Distribution: Faculty, A&P
2
9
16
23
30
Faculty Center for Teaching and Learning
Sunday
April 2006
New! myUCF Grades
3
10
4
Tuesday
Academic Service
Learning: A Community
University Partnership
CL1-207 11:30 - 1:00
11
Faculty Social
CL1-207 4:00 - 5:30
Community Partners
in Service-Learning:
Finding Them and
Keeping Them Happy
CL1-207 3:00 - 4:00
18
25
5
April 2006
Wednesday
Teaching Creatively:
Ideas in Action
CL1-207 1:30 - 3:00
12
19
6
Thursday
Developing a Portfolio
for Promotion and
Tenure
CL1-207 10:30 - 12:00
13
Effective Presentations:
Overcoming All Fears
CL1-207 1:30 - 3:00
20
27
7
Friday
Writing Student
Learning Outcomes
and Selecting Direct
Measures
CL1-207 8:30 - 10:00
Collecting and
Analyzing the Results
and Determining Next
Steps
CL1-207 10:30 - 12:00
14
21
28
Intro to myUCF Grades: Intro to myUCF Grades: Intro to myUCF Grades:
An Online Grade
An Online Grade
An Online Grade
Reporting Tool
Reporting Tool
Reporting Tool
CL1-207 2:00 - 3:00
CL1-207 2:00 - 3:00
CL1-207 9:00 - 10:00
Building a Grade Book Building a Grade Book
using MS Excel
using MS Excel
CL1-207 3:00 - 4:00
CL1-207 3:00 - 4:00
26
Here’s what’s happening this month at the Faculty Center for Teaching and Learning.
Make plans to join us!
Monday
Writing Student
Learning Outcomes
and Selecting Direct
Measures
CL1-207 12:30 - 2:00
Collecting and
Analyzing the Results
and Determining Next
Steps
CL1-207 2:30 - 4:00
17
Teaching Creatively:
Ideas in Action
CL1-207 1:00 - 2:30
24
Intro to myUCF Grades: Developing a Portfolio Intro to myUCF Grades: Intro to myUCF Grades: Intro to myUCF Grades:
An Online Grade
for Promotion and
An Online Grade
An Online Grade
An Online Grade
Reporting Tool
Tenure
Reporting Tool
Reporting Tool
Reporting Tool
CL1-207 4:00 - 5:00
CL1-207 11:00 - 12:30
CL1-207 3:00 - 4:00
CL1-207 11:00 - 12:00
CL1-207 1:00 - 2:00
Building a Grade Book
using MS Excel
CL1-207 2:00 - 3:00
Intro to myUCF Grades:
An Online Grade
Reporting Tool
CL1-207 3:00 - 4:00
For more information please go to www.fctl.ucf.edu/calendar
CL1-207 • Phone: 407-823-3544 • Fax: 407-823-2355 • E-mail: fctl@mail.ucf.edu • www.fctl.ucf.edu
We are pleased to announce a new electronic way to report grades to your
students during the term called “myUCF Grades”. No longer will posting of
grades outside classrooms or offices be necessary. Available for all courses
beginning Summer 2006, a new pagelet will automatically synchronize
with your official class rosters and allow you to manually input grades,
import from Microsoft Excel, or report grades uploaded directly from the
Test Scoring Services (without the intermediate step of burning results to a
disc). You may use the myUCF Grades pagelet at the same time as WebCT,
but the two systems do not update each other. Students can access posted
grades online through the myUCF Grades pagelet (https://my.ucf.edu).
More details and step-by-step instructions can be found at:
http://www.fctl.ucf.edu/tresources/myUCFgrades/
The UCF Help Desk (407-823-5117 or helpdesk@mail.ucf.edu) will assist
you with any technical access questions. The Faculty Center (407-823-3544
or fctl@mail.ucf.edu) is happy to consult with you about further applications
or complications using myUCF Grades.
Different methods to give out grades:
• give individually to students directly in class (it is a FERPA violation to
post grades on walls)
• use WebCT’s embedded grade book
• use the NEW myUCF Grades pagelet
Final Grades will continue to be submitted this Summer using the Final
Grade Roster “bubble form.”
myUCF Grades
Workshops
The Faculty Center will offer workshops and one-on-one consultations on
creating and maintaining Excel gradebooks or using the myUCF Grades
pagelet for your courses. April workshops:
Wednesday, April 19, 10:00 - 11:00
Thursday, April 20, 2:00 - 3:00
Friday, April 21, 9:00 - 10:00
Wednesday, April 26, 3:00 - 4:00
Thursday, April 27, 11:00 - 12:00
Friday, April 27, 1:00 - 2:00
Friday, April 27, 3:00 - 4:00
1
8
15
22
29
Saturday
Faculty Center staff are also available to visit with your department to
demonstrate this new way for students to access their grades, such as a short
overview during a Faculty meeting. Department chairs may request a visit
by email to fctl@mail.ucf.edu or by phoning 3-3544.
