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CITL Launches a New Website
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While attending to the everyday challenges of supporting teaching and learning during the pandemic, CITL, Online Education, and ITS have been engaged in ongoing conversations about how Higher Education teaching and learning might continue to evolve post-pandemic and how we can best support instructors at all levels in this rapidly changing instructional landscape. We’ve also been systematically aligning our work with the broader campus goals around equity, “servingness,” and student success, and participating in many conversations about how best to collaborate with faculty and departments interested in reviewing equity data and reconsidering the design of courses and curricula to close equity gaps. As one outcome of this work, CITL this week launched a new CITL website. While we will continue to use KeepTeaching as the primary location for teaching resources that respond to the exigencies of pandemic-era teaching, we are beginning the process of shaping the next phase of our work partnering with instructors and students, as well as with Online Education, FITC, and many other campus partners, to transform teaching and learning at UC Santa Cruz.
The new website was a collective effort, and special thanks go to our Summer Instructional Support Corps Fellows, Harikrishna Kuttivelil, Nikka Malakooti, and Melody Nixon, who refined many of the teaching resources. We want to extend special thanks to Katie Kobayashi, the web design whiz for the new CITL site. And as always, Sam Foster, CITL Managing Director, has taken the lead and attended to every step of this complex process, working with all members of the CITL staff to update existing resources and add new ones.
Among many features of the new site, we’ve created a homepage that is organized to help you easily access the information you need, either by selecting a topic or by identifying an activity you’d like to engage in. We’ve updated many of our teaching resources to reflect all of the new information, research, and guidance that has emerged since we built our first site five years ago. We now have forms for all of our services, like requesting a consultation or workshop, or getting help with the educational component of a grant. Finally, we also now have a section of the website that highlights campus-based research on Higher Education teaching and learning, and you can go there to explore the great work of our colleagues or follow a link to inform us of publications and other work that you want included.
We would love your feedback on the website. Let us know what you think of the design and navigation, what you looked for but did not find, and anything else you think it would be helpful for us to know. We’ll be continuing to work on and build out the site for the rest of the academic year, so your input will be invaluable to us.
– Jody Greene, CITL Director & AVP Teaching and Learning
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A screenshot of part of the new CITL homepage. Check out the site for more! We welcome your feedback.
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Next Week! STEM Equity and Design Mini-Symposium
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Teaching in Summer 2022: Approaching Course Approval Deadline
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Even as many of us adjust again to new conditions for teaching and learning this Fall, we want to make sure upcoming deadlines for Summer are on your radar. Per Senate policy, approval is required from the Committee on Courses of Instruction (CCI) for online and hybrid courses.
- The tracks for course approval are visualized in this chart.
- The deadline for Summer (and Spring) 2022 course proposal submissions is January 4, submitted to your division.
If you're interested in teaching an existing course or designing and proposing a new one, contact your Department, Program, or College Manager about options.
Programming to support online course design will be offered for both faculty and graduate student instructors leading up to the summer.
Follow this newsletter for dates to be announced in early 2022.
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Approval to teach online is required if:
- You taught a remote course last summer and want to do that again next summer; seek approval for Online Synchronous;
- You want to change your in-person class to online (synchronous or asynchronous);
- You want to make revisions to your approved online course such as changing the title, GE, or credits;
- You’re developing and proposing a new online course.
No action needed if:
- You plan to teach in person and your course is already approved;
- Your online course has already been approved by CCI and you are making no other changes to it.
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Downloadable Classroom Signage
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Are you teaching in a space without signage addressing face coverings, eating or drinking, or Zoom recording? Classroom signs are now available to download and print.
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Doctor's Notes: A Message from the Student Health Center
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The Student Health Center has asked us to remind colleagues that instructors should not ask students for “proof” when a student needs to miss class due to illness. In 2007, the UCSC Academic Senate Committee on Education Policy approved a policy regarding absences from class: a note for verification of illness (or appointment) would no longer be required for missed classes. As a result of this policy, UCSC Student Health Services no longer routinely provides a verification of visit form to students requesting an excuse. Writing notes to document students' illnesses places an undue burden on Health Center staff and may impact the availability of care for other students, because students need to return for a second scheduled visit if they request an excused absence and the instructor subsequently asks for proof. Students who will be absent for an extended period must fill out a records release form in order for the Health Center to provide a note. For students in COVID isolation or quarantine, badges can be used to verify whether the student is in fact required to be absent for a specific period of time.
