February 23, 2022
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The following is being sent on behalf of the Instructional Support Team
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Dear Colleagues,
The IS Team needs to hear from you!
Faculty Input on Shaping the Future of Teaching & Learning
New teaching opportunities and challenges have emerged during post-quarantine teaching with potentially far reaching implications. To guide the next decade of teaching and learning, we’d love to hear from you: what’s exciting, what’s concerning and what are your questions? Please complete this 5-10 min. survey. We’ll bring your insights and questions to the March 10 faculty roundtable (more info below).
Faculty Roundtable: Shaping the Future of Teaching & Learning @ UCSB
Thursday, March 10, 2022, 2-3pm on Zoom
RSVP here
What should teaching and learning look like at UCSB in the 2020s? This roundtable discussion will explore insights and challenges that have emerged from teaching during a global pandemic to consider how we can shape the teaching and learning landscape in the near future. Faculty are invited to participate alongside invited speakers from a range of departments at UCSB.
Useful Resources for Your Grading and Course Evaluations!
Gradescope Scanning: If you are giving paper-based exams (handwritten work or bubble-sheets), GradeScope can make grading faster and more reliable. You’ll need to cut the corners off of the exams and use a scanner to create a pdf file for upload to GradeScope. You can reserve a time to use Instructional Development’s high-speed scanners and industrial paper-cutter in Kerr Hall 1124 by emailing: id-test-scanning@ucsb.edu
ESCI (Evaluation System for Courses and Instructors) surveys open this Sunday, 2/27 at midnight and close on 3/11. Here are a few ideas and resources for boosting response rates and getting more useful feedback:
- Tell students why their feedback is important to you and what type of feedback is most helpful. You can choose a few of these slides to adapt on Improving Course Evaluation Feedback and/or show students this 1 min. video on Giving Useful Feedback.
- Check your class response rate at https://esci.id.ucsb.edu/
- Give students time during class to complete ESCIs at https://esci.id.ucsb.edu/
- If there are specific aspects of the course or your teaching that you want feedback about (e.g. new features of the course), consider asking students to comment specifically on those aspects.