University of Central Florida
The Karen L. Smith Faculty Center for Teaching and Learning
CL1-207 • Phone: 407-823-3544 • Fax: 407-823-2355
E-mail: fctl@mail.ucf.edu
www.fctl.ucf.edu
GTA
Certificate
Course
Summer
Faculty
Development
Conference
Registration due date:
April 30, 2006
May 1 - May 4, 2006
Please
encourage
your
Graduate Teaching Assistants
to enroll in our non-credit
Certificate course, particularly
if they are instructors of
record. This certificate also
meets the requirements set
out by Graduate Studies
for GTA Training.
Topics
include presentation skills and
practice, balancing the many
roles of TA’s, course design
and management, teaching
strategies, learning differences
among students, instructional
technology, giving assessment
and
soliciting
feedback,
building a support network,
and professional survival skills,
ethics, and legal issues.
There are two sections, one
meeting on Wednesdays (May
17 to August 2) and the other
on Fridays (May 19 to August
4). All classes meet from 1:004:00.
The Summer 2006 Certificate
course will offer a stipend of
$500 to qualified individuals
who complete the class
requirements. Admission to
the course will be granted on a
first-come, first-served basis.
Online registration is required
and can be found at: <http://
www.fctl.ucf.edu/events/
GTAprograms>.
Please
encourage interested graduate
students to enroll early!
All faculty are invited to participate
in sessions at the Summer Faculty
Development Conference. The
themes include the Scholarship
of
Teaching
and
Learning
(SoTL), assessment of learning
outcomes,
research,
service
learning,
interdisciplinarity,
student engagement, integration
of Information Fluency, and
diversity.
The full program will be available
on the Faculty Center website
<http://www.fctl.ucf.edu>.
Come for one session or several.
The conference will be held in
Classroom Building 1.
Full-Day
Adjunct
Retreat
Saturday, May 6, 2006
9:00 am - 4:00 pm
We hold Saturday training sessions
for adjunct faculty members once
per semester, covering both nutsand-bolts (rosters, legal matters,
syllabi) and more general pedagogy
(how to hold effective and interesting lectures, increase student engagement, and build courses that
are balanced and aligned among
goals, objectives, assignments, and
teaching practice). New and returning adjuncts are welcome.
The retreat is a single-day event
that lasts seven hours, with the
12:00-1:00 hour a free time for
lunch on your own. Instructors who
qualify will earn a stipend of $150.
The Adjunct Retreat will be held on
the Orlando campus in Classroom
Building-1, Room 218.
Online registration is required.
For more information, please visit
<http://www.fctl.ucf.edu/events/
adjuncts>.
Faculty
Social
Tuesday, April 18, 2006
4:00 - 5:30
Join up with faculty around
the university for an informal
social, held at the Faculty
Center. Refreshments will be
served. The Faculty Social is
co-sponsored by the Faculty
Center and the UCF Barnes
and Noble Bookstore.
In The Center
Academic Service Learning:
A Community University
Partnership
The workshop will focus on the
service learning practices at the
University of Central Florida
(UCF) and its capacity building
among community organizations
(public, private, nonprofit) in the
region. The workshop will highlight
service-learning pedagogy as a
central strategy for bridging the
instruction of civic knowledge and
skills with opportunities for active
service at UCF. In addition, it will
explore how higher education
institutions and community-based
organizations form partnerships to
meet the goals of students.
Monday, April 4, 11:30 - 1:00
Register Now
For Program
Assessment
Workshops
Part I:
Writing Student Learning Outcomes and Selecting Direct
Measures
Part II:
Collecting and Analyzing the
Results and Determining Next
Steps
Program Assessment coordinators are invited to bring teams
to continue their focus on useful assessment methods. The
first fifty faculty to attend both
parts receive $100 stipends.
Contact Tace Crouse (tcrouse@
mail.ucf.edu) or register online
at www.fctl.ucf.edu
April 7
April 10
Teaching Creatively: Ideas in
Action
Participants will experience
creative classroom techniques that
might be used in any size class. By
being actively involved, faculty will
be able to determine the value of
the methods from the student and
faculty perspective.
