In This Email

• Quick Tips: Visibility of Faculty Tools
• What's New with Webcourses@UCF
• Enabling a Grading Scheme
• UCF's Quality and High Quality Online Course Designations
• Design with Quality in Mind: Student Interaction
  

Dashboard - Course Card Unfavorite Option

In the Course Card Dashboard, courses can be removed as favorites from the course card Options menu. This change allows users to quickly remove a course as a favorite without having to access the Courses page.

• In the Course Card Dashboard, users can open the Options menu for a course card, click the Move tab, and select the Unfavorite option. Unfavoriting a course requires a confirmation before the course is removed from the Dashboard.
  

Enabling a Grading Scheme

If you are the instructor of record of a course, you can upload final grades directly from Webcourses@UCF to the myUCF grade roster. This process also works for combined course sections.

Please note that you must have a grading scheme enabled to use this feature. If you do not have a grading scheme enabled, you will not be able to import your final grades.

UCF's Quality and High Quality Online Course Designations

The Instructional Design team offers online course reviews to faculty credentialed to create W, RA, RV, and V courses. The ultimate purpose of these reviews is to support the learning experience of online students. For more information about the Quality and High Quality (coming soon!) course designations, visit the UCF Quality Initiative page.

Faculty who have engaged in the review process site smoother navigation, less student confusion, and heightened accessibility of course materials as just a few benefits experienced. As the summer semester comes to an end, we'd like to recognize the August – November 2019 faculty who have earned a Quality and/or High Quality designation for at least one of their online courses. Congratulations!

Design with Quality in Mind: Student Interaction

Looking for tips on how to design your online courses? Design with Quality in Mind is a series of brief articles that explores best practices in online course design. Each post in this series will highlight one item that exemplifies quality online course design, based on UCF’s Quality Course Review items, and showcases examples from UCF faculty.

The second post of the series, Create Opportunities for Online Students to Interact, explains why creating opportunities for online students to interact improves the quality of your online course, suggests ways to create opportunities for online student interaction, and showcases examples from UCF faculty who are incorporating student interaction in their online courses.