Continuity and Community is changing it up! Next week, we'll be taking a break in observance of UC Merced's Virtual Commencement. We'll return on Wednesday, May 20 as a biweekly digest—be sure to look for us every other Wednesday through the summer semester.
Though this change will affect how frequently the digest appears in your inbox, it won't affect our content. Continuity & Community will still include relevant, timely information about new and changing UC Merced services and platforms, tips for how to use existing services more effectively or efficiently, feature highlights, and resources that may be of value to staff and faculty alike.
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- Automatic Zoom Meeting Feature for Outlook and o365
- Upcoming Zoom Security Webinar
- Zoom Virtual Backgrounds
- Service Desk Location Change
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ZOOM OUTLOOK INTEGRATION
FOR MAC, PC, AND O365 WEBMAIL
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Mac users on campus may have noticed a warning in their Outlook, cautioning them that the native Zoom plugin will no longer function as of June.
Good news:
You can disregard this notice.
Great news:
There is a new new Zoom integration for Outlook is now automatically available to all UC Merced users in O365 webmail, Outlook for Mac, and Outlook for PC!
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This integration allows you to generate Zoom links and invites right from within the "New Appointment" window for Outlook and O365 webmail.
A few tips:
- If you can’t see the Add Zoom Meeting button, it may be hidden in the “…” menu that signifies there are more items. The first time you use this feature, you will be prompted to sign into your Zoom account.
- Add your meeting title before pressing the "Add Zoom Meeting" button or you won’t see your meeting title in your Zoom meeting schedule.
- If you cancel or delete the meeting in Outlook, the meeting will still show up in your Zoom meetings list.
- If you delete the meeting in Zoom, the Outlook event will continue to exist, but the Zoom link will not work.
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Want some tips on how to avoid Zoom bombing from happening in your online meeting or class session?
Join Academic and Emerging Technologies staff for a webinar to learn more about how to understand and configure your Zoom settings to keep your meetings secure.
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UC MERCED VIRTUAL BACKGROUNDS
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If you have a messy office or just want to have a bit of fun, Zoom lets you chose a
virtual background
to be displayed behind you when you’re using your webcam.
The UC Merced Marketing team has created a number of UC Merced virtual backgrounds that you can use in your Zoom meetings. Download your favorites and show your UC Merced pride during your next meeting!
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Starting May 14th, the Service Desk will relocate to the Academic Office Annex (AOA)—just look for our signs when you enter the building.
This is a temporary move as COB1 is being reconfigured—we'll see you back there in the fall!
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Respondus LockDown Browser and Monitor are two tools that can help faculty address concerns of assessment integrity during remote exams.
Join Academic & Emerging Technologies for an interactive Zoom session while we go over the Respondus options and how to set them up in CatCourses.
Facilitating Remote Exam Integrity
Wednesday, May 6, 2:00 - 3:00 p.m.
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Professor Marcos Garcia-Ojeda talks about his experience with teaching via the flipped classroom.
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It's easy to forget that the use of technology for teaching has a long history and is deeply informed by an extensive body of research. Too often, ceaseless hype surrounding technology innovation obscures the importance of having a framework for making technology selection decisions anchored to learning needs. Below are two models that may be useful for thinking how to design the learning experience and from there, selecting the appropriate technology.
- The Flipped Classroom is one common model that can be best understood as the application of the Principle of 1st Exposure, introduced by Barbara Walvoord in 2004. In this model, students are first introduced to information and ideas outside of direct teacher guidance. This allows teachers to gain insight into where misunderstanding may occur and fosters an interactive approach where faculty-student contact can focus correcting naive understanding. Technology can be used to deliver content and foster interactivity.
- Diana Laurrilard’s Conversational Framework is a distillation of key research on six types of learning: acquisition, inquiry, discussion, practice, collaboration and production. Technology can be used to present and display student and teacher perspectives, and as well, provide a means for students to construct, annotate, and modify their understanding of content.
The abundance of technologies available can be overwhelming. Starting with a model of the learning experience can help make sense of how to select and use technology.
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CETL: RETHINKING ASSESSMENT
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For many students and faculty, the first weeks of our transition to emergency remote instruction were very tough, and the potential for a disruption to student learning was high.
These unusual circumstances present us with an opportunity to rethink how we assess student learning here at the end of the semester.
CETL has compiled a list of suggestions and resources to help faculty
rethink their traditional approach to finals and consider ways to administer finals for the purpose of deepening and refining student understandings as opposed to a summative evaluation "of" student learning.
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KALTURA TIP: CHAPTERS AND SLIDES
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Once a video has been uploaded to Kaltura, you can edit several things that can help to organize, focus, and highlight important parts of the video.
In Kaltura, access the Edit screen by clicking on the pencil icon next to any video in My Media. One of the options you'll find will allow you to add Chapters and Slides under the Timeline heading.
- Chapters create points in the video that allow viewers to navigate to those markers easily.
- Slides allows you to upload pictures at specific times in the videos to provide additional information.
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CURATED RESOURCES FOR FACULTY
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Have a great resource that you'd like to share? Tell us about it!
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UC MERCED LIBRARY: NEWS ALERTS WEBINAR
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Attend a 30 minute UC Merced Library webinar to discover how to create customized email alerts from news publications including The Merced Sun Star, The San Fransisco Chronicle, LA Times and The Chronicle of Higher Education (as well as many others). You can also target these alerts to deliver news on specific topics of interest.
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VoIP MOBILE APP CHANGES NOW IN EFFECT
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Campus VoIP Mobile Users:
OIT has migrated to a new Clearspan Communications app as of
Tuesday, May 5
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If you are a campus VoIP mobile user and you haven't updated your app yet, be aware that you will have to migrate to the new version in order to make and receive calls.
Check your email for instructions from OIT that will walk you through the installation and setup of the new app.
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TALENT ACQUISITION MANAGER SYSTEM (TAM)
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UC Merced is moving to a new staff applicant tracking system that will make it easier for candidates and recruiters to manage and apply for jobs online.
Talent Acquisition Manager (TAM) will replace the current system, PAWS. TAM will launch at UC Merced on
June 1
in tandem with completion of the UC-wide deployment of UCPath.
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Need to follow up on emails or to-do items, but don't want to juggle different applications to do so? Outlook Tasks might be able to help.
The Outlook Tasks feature is built into your Outlook email. When you set up new tasks, you can set priority, due dates, and even reminders to keep you productive.
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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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