Online

If you are not sure how to access, navigate and/or use SpeedGrader, this is the perfect event for you. The OTL invites you to a webinar on how to use SpeedGrader in Canvas. We are here to answer your questions and help you feel more confident grading assignments online this Quarter.

What is SpeedGrader?

SpeedGrader is a software built into Canvas where instructors can view, grade, and provide feedback on student assignment submissions, all in one place.

You could use SpeedGrader for: 

• Anonymous grading
• View submission details for each student, including resubmitted assignments
• Use rubrics to assign grades  
• Leave feedback for your students
• Track your grading progress and hide assignments while grading

Canvas Coaching is a weekly event aimed at supporting faculty with teaching online in Canvas. The 30-minute sessions may include a demonstration, informal discussion, and/or Q&A time. Each week focuses on a different topic that will align with your quarter planning. In addition, participants will be provided with the opportunity to sign up for one-on-one consultation support with an Instructional Designer.

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

Online

Join the OTL in a conversation around student engagement with regard to online discussion boards in Canvas. Discussion boards have many uses for online, hyflex and hybrid courses. At this Canvas Coaching session, we will talk through strategies for moving class discussions online. You will learn how to create discussion boards and respond to students with feedback.

Focused Discussion Boards could include:

• answer a single question
• share resources amongst peers
• collect results from a simple research activity
• share solutions to a single problem
• correct misconceptions
• clarify course policies
• get feedback on a work in progress
• share insights about a single reading

Canvas Coaching is a weekly event aimed at supporting faculty with teaching online in Canvas. The 30-minute sessions may include a demonstration, informal discussion, and/or Q&A time. Each week focuses on a different topic that will align with your quarter planning. In addition, participants will be provided with the opportunity to sign up for one-on-one consultation support with an Instructional Designer.

To learn more, please register for the session and join us at the following Zoom link: https://udenver.zoom.us/j/96436348342

Online

Online

Teaching and Professional Faculty 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 winter sessions are organized around the book (Inclusive Collegiality and Nontenure-Track Faculty: Engaging All Faculty as Colleagues to Promote Healthy Departments and Institutions - available online) and learnings important to advancement, promotion, and university culture. In the spring quarter, we 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.

Online

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 the winter 2021 quarter we will explore the theme of connection through the lenses of self (calling), others (colleagues and students), and bigness of life (institution, family, spirit).

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.

Meeting Schedule for the winter quarter;

(two meetings a month with the same content; welcome to attend one or both sessions)

-Jan 12th, 12:00-1:00

-Jan 28^th, 10:00-11:00

-Feb 8^st, 12:00-1:00

-Feb 25^th, 10:00-11:00

-Mar 8^th, 12:00-1:00

-Mar 25^th, 10:00-11:00

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.”

Online

With midterms approaching, join the OTL in a Webinar on creating quizzes and exams in Canvas. We will model building a Canvas Quiz and the options available to instructors. This is a great opportunity to open up the conversation between colleagues and hear about what other folks are doing with their online quizzes and exams.

Canvas Coaching is a weekly event aimed at supporting faculty with teaching online in Canvas. The 30-minute sessions may include a demonstration, informal discussion, and/or Q&A time. Each week focuses on a different topic that will align with your quarter planning. In addition, participants will be provided with the opportunity to sign up for one-on-one consultation support with an Instructional Designer.

To learn more, please register for the session and join us at the following Zoom link: https://udenver.zoom.us/j/96436348342

Online

Co-facilitated by RSECS Associate Dean for Undergraduate studies and Teaching Associate Professor Breigh Roszelle and Executive Director for Internationalization Casey Dinger, this collaborative Faculty Learning Community is structured around stand-alone readings and materials. Participants will take turns leading the discussion using key theoretical and applied materials supplied by the facilitators to provide a grounding in the approach and tools to implement.

This FLC is organized around exploring the practice, development and implementation of a Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL)-based course. This can take numerous forms, but in essence COIL is a type of virtual mobility, where students from DU and a partner institution abroad are given the tools and space to engage in purposeful interaction in a course. Students from both classes may interact synchronously or asynchronously for a few weeks or an entire term through whichever technologies are most relevant and useful. Often students work together on a project, class discussions or similar group work. COIL is a powerful opportunity to help students engage in cross-cultural learning and global education on DU’s home campus. 

Please plan to join us for each session of this FLC:

January 13, 12:00 -1:00 p.m.

February 10, 12:00 -1:00 p.m.

March 10, 12:00 -1:00 p.m.

April 14, 12:00 -1:00 p.m.

May 12, 12:00 -1:00 p.m.

