Newsletter Spring 2023

In the spirit of spring, we're revitalizing our newsletter to share the latest news and happenings! The eLearning team has been busy working with our new partners to advance online learning at CSU. For the past several months, we have worked with many of you to regroup around our fully online programs to do course reviews and refreshes. We updated courses. We updated course banners with the new CSU logo. We reached out to program leaders for updates to our prospective student website at online.csuohio.edu. The website is looking great and will continue to improve as we work toward another website refresh in mid-March. Thank you all for your collaboration on this important work. 

Training:

Are you using the CSU Course Template? 

The CSU Course Template provides consistent structure and suggested organization based upon the Quality Matters rubric. The template can be personalized and provides resources useful to students and faculty. You can start fresh with a template and add your content or copy the template into already developed courses.  

• Request a CSU Template  
• Already have the template? Submit the Template Refresh Request form and we’ll update it to the January 2023 version for you! 

Academic Integrity 

Turnitin recently announced that it is developing an AI Writing Detection feature and wants your feedback! They are inviting faculty to participate in focus groups, one-on-one interviews, and surveys by submitting the form at "Join Us in Developing Our Product”.  

See their YouTube video titled "Sneak preview of Turnitin’s AI writing and ChatGPT detection capability for Education".

Conferences 

QM Ohio Annual Member Meeting at Walsh University (Free) - Friday, May 12, 2023   

Join us for the Annual Member Meeting of the QM Ohio Consortium. This one-day, free, conference is a wonderful time of sharing between Ohio institutions invested in quality online learning.  

Themes:

• Connecting with Students, Learner Engagement, & Interaction
• Assessing Student Understanding
• Best Practices in Delivering Content & Material
• Applying the QM Rubric or a Specific QM Standard
• Faculty Development Opportunities & Strategies
• Other Topics (e.g., Accessibility, OER, Moderated discussions, etc.)    

Submit Your Proposal and Register Today!(free) 

Open Con Ohio 2023 – Friday May 19 2023 

This year’s OpenCon Ohio 2023 will be offered over Zoom with asynchronous activities earlier in the week.  The theme will be the Transformative Power of Open Education with Maha Bali as the keynote speaker. Check their website for updates: https://engagedscholarship.csuohio.edu/oa/opencon2023/. 

Have you used Grades Journey?  

It's a new service in Blackboard that allows Midterm and Final grades to be extracted from Blackboard for import into CampusNet. From an instructor perspective, it is an abbreviated workflow for submitting final grades. Special thinks to IS&T who partnered with us to make this happen. Get instructions here: https://www.csuohio.edu/center-for-elearning/grades-journey