LinkedIn Learning Challenge – 2022!

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Back by popular demand, UW-Whitewater and LinkedIn Learning have teamed up yet again to bring the 2022 LinkedIn Learning “New You” Challenge! Complete the challenge to win cool prizes!

LinkedIn Learning is a video- based learning platform available to all UW-W faculty, staff, and students, that offers the latest academic, creative, business, and wellness skill development through high-quality instructional videos by industry experts. Often these courses are accompanied by exercise files, handouts, and other resources to support your growth.

Keep the momentum going with a fresh start to 2022 with the LinkedIn Learning “New You” Challenge! Participation is simple and only requires 8-10 minutes per day:

  1. Download the 2022 Challenge Calendar.
  2. Complete each day’s assigned task (watch a video or respond to a written prompt). 
  3. Sign your initials when each day is done either by editing the PDF directly or printing out a copy. 
  4. Once each daily task is completed, upload a PDF copy of your calendar using the self-service portal of our helpdesk system (ServiceNow). 

The Challenge will run from January 10-28, 2022 with all submissions required to be uploaded into ServiceNow by February 4, 2022. 

ServiceNow can also be used to place requests for other items, open tickets for problems, and search information within our KnowledgeBase.

If you have any questions, please reach out to the Learning Technology Center via email: ltc@uww.edu. 

Good luck and happy learning!

Updates to Cisco Webex in Canvas

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On Monday, December 27, 2021, Cisco released updates to the Webex Education Connector in Canvas that redesign the Office Hours experience for both instructors and students.

Instructor experience

Instructors now have a clearer view of their office hours settings and availability. In the Weekly Hours tab, instructors configure their weekly availability by setting their preferred meeting duration, meeting buffer, date range, time zone, days of availability, and hours of availability.

A Date range selector has been added that allows instructors to define a consecutive period of time for students to book office hours. Only dates within the date range indicated will be shown to students when scheduling. This provides the flexibility to restrict future bookings to a term, semester, or other time-defined period. In addition, instructors can modify their availability for a specific date without needing to update their general office hours availability, making it possible to reduce their availability on a date, increase their availability on a date, or mark themselves unavailable for an entire date.

The time zone selector allows instructors to set their preferred time zone for office hours meetings. This provides clarity and consistency for students when scheduling meetings. The default time zone for office hours is based on the time zone in the course where an instructor first enables office hours. If instructors are located in a different time zone, they can update the time zone for all their office hours.

Student experience

Students must now first select their instructor before available time slots are displayed, making it clear with which instructor a student is scheduling time.

For directions on how to set-up and use Webex Office Hours in your Canvas course, please see Setting Up Online Office Hours in Canvas (Instructors). Instructors may wish to share Scheduling Online Office Hours with your Instructor in Canvas with their students as an easy tutorial on how to use this feature.

If you have any questions or concerns about this update, please contact the UW-W Learning Technology Center.

Adaptive Learning Community of Practice

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How can we ensure that students with diverse abilities ALL arrive to class well-prepared and ready to take full advantage of class time? Join the Learning Technology Center as we re-explore adaptive learning strategies through the use of Realizeit!

February 17, 2022 at 2:00PM – 

“Adaptive Learning: Build Personalized Learning Experiences”
with Professor Meg Waraczynski (CoLS)

Advance registration requested

A Call for Explorers

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“The Higher Education We Deserve” 
Top 10 IT Issues, 2022

Come explore the Educause Top 10 IT Issues, with the LTC this Spring as we do a directed study at portions of the report to identify areas we can support campus operations to enhance student success.  Almost two years into a global pandemic, it’s clear the higher education we once knew will never return.

Top 10 IT Issues
Join the LTC this Spring 2022 as we explore Educause’s top 10 IT Issues.

The Top 10 IT Issues describe the way technology is helping to create the higher education we deserve. They highlight the work institutions are doing to develop a shared transformational vision and strategy, redefine higher education’s value proposition, and reshape institutional business models and culture to anticipate and serve the current and emergent needs of learners, communities, and employers.

