UNI eLearning News

ITS-Educational Technology has developed an eLearning workshop to assist faculty with creating an online presence for their face-to-face courses. This online presence would be used to allow continuation of course work during an emergency situation where the campus may be quarantined or closed.

During this session participants will need to bring their course materials (such as a syllabus, PowerPoint presentations, handouts) and will receive hands-on instruction on how to place those materials into an eLearning course. The goal of the workshop will be for each faculty member to leave the workshop with the basic elements of a course that they would use in an emergency situation.

The Emergency Planning eLearning Workshop dates are as follows:
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Monday, November 16 from 9am to noon
Thursday, December 3 from 9:30am to 12:30 pm

Please register online at http://www.uni.edu/its/et or call 319-273-2309 to reserve a space.

Only 4 days remain for UNI faculty to complete the eLearning utilization survey. Take ten minutes of your time and assist educational technology support staff with measuring the effectiveness of the University’s learning management system.

The survey is available through midnight Sunday in MyUNIverse and will provide useful information for improving students’ online learning experience, making vendor/product selections and budgetary decisions.

J. Ana Donaldson, associate professor of instructional technology, will present "Effectively Moving Courses Online: Get On the Bus or Be Left in the Dust," at noon, Wednesday, Nov. 11, in MSH 001. This presentation will provide faculty with guidelines for moving their courses online, with special focus on creating online communities using the Phases of Engagement Model (Conrad and Donaldson, 2004). Overviews of online rigor and instructor survival skills will be included and links to additional resources will be provided. Participant discussion and questions will be encouraged. Cookies and coffee will be provided by the Graduate College. Feel free to bring your lunch.

Attend "Technology in Large Enrollment Classes" from noon to 1 p.m., Wednesday, Nov. 11, in StudioIT 134 in the ITTC. Deb Giarusso and Lea Ann Shaddox will discuss technologies that can be used to help manage large lecture classrooms. Technologies discussed will include UNI eLearning (WebCT) and Classroom Capture. Bring your lunch.

The eLearning system will be shutdown beginning at 6:00 AM on Wednesday, November 4, 2009 for application server maintenance. Maintenance will be completed and service restored by 7:00 AM.

The Blackboard/WebCT learning management and electronic portfolio applications will not be available during this period. This maintenance is necessary to apply patches to the application server operating system.

UNI faculty are invited to participate in an eLearning utilization survey. The anonymous survey is available to all UNI faculty 10/26 – 11/8 from their MyUNIverse portal or https://access.uni.edu/cgi-bin/surveys/takeSurvey.cgi . Results of the survey will provide useful information for delivering technology support services, improving the online learning experience and making vendor/product selections and budgetary decisions.

The Production House is open from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday. The Production House is a self-serve multimedia computer lab in ITTC 108. The lab houses industry standard audio, video and Web production software and an audio recording studio for student, staff and faculty use.

Rod Library presents a new online tool for planning research papers and staying on schedule. Enter the due date and get a list of 12 steps to complete. Each step includes a due date, help documents, and links to resources such as Rod Library and Writing Center; Visit http://www.library.uni.edu/gateway/calculator/ to see how it works.

Provost Gibson announced ITS-Educational Technology has developed an eLearning workshop to assist faculty with creating an online presence for their face-to-face courses. This online presence would be used to allow continuation of course work during an emergency situation where the campus may be quarantined or closed.

During this session participants will need to bring their course materials (such as a syllabus, PowerPoint presentations, handouts) and will receive hands-on instruction on how to place those materials into an eLearning course. The goal of the workshop will be for each faculty member to leave the workshop with the basic elements of a course that they would use in an emergency situation.

The Emergency Planning eLearning Workshop dates are as follows:

Tuesday, October 27th from 1pm-4pm

Monday, November 16 from 9am to noon

Thursday, December 3 from 9:30am to 12:30pm

RESERVATIONS ARE REQUIRED. Click here to register.

The maintenance scheduled for Wednesday, October 7, 2009, has been deferred and will now occur at 6:00-7:00 AM on Saturday, October 10, 2009.

The eLearning system will be shutdown beginning at 6:00 AM on Saturday, October 10, 2009 for application server maintenance. Maintenance will be completed and service restored by 7:00 AM.

The Blackboard/WebCT learning management and electronic portfolio applications will not be available during this period. This maintenance is necessary to apply patches to the application server operating system.