Salisbury University |  Instructional Design & Delivery Newsletter | January 3, 2023

January 6 - General Education Professional Development 

January is Gen-ed-uary this year! Join colleagues Friday, January 6, for a full-day workshop focused on creating new proposals for General Education courses or realigning current General Education courses for the COMAR categories. For more information and to register, visit CAFE's General Education Faculty Development site.

For the Fall 2024 General Education Rollout:

• Proposals due by March 1, 2023 – Communicating Through Writing; Hands-on Science; Human Expression; Humanity in Context; Personal Wellness; Quantitative Analysis; Social Configurations; Social Issues; Solutions Through Science
  
  
• Proposals due by September 1, 2023 – Civic and Community Engagement; Diversity and Inclusion; Environment and Sustainability; First Year Seminar and Experiential Learning

See the General Education Oversight Committee site for more information, including the General Education Course Approval Process.

General Education Drop-In Sessions

To assist faculty in preparing General Education course proposals, ID&D will be hosting drop-in sessions (open house style sessions) in January and February where individuals can stop by in person to the ID&D Faculty Studio (Guerrieri Academic Commons 221), or virtually via Zoom, for assistance mapping existing course objectives to meet General Education student learning outcomes. We can also assist with some questions related to General Education 2024 and the March 1 deadline for COMAR courses.

January Drop-in sessions are scheduled for:

• Friday, January 13 • 1-3 p.m.
• Friday, January 27 • 9-11 a.m.

Registration is not required for these drop-in session, so visit us in person or online. Individuals will be helped in a first-come, first-served system. Please visit the Faculty Development calendar for Zoom information.

Important Dates for Winter Session

Faculty teaching winter session can make their course available to students by publishing their course. Upcoming important dates for winter session include:

• Thursday, January 5, 2023: Start of session
• January 5-6, 2023: Drop/Add Dates
• Monday, January 9, 2023: Inclusive Access opt-out date for students
• Thursday, January 26, 2023: Last day of classes/finals
  

SUCCEED Course Spotlight – MyClasses 101

Inspired by feedback from the summer 2020 Soaring MyClasses 101 course in SUCCEED, ID&D has developed an updated and expanded MyClasses 101 Certificate series. The MyClasses 101 Certificate consists of a series of five courses that provide an introduction to MyClasses and focus on creating and maintaining a course within a pedagogical context. The purpose is to not only introduce you to the tools available in MyClasses, but why they are useful. This series consists of the following courses: 

1. Terminology, Features and Support 
2. Assignments, Assessments and the Gradebook 
3. Course Structure and Design Strategies 
4. Developing and Locating Content 
5. Communication and Delivery Strategies 

Log in to SUCCEED (using your SU credentials) and to enroll in the either certificate series or in the individual course(s) of your choice!

ID&D Webinar: Rethinking Your Syllabus Webinar 

Would you like to update your spring syllabus to be more welcoming and inclusive? A welcoming syllabus can help set the tone for the semester and impact how a student views you and your course. An inclusive syllabus fosters a course climate of openness and support. It gives an expectation of success for students with clearly defined learning objectives and resources to help them succeed. Please join us for this webinar where we will incorporate key components of various types of syllabi to find the right language and fit for your course. We encourage you to bring your own syllabus to revise and annotate with the elements that will work for you. Register to join virtually via Zoom!

Rethinking Your Syllabus Webinar

Wednesday, January 11 ● 11 a.m.-Noon (EST)

Ethics Across the Curriculum Workshop 

January 17-20, 2023  

The workshop will gather faculty from across SU's five schools/college to discuss ethics education, the role of ethics in their disciplines, ethical reasoning and dialogue, the application of ethics in teaching and scholarship, as well as theoretical and structural concerns that arise in thinking through ethical problems. Participants will focus specifically on implementing new approaches to ethics in their teaching: new approaches to course content and ethics-based activities, developing your own skills in ethical reasoning, and exploring new models for ethics discussion, as well as exploring how to write and adapt case studies and design ethics assessments. 

The workshop has a contract for implementation of your chosen activity and carries a $750 stipend. This workshop is supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities “Connections” grant and the REACH initiative.

If you are interested in registering , simply fill out this survey. If you have any questions ,please contact facilitator Timothy Stock (testock@salisbury.edu). 

Important Dates for Spring 2023 Sessions

As we prepare for the spring 2023 sessions, ID&D wanted to share some important dates to consider for spring regular and 7W1 sessions:

• Wednesday, January 18: Deadline for faculty to request sections to be combined in MyClasses.
• Monday, January 23: Students have access to spring courses in MyClasses (provided faculty publishes course)
• Monday, January 30: Start of sessions
• Drop/Add Dates:
  • Regular session: January 30 - February 3
  • 7W1 session: January 30-31
   
• Wednesday, February 8: Inclusive Access opt-out date for students
  

Inclusive Access and Publisher Integrations 

Several major textbook publishers provide the ability to integrate their content and services with MyClasses courses. For example, assignments provided by the publisher can be linked from within a course module, and grades from the assignment will be automatically pushed back to the MyClasses gradebook.

Inclusive Access is a program coordinated by the SU Bookstore to provide access to course materials as soon as the MyClasses course opens to students (typically one week prior to the semester). With Inclusive Access, there are two types of course materials:

• eBook - Access to a digital copy of the assigned textbook through the VitalSource eBook reader.
• eBook and Courseware: In addition to the digital copy of the assigned textbook, students will also have access to various instructional materials and activities (Courseware) related to the assigned textbook selected by the instructor.

After faculty elect to participate in the Inclusive Access program, setup is required to connect their MyClasses course with selected publisher instructional materials and activities (Courseware) for students to access the selected materials. Need help with where to start? Visit the ID&D Inclusive Access and Publisher Integration Knowledge Base articles for information about how to Import the “Inclusive Access” page from the Canvas Commons into your course, review important winter and spring 2023 dates, and use the Inclusive Access Start of the Semester checklist to ensure you have your content/resources connected and ready for students to access!

Additionally, SU Instructional Designers are ready to help with publisher integrations and/or Inclusive Access and invites faculty to reach out their Instructional Designer liaison for assistance.