canvas etc..) to create accessible, purposeful, and pedagogically aligned video content.
This session builds digital competency (DigCompEdu: Digital Content Creation 3.1 and 3.2) by equipping staff with practical workflows to create, edit, and reuse video effectively.
Building Digital Competencies with Video
Video is one of the most engaging formats for both in-class and online learning. Whether used to flip the classroom, provide just-in-time explanations, or enrich modules, short video can enhance student engagement and understanding. Yet staff sometimes feel unsure of how to use the tools at hand (Zoom, H5P, Canvas etc..) to create accessible, purposeful, and pedagogically aligned video content.
This session builds digital competency (DigCompEdu: Digital Content Creation 3.1 and 3.2) by equipping staff with practical workflows to create, edit, and reuse video effectively.
Designing Inclusive Canvas Courses: Tips for Supporting Diverse Learners
Built around core accessibility principles, this session will guide you in tailoring your Canvas modules to meet diverse student needs. Learn how to create materials that are clear, navigable, and compatible with assistive technologies, ensuring every learner can access your content effectively. Ideal for educators seeking to foster an inclusive learning environment, this session provides actionable techniques to enhance your practice and support all students.
Introduction to Turnitin
This session will guide you through the essentials of using Turnitin within Canvas to support academic integrity and enhance your grading process. You’ll learn what Turnitin is, how to create a Turnitin assignment, and how to access and interpret the plagiarism reports generated for student submissions. The workshop also covers Turnitin’s submission storage options and provides strategies for using Turnitin effectively to promote originality and constructive feedback. Ideal for educators seeking to integrate Turnitin seamlessly into their workflow, this session offers practical tips to ensure you can confidently utilize this powerful tool.
Strategies for Teaching on Online Modules and Programmes at MTU
This session offers practical strategies to help you design effective and engaging learning experiences for MTU's growing suite of online and blended mode programmes. Built around key learning principles, the workshop will guide you in planning activities, evaluating selecting appropriate tools and resources, fostering a sense of community among your online students , and supporting them throughout their online learning journey. Ideal for those teaching online for the first time and of use to everyone seeking to enhance their online teaching skills with actionable and proven strategies.
Strategies for Teaching on Online Modules and Programmes at MTU
This session offers practical strategies to help you design effective and engaging learning experiences for MTU's growing suite of online and blended mode programmes. Built around key learning principles, the workshop will guide you in planning activities, evaluating selecting appropriate tools and resources, fostering a sense of community among your online students , and supporting them throughout their online learning journey. Ideal for those teaching online for the first time and of use to everyone seeking to enhance their online teaching skills with actionable and proven strategies.
Assessment and Feedback in Canvas
This session offers practical strategies to help you streamline grading and feedback processes using Canvas, making the end of the semester more manageable. Focused on efficient feedback and assessment management, the workshop will guide you through time-saving tips for grading assignments, providing meaningful feedback, and utilizing Canvas tools to track student progress. Whether you’re new to Canvas or looking to optimize your workflow, this session equips you with actionable techniques to simplify your grading tasks and support your students effectively as they complete their learning journey.
Canvas Essentials: A Refresher for Returning Staff
Start the new term with confidence by brushing up on key Canvas features and best practices. This session provides a focused refresher on the essentials of managing and structuring your modules in Canvas, streamlining assessments, and communicating effectively with your students. We’ll also highlight recent Canvas feature updates to ensure you’re making the most of the platform.
Zoom 101: Mastering the Essentials
This session introduces new staff to the essential features of Zoom needed for everyday teaching and meetings. We'll cover everything from installation and login, to setting up audio and video, scheduling Zoom meetings, admitting participants, sharing your screen, and recording. This session will give you the skills needed to manage and participate in online Zoom classes and meetings.