Instructional Design

Members from Design Services, Program Coordination, Academic Technologies, and Recruitment and Student Support are scheduled to participate in UMSL's campus visit.

Drop in at any time during the meet & greet to participate in collaborative conversations, pick up some Missouri Online swag, enjoy some refreshments, enter a drawing for prizes, ask questions and talk about your teaching goals.

Table topics will include: technology roadmap, course analytics, program development, retooling, market research, faculty development, programmatic support and certifications, and student recruitment.

We look forward to seeing you at your campus!

A commitment to equitable teaching must extend to students with disabilities. In this session, we will discuss why you should not wait until you receive an accommodation request to design a learning experience that is inclusive of students with visual, hearing, motor, and cognitive disabilities. You will have an opportunity to practice identifying and addressing potential accessibility barriers in Word documents, PowerPoint slide decks, and Canvas pages. We will also introduce UDOIT Advantage, a tool for scanning your Canvas site, finding and addressing accessibility barriers, and even providing alternate formats for your course materials.

This session explores subtle and not so subtle tricks to using Speedgrader, such as the markup tools, sorting options, and banking comments.

This session is intended for intermediate and advanced Canvas users

Members from Academic Technologies are scheduled to participate in Missouri S&T's campus visit.

Drop in at any time during the meet & greet to participate in collaborative conversations, pick up some Missouri Online swag, enjoy some refreshments, enter a drawing for prizes, ask questions and talk about your teaching goals.

Table topics will include: technology roadmap, course analytics, and faculty development.

We look forward to seeing you at your campus!

In this session, Missouri Online designers showcase examples of actual courses from across UM System and the many ways they’ve met the Quality Course Review rubric. We examine samples of course orientation, establishing faculty presence, communicating learning outcomes, establishing an instructional narrative, and notable course layouts.

This session is intended for faculty looking for ideas for their online courses as well as faculty who expect to submit a course for Quality Course Review.

All UM system educators are invited to register for a hybrid session on Oct. 18 at noon at MU’s Teaching for Learning Center and via Zoom. Explore how and why to incorporate mid-semester feedback surveys into your courses. Surveys are valuable for in-person and online instructors to gain insights into what is working along with improvements that can be made before the semester ends. Surveys also show students that educators care about teaching.

Presenters are Dr. Bethany Stone (Curators' Distinguished Teaching Professor of Biological Sciences, MU) and Dr. Liz du Plessis (Manager of Instructional Design, Missouri Online). Dr. Stone will share a Canvas Survey she has used for mid-semester feedback, how students responded and how she used the feedback. Dr. du Plessis will demonstrate how to create anonymous surveys using Qualtrics, Google, non-graded quizzes in Canvas, and the Missouri Cares About Teaching (MoCAT) survey.

Participants will have the opportunity to ask questions and share their experiences.

To register, follow this link to the Teaching for Learning Center LibCal event calendar.

Prompt Writing is a skill that many faculty and students now seek to master. This hands-on session is aimed at faculty who have begun to explore prompt writing and wish to progress to a higher level. The prompt writing techniques that this session will cover are:

• Create a basic prompt, then use the AI itself to refine and optimize the prompt to get better results with that AI
• Create and refine prompts for/from images or other media
• Create prompt templates for common tasks a faculty member might have
• Create or modify prompt templates for student use with AI, including for advanced interactions between students and AI

This is a hands-on session, and we request that participants have an AI tool open in a browser or app on a mobile device to try out prompts. 
 

Have you ever wondered how to teach exercise techniques online? Join us for an engaging webinar on "Exercise Education Reimagined: Leveraging Video for Online Mastery" on Nov. 5th at 11 am, featuring Rebeka Carpenter, teaching assistant professor with the Department of Physical Therapy, and Ying-Hsiu Liu, instructional designer with Missouri Online. This session will showcase design ideas to convert an exercise-based course to an online environment. Attendees will gain insights into how to use video to engage students and assess students, student feedback on the course design, and tips. This session also will include a Q&A session and we expect to have dynamic conversations.   Don’t miss this opportunity to learn how to incorporate video onto your teaching and have in-depth conversation with your faculty colleague.

This session is part of our series on Artificial Intelligence.

• Describe the AI capabilities
• Describe AI prompt patterns
• Craft AI prompts for specific instructional activities based on your course needs
• Articulate what constitutes effective prompts 
• Identify factors to consider when incorporating AI in teaching

Prompt Writing is a skill that many faculty and students now seek to master. This hands-on session is aimed at faculty who have begun to explore prompt writing and wish to progress to a higher level. The prompt writing techniques that this session will cover are:

• Create a basic prompt, then use the AI itself to refine and optimize the prompt to get better results with that AI
• Create and refine prompts for/from images or other media
• Create prompt templates for common tasks a faculty member might have
• Create or modify prompt templates for student use with AI, including for advanced interactions between students and AI

This is a hands-on session, and we request that participants have an AI tool open in a browser or app on a mobile device to try out prompts.