Salisbury University |  Instructional Design & Delivery Newsletter | August 31, 2021

2021-2022 Faculty Learning Communities

A Faculty Learning Community (FLC) is a cross-disciplinary faculty and staff group of 8 to 12 members engaging in an active, collaborative, yearlong program with a curriculum about enhancing teaching and learning, and with frequent seminars and activities that provide learning, development, interdisciplinary, the scholarship of teaching and learning, and community building.

The 2021-2022 Faculty Learning Communities are:

• Center for Cognitive and Brain Sciences
• Enhancing Courses with Emerging 3D Technology
• Ethics Across the Curriculum
• Health Humanities
• Humanities Writing Group
• Information Literacy
• Interdisciplinary Teaching and Research
• Professional Development for the New General Education
• Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL)
• Teaching with International Students (TwINS)
• Technologies of Identity: A Study Group for SU Humanists and Scientists
• Zoo House Rock: Salisbury University and the Salisbury Zoo
  

To join an FLC, please visit the 2021-2022 FLC website for the community description and to contact the facilitators of the desired community.

Teaching Tip - Classroom Climate 

Building a positive classroom climate begins with you, the instructor. Plan an activity early in the semester to allow students to get to know you, as well as other students in the course. Fostering an environment with personalization and student cohesiveness increases student satisfaction and positively effects learning. 

• Take 2-3 minutes at the beginning or end of every class to allow students to talk - about the course, their own ideas, or try a conversation starter by posing a general question.
  
  
• Have students introduce themselves using 3 personal artifacts (e.g. T-shirt, favorite drink, picture, knick-knack, etc.).

Read more about Developing a Positive Classroom Climate.

New Quizzes Replaces Classic Quizzes Summer 2022

Classic Quizzes is being replaced with the New Quizzes functionality beginning summer 2022. New Quizzes offers additional question types, additional assessment delivery options, the ability to share questions banks (now called item banks), and the ability to setup accommodations for students for all assessments in a course. A comparison of Classic Quizzes and New Quizzes features is available in the Canvas Community.

Between now and its full implementation, faculty can enable New Quizzes in their course and use both New and Classic Quizzes. Faculty are encouraged to begin moving their assessments from Classic Quizzes to New Quizzes. Watch ID&D's New Quizzes Information Webinar from May 24 for more information about New Quizzes.

Have questions? Want to know more about New Quizzes? Join ID&D for virtual drop in sessions every other Friday at 10 a.m. eastern. Upcoming sessions:

• Friday, September 3
• Friday, September 17

NameCoach allows users to easily record the correct pronunciation of their name using a computer, tablet, or mobile device. 

Any MyClasses user can record their name using the steps in the IT Helpdesk Knowledge Base article How to Record Name for NameCoach in MyClasses Profile. Additionally, at the start of the semester, faculty can also Create a NameCoach Assignment to encourage students to record the pronunciation of their names.

SU is an Equal Opportunity/AA/Title IX university and provides reasonable accommodation given sufficient notice to the University office or staff sponsoring the event or program. For more information regarding SU’s policies and procedures, please visit www.salisbury.edu/equity.