We are excited to announce that Piedmont Technical College will be hosting a D2L regional professional development event on our Newberry Campus.
Why attend?
Good morning. We will begin offering training for the Banner 9 Faculty Self-Service updates this week. This training will include the following topics:
Below is the current list of trainings scheduled. A recorded training will also be offered in the coming weeks.
Wednesday, April 20th 4:00pm – 5:00pm in 209F – Karla
Monday, April 25th 12:45pm – 2:00pm in 500NN – Lisa T.
Tuesday, April 26th 1:00pm -3:00pm in 106LL – Lisa T.
12:00pm – 2pm in 209F – Karla
Friday, April 29th 11:00-noon in 410NN – Lisa T.
Monday, May 2nd 10:00am – 11:00am in 209F – Menka (Business Division Only)
The 2021 SCTCS EXCEEDS Summit is a one-day event designed to share resources, ideas, and experiences to benefit of all technical college faculty who teach in an online setting across the state of South Carolina.
The Summit offers sessions pertaining to the following categories:
The Summit will be held August 4th from 8am to 4:30pm.
For a full list of sessions and registration information, please visit SC EXCEEDS Summit Schedule and Registration.
The My Courses widget on the D2L homepage will be getting a new look soon. The new widget will bring with it some new functionality. You will now be able to toggle between All the courses you are enrolled in or just your Pinned courses. The course cards will now also display the number of unread discussions, ungraded quizzes, and/or ungraded assignments. Please see the image below for a preview of the new My Courses widget hitting your D2L homepage later this week.
Below are a few upcoming Honorlock Webinars (information provided from https://honorlock.kb.help/faculty-policies-and-procedures/upcoming-honorlock-webinars/). All webinars will be recorded and shared via email within one business day of completion, so even if you cannot attend live, you’ll receive a copy of the recording.
Join Daniel Conboy for an informational webinar. Daniel will discuss what each proctoring toggle means and how it may impact the student experience. He will recommend different proctoring settings based on the type of exam (i.e. a final exam may need additional proctoring measures compared to an open-book quiz.)
He’ll provide examples of unique exam scenarios and he will explain how to best configure your exam settings to optimize your student’s overall testing experience.
After this webinar, you will be able to:
Join Ariel Hastings and Americo Stellato for an overview of Honorlock Proctoring. During this webinar, you’ll get an in-depth look at all things Proctoring! We will take you through how proctors identify students that need intervention and how a proctor interacts with a student during an exam. You will also learn how to look at proctoring results and understand the various severities of incidents.
After this webinar, you will be able to:
Join Kim Pulda for an informational webinar. Kim will describe the features and functionality of the session viewer. She’ll discuss the different types of flags that may appear on student sessions and provide tips on how to manage your time when analyzing results.
After this session, you will be able to:
Join Jacob Satzer and Nick Carlson for an informational webinar. They will discuss some of the most common inquiries that we receive from students and faculty. They will also share ways to prepare your students for their exams.
After this session, you will be able to:
Have you ever attended a D2L Fusion Event? Now is your opportunity! D2L will be provided a virtual conference this year for FREE!
Fusion provides the optimum opportunity for professional learning:
In short, Fusion is the best all-in-one conference. You’ll learn tangible and actionable takeaways to apply within your own organization. Oh, and you’ll have fun too!
Link to interest form if it does not appear above: https://ptcgwd.wufoo.com/forms/z15igmu205kkncx/
You may notice some slight, but significant, changes on the D2L Homepage later today. We have worked with marketing to sync all of our electronic calendars, and to make this information easily accessible. We are excited to announce that there will be a new calendar widget on the right side of the course homepage that will provide all of the important college dates and events. We understand that D2L is where faculty and students spend a great deal of time, therefore we wanted to make that information easy for you to find. See below for a preview of the new calendar widget.
Calendar Widget on D2L Homepage
Open Calendar Widget in D2L
Good morning. I am excited to announce that after many weeks of our team working with D2L, we have found an option for faculty to access previous semester emails in D2L on a temporary basis. This will only include emails that were exchanged in D2L prior to the email transition in January. We have “synced” our test server with the live server to pull all of those previous emails onto the test server environment. While you still will not be able to access these emails through your regular account, we can provide you with temporary access to the test server to retrieve the information you need. This will only be available through March 31, 2021. At that point, we have to convert the test server settings to match the live server. In order to get access to the test server to retrieve these emails, please submit a help desk ticket. Below is the process:
Are you interested in attending the 2021 Virtual NISOD Conference? If so, please consider applying for a Suanne Davis Roueche Faculty Scholarship. This scholarship covers the cost of registration to NISOD’s annual conference for five faculty members at NISOD member colleges.
For more information, please visit: https://www.nisod.org/virtual-events/conference/faculty-scholarships/
IMPARTANT FACULTY SCHOLARSHIP DATES:
February 1, 2021: Applications Open
March 12, 2021: Application Deadline
March 26, 2021: Scholarship Recipients Notified
April 28-30, 2021: 2021 Virtual Annual Conference
