Users Conference 2020

EvaluWise® ONLINE

Users Conference 2020

3 Secrets of Evaluating Remote Teaching During COVID-19

Join us ONLINE on Tuesday, June 23rd, 2020 for our annual Users Conference. Explore the secrets of successfully evaluating remote teaching during COVID-19, expand your EvaluWise® knowledge, and learn what's new in EvaluWise®.

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KEYNOTE SPEAKER

OUR 2020

Thomas J. Tobin is the Program Area Director for Distance Teaching & Learning on the Learning Design, Development, & Innovation (LDDI) team at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, as well as an internationally recognized speaker and author on evaluation of teaching practice, quality in technology-enhanced education, especially copyright academic integrity, and accessibility/universal design for learning.

He holds a Ph.D. in English literature, a second master’s degree in information science, and professional certifications in online teaching (MOT), project management (PMP), Quality Matters (QM), and accessibility core competencies (CPACC).

Tom serves on the editorial boards of InSight: A Journal of Scholarly Teaching, the Journal of Interactive Online Learning, and the Online Journal of Distance Learning Administration.

His books include

  • Evaluating Online Teaching: Implementing Best Practices (2015) with Jean Mandernach and Ann H. Taylor.
  • The Copyright Ninja: Rise of the Ninja (2017).
  • Reach Everyone, Teach Everyone: Universal Design for Learning in Higher Education (2018) with Kirsten Behling.
  • Going Alt-Ac: A Guide to Alternative Academic Careers (2020) with Katie Linder and Kevin Kelly.

Thomas J. Tobin

PhD, MSLS, PMP, MOT, CPACC

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9:00am - 10:00am CDT Tuesday, June 23, 2020

KEYNOTE: 3 Secrets of Evaluating Remote Teaching During COVID-19

Thomas J. Tobin, PhD, MSLS, PMP, MOT, CPACC

Join Dr. Thomas Tobin to explore the secrets of successfully evaluating remote teaching during Covid-19. Dr. Tobin’s years of experience in the area of evaluating remote teaching is reflected in his practical approach. He is the author of the recently published book Evaluating Online Teaching: Implementing Best Practices, whose content is particularly timely. Don’t miss Dr. Tobin’s engaging and interactive presentation as he will provide answers to those pondering the challenges of evaluating remote teaching.  

10:05am - 10:40am CDT Tuesday, June 23, 2020

EvaluWise® Reports: Reveal Meaningful Data with EvaluWise’s® Powerful Reports

Brett Housman

This session will show you the elegant new report layout and the many powerful reports in EvaluWise® to help you and your teachers get the most out of evaluations

The Top Ten Most Common Support Questions

Tara Ehlers

Here’s your chance to get answers to the most important questions your fellow administrators have about getting the most out of EvaluWise®.

10:45am - 11:25am CDT Tuesday, June 23, 2020

End of Cycle Process in EvaluWise®

Joel Rogers

Find out the clear and simple steps you can take to efficiently wrap up the End of Cycle Evaluation Process using EvaluWise®. Discover how, by leveraging the lessons learned from many districts EvaluWise® is a go-to tool for this process.

Getting the Most Out of EvaluWise® as a New User

Tara Ehlers

Newer users will learn the most important features of EvaluWise® and find out how to take advantage of this powerful, easy to use tool to complete your informal and formal observations and summative evaluation.

11:30am - 12:05pm CDT Tuesday, June 23, 2020

Creating and Managing the Evaluation Cycle in EvaluWise®

Mark Rogers

How can you monitor and make sure teachers and evaluators are completing all the required steps your evaluation process? It’s easy using EvaluWise®! Join this session to see how easy it is and by using evaluation categories, checklists and processes in EvaluWise®.

Building the All-Important Teacher Profile

Brett Housman

Creating and using a Teacher Profile is a breeze using EvaluWise®. Join this session to see how easy it is to create a User Profile, Manage Teacher assignments, and assign standard and customized evaluation forms individually and in bulk!

12:10pm - 12:40pm CDT Tuesday, June 23, 2020

Exploring the Newest Features in EvaluWise®

Joel Rogers

EvaluWise® is constantly adding new and powerful features for evaluators and teachers to help save time, make the evaluation process more and more efficient, easy to use and customizable. This is one of the most popular sessions offered at our conference. Here’s a chance to learn about the latest enhancements you, our users, have asked for. Attend this session and you see how your requests have come to life in EvaluWise®.

1:00pm - 1:30pm CDT Tuesday, June 23, 2020

Archdiocese of Milwaukee: How to get the most out of EvaluWise®

Mark Rogers

EvaluWise® is built to be the most user friendly, efficient and effective teacher evaluation software available. Newer users will learn the basics of getting the most out of EvaluWise® using the Archdiocese Teacher Effectiveness Framework

1:35pm - 2:05pm CDT Tuesday, June 23, 2020

The Nevada Educator Performance Framework (NEPF) and EvaluWise®

Mark Rogers

Learn how to get the greatest impact from the Nevada Educator Performance Framework (NEPF) by using EvaluWise® with NEPF.

3:00pm - 3:30pm CDT Tuesday, June 23, 2020

Clark County Newer Users: Getting Started with EvaluWise®

Mark Rogers

Newer users will learn the most important features of EvaluWise® and find out how to take advantage of this powerful, easy to use tool to complete NEPF.

3:35pm - 4:05pm CDT Tuesday, June 23, 2020

Getting the Most out of using EvaluWise® for NEPF in Clark County

Mark Rogers

Clark County Nevada users learn how to get the most out of EvaluWise® using the Nevada Educator Performance Framework (NEPF). You will learn tips, shortcuts and powerful features to make the evaluation process in Clark County as efficient and effective as possible.