Wednesday, April 5, 1:30 - 3:00
Monday, April 17, 1:00 - 2:30
Community Partners in
Service-Learning: Finding
Them and Keeping Them
Happy
This workshop will provide
practical
suggestions
and
successful practices for developing
partnerships with community
agencies, including social service
organizations and K-12.
Tuesday, April 11, 3:00 - 4:00
Developing a Portfolio for
Promotion and Tenure
This workshop will discuss, in
a general way, the “do’s and
don’ts” of promotion and tenure
portfolios. We will discuss the
“more work/less work” rule, as
well as the value of finding a
tenure mentor.
Thursday, April 6, 10:30 - 12:00
Tuesday, April 25, 11:00 - 12:30
Effective Presentations:
Overcoming All Fears
Presenting to students or
colleagues is a tough task that
requires not only a calming of the
nerves, but an audience-centric
approach. This session will help
you identify the stages of anxiety
as well as how to use technologies,
such as PowerPoint, more
effectively
Thursday, April 13, 1:30 - 3:00
myUCF Grades
Workshops
Intro to myUCF Grades: An
Online Grade Reporting
Tool
myUCF Grades will be available
for all courses beginning
Summer 2006. Learn how
to use this electronic grade
posting tool and do away
with posting grades outside
classrooms and offices!
Wednesday, April 19, 10:00 - 11:00
Thursday, April 20, 2:00 - 3:00
Friday, April 21, 9:00 - 10:00
Wednesday, April 26, 3:00 - 4:00
Thursday, April 27, 11:00 - 12:00
Friday, April 27, 1:00 - 2:00
Friday, April 27, 3:00 - 4:00
Building a Grade Book
using MS Excel
Together we will walk through
a grade book template and
customize it to your syllabus.
Please bring your syllabus with
a breakdown of your scoring
policy. Important: participants
should register ahead of time
by emailing Eric Main (emain@
mail.ucf.edu).
Wednesday, April 20, 11:00 - 12:00
Thursday, April 21, 3:00 - 4:00
Friday, April 28, 2:00 - 3:00
The Karen L. Smith Faculty Center for Teaching and Learning
CL1-207 • Phone: 407-823-3544 • Fax: 407-823-2355
E-mail: fctl@mail.ucf.edu
www.fctl.ucf.edu
GTA
Certificate
Course
Summer
Faculty
Development
Conference
Registration due date:
April 30, 2006
May 1 - May 4, 2006
Please
encourage
your
Graduate Teaching Assistants
to enroll in our non-credit
Certificate course, particularly
if they are instructors of
record. This certificate also
meets the requirements set
out by Graduate Studies
for GTA Training.
Topics
include presentation skills and
practice, balancing the many
roles of TA’s, course design
and management, teaching
strategies, learning differences
among students, instructional
technology, giving assessment
and
soliciting
feedback,
building a support network,
and professional survival skills,
ethics, and legal issues.
There are two sections, one
meeting on Wednesdays (May
17 to August 2) and the other
on Fridays (May 19 to August
4). All classes meet from 1:004:00.
The Summer 2006 Certificate
course will offer a stipend of
$500 to qualified individuals
who complete the class
requirements. Admission to
the course will be granted on a
first-come, first-served basis.
Online registration is required
and can be found at: <http://
www.fctl.ucf.edu/events/
GTAprograms>.
Please
encourage interested graduate
students to enroll early!
All faculty are invited to participate
in sessions at the Summer Faculty
Development Conference. The
themes include the Scholarship
of
Teaching
and
Learning
(SoTL), assessment of learning
outcomes,
research,
service
learning,
interdisciplinarity,
student engagement, integration
of Information Fluency, and
diversity.
The full program will be available
on the Faculty Center website
<http://www.fctl.ucf.edu>.
Come for one session or several.
The conference will be held in
Classroom Building 1.
Full-Day
Adjunct
Retreat
Saturday, May 6, 2006
9:00 am - 4:00 pm
We hold Saturday training sessions
for adjunct faculty members once
per semester, covering both nutsand-bolts (rosters, legal matters,
syllabi) and more general pedagogy
(how to hold effective and interesting lectures, increase student engagement, and build courses that
are balanced and aligned among
goals, objectives, assignments, and
teaching practice). New and returning adjuncts are welcome.
