Continuity and Community is a biweekly digest that includes timely information about new and changing UC Merced services, tips for how to use existing services more effectively, and resources that may be of value to staff and faculty alike.
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Above: Associate Professor Suzanne Sindi talks about her favorite aspects of the Calm app. |
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Every student, staff, and faculty member at UC Merced has free premium access to Calm, the #1 sleep and meditation app. Calm is a great resource to practice mindfulness, reduce anxiety and stress, improve sleep and focus, and enhance academic and workplace productivity and performance. |
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GET STARTED WITH CALM
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Visit www.calm.com/signup on desktop, or download the Calm app from the Apple iTunes store on iOS devices or the Google Play Store on Android devices
- Create a new account using your UC Merced email address
- You will receive an email shortly to activate your Calm Premium account
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Join us as we commit to 7 Days of Calm leading up to the first day of Fall instruction on Wednesday, August 26th. Try it out with us and get your fall semester started off on the right foot!
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ZOOM POLLS FOR ASSESSMENT & ENGAGEMENT |
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Zoom Polls can be a great way to conduct formative assessment and engage students in synchronous classes held over Zoom.
Once you enable the Zoom Polls feature, you can create and conduct polls during your Zoom meeting to solicit feedback from students or other attendees. After the meeting has concluded, you can access the student responses for use in learning outcomes evaluation, participatory assessment, or grading.
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OIT will be performing network maintenance Friday morning, August 7, between 12:00 am and 6:00 am.
While we don't expect any broad impacts to services during the maintenance window, you may notice brief (<60 second) connectivity interruptions when accessing campus resources.
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On Friday, August 7 from 6:00 pm to 7:00 pm, OIT will be performing basic maintenance to our Zoom accounts.
We anticipate that this back-end maintenance should have no impact on existing UC Merced Zoom accounts.
However, if you experience any issues accessing Zoom during this time, please Report a Problem at it.ucmerced.edu or call 209-228-HELP (4357).
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OIT puts a significant amount of effort into planning for changes to campus services so that there is little to no impact for our campus users.
However, no matter how carefully we plan, unexpected things can still happen. In those cases, we always post up-to-the-minute information on the OIT Twitter account. Follow us or view our feed on the OIT website home page to keep up with any updates about campus service interruptions. |
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ONLINE COURSE DESIGN:
QUICK START GUIDE
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Not sure where to start in preparing your course for fall? The Center for Engaged Teaching & Learning (CETL) has created a new Quick Start Guide for online course design. The guide provides a specific set of steps to get you up and running as soon as possible. |
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WORKSHOPS FOR REMOTE LEARNING |
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With the start of the Fall semester rapidly approaching, CETL and Academic & Emerging Technologies (AET) have put together a series of workshops to help instructors prepare courses for remote instruction. The workshops will be offered on a weekly basis through August 21.
Workshop titles include:
• Introduction to CatCourses
• Zoom for Instruction (for SYNCRONOUS instruction)
• Creating Instructional Videos
• Using Microsoft TEAMS for Instruction
• Using CatCourses to Organize Course Content
(for ASYNCHRONOUS instruction)
• Zoom Security Workshop
• Using CatCourses Gradebook & Analytics
to Keep Students on Track
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Join CETL and Academic and Emerging Technologies as they present Faculty Voices — a series of online discussions with faculty sharing their experience in developing synchronous and asynchronous courses. During the sessions, representatives from CETL and AET will also be available to answer questions. |
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UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS EBOOK COLLECTION |
UC Libraries have acquired over 5,000 University of California Press ebook titles including the 2020 frontlist. These ebooks accommodate multi-users with unlimited access. |
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REMINDER: CURBSIDE PICK-UP |
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Library Curbside Pick-up is available for local items that cannot be accessed by HathiTrust ETAS.
Schedule a time to pick up items on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays between 9:00 am and 12:00 pm.
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CURATED RESOURCES FOR FACULTY |
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CURATED RESOURCES FOR STAFF |
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Have a great resource that you'd like to share? Tell us about it! |
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Missed an issue? Explore past issues of Continuity and Community
to look back on important news and updates.
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