Join us for an interactive one-hour session designed specifically for academic program leaders and faculty. This session provides a valuable opportunity to ask questions and gain insights about your program’s learning objectives, curricular maps, key performance indicators, and assessment plans. Whether you’re looking to refine your current strategies or seeking guidance on new ones, this session offers a collaborative environment to address your queries and share best practices. Our assessment fellows will be on hand to provide personalized feedback and practical advice to help you enhance your program’s assessment processes and drive student success. Don’t miss this chance to engage with your peers and elevate your program’s assessment activities.

January 15, 10:00 – 11:00
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Grading rubrics are an assessment tool that helps instructors and students focus attention on the important aspects of an assignment. Rubrics promote grading practices that are consistent and free from bias. This introductory workshop explores the elements of a rubric, methods to design rubrics with and without student involvement, and how to apply them within your courses. Attendees are encouraged to bring their rubrics for small group collaborations or their syllabus and ideas for an assignment that would benefit from a rubric.

By the end of this workshop, participants will be able to:

1. Identify the value and role of rubrics in measuring student learning
   2. Recognize the steps in creating a rubric
   3. Connect rubrics with outcomes and learning data
   4. Identify an assignment in your course that could use a rubric and draft the criteria

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Trust and relationships impact learning. Some icebreakers are designed as on-the-spot, low-stakes games that don’t take a lot of time, while others are designed to support community building in more depth, over time.

We will practice 5 - 6 icebreakers, from simple games that allow students to get to know one another to more complicated activities for building trust and community. We will discuss topics of interest to participants, such as ensuring accessibility of the icebreaker, anxiety, and the value of icebreakers for learning. If you have a favorite icebreaker, there will be time to share them with other participants.

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This workshop is intended for instructors who have already converted their course to Ultra. The workshop will cover:

- Organizing Course Content

- Communicating with students

- Useful tools, settings, and features

- Assessments and Grading

- Gradebook Organization & Overall Grade Setup

January 22, 1:00pm - 2:00pm
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Trust and relationships impact learning. Some icebreakers are designed as on-the-spot, low-stakes games that don’t take a lot of time, while others are designed to support community building in more depth, over time.

We will practice 5 - 6 icebreakers, from simple games that allow students to get to know one another to more complicated activities for building trust and community. We will discuss topics of interest to participants, such as ensuring accessibility of the icebreaker, anxiety, and the value of icebreakers for learning. If you have a favorite icebreaker, there will be time to share them with other participants.

Register - https://fins.uconn.edu/secure_inst/workshops/workshop_view.php?ser=3324

Are you teaching with the new Ultra Course View in HuskyCT but have some questions on how set things up or work with certain features? This session will be dedicated to specific questions participants have as they’ve begun to work in the new version. There will be no set agenda or presentation for this session; EdTech staff will cover any topics participants request. Registrants are encouraged to submit questions ahead of time to edtech@uconn.edu so that staff can prepare detailed answers and examples as necessary.

Register - https://fins.uconn.edu/secure_inst/workshops/workshop_view.php?ser=3306

Join us for an interactive one-hour session designed specifically for academic program leaders and faculty. This session provides a valuable opportunity to ask questions and gain insights about your program’s learning objectives, curricular maps, key performance indicators, and assessment plans. Whether you’re looking to refine your current strategies or seeking guidance on new ones, this session offers a collaborative environment to address your queries and share best practices. Our assessment fellows will be on hand to provide personalized feedback and practical advice to help you enhance your program’s assessment processes and drive student success. Don’t miss this chance to engage with your peers and elevate your program’s assessment activities.

January 27 at 10:00 -11:00
Register - https://fins.uconn.edu/secure_inst/workshops/workshop_view.php?ser=3287

Description coming soon!

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