June 2, 2021
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The following is being sent on behalf of the Instructional Support Team
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Weekly (formerly Daily) Message: Summer Break
Dear Colleagues,
The weekly message was initiated as the Daily Message in March 2019, during the first days of the COVID-19 emergency. Compiled by LSIT, Instructional Development, and CITRAL, we’ve tried to provide you with information to support your incredible efforts over the last 15 months. We are grateful to all of you for the flexibility, dedication, and engagement you’ve provided for students. During the summer months and beyond, unless conditions mandate otherwise, we’ll be back with monthly updates.
Reminders of upcoming events:
Apply for RISE 2021 - applications due June 18
August 2-August 27 + additional consultation as desired
Apply using this online form by June 18.
Attend the Blending and Flipping your Class into Fall (2nd offering due to popular demand!) * Thurs. Jun 17, 2021, 10-11am
RSVP for the workshop here
Submit to present/host a session at the UCSB Engaging Teaching Symposium II: Looking Back to Move Forward * Wednesdays and Fridays Oct 6–22, 2021 (via Zoom, with in-person components)
Link to more information and application due June 30.
Over the summer, we’re working on…
Summer Teaching Institute for Associates (for graduate student instructors - Begins June 21 for Summer B and Fall instructors)
RISE (see above) - August 2021
UCSB Bridge (A cross-platform and extensible mobile application for student engagement and access to academic services. Bridge is a partnership between Collaborate, Library, Summer Sessions and Undergraduate Education.)
Large Course Institute (Late Summer 2021)
TA Orientation (September 2021)
Graduate Student Inclusive Teaching Institute (Fall 2021)
New Instructional Development Website (Late Summer 2021)
Helping Students Give Useful Course Evaluation Feedback
ESCI is open until Friday for students to give feedback about your course. Elicit effective feedback by explaining:
- why it is important to you,
- what type of comments are helpful, and
- sharing a link to this 1 min. student-facing video on “Tips for Giving Useful Feedback About Courses” on your GauchoSpace site or in an email.
Encourage students to complete their evaluations at https://esci.id.ucsb.edu.
GauchoSpace Quiz Timing Settings
If you plan to use the GauchoSpace Quiz activity for assessment we recommend setting a wide “open and close window” to accommodate students in different timezones and variability of student internet and computer access. Within the “open and close window” you can set a time limit for a student’s attempt at the quiz. We also recommend using a large question bank and setting the quiz to pull questions at random from the question bank. Information on using the question bank can be found here. If you have any questions or would like GauchoSpace staff to review your quiz settings prior to opening a quiz please contact us at help@collaborate.ucsb.edu.
For DSP time accommodations, overrides can be placed on the quiz. Instructions on setting these overrides can be found here.
Upcoming Events
Blending and Flipping your Class into Fall (2nd offering due to popular demand!)
Thurs. Jun 17, 2021, 10-11am
RSVP for the workshop here
RISE 2021 - It’s not too late to apply!
August 2-August 27 + additional consultation as desired
Apply using this online form by June 18.
UCSB Engaging Teaching Symposium II: Looking Back to Move Forward
Dates: Wednesdays and Fridays Oct 6–22, 2021 (via Zoom, with in-person components)
Link to more information and application due June 30.
GauchoSpace End Of Quarter Update Thursday, June 17th 8am-12pm PDT
GauchoSpace will be unavailable on Thursday June 17th from 8am to 12pm PDT to undergo end of quarter updates which include security updates and bug fixes. Following the update GauchoSpace will be using the campus Single Sign On for authentication.
Gauchocast Upgrade, Saturday June 26: Panopto will be doing an upgrade of Panopto Cloud on Saturday, June 26. The precise time has not been set, but we will notify you when we have been informed. In addition to security and feature enhancements with this upgrade, there will be new Panopto Recorder clients for Windows (9.0.2+) and Mac (10.1.0+).
Thank you again for all that you have done, are doing, and will do. We hope that everyone has some time to rest and reflect. More next month/in the Fall,
The Instructional Support Team