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The purpose of the newsletter is to share innovations and resources in online learning throughout the UH system, highlighting upcoming professional development opportunities, events, and latest news.
Welcome to a new school year! We hope that your summer has been restful and enjoyable. As students return to campus (online, face-to-face, and hybrid) and you begin a new academic year, we encourage you to take a proactive step (even if it’s a small one) to incrementally improve your teaching and support for your students. We appreciate your active engagement and participation in our spring professional development (PD) opportunities that reached over 700 participants collectively! Over the summer, we’ve been working hard behind the scenes to make iterative improvements to our Fall 2021 offerings.
We look forward to your continued engagement and collaboration to increase quality online learning across our UH system this Fall semester! Remember, we’re just an email ( uhoic@hawaii.edu) and/or consultation away and would love to hear how we could best support you.
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Teaching Tips/Resources to Start the Year
Now that we’ve formally begun the transition to our “new normal” with face-to-face (F2F) classes and the continued support of online and hybrid courses, it’s a good time for a refresher on some helpful resources for teaching online!
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Pilina (Relationship) Building Activities
The beginning of a class can be nerve-wracking for students. A great way for students to warm up and to get to know each and the instructor is through the use of pilina (relationship) building activities! Our UH Instructional Design Professional Learning Community compiled this ongoing Google Slides presentation of some “get-to-know-you” activities that you can use as a mental break from the course content. While the presentation slides are designed to easily be inserted for use in synchronous settings, these can quickly be converted for use in asynchronous courses as well!
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Teaching Online Quick Reference Guide
Are you teaching online for the first time or do you need a refresher on various resources related to online teaching and learning? The UHOIC created this Teaching Online Quick Reference Guide for easy access to frequently referenced contacts, tools, and documents to support your online teaching (e.g., Laulima and UHOIC help, templates, resource documents to post in class, etc.). Check it out on our Teaching Online in Fall 2021 page with personalized PD pathways to meet your varied needs.
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Did You Know?
The UHOIC now has a shortened URL to make it easier to find us!
http://hawaii.edu/uhoic
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UHOIC Virtual Open House: Meet the IDs, Resource Sharing, and More! (Wednesday, August 18, 10:30-11:30 a.m.)
 Would you like to know more about the UH Online Innovation Center? Come join us for our UHOIC Virtual Open House! During the Virtual Open House, get to know each team member better and learn about the many services, resources, and tools that are available from our website. Register to visit the UHOIC virtually, and enjoy some virtual pupus.
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Transitioning to the “New Normal” of Online Education: Let’s Hear From Our UH Students (Tuesday, August 31, 10:30-11:30 a.m.)
Elevating and strengthening student voices is essential to improving online student learning experiences at UH. Join in on this webinar to hear directly from UH students across different campuses about their online learning experiences during the pandemic and what they look forward to this academic year. Submit your questions in advance (on the webinar registration form) or in real-time as students provide a personal glimpse into their online experiences.
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Remaining webinars for the rest of the semester are up on our UHOIC website! Register now to secure your spots for UHOIC-hosted webinars focusing on assessments, student engagement, building empathy, best practices, and more. View the compiled list of UHOIC-hosted and campus-submitted professional L&D offerings (related to online teaching and learning) across the UH system.
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Professional Learning & Development (L&D)
Event Submission Form
Do you have an online teaching and learning-related professional L&D opportunity you’d like to advertise on the UHOIC website’s All Upcoming Events page?
Submit the details using the Professional L&D Event Submission form.
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Hoʻomaikaʻi (Congratulations) to our 2021 UH Online 5-Week PD cohort!
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Hoʻomaikaʻi, or congratulations, to the 2021 cohort for finishing the summer PD course as part of the UH Online 5-Week PD program! It’s been an intense journey building accelerated courses in five weeks, but we all had fun as a learning community this summer!
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5-Week Online Instructor Hui
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During a faculty alumni gathering in May coordinated by Jordan Lewton (2019 alumni), faculty shared their experiences and insights after having taught their accelerated courses. They noticed that many accelerated students were motivated to learn and were successful in their courses. Some challenges mentioned were keeping up with grading and students keeping up with the pace of a 5-week course!
View a summary of results on the 5-Week Online Instructor Hui presentation (Google Slides).
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2021 Early College (EC) Professional Development
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 What memories from your high school learning experience stand out for you? This is a question that we asked five instructors from across the UH system who participated in our inaugural Early College Online PD this summer. The intent of this seven-week learning opportunity was to focus on the unique needs of early college students, and the process started with empathy. Instructors put themselves in the shoes of 16-18 year old high school students who are taking early college courses to keep them at the heart of their course design.
Each instructor developed one asynchronous, OER course using our 16-week Laulima template to meet the unique needs of these students and increase their academic success. The best part of this PD, according to Michele Mahi, was “hearing the perspectives of Early College students and High School EC Coordinators.” The second Early College Online PD cohort is scheduled for the summer of 2022. If you are interested in participating, please email uhoic@hawaii.edu. |
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Aʻo Aku, Aʻo Mai (To Teach, To Learn)
~ Tech for Teaching ~
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 ITS Approved Instructional Third Party Online Tools
When using third party tools in your course, such as YouTube, Google Docs, or Padlet, it’s good practice to provide the tool’s privacy and accessibility statements for your students to reference in case they need that information. You can find them via an internet search, but why not save your self some time and effort by first checking the ITS Reviewed Instructional Third Party Online Tools for Faculty on the UHOIC Resources webpage. The linked spreadsheet includes the privacy and accessibility statements of many commonly used applications and tools that have been reviewed and approved by ITS.
Tip: The spreadsheet of tools also contains the privacy/accessibility statement URL, which you can integrate into the Course Technology section of your syllabus.
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 Amara
Do you use videos in your course that you do not own and are not closed captioned? Amara enables you to quickly grab the transcripts for videos available on YouTube, Vimeo, or other video hosting sites. And, because they aren’t required to be hosted on Amara, you can caption other people’s videos without infringing on copyright or needing to interact with the video owners.
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 Flipgrid Updates: New Additions
Flipgrid’s recent update added some exciting new features. You can now add music from Flipgrid’s thematic playlists and the song will auto-adjust to the length of your video. Backdrops (a.k.a. virtual backgrounds) can now also be added to your videos. You can choose from Flipgrid’s built-in images or upload your own. Learn more on the Flipgrid blog post recapping their annual conference.
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 Youtube
In 2017, YouTube rolled out a security update that generates new links for Unlisted videos. In an effort to make those older Unlisted videos more secure, YouTube set their permissions to “Private” on July 23, 2021, unless you had opted out. More information can be found on this blog post: Update to YouTube Unlisted Links. Note that when set to Private, you now have the option to restrict access to specific people or “Let everyone at hawaii.edu view.”
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 Closed Caption files for Cloud Recordings
If you utilize the UH Zoom Recording Service and save recordings to the cloud, be sure that you have both the options for “Audio transcript” and “Save closed caption as a VTT file” selected in the Cloud Recording section of your account settings. Those files will then be available in case you need them to make your recordings accessible.
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About Us
Information Technology Services (ITS) UHOIC is located in the Information Technology Center building on the UH Mānoa campus. Faculty and staff throughout the UH System can receive personalized support with their online course(s) by scheduling instructional design consultations.
Our Mission
The UHOIC instructional design (ID) team provides impactful ID support to strengthen the quality of online initiatives across the UH system in service to UH, faculty, staff, administrators, and students.
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