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To help prepare you for wrapping up Fall Quarter grading, join the OTL in a Canvas Coaching session on Managing your Gradebook.

 

In this session, you will learn how to:

• Access and view the gradebook in Canvas
• Organize your gradebook by setting up assignment grade weighting
• Mute assignments while grading
• Refresh your memory with SpeedGrader

 

This session is a part of The Office of Teaching and Learning's Canvas Coaching Series. These are weekly 30-minute sessions desinged to provide faculty with conversations and support around common Canvas questions. You are not required to attend all sessions, simply register for the sessions that are of interest to you. Each week will have a focused topic and will be facilitated according to topic. Sessions may include a demonstration, informal discussion, and/or Q&A time. In addition, participants will be provided with the opportunity to sign-up for additional consultation support with an OTL staff member.

 

To get you started, take a look at this Canvas Community Guide that addresses this topic: https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Instructor-Guide/How-do-I-use-the-Gradebook/ta-p/701

 

To learn more about Grading in Canvas with faculty colleagues, please register for the session and join us at the following Zoom link: https://udenver.zoom.us/j/96436348342

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Now that Fall Quarter is wrapping up, you may already be thinking about setting up your Canvas course shell for Winter Quarter 2021. At this Canvas Coaching session, you will learn how to move content from one Canvas course to another. We will also share tips and tricks for transitioning your course from Quarter to Quarter.

 

This session is a part of The Office of Teaching and Learning's Canvas Coaching Series. These are weekly 30-minute sessions desinged to provide faculty with conversations and support around common Canvas questions. You are not required to attend all sessions, simply register for the sessions that are of interest to you. Each week will have a focused topic and will be facilitated according to topic. Sessions may include a demonstration, informal discussion, and/or Q&A time. In addition, participants will be provided with the opportunity to sign-up for additional consultation support with an OTL staff member.

 

To learn more about this transition in community with faculty colleagues, please register for the session and join us at the following Zoom link: https://udenver.zoom.us/j/96436348342

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Tools for Success is a year-long FLC designed for teaching and professional faculty in the assistant rank at the University of Denver. The FLC will explore areas essential to the success of teaching faculty including community building, effective instruction, wellness, DU culture, promotion, national trends, inclusive excellence, and university resources. The monthly sessions in the fall will focus on community building and navigating transitions. The bi-weekly winter sessions are organized around the book (Inclusive Collegiality and Nontenure-Track Faculty: Engaging All Faculty as Colleagues to Promote Healthy Departments and Institutions) and learnings important to advancement, promotion, and university culture. In the spring quarter, the bi-weekly sessions will focus on the scholar/teacher model of excellence. We will form a Scholarship on Teaching and Learning (SOTL) group with the intent of writing about and publishing on our experiences as teaching and professional faculty in higher education.

The FLC will be led by Dr. Laura Sponsler (Resident Scholar - Teaching and Professional Faculty) and Dr. Paul Michalec (OTL Faculty Teaching Fellow). Laura and Paul are clinical professors at the Morgridge College of Education.

Fall sessions are Sept 25^th, October 30^th, and November 20^th (9:00-10:30 am). Please use the following Zoom link https://udenver.zoom.us/my/drlaurasponsler

Winter and spring sessions will be set based on group teaching and administrative responsibilities.

For more information contact Laura Sponsler at Laura.Sponsler@du.edu or Paul.Michalec@du.edu

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Heart of Higher Education: Embracing Uncertainty, Facing Impermanence, and Cultivating Resilience in Our Academic Community

The Heart of Higher Education (HOHE) is an opportunity to gather as a DU community to share the challenges and opportunities of transcending the institutional, professional and personal choices that tend to separate core identity/integrity from day to day actions. The meetings are open to all faculty (of any rank) and staff (of any title).  The Conversations are facilitated by Dr. Paul Michalec, OTL Faculty Teaching Fellow, and Clinical Professor in the Morgridge College of Education. The Heart of Higher Education Conversations create a positive and constructive space where staff and faculty can explore ways of re-connecting calling with professional responsibilities. In this academic year we will investigate the themes of uncertainty, impermanence, and resilience in academia.

Our time together is bounded by norms designed to create an open invitation to share while respecting individual choices to not share at a particular time. Prior to each meeting an agenda and brief reflective reading is sent out.

Zoom link: https://udenver.zoom.us/j/9341740736

For more information please contact Paul Michalec at paul.michalec@du.edu

 

Three individuals who attended past Heart of Higher Education Conversations offer the following observations:

“I value the opportunity to connect in a personal and intellectual way with other like-minded DU colleagues.  The welcoming, caring environment allows me the opportunity to put aside titles, positions, levels of education, etc. for a few minutes and just focus on the shared humanity of striving to find purpose and meaning in our work and lives.”

“Heart of Higher Education fills my soul each month as I gain insights and reminders of how my inner life is connected with my work with students.  I am grateful for the vulnerability of my colleagues who share openly about how they integrate their authentic selves with the work that they do.”

“The Heart of Higher Education is a space where we can show up as our whole selves.  I am so looking forward to continuing with this beautiful group and our soulful conversations this quarter!  And, even though I can't make every meeting, I loved reading this poem, and I’m going to make certain I have some time to reflect upon it. What a gift.”