In this “book-club inspired” Explorers Group, participants are expected to come prepared to explore issues, tackle challenges, and discuss how these issues impact student and institutional success, our shared vision, and sustainable business models. Bring an open mind and an explorer’s heart.  We will provide short key readings and discussion points inspired by the Top 10 Issues.  By the end of our sessions together we hope that you will be informed and prepared for how these IT issues transform our increasingly digital future.  Let’s build that higher education we deserve and shape that future.  Let’s help articulate that vision and ideate new models that support both student and institutional success. This group is appropriate for educators, leaders, administrators, and technologists.

https://www.educause.edu/research-and-publications/research/top-10-it-issues-technologies-and-trends/2022

Excursion Dates and Time

Wednesdays 3:00 – 4:00 pm Spring 2022
McGraw Hall 19A and Online via Webex

Please register individually for the session you can attend.  For more information contact ltc@uww.edu 

LTC Tour Guides

Eric Loepp, Director of Learning Technology
Jeffrey Thomas, Assistant Director, Learning Technology
Ted Witt, Teaching Learning and Technology Consultant

Amazon Web Services Outage

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Resolved 5:31PM: Amazon has restored services and continue to monitor for any recurring issues. At this time Canvas and Respondus Lockdown Browser are working as expected.

Update 4:04PM: Amazon has reported a fix is in place and services are being restored. Amazon will continue to monitor the situation and we will provide another update once everything is fully restored.

On Tuesday, December 7th, 2021 beginning at around 9:45AM CST Amazon Web Services has been experiencing some intermittent outages. So far we know that this outage has impacted the following services:

  • Canvas
  • Respondus Lockdown Browser & Monitor
  • Respondus Studymate

As of 2:50PM, Amazon has identified the cause of the outage and is working on a resolution. We will provide updates as services are restored.

Please contact the Learning Technology Center if you have any questions about this outage.

LAST CALL: Winterim 2022 Online Blended Institute

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The UW-Whitewater Learning Technology Center (LTC) is pleased to announce that applications are now open for a Winterim 2022 Online Blended Institute in a shortened hybrid format. The overall goal of the institute is to align quality course design with best practices in blended teaching, preparing faculty for online course development, and blended teaching in future academic terms. The course models a blended course including readings, materials, and short homework assignments. Participants will be required to build a fully online unit of a course they could teach.

Close-up Photography of Woman Sitting Beside Table While Using Macbook. Pexels photo by Andrew Neel

This institute is intended for people designing a course for Summer or Fall 2022 or for those teaching in Spring 2022. It would also be appropriate for instructors designing a new course.

If you are interested in course prep for Spring 2022, try our new course prep boot camp.

There are six required synchronous workshops M/W/F scheduled from 1:00 pm to 2:30pm in Webex from January 3 through January 14. These will include a student panel discussion and a peer to peer review session to share ideas and collaborate on online course designs in progress. Final course materials will be due January 28th.

We will be accepting 20 applicants into the Institute this winter. Preference will be given to those faculty and full-time instructional academic staff who fully complete the application in a first come, first serve basis and who have not previously completed the Online Blended Institute since the summer of 2018. Applicants will be emailed regarding their acceptance on Wednesday, December 8.

The application takes approximately 10 minutes to complete. We recommend completing the application on a computer, as some questions involve typed responses.

For any additional information or questions, please contact the LTC.
Learning Technology Center
(262) 472-1004
ltc@uww.edu

Apply here: http://uwwhitewater.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_d07cFDl4NTCDvgO

New! Course Prep Boot Camp

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Strapped for time, and looking for a guiding hand on all the things you need to do to get a Canvas course up and running for Spring?  Now is your chance! Join us for hands-on workshops broken up between quick demonstrations, and supported work time.

