Salisbury University |  Instructional Design & Delivery Newsletter | February 2, 2021

Teaching & Learning Conference 

Registration is now open for the 11th Annual Teaching and Learning Conference to be held virtually on Friday, February 19, 2021 from 10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.! 

The goal of this conference is to bring together teacher-scholars across campus to share and discuss teaching innovations and best practices. This year, the conference will be held virtually with pre-recorded sessions and discussions January 15-19 and synchronous virtual sessions on February 19. 

Keynote presenters are Dr. John Nieves, Department of English, and Dr. Ron Siers, Department of Secondary and Physical Education, both recipients of the 2020 Distinguished Faculty Award. 

Please visit the 11th Annual Teaching and Learning Conference site for schedule, session abstracts and registration for virtual sessions. 

Folios

Portfolium is a free, online academic portfolio network allowing users to showcase education and work accomplishments and connect with other professionals. A Portfolium profile allows users to organize and display previous educational and professional content directly from within MyClasses. You can upload images, videos (YouTube, Vimeo), PDFs, text documents and more to your portfolio. Folio is the integrated shortcut that links MyClasses Canvas to Portfolium. A step-by-step guide for using this free Folio option is available in the IT HelpDesk Knowledgebase.

Note:ePortfolios and Folios are two different tools at this time. EPortfolios is the original, native Canvas portfolio tool, but it is not a robust feature in MyClasses. Canvas acquired Portfolium to eventually replace the current ePortfolio option. In time, after a migration period toward Folio, Folio will remain as the sole ePortfolio option.

Canvas Notifications

When a user has their notifications set to notify right away, please be aware that Canvas has added delays to notifications to prevent users from being spammed by multiple notifications in a short amount of time. These delayed notification times vary between five minutes and may be delayed by up to one hour. The following notifications may be temporarily held in case an instructor makes additional changes: 

• Files Added: 2 minutes 
• Due Date Changes: 5 minutes 
• Submission Grade Change: 5 minutes 
• Page Updated: 15 minutes 
• Automatically Graded Assignment: 15 minutes 
• Calendar Event Date Changed: 15 minutes 
• Assignment Changed: 30 minutes 
• Manually Graded Submission: 60 minutes
  

You can review this Canvas Notifications documentation for more detailed information about Notifications.

Reminder February 5 Summit

The SU Anti-Racism Summit is part of a broader institutional effort to be intentional about “talking” about racism and its effects on SU and organizational systems in general; “teaching” concepts and solutions for positive social change that addresses institutional, structural and interpersonal racism; and “doing” the necessary and difficult work personally and collectively to improve race relations at SU and in our various communities. 

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.