SUMMER PROGRAMS

We hope your summer is going well, and we are happy to share with you that the first week of our Summer Writing Bootcamp was a success! We had an excellent turnout with positive feedback, and participating faculty appreciated the accountability, comfortable environment, and opportunity to focus on their many projects. If you didn't get a chance to participate, we still have spots open for our upcoming bootcamp dates. See you there!

Our Coffee and Conversations program is also going on and strong!

Join us for the upcoming sessions.

We are excited to announce the launch of a new self-paced, online course called Folio Learning Path (FLP) that allows faculty to actively learn how to use Folio's many tools. The FLP will be a prerequisite to our Teaching Online Courses (TOC), and can be taken either in conjunction with the TOC or as a stand-alone course.

After successfully completing the FLP modules and meeting all Faculty Center badging requirements, participants can earn a Teaching with Technology (TWT) badge for their professional development.

Don't miss the opportunity of learning how to maximize Folio's resources for more efficient teaching, grading, student engagement, and class management. With Folio, learn to work smarter, not harder!

We are gearing up for our Fall Professional Development Day (PD Day): Thriving in Academia. This is another opportunity for professional development and community building centering on practical ways to thrive in your field. Lunch and refreshments will be provided.

Sequenced Modules

When you include all related learning content and activities in a Folio module, you provide students another way for them to succeed in your course.

By adding the related learning activities to a module, you allow students to quickly see their progress through the module, see the items that are completed, and see the items that need to be completed.

Additionally, a student who experiences a sequenced module navigates your content with the fewest number clicks, thereby increasing their time-on-task for learning.

How Do I Build a Sequenced Module?

Use the New button to add new content pages to your module. 

Use the Add Existing Activities button to add related discussions, quizzes, and assignments to your module. 

Sequence the module’s items in the order that students should engage with them.

Under the USG's MomentumU initiative, is the Mindset Learning Project (MLP), an evidence-based teaching tool to support the development of growth mindset in math students. You can learn more about MLP and its benefits by joining the virtual event June 20 Summer Update. 

In addition to joining the USG for the June 20 Summer Update, the USG would like to encourage you and your colleagues to use the MLP in your math courses. The MLP is distributed as a Learning Package for D2L that can be directly imported into your courses with minimal set up. The package is available to faculty who complete the brief, self-paced overview and implementation course in Momentum. 

If you register to participate in MLP, the virtual kickoff for the Fall 2023 MLP is on August 3, at 2pm.



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