Members

Invitees: Mike Bailey; Tasha Biesinger; Stefanie Buck; Raffaele De Amicis; Jon Dorbolo; David Goodrum; Lynn Greenough; Michael Jefferis; Randy Ocampo; Robin Pappas; Rene Reitsma; David Rios; Karen Watte; Zach Welhouse; Kara Witzke; Weiwei Zhang;

Attendees: Tasha Biesinger; Stefanie Buck; David Goodrum; Lynn Greenough; Michael Jefferis; Cub Kahn; Randy Ocampo; Robin Pappas; Rene Reitsma; David Rios; Karen Watte; Zach Welhouse; Kara Witzke; Weiwei Zhang;

Minutes/Notes

Unizin Update

  • Research on learning activities and/or student success/support
  • Per Robin –universities getting the most benefit are the ones most involved. How to figure out how to get engaged? Data governance work is under way to make data accessible at the right levels/to the right people/groups
  • Course materials –low-cost contracts with publishers; eReader platform; pedagogical benefits
  • A variety of subcommittees to be involved with; e.g., developed principles for Learning Analytics; learning tools, etc.
  • Some schools take the lead on an initiative –a handful can join in and make progress, each with their experience and expertise. Leverage intellectual capital of the consortium
  • My Learning Analytics – MyLA, developed by U Michigan and hosted by Unizin; we are planning small-scale pilots in summer, fall terms
  • Iowa’s Elements of Success–not quite ready for hosting by Unizin
  • Action item:
  • Lynn to share Unizin Teaching and Learning advisory group subcommittees:
    • Accessibility
    • Affordable Content
    • Learning Analytics
    • Application Developers
    • CTL / Faculty Development
    • Learning Tools, Strategies and Operations
    • Libraries
    • Learning Analytics Community of Practice
    • Interested in the subcommittees?They are open to all members. Please submit Unizin Google form to request access to the shared meeting agendas and notes.

Canvas Course Archiving Update

  • First two communications went out; more planned for end of spring term
  • On target for early September; technical finalities
  • See the Course Archiving FAQ

Ally Update

  • pilot this June/July
  • link to advisory committee evaluation summary
  • Start with ~50 courses; gather feedback (DAS; Ecampus; ASC; others)
  • Funding from UIT
  • Would replace TextAid/ReadSpeaker, UDOIT
  • Robin attending disabled student union mtgs. They would like to tap in to evaluations
  • Action item–Lynn to reach out to Stefanie Jenkins and the student group

Request for Hypothesis from Honors College

H5P Testing

  • Interactive learning objects
  • Evaluating H5P.com’s Canvas integration, initially for a handful of Ecampus courses
  • Preliminary testing revealed a few bugs, and also that H5P reports are not FERPA compliant (anyone with Author role can see all student results in all courses that they have authored). This is the biggest hurdle we have found
  • Can be challenging to limit who is Author –would need to be centrally/manually managed
  • Continuing to see how a small-scale pilot work, and also potential issues for a larger implementation/adoption

Canvas Roles

Academic Technology is exploring what a new role would look like for peer reviewers of teaching (and potentially program coordinators). Starting with OSU’s guidelines

  • Syllabus wrangler has been in place for a few years; requests for peer reviewer and program managers are increasing
  • Canvas permission sets are challenging because they are not fine-grained
  • Peer reviewers shouldn’t see student names; don’t need to see grades. BUT need to see discussions (esp. for online courses). Also need to see faculty –student interaction and feedback. No way to do this without allowing access to gradebook
  • Access to 3rd party platforms/content (e.g., publishers) are not an option for this role
  • Advancement of Teaching committee will be discussing quality teaching framework also Ecampus Principles of Effective Teaching. Is there a common set of university-approved elements that could prioritize what to start with re: permissions for the new role?
  • What are similarities between reviewing traditional classroom, Ecampus and hybrid teaching?
  • June faculty senate will vote to replace eSET –introduces process for wholistic evaluation of teaching. There are several factors that could be included
  • Peer reviewer would look at one week of the course (per Hybrid guidelines)
  • Cascades campus is planning a faculty support center. Currently doing teaching triads. There is not a separate peer review process at this time.
  • Being added as an Observer to a site adds the course (and notifications, etc.) to the reviewer’s Canvas list. Faculty who are being reviewed forget to remove the reviewer.

Course templates in Canvas

Course templates now supported in Canvas

  • Academic Technology is still identifying best ways to place links to OSU-wide online resources for academic support and to syllabus/policy content in course sites
  • AT will propose a settings-only template (e.g., to adjust the course menu). This does not duplicate content when copying content to a new site. Would apply to all academic course sites
  • Concerns about templates duplicating content upon course copy (esp. if college-specific templates are introduced)
  • Will continue using Canvas Commons to share templates