Checklists in a course can be very useful in organizations for both the instructor and the student.  Checklists provide a list of items that students can check off to ensure they completed certain steps of a task, instructions or even assignments.  You can have multiple checklists in your course.  An...

Credit for this week’s Tech Tip goes to Inver Hills Faculty, Connie Manos-Andrea, who discovered a way to use the same Zoom Poll in multiple meetings. Connie’s Solution: Schedule a Zoom meeting and create a poll for that class. For a different class, edit your original meeting by changing the...

Highlights of this week’s Bulletin include: From Your Colleagues: Course Design: Leah Greuel Faculty Success Story: Kathy Paukert Podcast: Student Wellbeing during the Fall Term New Starfish Kudo – You Made It! LinkedIn Learning Now Available IHCC Peer Review Program Mentoring Groups: Course Design Equity and Inclusion Free Virtual Training...

What is JIRA? JIRA is the Project Management system we use to organize your help requests, issues with D2L BrightSpace and Academic Technologies. Why should I create a JIRA ticket? Creating a JIRA ticket helps to ensure your issues are promptly addressed.  This process is the most efficient means of...

Highlights of this week’s Bulletin include: From Your Colleagues: Course Design: Leah Greuel Faculty Success Story: Kathy Paukert New! Peer Review Program Mentoring Groups: Course Design Equity and Inclusion Free Virtual Training Series Campus Compact Engaged Faculty Institute More Events and Development Opportunities Minnesota State highlight: Designing Your Course for...

Creating an Instructor Bio widget on your D2L Brightspace homepage is an easy way to connect with your students.  This allows your students to know how to contact you right away when they log in to your course homepage. In the widget, you can include your picture as well as...

The purpose of this tech tip is to remind faculty that they can combine their course sections in to one course site Spring 2021 course shells will be available for faculty use, Thursday, October 15. If you want any of your course sections combined, please let the Center for Teaching...

You can now use a PowerPoint presentation as a virtual background in Zoom sessions. To choose this option during a Zoom meeting, simply click the green Share Screen icon and choose Advanced at the top of the sharing options popup window. Choose the "PowerPoint as Virtual Background" option and browse...