Presenters: Joni Tornwall, PhD, RN, ANEF and Sarah Rusnak, MS, RDN, LD
Follow along with the slides for this presentation and view the library of references.
Microsoft Forms is included in M365, and can be used as an audience response system, for collecting information about trainees prior to their start, for collecting midpoint or final feedback, or as a metacognitive practice for learners. Each of the forms below can be copied into your own M365 account, be sure to login to Forms with your medical center credentials.
Microsoft Forms features are best suited to simple surveys; see the steps for polling with Microsoft Forms. If you are looking for more robust survey tools, another university supported tool may be a better fit.
Qualtrics allows for complex surveys, branching logic, and more advanced notifications. To get started with Qualtrics, request an upgraded account through the Office of Curriculum and Scholarship.
Research Electronic Data Capture (REDCap) is the most feature rich survey tool and it allows for longitudinal data collection, and is approved for PHI with IRB approval. Learn more and request an account through the Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI) and the Department of Research Information Technology (RIT).
go.osu.edu is the university’s service for creating short web links and QR codes. You might use a shortened URL or QR code to direct learners to any of the following:
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Anna Bizsaha, Research and Education Librarian at the Health Sciences Library, compiled the following resources and instructions:
ClinicalKey
ClinicalKey provides a large variety of procedural videos. To see the full list of options in this resource, follow the steps below.
- From the HSL webpage, click on ClinicalKey under Top Resources on the right-hand side of the screen
- On the ClinicalKey homepage, if you scroll down a bit you should see a box called “Procedure Videos”. This will take you to an alphabetical list of all Procedure Videos available in this platform.
- Alternatively, if you search for a specific topic (e.g. hysterectomy) in the main search box, you can limit to Procedure Videos by expanding out the Source Type filters on the left-hand side of the screen.
AccessSurgery
Another resource that you may want to take a look at is AccessSurgery (as well as the other Access Products). To access these videos:
- From the HSL webpage, click on Access Databases: McGraw Hill under Top Resources on the right-hand side of the screen
- From their landing page, you can select which Access resource you would like to use. For this audience, most likely AccessSurgery, but you could explore others as well.
- Within AccessSurgery, you can use the menu at the top to view different Multimedia resources, including Videos, the Behind the Knife podcast, and 3D Surgical Animations (although they currently appear to only have a thyroidectomy).
- Depending on what procedure you are interested in, you may also want to explore some of the other Access products as the content can vary.
JoVE (Journal of Visual Experiments)
This is another resource that contains some procedural videos that could be of interest. They have different sections, and we don’t subscribe to all of them, but we do have JoVE Medicine, which appears to have some procedural videos.
- The easiest route is likely to do a search for JoVE under the eJournals tab at the top right-hand corner of the HSL webpage.
- This will bring up a list of all the JoVE titles, and if you scroll down you should see JoVE Medicine
- Once you have accessed JoVE Medicine, you can either scroll through and browse the videos available, or perform a keyword search at the top of the screen.
- Of note, not all videos here will be surgical procedures, but from a quick glance they appeared to have some.
Henry Stewart Talks
This resource doesn’t really have procedural videos, but they do have other types of videos and lectures that could potentially be of interest, depending on what these faculty are looking for, so I thought I would include it just in case.
- From the HSL webpage, click on Health Sciences Databases under Top Resources on the right-hand side of the screen
- Scroll through the list to the B’s to select “Biomedical & Life Sciences Collection: Henry Steward Talks”
Find UpToDate on the Top Resources section on the right side of the Health Sciences Library webpage, or bookmark the link to redirect to UpToDate through the library. To register for an institutional account and access UpToDate through the mobile app, visit the registration page.
LinkedIn Learning is provided by Human Resources at OSU. Though not a clinical resource, LinkedIn Learning has an extensive library of videos covering business and software tools, career development, DEI, finance and accounting, human resources, leadership and management, marketing, professional development, project management, small business and entrepreneurship, & training and education.
Just in Time Teaching (JiTT) Infographics App for Teacher Development
Take my teaching tip, please!Here are the steps presented as part of my Academy of Teaching Conference presentation on making the most of PowerPoint for sharing slides. Note that these instructions are for Microsoft 365 on Windows. These tricks aren’t available in PowerPoint for the web, but did you know you can access the desktop version of PowerPoint in your browser via the university’s virtual desktop?
