Committed to Your Informed Online Teaching Experience
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In This Email
- Webcourses@UCF Support - Thanksgiving Hours
- Quick Tip - Grading Tips
- What's New with Webcourses@UCF
- New Quizzes - Coming in 2022
- 2021 Chuck D. Dziuban Award
- Video Tip – Notification Settings in Webcourses@UCF
- Zoom Tip – Purging Your Recordings
- Design with Quality in Mind – Provide an Explicit Course Schedule
- Advancing Online Teaching - Inclusion and Equity
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Thanksgiving Support Hours
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In celebration of the Thanksgiving holiday, Webcourses@UCF Support will close Thursday, November 25 through Saturday, November 27. We will reopen for support on Sunday, November 28.
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Grading Tips
End of the Semester Grading Help |
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Some useful tips to get you through this crazy grading period at the end of the semester:
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- Set a default grade of zero for all those missing assignments. This will get the students’ attention and ensure an accurate final grade.
- Look at the history of all Gradebook changes in your course using the Gradebook History page. Gradebook History is a read-only log that allows you to see who graded each artifact. Options are available to filter grading history by student, grader, artifact, and date.
- Export the grades from the Gradebook and download them as a CSV file. The Gradebook CSV assignment columns display in the same order as shown in the Gradebook for an individual user.
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What's New with Webcourses@UCF
This weekend's update will include the following changes or new features: |
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Submission Feedback Indicator: In the Assignment Details page, the Show Rubric and View Feedback links now indicate when new comments have been added as an annotation or in a rubric. This change allows students to see when new comments have been added to an assignment submission. |
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SpeedGrader: A word count will now appear for assignment text submissions in SpeedGrader. This change allows instructors to see the word count of student submissions while grading in SpeedGrader. |
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New Quizzes
New Quiz Engine Coming in 2022 |
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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.
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2021 Chuck D. Dziuban Award
Excellence in Online Teaching |
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The 2021 Chuck D. Dziuban Award for Excellence in Online Teaching winner this year is Ashley Taylor, MFA, School of Visual Arts and Design, College of Arts and Humanities, for her work related to GRA2101C Introduction to Computer Art. Two Honorable Mentions were also selected: Gail Humiston, Ph.D., from Criminal Justice, CCIE, and Shannon Whitten, Ph.D., from the Department of Psychology, College of Sciences.
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Manage Notification Settings in Webcourses@UCF
Make Changes to Default Settings |
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After a recent update, settings in Webcourses@UCF now allow you more control of your notifications. This video will show you how to manage your notification settings that apply to all your courses or to an individual course. |
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Zoom Cloud Storage
Download Recordings to OneDrive or Teams |
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Zoom has a limit on the amount of total video storage that can be used for Cloud Recordings, and videos are automatically deleted after 6 months. Download your Zoom recordings to OneDrive or Teams so you don't lose your videos.
Go to the UCF Zoom Guides for other useful tips and information.
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Design with Quality in Mind
Provide an Explicit Course Schedule |
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It is important to communicate to students the pace at which they will engage with your course content, assignments, and assessments. Check out Provide an Explicit Course Schedule for tips on how to orient your students to the pace of your online course so they can plan accordingly. 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 describe ways to support all students to succeed in your online courses.
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Advancing Online Teaching
Assessing your Course for Inclusion and Equity |
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Tips, Tools, & Resources
Stay connected to the Division of Digital Learning |
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