In This Email

• Webcourses@UCF Support - Winter Break Support Hours
• Webcourses@UCF Slowness Resolved
• Intermittent Issue with Chrome Update
• Quick Tip - Share Your Syllabus
• What's New with Webcourses@UCF
• Old PowerPoint Presentations - Update Your PowerPoints for Student Access
• AIM High Awards - Get Ready to Recognize Your Hard Work
• New Quizzes - Coming in 2022
• Video Tip – Student Tour of Webcourses@UCF
• Zoom Tip – Zoom Cloud Storage
• UCF’s Quality and High Quality Course Designations
• Design with Quality in Mind – Provide Technical Support Info for Online Tools
• Advancing Online Teaching - Small Teaching Online

Webcourses@UCF Support will provide services over the winter break, with the exception of December 24-25, and January 1, 2022. 

You can contact the Support team via phone, email, online support ticket, or live chat during regular business hours. Outside these hours you can still submit a support request using our online ticketing system, or leave a voicemail for a call back or email response. Visit our Webcourses@UCF Support page for winter break support hours as they become available.

To make your syllabus available, select the Display Syllabus option for your course from the Faculty Webcourse Manager. The content displayed is from the Syllabus page in your Webcourses@UCF course. You can preview your syllabus from the Faculty Webcourse Manager as well. 

Students can view your syllabus by clicking the ‘View Tentative Class Syllabus’ link on the Class Detail page. Your syllabus is only visible to students who have signed into myUCF to use the Course Search tool.  

For more information, visit the Course Preview Feature guide.

There will be no Canvas update for December. The next release will be January 15, 2022.

If you have been reusing your PowerPoint presentations for the last few years, the software version may be out-of-date and incompatible with the newer versions of Microsoft Office, thus preventing students from being able to view the presentation. Give your students the best learning experience by updating your presentations. Directions for how to update your files are available from UCF IT and Microsoft Support. 

If you have a large number of files affected, or need help, please contact Webcourses@UCF Support for assistance. 

Save-the-date for the 3rd annual AIM High event hosted by the UCF Center for Distributed Learning in conjunction with UCF Libraries, the Faculty Center for Teaching and Learning, the Student Government Association, and the Office of the Provost and Academic Affairs. This event will be held virtually on February 16, 2022, through Zoom from 1:30-3:00 pm.  

We will have guest speaker President Alexander Cartwright as well as this year’s AIM High Impact Award recipients. This event celebrates your fellow faculty members and staff who have helped keep textbook costs low for students through UCF’s affordable instructional materials (AIM) initiative. This year’s event will also feature a new faculty award presented by SGA. 

More information to register will be forthcoming in January 2022.  

Instructure is updating the quiz engine (called New Quizzes) and sunsetting the current quiz tool we are using in Webcourses@UCF. We want to keep our faculty informed to ensure a seamless experience as we prepare for the transition. Visit the Webcourses@UCF Support Migrating to the New Quiz Tool page for updates.   

Visit the Canvas Guide to learn more about New Quizzes.

This student tour will help your students gain a brief understanding of the many tools available to them within Webcourses@UCF (Canvas). Share this video with your students in the first week of class to help them navigate their courses.

Zoom cloud recording is not intended for permanent storage. Zoom limits the maximum amount of cloud-based storage for video recordings provided to UCF. Because of that, UCF must implement a maximum timeframe of 12 months for Zoom cloud recordings to be stored in the ucf.zoom.us system.   

On February 1, 2022, UCF will implement the “Auto Delete” setting on the Zoom accounts to delete cloud recordings older than 12 months. If you plan to use a cloud recording for longer than 12 months from the original recording date, please download your Zoom to OneDrive or Teams so you don't lose your videos. 

Please reach out to Webcourses@UCF Support if you have additional questions about sharing your Zoom recordings in Webcourses@UCF. 

Go to the UCF Zoom Guides for other useful tips and information. 

The Instructional Design team offers online course reviews to faculty credentialed to create W, RS, and V courses, as well as blended course reviews to faculty credentialed to create M courses. Faculty who have engaged in the review process cite smoother navigation, less student confusion, and heightened accessibility of course materials as just a few benefits experienced. 

We are pleased to recognize the August 2021 – November 2021 faculty who have earned a Quality and/or High Quality designation for at least one of their online or blended courses. Congratulations! 

For more information about the Quality and High Quality course designations, visit the UCF Quality Initiative website.