Thursday, October 24,12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

Join us this week to talk with fellow faculty about student wellbeing! We’ll discuss student resources, share examples of challenges, ask questions, and discuss ways we can support students and their wellbeing. All faculty and staff are encouraged to attend! Drop in to our Zoom chat during your lunch hour by clicking the link below. If you can’t make it this week, you can attend a future student care chat by visiting our faculty event calendar. We hope to see you there!

Wednesday, October 30,  12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

Hybrid and online courses (and in-person courses that use digital platforms) ask us to wrap our heads around academic integrity in a different way and even consider new pedagogies and strategies for teaching to engage students in online discussions, ask them to compose academic papers, or take online tests and quizzes. Tools like originality checkers (also known as plagiarism checkers) and proctoring software have causes for concern, including reliance on tools that could one day not be available. So, how do we best foster academic integrity in this digital age? Join us for a session discussing best practices for using tools, pedagogies, and strategies that support academic integrity and increase student engagement.

Wednesday, October 23, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

Are you using Turnitin’s plagiarism detection software in your courses? Have you had successes or challenges with the tool that you want to discuss? Join us for an open session and share your experience with peers who may have similar questions. We'll discuss use cases and best practices, student perspectives, ethical concerns, and potential options for using—or finding alternatives to—Turnitin.

Don’t miss your chance to explore the Coursera AI Academy before your access expires at the end of December! This resource provides a wide range of AI-focused courses that can help enhance your teaching, research, and professional development. Whether you're interested in machine learning, natural language processing, or AI ethics, there’s something for everyone.

If you have already signed up for the AI Academy, you can access it via your email from Coursera. If you haven’t signed up yet, click here to request access!

OAI would like to invite you to join us in evaluating academic integrity platforms with a focus on plagiarism detection tools. This working group will assess our current needs, review our existing platform (Turnitin), and determine whether to transition to a new tool. Sign up to voice your feedback and take an active role in assessing our academic integrity platform.

Captions and transcripts are integral to an accessible course, and the DRC, OAI, and OIT are here to help. Please review the recent criteria updates for requesting professional captions. By verifying these requirements are met, you can ensure your captions are processed as quickly and efficiently as possible.

It is natural to encounter controversial topics in any course, but that doesn’t make navigating them easy. Review the OAI+ article on Supporting Students through Difficult Classroom Conversations to prepare yourself and your students for these discussions.

Do you own any courses or course content in D2L that you’d like to keep but did not get to move over? Now is the time to request it. All courses still in D2L will be deleted on October 18, 2024.

Use the support form to request D2L records. Be sure to include the D2L course name!

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