The retreat is a single-day event
that lasts seven hours, with the
12:00-1:00 hour a free time for
lunch on your own. Instructors who
qualify will earn a stipend of $150.
The Adjunct Retreat will be held on
the Orlando campus in Classroom
Building-1, Room 218.
Online registration is required.
For more information, please visit
<http://www.fctl.ucf.edu/events/
adjuncts>.
Faculty
Social
Tuesday, April 18, 2006
4:00 - 5:30
Join up with faculty around
the university for an informal
social, held at the Faculty
Center. Refreshments will be
served. The Faculty Social is
co-sponsored by the Faculty
Center and the UCF Barnes
and Noble Bookstore.
In The Center
Academic Service Learning:
A Community University
Partnership
The workshop will focus on the
service learning practices at the
University of Central Florida
(UCF) and its capacity building
among community organizations
(public, private, nonprofit) in the
region. The workshop will highlight
service-learning pedagogy as a
central strategy for bridging the
instruction of civic knowledge and
skills with opportunities for active
service at UCF. In addition, it will
explore how higher education
institutions and community-based
organizations form partnerships to
meet the goals of students.
Monday, April 4, 11:30 - 1:00
Register Now
For Program
Assessment
Workshops
Part I:
Writing Student Learning Outcomes and Selecting Direct
Measures
Part II:
Collecting and Analyzing the
Results and Determining Next
Steps
Program Assessment coordinators are invited to bring teams
to continue their focus on useful assessment methods. The
first fifty faculty to attend both
parts receive $100 stipends.
Contact Tace Crouse (tcrouse@
mail.ucf.edu) or register online
at www.fctl.ucf.edu
April 7
April 10
Teaching Creatively: Ideas in
Action
Participants will experience
creative classroom techniques that
might be used in any size class. By
being actively involved, faculty will
be able to determine the value of
the methods from the student and
faculty perspective.
Wednesday, April 5, 1:30 - 3:00
Monday, April 17, 1:00 - 2:30
Community Partners in
Service-Learning: Finding
Them and Keeping Them
Happy
This workshop will provide
practical
suggestions
and
successful practices for developing
partnerships with community
agencies, including social service
organizations and K-12.
Tuesday, April 11, 3:00 - 4:00
Developing a Portfolio for
Promotion and Tenure
This workshop will discuss, in
a general way, the “do’s and
don’ts” of promotion and tenure
portfolios. We will discuss the
“more work/less work” rule, as
well as the value of finding a
tenure mentor.
Thursday, April 6, 10:30 - 12:00
Tuesday, April 25, 11:00 - 12:30
Effective Presentations:
Overcoming All Fears
Presenting to students or
colleagues is a tough task that
requires not only a calming of the
nerves, but an audience-centric
approach. This session will help
you identify the stages of anxiety
as well as how to use technologies,
such as PowerPoint, more
effectively
Thursday, April 13, 1:30 - 3:00
myUCF Grades
Workshops
Intro to myUCF Grades: An
Online Grade Reporting
Tool
myUCF Grades will be available
for all courses beginning
Summer 2006. Learn how
to use this electronic grade
posting tool and do away
with posting grades outside
classrooms and offices!
Wednesday, April 19, 10:00 - 11:00
Thursday, April 20, 2:00 - 3:00
Friday, April 21, 9:00 - 10:00
Wednesday, April 26, 3:00 - 4:00
Thursday, April 27, 11:00 - 12:00
Friday, April 27, 1:00 - 2:00
Friday, April 27, 3:00 - 4:00
Building a Grade Book
using MS Excel
Together we will walk through
a grade book template and
customize it to your syllabus.
Please bring your syllabus with
a breakdown of your scoring
policy. Important: participants
should register ahead of time
by emailing Eric Main (emain@
mail.ucf.edu).