June 2, 12:00 -1:00 p.m.

Online

In this interactive workshop, participants will identify their core values and learn how to use those values to set goals, and develop their academic mission and vision. Participants will identify practices and strategies for developing and sustaining work-life balance and holistic well-being while enhancing professional productivity and achievement. Attendees will learn about the common limiting beliefs and ruts that lead to burnout and overwhelm among academics and strategies for addressing those challenges. Workshop attendees will take away their personal plan for cultivating their own individual flourishing.

Zoom Link: Coming Soon

Online

Congratulations, you have made it halfway through the Winter Quarter! Join the OTL this week for a discussion on collecting feedback from your students to understand and improve your teaching and your students’ learning. Mid-Quarter Student Feedback supports your professional reflective work for improving quality teaching and learning. During this session, we will talk through strategies for collecting feedback online and discuss ways to implement feedback in your course(s) this quarter. Specifically, you will learn how to use Canvas as a tool for collecting feedback. 

Canvas Coaching is a weekly event aimed at supporting faculty with teaching online in Canvas. The 30-minute sessions may include a demonstration, informal discussion, and/or Q&A time. Each week focuses on a different topic that will align with your quarter planning. In addition, participants will be provided with the opportunity to sign up for one-on-one consultation support with an Instructional Designer.

To learn more, please register for the session and join us at the following Zoom link: https://udenver.zoom.us/j/96436348342

Online

Teaching and Professional Faculty 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 winter sessions are organized around the book (Inclusive Collegiality and Nontenure-Track Faculty: Engaging All Faculty as Colleagues to Promote Healthy Departments and Institutions - available online) and learnings important to advancement, promotion, and university culture. In the spring quarter, we 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.

Online

Prior to joining this Canvas Coaching session, you are highly encouraged to register for the Instructor Training on Respondus Lockdown Browser and Monitor. You can find more information on registering for these trainings here: https://web.respondus.com/webinars/.

This session will be co-faciliated by Mark Pleiss from the Center for World Languages and Culutres and Lexi Schlosser from the Office of Teaching and Learning. We are extending the session to one-hour for the inclusion of a demonstration, lessons learned conversation and walk through of a case study from the intrsuctors perspective with the Respondus Monitor Software. 

What is Respondus Lockdown Browser and Monitor?

LockDown Browser is a custom browser that prevents digital cheating during an online exam. Respondus Monitor is a companion product for LockDown Browser that deters cheating when students take online exams in non-proctored environments. Students use their own computers with a standard webcam to record assessment sessions.

Canvas Coaching is a weekly event aimed at supporting faculty with teaching online in Canvas. The 30-minute sessions may include a demonstration, informal discussion, and/or Q&A time. Each week focuses on a different topic that will align with your quarter planning. In addition, participants will be provided with the opportunity to sign up for one-on-one consultation support with an Instructional Designer.

To learn more, please register for the session and join us at the following Zoom link: https://udenver.zoom.us/j/96436348342

Online

In this interactive workshop, participants will develop an understanding of how mentoring can help advance their scholarly and/or professional goals and contribute to personal and professional flourishing. The workshop is focused on how to develop a mentoring network, including identifying one’s areas of mentoring needs, understanding the distinctions among advisors, mentors, and sponsors, identifying and approaching potential mentors, setting mentoring relationship expectations, and navigating challenges in mentoring relationships. Participants will leave the workshop with a map of their own ideal mentoring network and concrete strategies for developing and sustaining their mentoring network.

Zoom Link: Coming Soon 

Online

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 the winter 2021 quarter we will explore the theme of connection through the lenses of self (calling), others (colleagues and students), and bigness of life (institution, family, spirit).

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.

Meeting Schedule for the winter quarter;

(two meetings a month with the same content; welcome to attend one or both sessions)

-Jan 12th, 12:00-1:00

-Jan 28^th, 10:00-11:00

-Feb 8^st, 12:00-1:00

-Feb 25^th, 10:00-11:00

-Mar 8^th, 12:00-1:00

-Mar 25^th, 10:00-11:00

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.”

Online

Teaching and Professional Faculty 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 winter sessions are organized around the book (Inclusive Collegiality and Nontenure-Track Faculty: Engaging All Faculty as Colleagues to Promote Healthy Departments and Institutions - available online) and learnings important to advancement, promotion, and university culture. In the spring quarter, we 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.

Online

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 the winter 2021 quarter we will explore the theme of connection through the lenses of self (calling), others (colleagues and students), and bigness of life (institution, family, spirit).

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.

