The Center for Excellence in Inclusive Teaching & Learning and the Committee on Teaching & Learning are excited to announce the annual UW-Parkside “Celebration of Teaching & Learning Conference” to be held on Thursday and Friday, May 5-6, 2022 in the Student Center. 

View a full schedule of presentations here. 

Innovations in Learning will also be hosting drop-in hours during the conference. You can find the team on Thursday in the Poplar room from 1:00pm-2:00pm and once more on Friday in the Poplar room from 9:00am-10:00am.

There’s still time to submit a proposal for the 2022 Virtual Showcase, hosted by the University of Wisconsin-System Learning Technology Development Council (LTDC). This year’s theme is "On Resourcefulness and Resiliency” and it’s the council’s goal to have at least one presentation from every UW campus! 

The 2022 LTDC Virtual Showcase focuses on how instructors and support staff are moving forward in the “new normal” post-COVID. The three presentation tracks will focus on:

• Student Experience and Success
• Instructional Pedagogy
• Leveraging Learning Technology

Showcase sessions will be polysynchronous — some presentations are pre-recorded and shared via the web, while others are conducted synchronously online. Proposals may be submitted for presentations and/or TechTalks. 

The call for proposals is open until May 9th. For complete details on suggested topics and presenter requirements, please see the online submission form. 

The LTDC Virtual Showcase will take place Tuesday, June 21 and Wednesday, June 22 from 10 am-4 pm. It is free for all to attend. 

The Virtual Showcase is a fantastic way to promote the excellent work being done across the UW System and share ideas with peers throughout the state of Wisconsin (and beyond). Please consider submitting a proposal and attending this free virtual event.

Zoom recordings disappear after 180 days.

If you need to save your recordings for use in other Canvas courses, it's best to store your Zoom recordings in your Kaltura My Media.

Directions on how to download Zoom recordings directly from Canvas: https://kb.uwp.edu/113329

Directions on how to upload Zoom (or any media) files to your My Media in Canvas: https://kb.uwp.edu/99498

Once videos are in My Media you can embed them in any Canvas course without taking up any course storage space. (Each course only has 1GB of storage in Canvas.) If you just download the Zoom files and re-upload them into your courses as video files, you'll run out of storage space in Canvas.

The Innovations in Learning video studio, aptly named the Innovation Studio, has been rebuilt in Wyllie L107A and is available for use all summer. If you are interested in creating video content for your course(s), please send an email to innovations@uwp.edu to schedule time.

You can create standard lecture videos, use the glass lightboard, green screen, document camera, and more! 

Zoom's whiteboard feature is available for use both in Zoom meetings and externally.

You can access your whiteboards directly on web, from the Zoom website, or within a Zoom meeting for instant collaboration. 

The whiteboard includes a number of tools to make collaborating with peers easy, including a text tool, sticky note feature, and more.

Zoom whiteboard resources:

• Getting Started & Whiteboard Features
• Enabling Whiteboard in Zoom

As a reminder, Canvas courses appear on your Dashboard 90 days prior to the start of the semester. They'll be located in the Unpublished section of your Dashboard. This means that if you teach in the first or second summer session, your courses should be available for you now.

Fall 2022 courses will become available in June. As a reminder, we are unable to manually create live Canvas courses. All courses that are tied to Solar will appear in Canvas once that 90-day threshold is met.

If you need a sandbox course created in the meantime, or Canvas content copied over from a previous semester, please contact innovations@uwp.edu.

The Innovations in Learning team would like to hear from the faculty and staff at UW-Parkside about what they'd like to see from the team moving forward.

Please complete this short survey to provide IiL with your feedback regarding additional services you'd like to see offered from the team and what professional development opportunities you're most interested in. 

You can reference the Innovations in Learning webpage for an overview of the team, services provided, and previous training opportunities.