Salisbury University |  Instructional Design & Delivery Newsletter | August 16, 2022

August 24 - Keeping Balance: Engagement and Self-Care

Mark your calendars and plan to attend in-person the annual Faculty Development Day 8:30 a.m.-noon Wednesday, August 24, in the Guerrieri Academic Commons Assembly Hall (Room 462), with the theme Keeping the Balance: Engagement and Self-Care.

After the past few difficult years, we want to put the focus back on bringing balance to our lives while building engagement with colleagues, community and the academy. Please join us as we come together as a community to reengage and explore ways to maintain professional and personal self-care.

The format for this year will be a bit different. We will begin with concurrent mindfulness sessions across campus: yoga, meditation and sound therapy (pre-registration requested), prior to convening at the Assembly Hall in the Guerrieri Academic Commons at 9 a.m. for breakfast and conversations.

Welcome and introductions will begin at 9:30 a.m., and organizers are pleased to welcome this year’s keynote speaker, Dr. Heidi Fritz, associate professor in psychology, with a discussion on "Embracing Our Mental Health."

Following the lecture, we will use café-style discussions to allow faculty members to exchange ideas and learn about opportunities for engagement across campus and the community. These discussions will be facilitated by select Faculty Learning Communities and campus-based groups. Discussion groups will focus on community engagement, faculty engagement and family care. 

Registration is required for the 2022 Faculty Development Day and we look forward to seeing you there. 

Teaching Tip: Technology for a Purpose

Ask yourself:

• What is the purpose of this technology or tool? 
• Who is using the tool? 
• How is the tool benefiting students?

The Educause Learning Initiative (ELI) provides resources and access to articles discussing the purposeful use of technology, including a 7 Things Your Should Know series that covers topics such as emerging classroom technologies, digital transformation, and using technology to improve quality, access, and affordability in higher education.

Important Dates for Fall 2022 Regular and 7 Week 1

• Monday, August 15: Faculty of online, remote and hybrid courses should send a welcome letter to students with information pertinent to the modality and first steps in starting the course. ID&D provides a welcome letter template (ask your instructional designer liaison) for faculty to modify and distribute to students using the class forum lists in email.
• Monday, August 22: Student access to Fall regular and 7 Week 1 courses in MyClasses (provided faculty publishes course)
  
• Monday, August 22: Courses using Inclusive Access will see course materials and information through the VitalSource option on the course menu in MyClasses.
• Monday, August 29: Start of Fall regular and 7 week 1 sessions
  
• August 29 - September 2: Drop/Add Dates
• Wednesday, September 7: Deadline for students to opt-out of Inclusive Access course materials

We also offer after-hours Quick Start workshops for adjunct faculty! Take some time to brush up your skills, explore new features and learn some best practices for your course.

Our August 2022 workshops are offered in person in the Faculty Studio in the Guerrieri Academic Commons, Room 221 (15-seat capacity) with options for virtual participation. 

Please visit the Faculty Development Calendar for workshop descriptions and registration information.

Start-of-the-Semester Checklist

Review the Start-of-the-Semester Checklist for information about setting up your MyClasses course, which includes:   

• Statement to include in syllabus to reference standard University Course-Related Policies and Resources.
• Tips for faculty to setup their MyClasses course for the first time.  
• Instructions and video tip on importing course content from a previous semester.   
• After importing content, setting up course to reuse Panopto recordings, refresh Respondus LockDown Browser settings and set up Turnitin Assignments with the Canvas Plagiarism Framework tool.   
• And more …

Pro Tips for Importing and Reusing Course Content

As you copy and update content from previous courses for the fall 2022 semester, you can copy or import all content from a previous course and update course information, assignments, and activities as needed. However, you have additional copy/import options you can utilize as needed, and after you copy/import content, you will want to ensure all course elements works as intended! Please note the useful tips below, some of which may be helpful before you copy content, and some for verifying your content after!

• Import Select Items As Needed (Instead of your entire course). If you are only using part of the content created in a previous course, you can choose to import only the specific content you select. Also, if you are using the Zoom tool in your course, you do not want to import all content because you will import your old Zoom meetings with this option. Instead, choose the Select Content option and select all content EXCEPT for your calendar items (4:23 in this video tip). 
  
