CTL Happenings - Message #485

Keep Teaching Online!

Moving from teaching face-to-face to teaching remotely in a short period of time can be challenging. Here are some resources to help.

Keep Teaching Website

The Center for Teaching and Learning recommends that you begin by going to the keepteaching.iu.edu website. The website includes suggestions of what to think about first, strategies for accomplishing various instructional tasks online, guides for using instructional technology tools, and other resources.

Keep Teaching Webinars

Keep Teaching webinars designed to help you quickly move online may also be helpful. The webinars include topics such as Zoom for Instructors, Recording and Sharing Video using Kaltura, and Canvas Modules and Assignments. The complete list of webinars can be found here.

Faculty-to-Faculty Support

Our friends in FACET have provided a list of your faculty colleagues who are experienced in teaching online and willing to lend you a hand. If you or a group of colleagues want to get in touch with one of these volunteers, contact us in the CTL and we can arrange a meeting

Individual Consultations

If you would rather work individually with a consultant, the Center for Teaching and Learning will remain open virtually, but not physically. Submit a consultation request to schedule a phone or Zoom appointment.

Contact CTL

Please feel free to contact the CTL at (317) 274-1300 or thectl@iupui.edu for any other questions you may have.

Continuing Community Engaged Teaching During COVID-19 

While you, our community, and our campus continue to work through the evolving nature of the impacts of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19), we in the Center for Service and Learning (CSL) want to provide  guidance for how to plan for community engaged work and teaching for the rest of this semester. Please see Resources for Supporting Community Engaged Teaching During COVID-19 for more information or reach out to the CSL faculty development team with any questions you may have or to set up a virtual consultation. Contact Mary Price at price6@iupui.edu or Morgan Studer at mohughes@iupui.edu.  

As we transition to online teaching for the rest of the semester, our students may also be finding themselves in a new learning environment. When you contact your students to provide updates and generally check in during this time, please share this informational resource that will help them get familiar with various online tools that could help them complete course requirements successfully.

Keep Learning is a self-enrolling online course on IU Expand that features information for students about the most commonly used technological tools in online courses, including options for attending lectures, completing assignments, taking tests and quizzes, and collaborating in groups. Encourage students to ask questions about the changes you will make to your course and consider their feedback as you pivot to effective online instruction.

Kaltura is an IU supported set of video tools that allows you to record and edit video and share it with your students in Canvas. Learn how you can use Kaltura to

• Record your lecture 
• Edit your video
• Easily add navigation (bookmarks) within your video
• Verify the accuracy of the video captions
• Share them with your students in Canvas

This webinar will also be given on March 20, 2:30 - 3:15 p.m.

Join this webinar to learn how to use Zoom to provide your students with short recordings, hold online office hours, and record meetings. IU faculty, staff, and students can use Zoom, a video conferencing and online collaboration tool, to host meetings that anyone can join. In this webinar, you will learn how to access your account, schedule, manage and record meetings. 

This webinar will also be given on the following dates and times: March 20, 2:30 - 3:15 p.m.

Join this webinar to learn how to use CourseNetworking (CN Post) to add social discussion to your online class. The CN Post provides a very easy to use, Facebook like, student-driven discussion space for you and your students. Using the tool, students can freely talk to each other, share learning resources, and answer each other’s questions. CN Post can be a replacement or complement to the Canvas Discussions tool. This webinar will show you how to set up CN Post in your Canvas course, facilitate student discussion, and easily track participation from both desktop and mobile devices.

This webinar is also given on the following dates and times: March 20, March 23, and March 24 from 1- 1:45 p.m.

Well-organized Canvas modules provide an effective checklist for both instructors and students to ensure all content is being covered. This webinar, offered by the IU campus teaching and learning centers, will provide a basic understanding of how to setup a Canvas course using Modules to organize your assignments, discussions, files, and more.

This webinar will also be given on March 20, 12 - 12:45 p.m. 

In this webinar, you will engage in conversation about the adaptations you need to make to your course and how you will communicate those changes to your students. We will frame our conversation around a sample syllabus to guide your decisions about the components of your course that need to be updated. We will also discuss strategies for changing these components to ensure that your students can continue to learn effectively and efficiently in the new learning environment.

