Teaching and Learning
Course evaluation reports and UDAcademe
IT Web Development (IT-WD) worked with Institutional Research to create an automated process for providing student course evaluation reports in UDAcademe. UDAcademe is a cloud-based, third-party portal supplied by Faculty180 that aims to centralize a wide variety of faculty accomplishments and activities in a single location.
The automated process provides two different reports of student responses in order to give faculty maximum flexibility. The first report is a PDF document that aggregates student responses to an evaluation and includes statistical measures such as mean, mode, and standard deviation. The second type of report is a spreadsheet that enumerates the individual, anonymous written responses of every respondent.
This enhancement is especially important for faculty members who are preparing their dossiers for promotions and tenure or who are completing their faculty appraisals. Course evaluations reports will also remain available and secured in UD's course evaluation application. For more information, see the UDAcademe website.
Over 150 faculty attend 2017 Winter Faculty Institute
Over 150 faculty, graduate students, and staff participated in the 2017 Winter Faculty Institute (WFI) on Jan. 9 and 10, 2017. This year’s WFI used the theme “Inclusion. Engagement. Transformation… by Design” to focus on course design for both faculty in the process of creating new courses or redesigning existing ones.
Michele DiPietro, co-author of How Learning Works: 7 Research-Based Principles for Smart Teaching, opened the event with an interactive workshop. Participants in the “Hands-on Course Design Intensive” track focused on course design activities in one workshop across the two days. Those who participated in the “Topics in Course Design” track sampled among sessions that addressed course design from different UD faculty and staff perspectives. The program also included sessions to introduce graduate students and post-docs to the Center for the Integration of Research, Teaching, and Learning (CIRTL) at UD. Recordings of several WFI sessions are available via UD Capture.
Faculty: Sign-up for UD Capture for your spring courses
Since 2009, faculty members have taken advantage of UD Capture, UD’s classroom recording service, available in all centrally scheduled classrooms. UD faculty members are encouraged to sign up for UD Capture classroom recording service by noon, Friday, Feb. 3 to ensure that the first day of their spring courses is recorded. All late requests are honored but may be delayed.
UD Capture is a free service that records the projected visuals from a laptop or document camera along with the audio from the room to easily record classroom presentations and discussions for faculty and students to review after class.
Faculty can check online to see if UD Capture is available in their scheduled class location, and then use the UD Capture registration form to sign up for the service.
