In This Email

• Video Tip – Recording Video and Audio within Webcourses@UCF
• What's New with Webcourses@UCF 
• Zoom Tip – Embrace the Silence
  
• Dziuban Award for Excellence – Martha Hubertz, Ph.D.
• Design with Quality in Mind – Methods for Students to Demonstrate Learning 
• Faculty Multimedia Center – The Redesign has Started!
  
• Kelvin's Corner – Reflections on Course Design
  

Watch this video to learn how to record video and audio directly into your Webcourses@UCF course using the Upload/Record Media tool as well as how to upload your already created caption file.

Global Navigation Menu - Release Notes Interface - With this update, users will be able to view feature release information directly in Webcourses@UCF. The Help menu will display an indicator when a release note has been published for the user’s role. Notes display a summary of a feature or multiple features available to the user and provides a link where the user can view more details. The Help menu will display the last 10 release notes posted for the user’s role.

SpeedGrader – Comment Library - With this update, comments made in SpeedGrader can be added and saved for reuse. The comments field in SpeedGrader will include a Feedback icon that opens the Comment Library. From there, comments can be added to the Comment Library. Comments can also be edited in and deleted from the library at any time. 

To learn more about the new Comment Library, watch the Canvas Features video.

For more information about Canvas (Webcourses@UCF) updates, view the June 19, 2021 Canvas Release Notes.

Martha Hubertz, Ph.D., Lecturer, Psychology Department, College of Sciences, was awarded the 2020 Chuck D. Dziuban Award for Excellence in Online Teaching by the Center for Distributed Learning (CDL). Dr. Hubertz received this award for demonstrating excellence in online teaching in her course, SOP3004 Social Psychology. Please enjoy this newly released video showcasing key aspects of Dr. Hubertz’s exemplary online teaching. 

In what ways do students demonstrate their knowledge in your online course – exams, written papers, discussions, group work? Check out Offer Multiple Methods and Opportunities for Students to Demonstrate their Learning to read about how instructors are using a variety of methods to enable students to more accurately show what they know.

If you are updating your course to prepare for the next term, check out the other posts in Design with Quality in Mind, a growing collection of brief articles based on the items in UCF’s Quality and High-Quality Course Reviews that describe ways to support all students to succeed in your online courses. 

Our Faculty Multimedia Center (FMC) redesign project has begun! We will keep faculty and staff informed during renovation through our announcement posts and email. Visit the website to see which services will be available during and after the redesign and schedule FMC appointments.

We are excited to be beginning this project and to share a new and improved Faculty Multimedia Center with you! If you have questions or concerns, please reach out to the FMC staff at fmc@ucf.edu.

In today’s Kelvin’s Corner, we encourage you to read this essay by Dr. Lauryl Tucker (University of the South) from the “University of Venus” section of Inside Higher Ed titled “I Am Not Cat”. Dr. Tucker reframes the meme-worthy anecdote of the remote working attorney who was unable to remove a cat filter to help us consider why we should perhaps make our behind-the-scenes design intentionality more evident.   Whether the future involves teaching with Zoom or not, her comments are broadly applicable to the way we conceptualize the teaching/learning process. 

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.