Wednesday, April 20, 11:00 - 12:00
Thursday, April 21, 3:00 - 4:00
Friday, April 28, 2:00 - 3:00
Distribution: Faculty, A&P
2
9
16
23
30
Faculty Center for Teaching and Learning
Sunday
April 2006
New! myUCF Grades
3
10
4
Tuesday
Academic Service
Learning: A Community
University Partnership
CL1-207 11:30 - 1:00
11
Faculty Social
CL1-207 4:00 - 5:30
Community Partners
in Service-Learning:
Finding Them and
Keeping Them Happy
CL1-207 3:00 - 4:00
18
25
5
April 2006
Wednesday
Teaching Creatively:
Ideas in Action
CL1-207 1:30 - 3:00
12
19
6
Thursday
Developing a Portfolio
for Promotion and
Tenure
CL1-207 10:30 - 12:00
13
Effective Presentations:
Overcoming All Fears
CL1-207 1:30 - 3:00
20
27
7
Friday
Writing Student
Learning Outcomes
and Selecting Direct
Measures
CL1-207 8:30 - 10:00
Collecting and
Analyzing the Results
and Determining Next
Steps
CL1-207 10:30 - 12:00
14
21
28
Intro to myUCF Grades: Intro to myUCF Grades: Intro to myUCF Grades:
An Online Grade
An Online Grade
An Online Grade
Reporting Tool
Reporting Tool
Reporting Tool
CL1-207 2:00 - 3:00
CL1-207 2:00 - 3:00
CL1-207 9:00 - 10:00
Building a Grade Book Building a Grade Book
using MS Excel
using MS Excel
CL1-207 3:00 - 4:00
CL1-207 3:00 - 4:00
26
Here’s what’s happening this month at the Faculty Center for Teaching and Learning.
Make plans to join us!
Monday
Writing Student
Learning Outcomes
and Selecting Direct
Measures
CL1-207 12:30 - 2:00
Collecting and
Analyzing the Results
and Determining Next
Steps
CL1-207 2:30 - 4:00
17
Teaching Creatively:
Ideas in Action
CL1-207 1:00 - 2:30
24
Intro to myUCF Grades: Developing a Portfolio Intro to myUCF Grades: Intro to myUCF Grades: Intro to myUCF Grades:
An Online Grade
for Promotion and
An Online Grade
An Online Grade
An Online Grade
Reporting Tool
Tenure
Reporting Tool
Reporting Tool
Reporting Tool
CL1-207 4:00 - 5:00
CL1-207 11:00 - 12:30
CL1-207 3:00 - 4:00
CL1-207 11:00 - 12:00
CL1-207 1:00 - 2:00
Building a Grade Book
using MS Excel
CL1-207 2:00 - 3:00
Intro to myUCF Grades:
An Online Grade
Reporting Tool
CL1-207 3:00 - 4:00
For more information please go to www.fctl.ucf.edu/calendar
CL1-207 • Phone: 407-823-3544 • Fax: 407-823-2355 • E-mail: fctl@mail.ucf.edu • www.fctl.ucf.edu
We are pleased to announce a new electronic way to report grades to your
students during the term called “myUCF Grades”. No longer will posting of
grades outside classrooms or offices be necessary. Available for all courses
beginning Summer 2006, a new pagelet will automatically synchronize
with your official class rosters and allow you to manually input grades,
import from Microsoft Excel, or report grades uploaded directly from the
Test Scoring Services (without the intermediate step of burning results to a
disc). You may use the myUCF Grades pagelet at the same time as WebCT,
but the two systems do not update each other. Students can access posted
grades online through the myUCF Grades pagelet (https://my.ucf.edu).
More details and step-by-step instructions can be found at:
http://www.fctl.ucf.edu/tresources/myUCFgrades/
The UCF Help Desk (407-823-5117 or helpdesk@mail.ucf.edu) will assist
you with any technical access questions. The Faculty Center (407-823-3544
or fctl@mail.ucf.edu) is happy to consult with you about further applications
or complications using myUCF Grades.
Different methods to give out grades:
• give individually to students directly in class (it is a FERPA violation to
post grades on walls)
• use WebCT’s embedded grade book
• use the NEW myUCF Grades pagelet
Final Grades will continue to be submitted this Summer using the Final
Grade Roster “bubble form.”
myUCF Grades
Workshops
The Faculty Center will offer workshops and one-on-one consultations on
creating and maintaining Excel gradebooks or using the myUCF Grades
pagelet for your courses. April workshops:
Wednesday, April 19, 10:00 - 11:00
Thursday, April 20, 2:00 - 3:00
Friday, April 21, 9:00 - 10:00
Wednesday, April 26, 3:00 - 4:00
Thursday, April 27, 11:00 - 12:00
Friday, April 27, 1:00 - 2:00
Friday, April 27, 3:00 - 4:00
1
8
15
22
29
Saturday
Faculty Center staff are also available to visit with your department to
demonstrate this new way for students to access their grades, such as a short
overview during a Faculty meeting. Department chairs may request a visit
by email to fctl@mail.ucf.edu or by phoning 3-3544.
University of Central Florida