Salisbury University |  Instructional Design & Delivery Newsletter | March 8, 2022

Open Education Week Celebration - March 7-11

“Open Education encompasses resources, tools and practices that are free of legal, financial and technical barriers and can be fully used, shared and adapted in the digital environment. Open Education maximizes the power of the internet to make education more affordable, accessible and effective.” – SparcOpen.org

Join your colleagues on campus and around the world in celebrating and participating in Open Education Week. This is a great week to learn about Open Educational Resources (OERs) and how they have developed in sophistication, content type, and quality over the last 10 years. 

For more information on OERs, how you can find them, use them, create them, or share them, please view the Teaching & Learning Conference presentation on OERs:

Time to Take Another Look: Using Open Educational Resources to Increase Student Equity and Success!

Need help getting started? View ID&D’s OER Resource Guide or the SU Libraries OER LibGuide. 

Soaring with Online Learning - Summer 2022

Instructional Design and Delivery is currently accepting applications for the next cohort of Soaring with Online Learning (Soaring) to be held from May 16-June 20. Soaring is a faculty development program to prepare Salisbury University faculty to design, develop, and deliver courses in an online (online and no scheduled meetings), remote (online and synchronous meetings), or hybrid (combination of in-person and online/remote meetings) environment through the learning management system MyClasses @ SU. The summer 2022 cohort focuses on faculty designing online, remote or hybrid courses for winter or spring 2023 sessions.  

Program details and the Soaring application can be accessed from the Soaring with Online Learning webpage. The application deadline is Friday, April 15.

Faculty Learning Community - Call for Proposals

Faculty Learning Community (FLC) proposals are now being accepted for the upcoming 2022-2023 academic year. Your proposal can be for a cohort-based or topic-based FLC. The proposal should be developed by the prospective FLC facilitator(s) with a budget not to exceed $2,500 (final awards may be modified in light of prevailing budgetary considerations). Information about the online FLC proposal form and FLC scoring rubric are available at the Faculty Learning Communities website.  

The due date for proposals is Monday, May 2. For more information on FLCs and the application process, please visit the Faculty Learning Communities website.

Mid-Semester Grading Due March 25 & 27

Spring 2022 seven-week session 1 grades are due Friday, March 25, and spring 2022 regular session grades are due Sunday, March 27. Why is it important to provide mid-semester grading? Grades are the number one feature that students use in MyClasses and serves as the primary feedback regarding their progression in a course. In addition, mid-semester grade reporting for all students, but especially those who are performing at a D level or below, directly affects:

• Advisement during Program Planning
• Outreach by the Academic Advising Center and Center for Student Achievement
• Retention and degree completion
• Determination before last day for regular session withdrawals (Friday, April 8)

Below are a few resources for features in the MyClasses Gradebook that may help you while preparing for your mid-semester grading:

Grade Posting Policy - You can hide grades for an assignment while you provide scores and feedback, then choose to manually post the grades for the assignment to all users at once.

Late and Missing Policies - You can apply late and missing policies to have specific points automatically deducted from a score (for late policies) or have a score automatically entered into the gradebook if an assignment is not submitted (missing). Beware that the default score for missing assignments is 100%, so make sure you change the score if you select this option.

MOST OER Workshop: OER Publishing with Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at the Core

Presenters in this workshop discuss how Rebus' open publishing differs from traditional models by keeping diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) in mind throughout the production cycle. Working with the principles of DEI is critical to creating valuable resources and can have impacts beyond improving the quality of the OER. This session highlights how creators in Maryland have adopted this approach in their projects. 

There is a limit on attendees for each webinar, so please register early! 

The March workshop on H5P is already full.

REGISTER

Wednesday, April 27 ● 2-3 p.m. (EST)

This webinar is hosted by the Maryland Open Source Textbook (MOST) initiative in partnership with the Rebus Community and facilitated by Apurva Ashok, project lead for the Rebus Community and facilitator of the Textbook Success Program. This year's webinar series is generously sponsored by Prince George's Community College.

March and April ID&D Workshop Offerings

ID&D is offering workshops in March and April that focus on managing your gradebook (just in time for midterm grading), New Quizzes functionality, and updating your course design using Design Tools. To view more details about each session and to register for one or more workshops, please visit the Faculty Development Calendar. 

Using New Quizzes: Creating and Migrating Assessments in MyClasses

Friday, March 11 ● 10-11:30 a.m. (EST)

Gradebook Tips and Tricks

Friday, March 11 ● 2-3 p.m. (EST)

Design Tools Part I: Give Your Canvas Courses a Boost – With Design Tools

Friday, March 18 ● 10-11 a.m. (EST)

Using New Quizzes: Creating and Migrating Assessments in MyClasses

Friday, April 8 ● 2-3:30 p.m. (EST)

Design Tools Part II: Advanced Design Tools

Friday, April 15 ● 10-11 a.m. (EST)

InstructureCon 2022: July 14

Instructure Canvas, the company behind our MyClasses learning management system (LMS), is hosting a FREE virtual conference on Thursday, July 14! While attending the conference, you can talk to Instructure product experts about your specific technology needs and get personalized recommendations and demos. You can also engage in the conference community to connect with educators using Canvas across the globe.

ID&D will announce when registration for the conference is open in a future newsletter, but if you want to know as soon as we do, you can Sign Up for a Registration Email Alert.

Want to present during InstructureCon 2022? Call for proposals opens later this month! Keep an eye on our March newsletters for more information about submitting your proposal!

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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