Specifically, we will discuss what changes you might make to and how you can modify the language in your syllabus for the following components:

·       How students should communicate with you
·       How students can find course materials
·       Assignments and assessments
·       Collaborating in groups
·       General course policies including grading, attendance, and late work

This webinar will also be given on: March 24, 1- 2:00 p.m., March 25, 3- 4:00 p.m.

As IUPUI continues the process of reviewing general education courses, course coordinators or faculty responsible for preparing course dossiers for review may have questions about the information and materials that need to go into the dossiers. This webinar will provide an overview of the course review process, course dossier requirements, and the rubric that will be used to review the course dossiers. It will also introduce a new option for preparing a simplified course dossier based on using a Mile Marker assignment. Examples from existing course dossiers will be incorporated into the webinar. Questions and discussion will be encouraged.

The CTL will not be offering the Online Course Design and Development Bootcamp or the Flipped Class Design and Development Bootcamp this spring due to scheduling issues. In their place, we will be offering a series of Digital Course Design webinars and workshops designed for instructors teaching online, hybrid, and flipped classes. 

Spring semester 2020 schedule:

• Purposeful Online Discussions (Webinar, 3/26, Noon - 1:00 p.m.)
• Setting up Canvas for an Online Course (Webinar, 4/22, Noon - 12:30 p.m.)

Want to improve your online or hybrid course? Join us at one of the workshops below to learn how to evaluate your course using the Quality Matters (QM) rubric—get some quick ideas to improve your course and also learn the QM process of continuous improvement! To register for an event or for more information, click on one of the dates listed below. 

May 14, Thursday 
August 14, Friday 
December 18, Friday

The workshops listed above are held at UL 1130 (University Library), 10 a.m. – 4 p.m.

Are you a graduate student or a postdoc looking for new teaching strategies or getting ready to apply for faculty positions? The Center for Teaching and Learning is offering a series of webinars for graduate students and postdocs on various topics of teaching and learning and the academic job search. Click here to learn more about the topics and register.

Drafting your diversity statements: Workshop for graduate students and postdocs
Tuesday, April 7, Online - Zoom
11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Register here

Teaching Portfolio Guide for Graduate Students and Postdocs
Tuesday, April 14, Online - Zoom
11 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Register here

Preparing and Delivering a Teaching Demonstration
Thursday, April 16, Online - Zoom
1:30 – 3 p.m.
Register here

SAVI data literacy training empowers you to find, use, and understand data. Classes are as follows:

• Frame the Problem | March 31, 8:30 - 10:30 a.m. - Register
• Find Existing Data | March 31, 10:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. - Register

Curious about teaching online? Looking for tips to make your online classes more engaging? Join us for “Continuing the Conversation”, a webinar series that continues conversations begun during the IU Online Conference. The series features faculty across IU campuses and disciplines who share their experiences as online instructors.

The next in the webinar series, Creating Online Visuals That Are Accessible: How To Design Content for All Learners in Mathematics,  is Friday, March 27, 2020 from 12 – 1:00 p.m., EST.  The series features Christopher Lang, Professor of Mathematics, Coordinator of the Upper-Level Mathematics Program, IU Southeast.

Click here to learn more and to register for this webinar or others in the series.

Save the Date: Tuesday May 19, 2020, there will be a day-long (9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.) training workshop at IU Bloomington (open to faculty and graduate students) on using Reacting to the Past role-playing games in the classroom. Cost is $40/faculty and $20/graduate students (includes breakfast, lunch, and parking).

Registration will open soon. Sponsored by the PACE Institute for Role-Immersive Teaching and Learning and IU Center for Innovative Teaching and Learning. For more information, contact Carl Weinberg at crweinbe@indiana.edu. Visit here for more information and tentative schedule. 

Teaching for Student Success: An Evidence-Based Approach is a new module series developed in response to President McRobbie’s call for supporting excellence in teaching and learning at IU. 

Created expressly for IU faculty, by members of the IU faculty, this professional development series provides a framework for education grounded in empirical research, combined with opportunities to document evidence-based practices
Module topics include:

1. Course Design
2. Assessment
3. Science of learning
4. Active and interactive learning
5. High-impact practices
6. Creating positive first impressions 

To learn more about the module series click here.

Miller, M.D. (2020, March 9). Going online in a hurry: What to do and where to start.The Chronicle of Higher Education. 

This article provides solid advice for planning to not only continue teaching your course online but also, just as importantly, support your students’ learning during this period.