Salisbury University |  Instructional Design & Delivery Newsletter | February 4, 2025

Final Call: Registration Open for SU Teaching & Learning Conference

Registration is now open for the 15th Annual Teaching & Learning Conference, which will take place on Friday, February 7, in Perdue Hall from 8:30 a.m. to 3:50 p.m. This will be followed by poster sessions in AC221 (ID&D Faculty Studio) from 4:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. The goal of this conference is to bring together teacher-scholars from across campus to share and discuss teaching innovations and best practices.

Join us in person for dynamic sessions led by a variety of SU’s faculty and staff. Dr. Deneen Long-White, 2024 SU Distinguished Faculty Award recipient, will deliver the keynote presentation. A  schedule is available online.

Register for the conference by Wednesday, February 5!

The Keynote and select  presentations will be streamed live via Zoom. Participants who register for virtual attendance will receive the Zoom conference details.

DRC Accomodations and Extra Time on Assessments

Have you received a DRC Accomodation email and need to add additional time to ALL New Quiz assessments in Canvas? Good news, you can do this once for a student and it is applied to all assessments in your course. 

Follow our Allowing Additional Time on Quiz (Student Accommodations) article for step by step instructions. 

Video Tip: Identifying and Fixing Broken Course Links 

At the beginning of the semester, it is important to review your course content to make sure that you are not accidentally directing students to broken links in your course. This may happen when linked content is removed or as an indicator that a course resource is unpublished (which may be momentarily intentional and may not need to be "fixed" right away). Please review the Identifying and Fixing Broken Course Links video for information about:   

1. How to identify potential issues when copying content from one course to another.
2. How to run a link validator for your course to identify broken links in the course.
3. How to determine which links are broken and how to fix them.
4. How to identify false positives and understand why they are included in the link validator results as an issue.

Please contact your department's instructional designer if you have any questions or need any assistance!  

USM Scholarship of Teaching & Learning (SoTL) Opportunities

The USM Kirwan Center for Academic Innovation has two open calls for faculty engaged in SoTL. Select learn more to see additional information under ID&D's News and Events.

AI in Practice Webinar

Generative AI has now brought the older disciple of knowledge management and software agents to the fore, but in a radically different form. The new generative AI tools are starting to redefine knowledge tasks and automation in a myriad of ways. This talk will apply a metaphor taken from microbiology, metabolism, and examines how knowledge management and AI are combining in new ways. This talk will discuss the practical implications for managing knowledge in this new world, including managing intellectual property protection, privacy, safety, quality control, agents, regulation and most importantly, linkages to measurable outcomes and productivity gains. 

AI and the Metabolism of Knowledge

Wednesday, February 12 ●  12:00 p.m.-1:00 p.m. (EST)  ● Online via Zoom 

NCFDD Writing Challenge: February 24 - March 9

The National Center for Faculty Development and Diversity (NCFDD) offers a variety of resources to help academics (of all stages) better align their professional and personal goals. Because SU is a NCFDD Institutional Member, these resources are free to use!

One of the most popular programs is the 14-day writing challenge, which uses best practices to help you create a consistent writing practice. The next opportunity to participate is February 24 - March 9. During this time, you are asked to commit to writing every day for at least 30 minutes. You log on to the NCFDD’s online community, start the timer, complete your writing, post your progress and encourage others in your assigned writing group. Past participants credit this program and the accountability of the writing groups with helping them to establish better writing habits or to refresh stagnant ones. Registration closes Friday, February 14!

Need to establish your free NCFDD account? 

Review the National Center for Faculty Development & Diversity (NCFDD) page on the Center for Advancement of Faculty Excellence website for more information on how to participate in this webinar and engage with other NCFDD resources!

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.

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