  
• Shift Due Dates. Remember that you can Shift Due Dates to approximate your course schedule. However, the system will not account for gaps in assignment due dates from breaks, such as spring break or holiday breaks. If you choose to shift due dates, remember to verify and update them! 
  
  
• Modify Assignment Due Dates. You can update and modify all assignment due dates and times, as well as Available From and Until dates and times from one location. Review the Canvas guide on how to update assignment dates in bulk.
  
  
• Verify Your Links! After you have imported content into your new course, remember to validate your links! This will check for links to files, other resources in the course (pages, assignments, etc.) and external links to websites outside of MyClasses. (Note: If you have questions about any of the results, consult with your ID liaison.)
  
• Reuse Panopto Videos. When you import content from one semester to another, students are automatically granted access to view any Panopto videos you have embedded in your course. However, they will not show in the course Panopto folder. Review the ID&D video tips about reusing Panopto recordings and about Panopto share settings and how to move videos between courses.
  
  
• Reuse Respondus LockDown Browser. If you use Respondus LockDown Browser for any of your online tests/quizzes/exams, activate it in the new course by selecting Respondus LockDown Browser from the course menu. You will receive the following message as verification: "Your Settings Have Been Updated! Copied courses require instructors to access the LockDown Browser dashboard before exams can be taken by students. You just did that, so you’re all set!"
  
  
• Audit Announcements. Did you import old announcements into your new course? Delete any unnecessary announcements. Want to keep some of the announcements but schedule them to be released at later times in the course? Review how to delay announcement posting dates!
  
• Share Content with Peers. If you are sharing one or two pieces of content with a peer, you can also share certain resources with your peers (or yourself if you prefer to use this instead of the Course Import option). Watch the Sharing Content video tip for more information about sharing content options and limitations.
  

August Special: Syllabus Tune-Up!

The University provides a central course-related (e.g. syllabus) policies website, which includes institutional policies and procedures related to academic misconduct, misappropriation of course-based intellectual property, emergency absence policy, registration add/drop/withdraw period, student accommodations as well as student support resources. A link to the SU Course-Related Policies and Resources is included on every course menu within the MyClasses learning management system.

Fall 2022 Updates: Explicit references to COVID-19 have been removed. Faculty are encouraged to use the following updated statement in their syllabi:

University Course-Related Policies: Salisbury University expects that all students have read and understood all of the Course-Related University Policies and Resources and thereby agree to honor these standards. Important course-related policies and resources include, but are not limited to:

• Course registration add/drop/withdraw period
• Academic misconduct policy
• Student accommodations
• University resources such as the SU Libraries, Disability Resource Center, Center for Student Achievement, University Writing Center and SU Cares.

The [INSERT ACADEMIC DEPARTMENT/UNIT] considers academic misconduct as a serious offense and ALL incidences are subject to disciplinary action including, but not limited to, separation from the University.

TurningPoint Update: Turning and Echo360 Merge!

On January 11, 2022, Echo360, a global leading video-based learning platform, announced that it has merged with Turning (formerly known as TurningTechnologies and TurningPoint). As a result of that merge, the login page for TurningPoint Account will display "pointsolutions powered by echo360" on the page.

UMES Virtual Innovations in Teaching & Learning Conference

Whether we refer to it as exhaustion, burnout, antipathy or disengagement, or whether we prefer to see the other side of it as resilience, re-sparking, wellness and re-engagement, we know that our mission to support students takes a toll on our mental, emotional and sometimes physical health. The organizers of the University of Maryland Eastern Shore Innovations in Teaching & Learning Conference (ITLC) recognize this as one of the most compelling issues in the education profession right now, and invite you to join them to discuss these topics.

This FREE two-day conference includes plenary sessions on Day 1 and concurrent sessions on Day 2 that are centered around the topic of faculty wellness and wellbeing.

The UMES Center for Teaching Excellence (CTE) invites faculty, instructional staff and colleagues to register for the fifth Innovations in Teaching & Learning Conference, held virtually Wednesday-Thursday, August 17-18. Graduate students, teaching assistants and contingent faculty colleagues are encouraged to join as well.