April 29, 2021
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The Instructional Support Team brings you updates on supporting students and yourself, new GauchoSpace workshops, a RISE reminder, and information about a new view in Zoom.
Supporting Students while Preserving Yourself
Watch a recording of UC San Diego’s webinar Supporting Students while Preserving Yourself (from April 16, 2021). UCSD shares evidence-based strategies for providing emotional support to students in one-on-one interactions while setting appropriate boundaries and preserving your own emotional wellbeing.
GauchoSpace Spring Workshops May 13-20th
The GauchoSpace team will be holding workshops on analytics and completion progress and how to set up a gradebook. Learn how your students are interacting and progressing through your course by using the built in analytics and completion progress tools in GauchoSpace. Learn how to set up a gradebook in GauchoSpace to align with your course syllabus and reduce emails from students. RSVP for workshops here.
RISE 2021 - Read the full call and apply today!
August 2-August 27 + additional consultation as desired
RISE 2021 will guide and support instructors to continue to think about instruction through student experiences and larger sociocultural contexts as we transition from remote emergency teaching to the next iteration of our courses. Institute participants will complete asynchronous activities and join optional synchronous sessions with colleagues, guided by facilitators, to build on experiences of the past year and explore new questions and ideas. Collectively, we will design and remix teaching to:
- Incorporate equitable and antiracist curriculum and teaching practices
- Develop meaningful assessments
- Incorporate principles of Universal Design for Learning
- Strengthen communities of learners
- Structure in-person and asynchronous time with students
- Design engaging GauchoSpace sites
- + explore each other’s ideas!
Participants who complete the RISE requirements by September 4, 2021 will receive $1500 in summer funding.
Apply using this online form by June 18.
New Zoom Immersive View
Immersive View allows hosts to arrange video participants and webinar panelists into a single virtual background, bringing people together into one scene to connect and collaborate in a cohesive virtual meeting space.
Meeting and webinar hosts can select Zoom’s Immersive View the same way they choose the Speaker or Gallery View. When enabling Immersive View, hosts will have the option to automatically or manually place participants into a virtual scene of their choosing. Hosts can also quickly move participants around that scene and even resize a participant’s image for a more natural experience.
Want to change things up? Hosts can easily change the scene or revert to Speaker or Gallery View at any time. Zoom has provided a few scenes to get you started, but you can also upload your own. Hosts can even use their video as an Immersive View scene, bringing participants into their virtual background.
To learn more about how to enable Immersive view, please visit our support article.
More next week!
The Instructional Support Team