November 10, 2025

In this issue:

Project Push Week: Nov 9-15
Session 2 Mid-term Reminders
Lab Faculty: Bingo Challenge, Exhibitions, Big 10
Moodle Usage Survey
Faculty Policy for Absences & Lateness
Faculty Spotlight

2025-2026 Academic Calendar

Upcoming Dates

Nov 9-15: Project Push Week

Nov 10: Classes dropped on or after this day receive a W

Nov 11: Veteran's Day - Asynchronous classes

Nov 25-27: Asynchronous classes

Dec 8-13: Exhibition Week!

Dec 13: Last day of classes for the Fall

Project Push Week!

Nov 9-15

This week is Project Push Week!

We kicked off project push week with a mini-conference on Sunday, 11/9!

Please use this week as an opportunity to make connections between course content for the week and how that content might inform students’ projects.

Our goals for Project Push Week are to:

Help students make connections between what they are learning in their instructional courses and their projects.
Increase resources available to assist students in developing or refining their projects.
Create a shared focus for the entire CU Community across cohorts, time zones, and the curriculum.

Project Push Week Website

Project Push Week Faculty Guide

Cohort Bingo Challenge!

Session 2 Course Midterm Reminders

Midterm Feedback

As we approach the middle of session 2, it is important to provide feedback to students on their progress. Please head to your Moodle course(s) to provide this feedback for your students in week 4. Guidance on providing feedback is available from the Faculty Support Site.

Course Evaluations

A midterm course evaluation is linked in week 4 of session 2 courses. Be sure to remind your students to complete the (anonymous) midterm evaluations. We recommend you post an announcement with a proposed deadline.

Lab Faculty

Project Push Week Bingo Challenge

CU students are invited to complete an individual bingo card and share it in a Bingo Card Challenge Forum in their WWL Moodle course. In the following week, Lab Faculty of participating cohorts will collect their cohort's Bingo Cards and report their cohort's participation in the challenge via the Project Push Week Engagement form. The cohort with the largest percentage of participation will win the project push week challenge, and some CU swag!

See the explainer doc for more information

Public Exhibitions!

Week 16 Exhibitions are public! Students should be inviting guests to attend and be a part of their learning journey and continued project development.

Staff also join and participate in Exhibitions. Please confirm your plan for final public exhibitions via this form.

Big 10 Assessment

Big 10s to Assess in your Inbox?

This resource page will help refresh your memory around Big 10 assessment!

Student/Cohort Resources

Lab Faculty Drop-ins

Thursday, Nov 20, 2025 6:00pm - 7:30pm EST
Thursday, Dec 18, 2025 6:00pm - 7:30pm EST

See the full Faculty Support calendar here.

Visit the Lab Faculty Page of the Faculty Resource site

All Faculty Reminders

Faculty Processes for Absences and Late Arrivals

Review important processes for what to do if you are going to be absent or late for a scheduled class.

These processes include:

Instructions for lab faculty
Instructions for instructional faculty
Procedures for inclement weather impacting classes
Important contacts & forms for notifying CU staff of alternate class arrangements

Your feedback is needed

For continuous improvement of our Moodle training materials we ask you to take a 5 minute Moodle usage survey.

Faculty Spotlights

Troy Kindle, Instructional Faculty

What do you teach at CU?

OLC Courses - Leadership - Human Resources

Why do you teach at CU?

I teach to give back to students. College isn't easy, I know this as an adult learner myself. I had amazing professors that support me in my journey, and it is the right thing for me to also do the same.

What teaching strategies have worked for you?

Meeting students where they are in their educational journey, not every student has mastered the technology or if a class is virtual, asynchronous, or in person. We as instructors need to ensure we give the grace needed for student to learn.

Fun fact

I am an avid cyclist, in 2025 I have ridden 3,647 miles on my bicycle.

Kristyna Underwood, Instructional Faculty

What do you teach at CU?

Reframing Failure

Why do you teach at CU?

I am a huge believer in second chances and in education. I am so proud of the student body at CU. CU serves persevering adults who have overcome so many obstacles. I love being a part of that journey!