CTL Newsletter - September 2023
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Colleagues, welcome back to the city of bricks! As we start the fall semester, I'd like to highlight a few notable changes.

The SHED is almost complete! If you’re teaching in the SHED or Wallace classrooms and have questions – come to our SHED/Wallace Instructor Office Hours.

Generative AI is another large change that has impacted teaching and learning. To help navigate these changes, a series of events and sessions are being held for faculty to share experiences and learn from one another – for a list of our events check here and stay tuned for other opportunities.

As you start the fall semester, CTL Staff and Faculty Fellows look forward to collaborating and supporting your teaching initiatives.
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Neil Hair
Executive Director, Center for Teaching and Learning

News + Updates

Panopto In-video Quiz Grade Transfer

Panopto can now transfer scores from in-video quizzes to the myCourses gradebook. Any videos where you would like to transfer the grade would need to be embedded using a new Graded Panopto Video method. Grade items will automatically be created and each video would have its own grade item in the gradebook.

For details, review Setting up Quiz Questions Inside Panopto Videos.

CTL Support Changes

CTL has a single point of contact for all your classroom, academic technology, and media services support needs:

ctl@rit.edu

475-2551

rit.edu/teaching/contact

Previously, there was separate contact information for Classroom Support, Academic Technology Support, and Media Services Support. Now you can get help for all your teaching and learning, and academic technology needs at a single email address and phone number.

Contact Information, Hours of Service, Live Chat, and 24/7 myCourses support information is available at: rit.edu/teaching/contact. 

Academic Technology Support Help documentation is now available in the RIT Service Center's self-service knowledge base available at: help.rit.edu.

Here's how to find CTL training and support resources in the new location:

  1. In a browser, access the CTL Knowledge Base and log in with your RIT account.
  2. Use the search box at the top of the page to find resources by keywords.
  3. Use the Categories in the left side navigation to find resources by topic area.

Faculty Fellows

Faculty Fellows across multiple disciplines, spanning all colleges, are available to you for confidential advice and mentorship throughout the semester. This year we welcome two new faculty members to the bench, mari jaye blanchard, replacing Alex Lobos, joins us to represent The Arts, and Nickesia Gordon, replacing Torrence Sparkman as this year’s Strategic Priority Fellow for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion. Thank you Alex and Torrence for your service this past year and good luck with your new appointments!

Check out our Fellows and their areas of expertise here.

Tools for Teaching

The Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL) supports faculty in using a variety of academic technologies. These three tools are a good place to start. Learn more visit our website.

myCourses
Learning Management System (LMS) used to share course expectations, course materials, and activity instructions to students. Learn more.

Zoom
Web conferencing solution used to facilitate synchronous remote classes, include guest speakers, and provide additional collaboration opportunities. Learn more.

Panopto
Video hosting platform used to store asynchronous course videos for streaming in myCourses.
Learn more.

Looking for more teaching tools?
See our Technology for Teaching Overview, or come meet with us.

Upcoming Events

To see our full list of events, and event descriptions visit our Events page.

Teaching Strategies

SEP 13   Conversations on Student Support: Spectrum Support Office

SEP 29   Workshop: Conducting A Midterm Course Evaluation

OCT 19   Teachers on Teaching: Getting to Know Our Gen Z Students (and Getting Them to Know Us), presented by Kristin Kant-Byers

NOV 17   Teachers on Teaching: What Do You Know? - Teaching with Threshold Concepts, presented by David Yockel

Teaching Tools

SEP 26   Ask Me Anything: Zoom

SEP 26   Ask Me Anything: Slack

SEP 26   Ask Me Anything: Ally

SEP 26   Panopto for Course Videos

SEP 29   Ask Me Anything: myCourses

Generative AI Series

SEP 22   Fall Symposium: Teaching & Learning in the Era of Generative AI @ 1-5pm | University Gallery

OCT 6    Generative AI: Check-in Session @ 1-2pm | WAL 05-A400
Join us for an open discussion on the influence of generative AI on your teaching methods to determine what support you need, as well as topics for future programming.

NOV 9    Generative AI: Check-in Session @ 12:30-1:30pm | WAL 05-A400
Join us for an open discussion on the influence of generative AI on your teaching methods to determine what support you need, as well as topics for future programming.

Tool Tip

The new Zoom Digital Whiteboard can be created and used outside of a Zoom meeting. The whiteboard is an infinite canvas with many drawing and annotation options. There are also templates to get you started. Finished whiteboards can be exported as PDFs or PNGs for sharing. Review the Zoom Whiteboard User Guide.

Questions - Need Help?
email us

CTL@rit.edu

visit us online

rit.edu/teaching

call us

475-2551

meet with us

rit.edu/teaching/consultations