Committed to Your Informed Online Teaching Experience
|
|
|
In This Email
- Quick Tip - Student Feedback Survey
- What's New with Webcourses@UCF
- Truman Award - Coffee & Chat
- First Day - A Way to Save Your Students Money
- TOPR - Call for Submissions
- Video Tip – ObojoboNext Faculty Overview
- Zoom Tip – Keyboard Shortcuts
- Design with Quality in Mind – Meet the Instructor
- Kelvin's Corner - Academic Integrity in Online Courses
|
|
|
|
|
Mid-semester is a good time to seek feedback from your students on the effectiveness of your instruction as you have time to adjust your course if needed. Ask your students these three simple questions: - STOP: What could we stop doing because it does not increase your learning success in this class?
- START: What could we start doing to increase your learning success in this class?
- CONTINUE: What should we continue doing because it is positively impacting your learning success in this class?
An ungraded, anonymous quiz is the perfect tool for this. To learn about quiz types, visit What quiz types can I create in a course? Canvas Instructor guide.
|
What's New with Webcourses@UCF
|
|
|
|
There will be no Canvas update for February. The next scheduled release will be March 19, 2022.
|
|
New Teaching Award Opportunity
Truman Award for Excellence in Blended Teaching |
|
|
|
| |
|
The faculty committee is hosting a “Coffee & Chat” virtual session for potential applicants of the Barbara Truman Award for Excellence in Blended Teaching. This session will provide faculty who are looking to apply with the opportunity to ask questions and receive feedback. Join us for a Truman Award Coffee & Chat on Friday, February 25, 2-3pm ET. The Spring 2022 submission period opens Monday, February 21st at 8:00 am and closes Sunday, March 6th at 11:59 pm.
|
|
|
Want to Save Your Students Money?
First Day® Summer 2022 Deadline Fast Approaching |
|
|
|
First Day® is your Barnes & Noble campus bookstore’s inclusive access program. With this program, the cost of course materials is added as a charge for the course by your school. By opting into this program, students are also able to defer payment through their student account. Enroll your courses by February 25, 2022, for Summer 2022.
|
|
Teaching Online Pedagogical Repository (TOPR)
Call for Submissions open February 1-March 15 |
|
|
|
Have a stand-out online assignment or project that you would like to share with your fellow faculty members and the rest of the world? Now is your opportunity to contribute to UCF's Teaching Online Pedagogical Repository (TOPR)! Our call for submissions for new TOPR entries is open from February 1 through March 15. Please consider submitting an entry. If you have any questions, please contact us at topr@ucf.edu.
|
|
ObojoboNext Faculty Overview
How to Enable, Copy, and Embed in Webcourses@UCF |
|
|
|
Learn how to enable the powerful ObojoboNext tool and embed existing modules into Webcourses@UCF. |
|
Zoom Tips for Accessibility
|
|
|
|
Sometimes moving around your computer using a mouse is not possible. It can be especially difficult for people with vision impairments. Zoom has built-in keyboard shortcuts that allow you to navigate the Zoom settings without using your mouse. For example, to raise/lower your hand in a Zoom meeting, press the Alt+Y keys (or Option+Y for Mac users). Some shortcuts can be used as global shortcuts, meaning they will work even when Zoom is not in focus. To learn more about Zoom keyboard shortcuts, visit Zoom’s Hot keys and keyboard shortcuts support page.
|
|
Design with Quality in Mind
|
|
|
|
| |
|
Students express greater satisfaction with online learning when they perceive teacher presence in a course, so it is important to provide students an opportunity to meet the teacher behind the computer screen, such as Professor Josh Colwell introducing himself during his online physics course. Check out Meet the Instructor for tips on how to introduce yourself to your online students. As you continue to look for ways to improve your online and blended courses, check out the other posts in Design with Quality in Mind, a growing collection of brief articles, based on UCF’s Quality and High-Quality Course Reviews, that describes ways to support all students to succeed in your online courses.
|
|
Academic Integrity in Online Classes
|
|
|
|
In today’s Kelvin’s Corner, we recommend this 39-minute episode from the Lasallian Way Online podcast from the Christian Brothers University called “Academic Integrity in Online Classes.” In this episode, Dr. Dale Hale leads the Center for Digital Instruction (CDI) team in a discussion about academic integrity and what it means for a Lasallian institution to approach cheating and plagiarism in online courses.
|
|
|
Kelvin Thompson is the Executive Director for the Center for Distributed Learning. He is always finding, sharing, recommending interesting and insightful resources about teaching and learning.
|
|
Tips, Tools, & Resources
Stay connected to the Division of Digital Learning |
|
|
|