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Heart of Higher Education: Embracing Uncertainty, Facing Impermanence, and Cultivating Resilience in Our Academic Community

The Heart of Higher Education (HOHE) is an opportunity to gather as a DU community to share the challenges and opportunities of transcending the institutional, professional and personal choices that tend to separate core identity/integrity from day to day actions. The meetings are open to all faculty (of any rank) and staff (of any title).  The Conversations are facilitated by Dr. Paul Michalec, OTL Faculty Teaching Fellow, and Clinical Professor in the Morgridge College of Education. The Heart of Higher Education Conversations create a positive and constructive space where staff and faculty can explore ways of re-connecting calling with professional responsibilities. In this academic year we will investigate the themes of uncertainty, impermanence, and resilience in academia.

Our time together is bounded by norms designed to create an open invitation to share while respecting individual choices to not share at a particular time. Prior to each meeting an agenda and brief reflective reading is sent out.

Zoom link: https://udenver.zoom.us/j/9341740736

For more information please contact Paul Michalec at paul.michalec@du.edu

 

Three individuals who attended past Heart of Higher Education Conversations offer the following observations:

“I value the opportunity to connect in a personal and intellectual way with other like-minded DU colleagues.  The welcoming, caring environment allows me the opportunity to put aside titles, positions, levels of education, etc. for a few minutes and just focus on the shared humanity of striving to find purpose and meaning in our work and lives.”

“Heart of Higher Education fills my soul each month as I gain insights and reminders of how my inner life is connected with my work with students.  I am grateful for the vulnerability of my colleagues who share openly about how they integrate their authentic selves with the work that they do.”

“The Heart of Higher Education is a space where we can show up as our whole selves.  I am so looking forward to continuing with this beautiful group and our soulful conversations this quarter!  And, even though I can't make every meeting, I loved reading this poem, and I’m going to make certain I have some time to reflect upon it. What a gift.”

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Now that Fall Quarter has come to an end, join the OTL for a Canvas Clean-Up session. During this session, Instructional Designers will be available to support you in breakout rooms on course specific requests. We can help you save course material, manage your gradebook, move content into a sandbox course, and get a new course set-up for Winter Quarter with a course template. 

 

This session is a part of The Office of Teaching and Learning's Canvas Coaching Series. Typically, these are weekly 30-minute sessions designed to provide faculty with conversations and support around common Canvas questions. For this week, our session is available for the full hour, however, you are welcome to join us for the first 30-minutes and leave before the hour. In addition, participants will be provided with the opportunity to sign-up for one-on-one consultation support with an OTL staff member.

 

Please register for the session and join us at the following Zoom link: https://udenver.zoom.us/j/96436348342

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For many academics, a book manuscript is key to earning tenure and establishing a scholarly identity. However, the path to academic book publishing can often be confusing, nebulous, and filled with scary myths and misperceptions. You may have a completed dissertation, a few rough book chapters, or even journal articles you’d like to transform into a coherent book project but you don’t know where to start to get your unfinished project into print.  

 

The first, and most important, step to getting your academic manuscript published is crafting a compelling book proposal. This workshop will address many common questions about the book proposal process including (but not limited to): 

 

• When should I start writing the proposal? 
• What is the best way for me to contact an editor? 
• How do I pick the best press for my project? 
• And, importantly, what does a “winning” book proposal look like and how do I write one? 

 

Each participant will leave the workshop with a working draft of the book proposal, a concrete plan to complete it within 4 weeks of the workshop date, and a post-proposal publication plan that will focus on how to query editors, writing the cover letter, etc. 

 

Facilitated by:

Badia Ahad, PhD

Associate Professor & Vice Provost of Faculty Affairs

Loyola University

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• Do you often start the term with high hopes for your writing projects, but end disappointed by your actual productivity?
• Do you desperately want (or need) to write a lot this term?
• Do you want to figure out how to be more productive AND enjoy your life this term?

This workshop will help you identify your personal and professional goals, create a strategic plan to accomplish them, and identify the types of community, support, and accountability you need to create and sustain a balanced, productive term.

This workshop will take place on Zoom: https://udenver.zoom.us/j/95205250969.

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Gain a deeper understanding of your anti-racist self as you progress through 20 chapters that spark introspection, reveal the origins of racism that we are still experiencing, and give you the courage and power to undo it. Each chapter builds on the previous one as you learn more about yourself and racial oppression. 20 activities get you thinking and help you grow with the knowledge. All you need is a pen and paper.

Author Tiffany Jewell, an anti-bias, anti-racist educator, and activist builds solidarity beginning with the language she chooses—using gender-neutral words to honor everyone who reads the book. Illustrator Aurélia Durand brings the stories and characters to life with kaleidoscopic vibrancy.

Co-facilitated by OTL Directors Dr. Valentina Iturbe-LaGrave and Dr. Karen Swanson. This is a collaborative Faculty Learning Community structured around book chapters. Participants will take turns leading the discussion and will receive a copy of Jewell's book once registration is closed.

We will meet every other week on Tuesdays, beginning January 12th in the Zoom room which will be sent to you prior to the session.