Salisbury University |  Instructional Design & Delivery Newsletter | February 11, 2020

Congratulations to Our Winter 2020 Soaring with Online Learning Cohort!

Instructional Design and Delivery congratulates the winter 2020 cohort who have successfully completed the multi-week faculty development program Soaring with Online Learning.

Check out the Soaring with Online Learning website to learn more about the program and to download the application if you would like to join the summer 2020 Soaring cohort. Applications for summer 2020 are due Friday, April 17.

High-Five Friday – What's New in MyClasses Recap 

Did you miss our What's New in MyClasses webinar last Friday? Good news – it was recorded and is available for you to review!

You can view this webinar from the Faculty Development Page under Past Recorded Sessions to learn more about:

• Zoom integration
• Course link validator
• Gradebook features
• Direct share

DUO Requirement to Log into MyClasses

This is a reminder that IT will be auto-enrolling all faculty, staff and students in DUO through February and March. This means that DUO will be required for logging into MyClasses to access spring course content; please be mindful of the students in your department and remind them to be prepared to use DUO to complete online coursework.

• College of Health and Human Services – Friday, February 14
• Perdue School of Business – Friday, February 21
• Seidel School of Education – Friday, February 28
• Fulton School of Liberal Arts – Friday, March 6
• Henson School of Science and Technology – Friday, March 13
• Other Academic/Non Academic Departments – Friday, March 20

Teaching Tip Tuesday – Solicit Student Feedback

Continuous course improvement and a positive learning experience for students are teaching goals that all instructors across disciplines and modalities should strive for. It's easy to stick with teaching routines and to reuse content, but it's important to update pedagogical practice and course elements to meet the needs of your students. A key way to help your students succeed is to solicit student feedback during your course through formative assessments.

At the beginning of your course, this could be conducting a survey of what types of learning experiences have helped or hindered them in past courses and why. At midterm, you may want to conduct a survey asking how things are working for them in your own course and ask for suggestions for improvement. From beginning and mid-semester formative assessments, you may find that there are simple changes you can make to your course to improve the student learning experience in real time.

As the student body changes, soliciting student feedback helps instructors know their audience and adapt to the changing needs of students so that they can succeed. Check out the What Students Say Is Good Teaching article for ideas of examples of student feedback.

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