Newsletter August 8, 2024
cte.utah.edu

Whether you are returning to the U to teach this fall, or just beginning your teaching career here, the Martha Bradley Evans Center for Teaching Excellence has several resources to help you get ready to teach this fall. Read on for more information about syllabus and course prep, our Annual Teaching Symposium, and more.

Just a reminder, PPM 6-100 requires the following for ALL U of U courses: 

The Center for Teaching Excellence website has several Syllabus Design resources, including a streamlined Syllabus Template as well as updated lists of required and recommended University policy statements and resources for students.

If you have questions about how HB261 affects your teaching, MBECTE has compiled an HB261 Teaching Resource page with information compiled from central administration, USHE, and more.

You can also request a consult with CTE staff for more in-depth course and pedagogy questions. Digital Learning also offers a Pre-Semester Checklist for getting started in Canvas, as well as several Canvas Help links.

We are excited to announce some updates to our CTE site on AI and Instruction.

It is crucial to clearly communicate your expectations regarding AI usage to your students; please ensure that your syllabus contains explicit AI usage statements (examples are available on our AI website) and that your assignments include clear instructions and rubrics to guide students appropriately.

In addition to information about syllabus statements, recommended AI tools, news, and instructional guidelines, we have added new information to our site like:

Are you integrating AI into your pedagogy in interesting and innovative ways? We’d love to hear about it and support you!

UIT Digital Learning Technologies (DLT) recently migrated its Knowledge Base from Zendesk to ScreenSteps to improve the organization and presentation of help articles. Support topics include Adobe, Canvas, Kaltura, Simple Studio, Zoom, audiovisual systems, and other educational and classroom tools.

To access the DLT Knowledge Base, please visit classhelp.utah.edu. For more information about DLT tools and resources, please visit the DLT website or email the DLT team at classhelp@utah.edu.

Popular KB articles:

Beginning Fall 2024, course schedules will be updated with the following course modalities. Please check your courses and their modality on the Course Schedule, and make sure you are scheduling your course appropriately

In-Person Courses are held physically on-campus, complemented by online resources

Hybrid Courses combine in-person and remote elements, with some sessions possibly in rea-time.

Online Courses are entirely remote, self-paced weekly, and do not include scheduled class meetings.

Remote Real-Time Courses required scheduled online meetings via video conference, with no-in-person session

8/29 – U of U home football game at 7pm; please be aware of potential parking and traffic disruptions on campus

The Center for Disability and Access is moving! Beginning 8/5, all student appointments will be virtual while they move into a new location in the Student Services Building. Their temporary office during the move is in SSB, Basement Level, Room 65

How can you ensure students achieve the outcomes you developed for your courses, while also preparing them for a world where AI competency is increasingly expected? Responding to this question is the key purpose of Teaching with AI, a four-part series of online workshops designed to prepare faculty for a new era of human learning.

Don't miss your chance to participate in any—or all—of these workshops, which will feature current-to-the-moment information regarding generative AI and its possibilities for higher education. You will also receive guidance on how to apply AI within your own learning contexts between workshop sessions. Sharing, interaction, and exploration will be hallmarks of this hands-on workshop series.

Each workshop will focus on a specific topic:

Register for all four workshops and receive a discounted rate plus a complimentary copy of Teaching with AI: A Practical Guide to a New Era of Human Learning, written by José Antonio Bowen and C. Edward Watson.

AAC&U workshops provide in-depth, hands-on opportunities for individuals and campuses to learn and engage in the development of solutions to key issues in undergraduate education.