Meeting Schedule for the winter quarter;

(two meetings a month with the same content; welcome to attend one or both sessions)

-Jan 12th, 12:00-1:00

-Jan 28^th, 10:00-11:00

-Feb 8^st, 12:00-1:00

-Feb 25^th, 10:00-11:00

-Mar 8^th, 12:00-1:00

-Mar 25^th, 10:00-11:00

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.”

Online

To help prepare you for wrapping up Winter 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 weights
• Mute assignments while grading
• Refresh your memory with SpeedGrader
• How to submit grades to the registrar https://www.du.edu/registrar/records/submitgrades.html

Canvas Coaching is a weekly event aimed at supporting faculty with teaching online in Canvas. The 30-minute sessions may include a demonstration, informal discussion, and/or Q&A time. Each week focuses on a different topic that will align with your quarter planning. In addition, participants will be provided with the opportunity to sign up for one-on-one consultation support with an Instructional Designer.

To learn more, please register for the session and join us at the following Zoom link: https://udenver.zoom.us/j/96436348342

Online

Now that Winter Quarter is wrapping up, you may already be thinking about setting up your Canvas course shell for Spring Quarter. 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.

Canvas Coaching is a weekly event aimed at supporting faculty with teaching online in Canvas. The 30-minute sessions may include a demonstration, informal discussion, and/or Q&A time. Each week focuses on a different topic that will align with your quarter planning. In addition, participants will be provided with the opportunity to sign up for one-on-one consultation support with an Instructional Designer.

To learn more, please register for the session and join us at the following Zoom link: https://udenver.zoom.us/j/96436348342

Online

Teaching and Professional Faculty 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 winter sessions are organized around the book (Inclusive Collegiality and Nontenure-Track Faculty: Engaging All Faculty as Colleagues to Promote Healthy Departments and Institutions - available online) and learnings important to advancement, promotion, and university culture. In the spring quarter, we 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.

Online

Now that Winter 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 Spring Quarter with a course template. 

Canvas Coaching is a weekly event aimed at supporting faculty with teaching online in Canvas. The 30-minute sessions may include a demonstration, informal discussion, and/or Q&A time. Each week focuses on a different topic that will align with your quarter planning. In addition, participants will be provided with the opportunity to sign up for one-on-one consultation support with an Instructional Designer.

To learn more, please register for the session and join us at the following Zoom link: https://udenver.zoom.us/j/96436348342

Online

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 the winter 2021 quarter we will explore the theme of connection through the lenses of self (calling), others (colleagues and students), and bigness of life (institution, family, spirit).

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.

Meeting Schedule for the winter quarter;

(two meetings a month with the same content; welcome to attend one or both sessions)

-Jan 12th, 12:00-1:00

-Jan 28^th, 10:00-11:00

-Feb 8^st, 12:00-1:00

-Feb 25^th, 10:00-11:00

-Mar 8^th, 12:00-1:00

-Mar 25^th, 10:00-11:00

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.”

Online

The Seasonal Scholarship Retreat, facilitated by Rebecca Campbell, Ph.D., is an opportunity for academics to hit the reset button to achieve a creative and productive scholarship season. Together we will reflect on your goals and values as a creative and scholar, reflect on your research pipelines and projects, and create personalized structures for you to realize your goals.

Online

In this interactive workshop, attendees will learn strategies for developing an intentional, focused research agenda and tools for developing a realistic publication pipeline and timeline. The workshop will address how to build a research agenda that moves forward multiple projects in different phases of research (e.g. development, data collection, drafting, revising), how to effectively manage collaborative projects, and how to set realistic, sustainable research and publication goals.

Zoom Link: Coming Soon 

Online

In this interactive workshop, attendees learn the basic principles, concepts, and tools of project management and how to apply those to academic projects, from dissertations to books to course design and preparation and beyond. Focusing on project management techniques that maximize efficiency and productivity while minimizing burnout, rework, and overwhelm, this workshop provides concrete strategies for managing academic life and work, including time management and organization. Participants will leave the workshop having learned how to develop and use a project management plan to keep work organized and on track and will complete their own project management plan for a project of their choice.

Zoom Link: Coming Soon 

Online

Drawing on her own experience publishing numerous academic articles and book chapters, as well as her experience as a reviewer and editor of several special issues and edited volumes and as incoming Editor-in-Chief for the Journal of Positive Sexuality, Dr. Simula shares strategies for preparing academic manuscripts, identifying potential manuscript homes, communicating with editors, and responding to reviewers. Participants will take away from the workshop a clearer understanding of the academic review process, tools for effectively communicating with editors and reviewers, and strategies for managing and responding to critical feedback.

Zoom Link: Coming Soon