Photo by MART PRODUCTION from Pexels

These sessions are designed for instructors looking to get their Spring 2022 course up and running, but all faculty and staff are welcome. Come with previous content ready to be updated, or moved from paper into Canvas (ie moving a quiz or rubric into a digital form). This series of workshops will provide you the how-to and time to complete specific tasks to get your course set up. Enroll in one, a handful, or all of them; even if it is just for a way to schedule your time.

Getting Started

Monday, January 3: 9:00-10:30 AM | Signup

Building Your Content

Wednesday, January 5: 9:00-10:30 AM | Signup

Assignments and Setting Up Grades

Friday, January 7: 9:00-10:30 AM | Signup

Accessories

Monday, January 10: 9:00-10:30 AM | Signup

Collaborations

Wednesday, January 12: 9:00-10:30 AM | Signup

Wrapping Up

Friday, January 14: 9:00-10:30 AM | Signup

December @ LTC

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Congratulations on another successful semester, Warhawks!

The hallways might be a bit quieter over the next few weeks, but the learning never ends at the Learning Technology Center! Below you’ll find a few opportunities to help finish strong and keep the momentum going through to the Spring:

Canvas

Once you’ve marked up your students’ final exams and papers, be sure to check the settings of your gradebook to ensure accuracy and to prepare for a successful transfer to WINS. The LTC will offer multiple sessions for instructors to double-and-triple check final grades:

  • Canvas Grading Lab (12/6/2021, 10am) – Check and double-check grade categories and schemes.
  • Canvas Grade Submission (multiple sessions and times) – transfer grades directly from the Canvas Gradebook to WINS.

Winterim 2022

Spend Winterim at the LTC (in-person or online) with dedicated time and support to complete course preparation for Spring 2022 or for Summer/Fall 2022!

LinkedIn Learning

LinkedIn Learning – Instructor Use Cases (12/6/2021, 2pm)
Join us as we explore how instructors on our campus integrate the wealth of learning and development resources on subjects ranging from advanced software training to soft-skills development and enrichment.

Over the break, take some time to develop deeper technical abilities, hone soft skills, or start from the beginning with new software, all within LinkedIn Learning. Check out our blog for more information and get started with your learning pathways!

Webex

Cisco Webex continues to evolve and offer new and exciting features that benefit each member of our campus community. Join us this month as we dive deeper into everything Webex!

More Information

Consult our full calendar of events for more information or to register in advance!

New to campus or looking for a refresher? Sign up for “Campus Technology: Resources to Help You Succeed” or check out our on-demand technology orientation to get you started at UW-Whitewater!

The LTC offers individual and small group consultations on a variety of topics and services, please email ltc@uww.edu to learn more and get started! Subscribe to our blog for frequent technology updates and information about our workshops, campus events, and other announcements.

If you require assistance or have questions on campus technology, please feel free to contact the Help Desk. Outside of Help Desk hours, we invite you to search our Knowledge Base for helpful articles on using and troubleshooting campus technology.

Canvas Update (11/20/2021)

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On Saturday, November 20, Instructure will deploy the latest release to the Canvas environment. The highlights of this release are listed below. The full release notes are also available.

  • Assignments — Submission Feedback Indicator: In the Assignment Details page, the Show Rubric and View Feedback links indicate when new comments have been added as an annotation or in a rubric.
  • Settings — Settings Tab URL Links: The Account and Course Settings tabs support independent URL references. This change allows users to remain in a specific tab after a Settings page is refreshed. 
  • ​SpeedGrader – Assignment Text Entry Word Count: The word count for assignment text submissions is displayed in SpeedGrader. 

UW-Whitewater Updates

  • Beginning on December 1st, 2021 all video files that are created and uploaded into Kaltura through Canvas will have caption files automatically generated. For additional details, please review our blog post on this topic.

If you have any questions or concerns about the service pack updates, or even just curious about how they can help you, please contact UW-W Canvas Support.