High resolution images, like those you can access through Ohio State’s unlimited Adobe Stock license, can add up to a very large PowerPoint file size. To make sharing slides faster and easier for recipients, you can compress images to reduce file size. Don’t worry, your slides will still look great and be easy to view.
Removing presentation notes is a great way to make space for your audience to put their own thoughts into the Notes section as they listen to your talk. Make sure you save a copy of your presentation with notes separately, so that you keep your presenter notes in your version! I always have two versions of my slides, one named “Title of Talk_PRESENT.pptx” that I keep my notes in, and one named “Title of Talk.pptx” to share.
Done! Your slides are ready to post to Carmen or email to the conference organizer, wherever you’re headed to share your expertise.
The university environment is a unique place which holds steadfast in its traditions, its values and its teaching practices, which traditionally have been taught to one type of learner. They are the typical learner. This educational system was designed for them. But there is one massive problem. If they do exist, they are not typical. Research indicates that in a class of 50 students, ten will have a diagnosed disability. For undergraduate students, around four of these ten individuals will seek out accommodations, leaving 63% unsupported. That number drops in half for graduate students, and that is just the disabled community. We haven’t even touched on the plethora of external and internal factors which impact one’s learning. These factors are responsible for creating a unique and diverse student body. So the question then becomes. How do we ensure the success of all of our students given their unique learning styles? We utilize a universal teaching framework that works for all learners. The framework is known as Universal Design for Learning or UDL for short. UDL acknowledges that barriers exist within education and works to diminish these barriers through flexible teaching practices. There are many ways which UDL can be applied, and we are going to highlight just a few of the ones that are mentioned here. The first way you can incorporate UDL into your instruction is by making sure it is both accessible and fair. Some ways you can do this include providing extra time on tests for all students, regardless if they have an accommodation or not. Minimizing those hard deadlines. Provide a guideline for when assignments are due, but allow assignments to be submitted any time prior to the end of the semester without a point deduction. You may be surprised to find that a majority of students will submit by the suggested due date. Lastly, complete the accessibility module offered through the Michael V Drake Institute for Teaching and Learning. This interactive module will teach you how to make Microsoft Word documents, PowerPoint presentations, Excel spreadsheets, and PDFs all accessible. Those are just some ways which you can make your teaching more accessible and fair. Another way you can apply UDL to your instruction is by creating a supportive learning environment for your students. This can be done by surveying your students’ interest and incorporating what you find into the instructional material. You can use Qualtrics or Microsoft Forms to make this process smoother. Provide timely, constructive feedback on all assignments. Constructive is the key word here. Be sure to tell them what they did right and explicitly state what can be improved upon. Try to return feedback on all assignments within a two week time frame. Another way to create a supportive learning environment is by performing a midterm SEI. Because if you wait until the end of the semester, then it is too late to implement any meaningful change. Those are just a few examples of ways which you can support your learners. The last principle we will highlight on this UDL wheel is making sure that whatever information you are providing, it is both flexible in its use and in its presentation. You can do this by making sure your instructional material is offered in many different formats. This includes using text. For example, I provided text on this video by incorporating a transcript and closed captioning. Graphics such as graphs or other forms of visualizations. One visualization I used was the statistical visualization of the amount of students in a university who have a disability. Audio. And lastly, include videos when you can. I find videos to be very beneficial because they utilize both a visual and an audio component. Whether these be videos that are created by others and added into your lectures, or ones which you create yourself. These videos will have a measurable impact on your students’ learning, and by having information demonstrated in many different formats, you provide instruction which is flexible in both its use and its presentation. If all of this seems overwhelming, no worries. As we saw before, UDL takes many different forms and you don’t have to do this alone. OSU is here to help. One of the best things about being a part of a large university is the vast amount of available resources, one of which helped me create this very video. If you wish to create your own videos, you can do so by taking advantage of the EdTech Incubator located on the fourth floor of Prior Hall. Here you will find the studio, which is designed to be very user friendly. You can record audio such as I did or video footage. The studio even has a light board, which you can take advantage of when recording your lectures. Each month, a simple in-person introductory course is offered through Prior Hall. In addition to the Technology Center, there are many departments dedicated to helping you understand and implement UDL into your instruction. If you’re interested in learning more about UDL, please refer below the video for additional information and hyperlinks to each of the departments listed here. Universal Design for Learning is a teaching framework that supports all learners, and The Ohio State University wants to support you in adopting it into your instruction.
Educational resources on topics such as: planning your course, creating course material, choosing effective teaching strategies, supporting your students (online & in-person), and growing as an educator.
