Salisbury University |  Instructional Design & Delivery Newsletter | February 4, 2020

Webinar - What's New in MyClasses 2/7 at 10 a.m.

Join Melissa Thomas, Manager of ID&D, as she highlights What's New in MyClasses and useful tips for managing your course for Spring 2020. Highlights include:

• Broken Link Validator
• Message Students Who
• New Course Analytics
• Zoom Integration
• and more

The webinar will be held on Friday, February 7, 2020 at 10 a.m. online at https://salisbury.zoom.us/j/349436660. Participants will be encouraged to ask questions and share their MyClasses tips.

Zoom Integration with MyClasses

Want to hold an online session with a guest speaker? Want to bring your students together virtually for a review session? Want to hold virtual office hours? Use the new Zoom integration with MyClasses to schedule meetings that will automatically add to the course calendar and send notifications to individuals enrolled in the course.

Call for Proposals - M.O.S.T. Grant

The Maryland Open Source Textbook (M.O.S.T.) initiative is seeking proposals for the Faculty OER Mini-Grant Program, which supports faculty efforts to increase access, affordability, and achievement for students at Maryland’s 2-year and 4-year public higher education institutions through the incorporation of Open Educational Resources (OER) into teaching practice.

The 2020 M.O.S.T. faculty mini-grants will provide recipients with unique opportunities to engage in communities of practice related to teaching with OER, creation of OER in high-need areas, and evaluation of OER use in relation to student success.

For more information about the grant and how to apply, please visit the M.O.S.T. Call for Proposals website. Proposals must be submitted by 11:59 p.m. ET on Friday, February 28, 2020.

Call for Proposals - MAGIC Conference

The 6th Annual Mid Atlantic Group Instructing with Canvas (MAGIC) Conference will be held at Reading Area Community College in Reading, PA on April 17, 2020. Consider sharing your Canvas experience by submitting a proposal to present. Past SU presenters include Katherine Miller, Gene Williams, Karen Silverstrim, Derya Kulvazuz-Onal, Haley Cristea, Safaa Said, Melissa Thomas and more.

The call for proposals to present at this conference is now open on the MAGIC conference website. Proposals will be accepted until March 1, 2020.

Teaching & Learning Conference Schedule

The Schedule at a Glance for the Looking Back, Moving Forward: Celebrating 10 Years of the Teaching and Learning Conference has been released. The goal of this conference is to bring together teacher-scholars from across campus to share and discuss teaching innovations and best practices. In addition to dynamic workshops and sessions led by a variety of SU’s faculty and staff, Distinguished Faculty Award recipients deliver keynote presentations. 

Join us in celebration of the 10th anniversary of the Teaching and Learning Conference and its impact at SU! Register for the conference by Monday, February 17!

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.