March 31, 2021
This message is distributed to All-Instructors, Academic-Assistant-Deans, and Academic-Department-Managers.
The following is being sent on behalf of the Instructional Support Team
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Dear Colleagues,
The IS Team welcomes you to Spring quarter! Updates about technology and news from our library colleagues:
GauchoSpace - Waitlist Student Access: To open your course to students on the waitlist follow the steps here to turn on Course Crasher access. Students can follow the steps here to access courses that have been opened to Course Crasher access. You can also email a link to your course site those students on the waitlist once it has been opened to Course Crasher access. Any questions can be directed to help@collaborate.ucsb.edu.
GauchoSpace Activity Settings Expert Guidance: Doing a timed assessment with students? Ready to publish a GauchoSpace quiz or assignment but uncertain that you have everything set up as you intended? Have an expert look at your activity settings to verify this for you. Reach out to help@collaborate.ucsb.edu for email assistance with your activity or to schedule a Zoom consultation.
The iClicker Cloud mobile/web application lets you use polls and word clouds to quickly engage students, promote discussion, and assess understanding. UCSB’s campus-wide subscription makes it FREE for students and instructors.
Join a synchronous, small group demo with this Zoom link:
Friday, April 2nd, 11am-12PM PST
Or attend an iClicker webinar, visit the iClicker help pages, or set up a 1-1 session with the helpdesk at help@id.ucsb.edu.
Library Study Space for Undergraduates, Graduates, Faculty, and Staff
Please let students in the UCSB area know!
Beginning March 29, the library has started to reopen study space in phases, starting with the Learning Commons on the first and second floors of the Mountain Side and eventually expanding to the entire first and second floors. In conjunction with public health guidelines for reopening of higher education, seating capacity will be at 25 percent.
Seats are available by reservation-only for current UCSB students as well as faculty and staff. Reservations can be made up to two weeks in advance and users will be able to book up to 15 hours per week. Reserve a seat here.
View the guidelines and expectations for students regarding use of library space.
On Campus Remote Teaching Spaces for Faculty, TAs and Teaching Associates
The Library, Instructional Development, Office of the Registrar, and the Executive Vice Chancellor’s Office have partnered to make spaces in the Library and in HSSB available for instructors who require a private, quiet space with reliable wireless or wired networking in order to conduct remote teaching sessions. Reservations for the use of these spaces for Spring Quarter are open via the following pages:
Library - https://libcal.library.ucsb.edu/reserve/library
HSSB - https://libcal.library.ucsb.edu/reserve/hssb
Please pay close attention to the information about technology available in each space to ensure that the space that you reserve meets your needs. If you will use any of the HSSB classrooms and plan on using the installed classroom computer instead of your own laptop, please send an email to id-mediakeys@ucsb.edu as soon as possible to obtain login credentials for a classroom computer.
Learning Outcomes in GauchoSpace
Following the update to GauchoSpace on March 24th all courses will have an “About this course” block added to them which will include course information including the type of course, department, units, GE subject area (if applicable), and a space for instructors to input the Learning Outcomes for the course.
More next week!
The Instructional Support Team