Congratulations on reaching the end of the Summer 2024 term! CCAPS Academic Technology and Design has a few updates to help ensure your online, blended, and face-to-face instructional success as you prepare to wrap Summer courses and launch into Fall 2024. 

Important Reminders

As a reminder, ATD opens courses for online/blended instructors one week before the start of the semester to allow students to acclimate to the online environment.

Important Date: 14-week and second 7-week CCAPS Courses end on August 18, 2024. As summer session is shorter, grades are due August 20, 2024. Please plan your grading accordingly.

Teaching Tips

New Resources on the ATD Website

  • Just-in-time Feedback: Curious about how students are reacting to your course? CCAPS courses include Course Feedback surveys in Modules 3 and 7. You can explore student responses to these surveys by clicking the Course Feedback link → Selecting “Survey Statistics” → Selecting “Student Analysis” to download a Spreadsheet of student responses.
  • The One-Best-Place Principle: Ever wonder why ATD organizes course sites the way you do? We have a brief tutorial, One-Best-Place Principle, that explains how to best organize content in Canvas online courses.
  • AI Resources: Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a topic of growing importance. Integrating AI into academia can offer opportunities for enhancing research, education, and administration. Together, as a learning community, with responsible usage, we can foster a more efficient, inclusive, and forward-thinking educational environment. ATD has begun to collate a list of resources to help instructors with various topics relating to AI and the classroom. 

ATD Highlight

Kaltura - Important Reminder

The Kaltura Player (embedded media player) will be updated to v7 (Version 7) in early August 2024. This update will include performance improvements including shorter load time and the option for more backend analytics. Unfortunately, this update will break embedded videos added with embed codes in Canvas pages, quiz questions, and other Canvas resources. Embedded videos that use the “Add Media Using Kaltura” button in the Canvas Rich Content Editor should not be impacted.

ATD is working to fix embedded videos for Fall 2024 courses, but please reach out to ATD through the CCAPS-ATD Learning Management Assistance form if you find an embedded video that is not working.