Salisbury University |  Instructional Design & Delivery Newsletter | September 5, 2023

Join a Learning Community

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

The 2023-2024 Faculty Learning Communities are:

• Academic Caregiver Exchange of Salisbury University (ACES)
• Course Collaboration for General Education
• Diversity, Justice, Accessibility & Mattering (DJAM)
• Ethics Across the Curriculum
• Health Humanities
• Humanities Writing Group
• Interdisciplinary Teaching & Research
• Leading the Lead 4.0
• Teaching with International Students (TwINS)
• Under the Dome: Exploration of Immersive Experiences (Spring 2024 Only)

To join an FLC, please visit the 2023-2024 FLC website for the community description and to contact the facilitators of the desired community.

Teaching in the AI Era: Strategies and Opportunities Workshop Recording

Interested in learning more about how AI like Chat GPT works and how it impacts the postsecondary classroom,  how to reconsider assignment creation that reduces the need or effectiveness for students to use AI, how to help students learn to use AI ethically and to consider what type of AI policy you might use for your course? If you missed our Teaching in the AI Era webinar, no worries – we recorded it!

Review the recording in the ID&D Past Recorded Sessions playlist to learn more about the limitations and benefits of AI for education, including strategies that address limitations and ideas for integrating it and managing its use in your course.

Not Familiar With Everyone in ID&D? 

Below are the ID&D Team Members:

Teams Virtual Meeting Tutorial

New to Microsoft Teams?

Microsoft Teams serves as a platform for virtual meetings and can seamlessly integrate into MyClasses, enabling faculty and students to convene online, share notes and assign groups projects. ID&D uses Microsoft Teams for our virtual appointments assisting campus users. We recommend taking a few minutes to watch our Teams tutorial and to set up Teams on your computer.

Need help installing Microsoft Teams? See IT's Knowledgebase article Getting Started with Teams.

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 running through your link validator results!  

Friday, September 8

• 10-11 a.m. - Using New Quizzes: Creating and Migrating Assessments in MyClasses

Friday, September 15

• 1-2 p.m. - Using MyClasses for Meaningful Feedback