Welcome to Instructional Design & Delivery

Mark your calendars and plan to attend the annual faculty development day on Wednesday, August 22, 2018 from 9 AM - 12 PM in the Wicomico Room (Guerrieri Student Union room 135). Breakfast and registration will begin at 8:30 AM.

High Impact Educational Practices (HIPS) are teaching and learning practices that have been widely tested and shown to be beneficial for college students. Descriptions of each HIP is available from the Association of American Colleges & Universities (AAC&U). The format this year will involve keynote speakers on why HIPS are at the forefront of conversations across USM, how institutions are implementing them and how using HIPs have been shown to lead to better outcomes for students.  Following the keynote, faculty will engage in a World Café style of discussion to exchange ideas and learn all about how HIPs are being implemented here at SU.

Register for Faculty Development Day and join us as we explore what HIPs are, how we utilize them at SU and within the USM, and how we can move HIPs to the forefront of our work with students.

Just in time for the semester, ID&D will be providing in-person workshops August 13-16, 2018 for MyClasses (Canvas), Panopto, Turnitin, TurningPoint and additional instructional software. View our ID&D Calendar for workshop descriptions and registration. Our August 2018 workshops include:

• Getting Started with MyClasses Canvas
• MyClasses Quick Start (specially designed for Adjunct Instructors)
• Creating and Organizing Content in MyClasses
• Creating Interactive Content
• Accessible (ADA Compliant) Content in MyClasses
• Assignments, Discussions and Groups in MyClasses
• Creating and Managing Assessments in MyClasses
• Mastering the MyClasses Gradebook
• Improve Student Writing Turnitin Feedback Studio (New Integration for Fall 2018)
• Recording Video and Lectures with Panopto
• Actively Engage Students in the Classroom with Clickers
• and more ...

The Start of the Semester Checklist provides instructors with tips to prepare their course for the upcoming semester in MyClasses.

In preparation for academic department restructuring for the College of Health and Human Services and the Seidel School, the usual course and enrollment reports between GullNet and MyClasses will operate differently between April and August 2018.  Reports will be handled as follows:

March 29, 2018 - April 30, 2018:

• Course and enrollments reports for Spring 2018 courses automatically updated every four hours.
• Course and faculty enrollments reports for Summer 2018 courses automatically updated daily (morning).

April 30, 2018 at 8:00 AM:

• Course and enrollment reports for Spring 2018 and Summer 2018 stopped.

April 30, 2018 - July 31, 2018:

• Course and faculty enrollment reports for Fall 2018 automatically updated daily (morning).
• Student enrollments added to the Summer 2018 reports.  However, the Summer 2018 course and enrollment reports will be manually run by ID&D staff.  The manual reports will not run on weekends and the frequency schedule will be as follows:
  • May 1-18, 2018: Summer 2018 course and enrollment report manually run between 8 AM and 9 AM daily.
  • May 19, 2018 - June 1, 2018: Summer 2018 course and enrollment report manually run four times per day (8 AM, 12 PM, 4 PM and 8 PM)
  • June 4-29, 2018: Summer 2018 course and enrollment report manually run two times per day (8 AM and 4 PM).
  • July 2-13, 2018: Summer 2018 course and enrollment report manually run four times per day (8 AM, 12 PM, 4 PM and 8 PM)
  • July 16, 2018 - August 10, 2018: Summer 2018 course and enrollment report manually run two times per day (8 AM and 4 PM).

August 1, 2018 and beyond:

• Student enrollments added to the Fall 2018 reports which will run automatically every four hours.

Anyone who has questions regarding the change in report schedule are encouraged to contact the ID&D office.

Captured an in-class session with Panopto?  Recorded an online lecture?  Using instructional videos as the heart of your content?  If you answered Yes - then the next question is Do they have closed captions or transcripts?

If your instructional video does not have closed captions, then help your students by requesting captions or transcripts to ensure your instructional videos become ADA compliant.  Closed captioning is not only for those requiring accommodations but are also useful for all students, including English Language Learners and those you might be viewing videos without the audio (such as in the library).

Take your online and hybrid course to a new level through a QM Course Review.  Faculty teaching online and hybrid courses can request a review of their course design based on the Quality Matters rubric.