Learn how to best use different tools:
Additionally, you can access upcoming workshops which may pertain to UDL instruction.
The Center for Faculty Advancement, Mentoring and Engagement (FAME) provides comprehensive faculty career development throughout all domains of an academic medical center. They develop faculty to be expert educators, leaders, superlative clinicians and eminent scholars.
FAME offers education and opportunities to OSU faculty on:
Helping to bring a more equitable education to all learners by helping both faculty and students. Through this department faculty can access:
Additionally, through the ODI, faculty have access to the National Center for Faculty Development & Diversity membership which includes resources on
Resources are available on:
Additional training and resources is provided on:
The Drake Institute is a prominent UDL resource at OSU. Beyond the UDL workshops and other events which are offered each semester, this resource offers educators with instructional support through:
Currently, the Drake Institute is designing a 4-part UDL workshop to be offered each semester.
This office is where students seeking out accommodations will register. Faculty and staff may additionally utilize this department for consultations and additional resources such as:
The ODEE aids instructors by providing them with the tools and technology needed to elevate their virtual teaching experience through:
This office will assist employees in setting up their:
Additional resources include:
For classroom support, equipment loan and software installation requests, contact Classroom Services.
Find eLearning tool (including CarmenCanvas) and teaching support points of contact on the Teaching and Learning Resource Center help page.
This workshop counts towards the Drake Institute’s Inclusive Teaching Endorsement.
All Adobe Creative Cloud products are available to faculty, staff, and students at Ohio State. Among their offerings, Adobe Stock is a terrific resource for finding images already licensed for use by the university. The filter options to the left of the search results make it easy to find precisely the type of image you need.
If you have any difficulty accessing Adobe Stock, you can also review this list of stock photo sites that provide images labeled for re-use. Several of these sites are created and maintained by marginalized communities, such as Nappy, Disabled and Here, and The Gender Spectrum Collection.
Ohio State faculty, staff and students have free access to LinkedIn Learning. Go to LinkedIn Learning Login and enter your Ohio State email address using the format, name.#@osu.edu and follow the prompts. You can also download the LinkedIn Learning app for iOS and Android for phones and tablets.
Updated October 16, 2024
Guided notes as a Word document
Effective lay presentation PowerPoint slides
This document is an example of a handout or guided notes that you could provide to learners. Rather than putting all the wordy details on the slide, shift the focus of the slide to visuals that support what you have to say. You are the expert.
In short, backwards design means starting with the end in mind. What will your learners know, be able to do, or change their minds about by the end of your presentation?
You have access to the full suite of Microsoft products, and can access them through any browser or download them to your personal device.
Adobe Express is available to faculty, staff, and students at Ohio State. Among their offerings, Adobe Express enables you to create infographics, flyers, social media posts, videos, convert PDFs to editable format, and more.
While you’re welcome to use the university’s template of colors available at brand.osu.edu, you can also branch out. Use the Adobe Color Picker to choose your own color palette. Just make sure to verify the color contrast between the foreground color and background color is at least greater than 4.5:1.
Ohio residents have free access to LinkedIn Learning with a Columbus Metropolitan Library card. Go to the LinkedIn Learning Library Login page and enter your library card number and PIN.
The Office of Technology and Digital Innovation has IT resources for students, as well as in person, phone, and online support:
In person at the BuckeyeBar at Thompson Library, Monday – Friday 9 AM to 6 PM.
The IT Service Desk offers 24-hour support, seven days a week.
You can also review all of the posts on this site that are categorized as student support.
Welcome to Autumn 2023 and our new Interdisciplinary Health Sciences Center! The technology in these classrooms is a little different from what we’re used to, so here are some quick tips.
(614) 366-8572 is the number for on-site technology support.
The only way to adjust the displays on these computers is to press Windows + P on the keyboard.
If the File Explorer icon (that yellow folder you’d click on to get to your files) does not appear in the taskbar along the bottom of the screen, do the following:
For the August 2023 school retreat in Health and Rehabilitation Sciences.
There are two general categories. Each table will answer all three forms in round one and select 2 forms in round two, either research focus or teaching and learning focus.
Don’t know what you don’t know about digital accessibility? These two BuckeyeLearn trainings are a good place to start when learning about making digital content usable and useful to all audiences. And remember to also complete the required course on Digital Accessibility Policy.
