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Volume 23 | August 21 - September 21
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Look out for the newly designed CAFE website launching this August. Along with a refreshed look and feel, new features include our instant access to quickstart tutorials, new events, and workshop recordings. |
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Celebrating Professional Development |
More than 1000 faculty registered for this year’s Summer 2021 Professional Development for Inclusive Polytechnic Education. Funding from the Higher Education Emergency Relief Fund (HEERF) supported paid professional development opportunities for faculty as we prepare to safely return to campus. This year’s opportunities included:
- Canvas Champions “Introduction to Teaching with Canvas”
- Canvas Champions Workshop Series
- CAFE’s Inclusive & Equitable Hybrid & Flipped Course Design Experience 2021
- ACUE Microcredentials
- Chancellor’s Office Quality Assurance Courses (Quality Matters and Quality Learning & Teaching)
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Recognizing Our Champions |
CAFE would like to give a huge shout out to the amazing group of faculty who helped to facilitate this year's Summer 2021 Professional Development for Inclusive Polytechnic Education.
- 17 Canvas Champions facilitated sections of our 2-week asynchronous, Introduction to Teaching with Canvas courses
- 5 Champions held a total of 25 synchronous workshops covering Canvas topics like Canvas Navigation and Course Settings Course Tools (assignments, tests, discussions), Introduction to Grading, and Accessibility in Canvas.
- 9 of our faculty facilitated microcredential sections of Association of College and University Educator’s (ACUE’s) courses on Promoting Active Learning Online, Designing Student Centered Courses, and Creating an Inclusive and Supportive Online Environment.
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The Teaching Experiment Academy (TEA) is a collaboration with UCI and SJSU to support faculty in redesigning STEM courses with specifications grading to increase students' growth mindset and improve learning outcomes. After 7 Mastery Learning seminars, Peer Coaches hosted a bootcamp on how to apply specifications grading in a course redesign. CPP’s Peer Coach is Stacey Musgrave, Mathematics & Statistics. |
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Online Workshops and Learning Opportunities |
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Orientation for New and Returning Lecturers |
Week of Aug. 16: Hyflex (F2F/Zoom/Canvas)
Lecturer Orientation is a great opportunity to be introduced to or get a refresh about available resources at CPP, as well as meet colleagues and get connected.
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Hybrid & Flipped Course Design: CAFE at the Fall Conference Academic Affairs Forum |
Tuesday August 17, 10:00am – 10:50am: via Zoom
This session will emphasize good practices for handling the most challenging course format of all: Hybrid Synchronous.
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Thursday Aug. 26, 12:00pm – 1:00pm: via Zoom
Gradescope helps you collect and grade students’ written or drawn work easily and efficiently! It’s not just for STEM – try it for art, design, or anywhere you want to see students’ written expression. Gradescope integrates with Canvas but provides more rubric & feedback options. You’ll never go back! Please register for the link and/or for the recording to view later.
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Multiple dates & times: Online via Zoom
Join these informal discussions with other faculty, hosted by Victoria Bhavsar. Share ideas, ask questions, get basic tech help, meet new colleagues, and strengthen friendships.
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Multimedia Learning Objects (MLOs) |
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Activity and lab courses can be a challenge when taught remotely. Use CAFE's Multimedia Learning Object's Repository to add interactivity and enhance your courses. These learning objects have been developed in collaboration with faculty at Cal Poly Pomona.
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Practical Judgments in Planning |
This new multimedia learning object by Dr. Richard Willson, Urban and Regional Planning, provides a reflective framework to allow students to explore alternative practical judgments in a specific planning episode, consider possible outcomes, and decide on a path. |
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Things CAFE Wants You to Know |
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No More Blackboard After Summer |
Reminder Summer 2021 was our last term that Blackboard is available for use with students. Starting Fall 2021, Canvas will be the only LMS that can be used for classes. Faculty still have access to Blackboard content through at least Spring 2022. If you have students who need to resolve Incomplete grades in a Blackboard course, please email canvas@cpp.edu to request it. Please visit our Canvas page for more information. |
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Courtesy of IT, we have 24/7 "Tier 1" support for Canvas through June 30, 2022 for faculty and students:
- Log into Canvas (https://canvas.cpp.edu)
- See the Global Navigation menu all the way to the left
- Locate the Help icon (question mark in a circle) at the bottom of that menu
- Select your preferred help method: Chat or call the phone hotline
CAFE's Studio 6 (909-869-3099) is available for assistance, M-F, 9:00 a.m.-7:00pm.
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A great time to run an Ally report!
With our new LMS, Canvas, you can run an Ally report for your courses. The Ally tool in Canvas will help you recognize and correct accessibility issues in your course pages, Word documents, PowerPoints, and PDFs. Ally scans the content you have added and displays an accessibility score that gives you a summary of how accessible all of the materials in your course are.
To access your Accessibility Report:
- Select the Accessibility Report link on the left-hand Course navigation menu in Canvas. Don't worry, this link is not visible to your students.
- Based on the score, the files will show accompanying-colored dials. A file with a score of 0-33% will show a red dial; 34-66% will show a yellow dial; 67-100% will show a green dial.
Having difficulty locating your upcoming Fall courses in Canvas?
You can dictate which courses appear on the Dashboard by favoriting (or unfavoriting) them from the All Courses page:
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Log into Canvas
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Navigate to your All Courses page
- Select the star icon (☆) to the left of any course you wish to appear on the Dashboard
Inclusive Teaching
In collaboration with the Office of Equity & Compliance, this year’s newsletters will offer a series of resources to support inclusive teaching. To get started, check out the websites of Cal Poly Pomona’s Cultural Centers, with their wealth of resources to support our diverse student body.
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What is your preferred method to get help with Canvas?
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Tel: (909) 869 - 3099
Offices: CAFE staff are working remotely during Spring 2021
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