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New Updates to Webcourses@UCF ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏
Starting Summer Semester Superbly
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In This Email
- Semester Startup Reminders
- Quick Tip - Removing Bad Links
- Virtual and Remote Lab Resources
- Video Tip - Auto-Transcribe Zoom Cloud Recordings
- Getting Started in Webcourses@UCF for Summer 2020 - Register Now
- What's New with Webcourses@UCF
- Design with Quality in Mind: Student-Teacher Interaction
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Semester Startup Reminders
Your Checklist for Starting Well |
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As we prepare for the quickly approaching start of the summer semester, below are some helpful reminders to help you start the semester on the right footing. |
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- Start with the Semester Start-Up Guide, which details the process of creating your Webcourses@UCF course section(s).
- Upload your syllabus. Using the Syllabus Tool and the Course Preview Feature in Webcourse@UCF allows you to make your syllabus viewable to students via the myUCF Portal.
- Using Zoom? Add a statement to your Syllabus about how you’ll be using Zoom so your students will be informed. The UCF Zoom Guides has support information for both faculty and students. Share this resource with your students too.
- Enhance the teaching and learning experience by using Faculty Tools, a comprehensive collection of tools and integrations, located in your Webcourses@UCF course navigation menu. We highly recommend the Templater tool and Action Icons.
- Finally, publish your course so it's viewable by your students!
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Removing Bad Links
Validate Links in Content Tool |
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Did you copy your course content from a previous semester? Webcourses@UCF has a tool you can use to validate all the links in your course to ensure they are not broken. Located in the Settings page, the Validate Links in Content tool searches through course content and returns a list of invalid, deleted, or unresponsive external links in both published and unpublished content. Deleted links are links that are still in the course, but their linked content has been deleted (such as a course file or page).
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Virtual and Remote Lab Resources
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Do you teach a face-to-face lab and have scrambled to move your class online? With the sudden change to remote instruction for the summer semesters, UCF launched a page to provide faculty members articles, lab kits, and websites to help with teaching traditional labs online, particularly in the areas of STEM. These lists of virtual and remote lab resources are a work in progress. Colleges and information are added as needed. If you have contributions you would like to suggest, please email us at ilab@ucf.edu.
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Auto-Transcribe Zoom Cloud Recordings
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Recording Zoom sessions helps ensure the kind of flexibility necessary during our COVID-19 response. Offering a text alternative for spoken content enables all learners the same level of access regardless of language, technology, or ability.
Watch the short video to learn how to use Zoom’s Cloud Recording feature to automatically transcribe classes, meetings, or webinars that you record to the cloud. Visit the Webcourses@UCF Support webpage to view other Zoom Guides. |
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Getting Started in Webcourses@UCF for Summer 2020
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Prepare your Summer courses for Remote Learning! This introductory remote session walks you through the basics: adding your Syllabus, creating Pages and Modules, using Templates, creating Assignments and Assessments to get your students started. |
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What's New with Webcourses@UCF
Deprecation of Some SMS Notifications |
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With the recent improvements and availability of the Canvas mobile apps, user notification preferences are shifting from SMS (text) notifications to push notifications. Effective May 2, 2020, the only SMS notification types will be Announcements and Grading. In order to continue to receive all notifications, we urge all Webcourses@UCF users to transition to the Canvas mobile apps and enable push notifications.
From a mobile device, install the appropriate teacher app:
Canvas App for Android
Canvas App for iOS
For more information on this update, see the Canvas Release Notes about SMS Notifications Deprecation.
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Design with Quality in Mind
Student-Teacher Interaction |
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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 highlights one item that exemplifies quality online course design, based on UCF’s Quality Course Review items and showcases examples from UCF faculty. Check out the eleventh post of the series, Create Opportunities for Online Students to Interact with You to Enhance Their Learning, which explains why teaching presence improves the quality of your online course, suggests ways you can interact with your students online, and showcases examples from UCF faculty. |
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Tips, Tools, & Resources
Stay connected to the Division of Digital Learning |
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