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New Unplanned Events Resources
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The Teaching Center team (OE, CITL and ITS) have created a one-stop resource on the Keep Teaching website for instructors faced with teaching during unplanned events. If you or your students can’t access campus, temporarily lose power, or are required to quarantine or self-isolate, this page includes basic instructions for how to accommodate a range of unexpected interruptions to teaching and learning activities.
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CITL Convocation Save the Date!
Chanda Prescod-Weinstein • April 27, 2022
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On the evening of Wednesday, April 27th, CITL is excited to celebrate its fifth annual convocation with a talk by Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein.
A theoretical physicist, feminist theorist, and antiracist intellectual and activist, she is the author of the much-lauded The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred (Bold Type Books, 2021). Dr. Prescod-Weinstein is Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy & Core Faculty in Women’s Studies, University of New Hampshire.
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New in Canvas & Winter Courses Available Now
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What’s new in Canvas?
- “Sticky” course navigation menu
- Setting submission status directly in SpeedGrader
- New Gradebook search options
- Notification settings for account and course level on the same page
- Improved accessibility checker
Watch this video. It’s only one minute (no sound until the end)!
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Winter 2022 Courses now available in Canvas
Course shells for Winter 2022 are now available for configuration in Canvas. If you do not see your course shell, please check with your department to ensure that your appointment has been passed on to the Registrar. If you would like assistance in setting up your course, feel free to join virtual Office Hours or schedule a 1-to-1 staff consultation.
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YuJa, Lecture Capture, Discussion Tools, Gradescope, & Hypothesis
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What’s new in YuJa?
- You can now automatically give students credit just for watching a video (all of it or a percentage). See “Creating a Playback Quiz” on this page.
- You can insert videos into your videos. Learn how to do it.
- You can download videos with the captions “burned” in. (This is called “open” captioning, as opposed to “closed” captioning, because the captions are always on/open.) When you download a video, click on the “download with caption” button before you click the “download” button.
Lecture Capture
The roll-out of Lecture Capture is continuing to add General Assignment classrooms, with an additional 14 rooms scheduled to come online. To see if your classroom is equipped for Lecture Capture, visit the Lecture Capture service page. As new rooms are added, instructors are notified via email. If you have questions about Lecture Capture, please contact help@ucsc.edu.
Discussion Tools: Looking for a solution to replace Piazza?
A trial of ED Discussions, a full-featured discussion tool that integrates with Canvas, will be running through the academic year. If you are interested in participating, contact canvas.help@ucsc.edu for additional information, or join virtual Office Hours for an interactive conversation.
Interested in an alternative to Scantron?
Gradescope provides features such as printable bubble sheets (so students do not have to purchase them), the option for different point values within the test sheet, multiple automated grading options, and more. Contact canvas.help@ucsc.edu for more information, or join virtual Office Hours for an interactive conversation.
Try social annotation with Hypothesis
Why don’t my students do the reading? Doing the reading as a class with the social annotation tool Hypothesis might help! To learn more, enroll yourself in Online Education’s self-paced course.
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Daily Open Office Hours & Support
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Join us for drop-in office hours. Every weekday at 2 - 3 pm and Monday, Wednesday, and Friday at 10 - 11am!
Check out the Keep Teaching and CITL websites for instructional resources.
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If you have any questions about teaching and technology, post on Online Education’s Slack space or email online@ucsc.edu.
For general teaching questions, email citl@ucsc.edu.
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Stay Informed at the Slug Strong Website
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Check out UCSC's Slug Strong website for crucial information as we resume more in-person research, teaching, and work.
https://slugstrong.ucsc.edu/
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CONTACT US
Center for Innovations for Teaching and Learning (CITL) • citl@ucsc.edu
Online Education • online@ucsc.edu
Faculty Instructional Technology Center (FITC) • fitc@ucsc.edu
University of California Santa Cruz
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