Creating accessible Word documents is fairly straightforward when you begin with accessibility in mind. This BuckeyeLearn course covers how and why to use styles for text formatting, how to create meaningful links, adding alternative text, why reading order matters, and lots more. Many of the best practices for accessibility also make document creation and editing faster and easier – spoiler – you will never again make a table of contents manually!
You can check the accessibility of your document at any time in the creation process using Microsoft’s accessibility checker.
For instructors and many other roles, PowerPoint is a big part of our work. Using PowerPoint templates and university provided resources can dramatically cut down on the time spent creating accessible slides. Just as with Word however, it’s easiest to create accessible content from scratch, rather than retrofitting old slides.
As of this writing, the BuckeyeLearn MS Word training is a required prerequisite to completing PowerPoint training.
For more, here is a roundup of all posts that address accessibility on this site.
Getting a sense of where your learners are in their understanding, or lack thereof, is always helpful. During a synchronous session you can get real time feedback from learners using polling. To make this easier on you, I’d suggest creating a poll you can re-use and then updating the questions and possible answers on your slides. Watch the following video for an example.
As of this recording, Microsoft Forms is one of the easiest to use tools we have at Ohio State for creating surveys and polls. It does limit you to relatively simple surveys or simple polls, but for our purposes on on this content, that’s exactly what we’re going for. So to get started with Microsoft Forms, you’re going to go to forms.office.com in any browser and click on the profile icon to to sign in. You’re going to use your university credentials or your medical center credentials, depending on where you live at Ohio State.
Once you are logged in, you’re going to select New Form. There is an option to create quizzes, but that’s another video and another topic entirely. You’re going to create new form. And from here, what I would suggest is that you create what I’m calling an endlessly reusable poll. So you would add a title to your form or some description to your form, and then you can start adding questions. You can see all of the question types available to you here. But for our purposes, let’s stick with a multiple choice question with just one single possible answer and you’ll see how we’re going to sort of hack that into a poll that you can use over and over and over again.
Once you’ve created your questions, you’re going to go over to the top right, and select collect responses. And then you do want to be sure that you select anyone can respond. You don’t want folks to have to log in to anything to answer your poll. You want this to be quick and easy, so make sure anyone can respond to the form. That also means it’s anonymous. Once you’ve got that, you can either copy the URL and provide that to participants or you can copy the QR code or you can do both, right? So if you’re doing this as a synchronous zoom session, you could paste that URL in the chat and ask folks to answer the poll. You could put the QR code up on the screen and ask folks to use their devices to go to the poll. That way you can do both. But in any case, you’ve got to be able to share this poll out with folks.
And then on your slides, on your PowerPoint slides or whatever presentation software are you using, you would put that QR code and your question in this case, I have a nonsense, no stakes question because I want folks to be engaged and start answering me. And so this is something I might use towards the beginning of a presentation to get folks comfortable with the idea of using a poll and answering my questions. You can see here there’s literally nothing at stake. There’s no right or wrong answer except that, of course, the right answer is Buckeye Donuts. And folks can answer this if they run out of time, it’s not a big deal. So this is a good way to introduce polling. But what you’ll see is once you’ve done this, you can clear out your poll results and use the same poll a second time with a new question. So here’s what your participants will see when they scan that QR code. They can see. Now the poll doesn’t have anything terribly specific. It just says, see the slide for question and possible answers. So if I’ve scanned this with my phone and I’m still watching the presentation up on the screen, I can still see what the question is and I can answer accordingly on my device.
And again, here are those possible responses. So, you know, tell me what the best food near campuses and why it’s Buckeye Donuts. And so once you’ve done that, you as the owner of the pole, you can actually go back to your endlessly reusable pole and look at the responses. So what you see here, you have the questions tab, which is where you’re editing your poll. The responses tab is where you can see your responses in real time. And you can see that for this particular poll, eight participants said, no, it’s not none of the above. There’s a different place we should be going to eat. And so you could use this to get immediate feedback Forms will create these pie charts for you automatically based on a multiple choice, single answer question. And so you can get this immediate feedback from your audience about whether they’re understanding what you’re discussing, what questions they might have, you know, what their current level of comfort is with your topic, you name it, you can make that question. And then what’s great about this is this little three dots here I can’t show you in this screenshot, but this little three dots to the to the right of open and Excel, you can come in here and clear out all of the responses and use the poll another time because you just have to know whether it was ABC or D. And so you can keep using that poll over and over and over again across all the presentations you can think of. And that way you’re not having to create a new poll. Every time you want to ask a question, you just need to adjust the question and the possible answers on the slide.