Week's End Report- June 16th

Suggested Reading

As we settle into the semester, here are some interesting articles to read.

"Tips for New Teachers at Community Colleges" by Rob Jenkins for The Chronicle of Higher Education: http://www.chronicle.com/article/Tips-for-New-Teachers-at/48003

"OER, Vertical and Horizontal" by "Dean Dad" on Confessions of a Community College Dean: http://suburbdad.blogspot.com/2017/05/ (Scroll down to May 23rd post)

"7 Important Things Every Teacher Should Know About Students" by Christine Allen for YouniversityTV: https://www.youniversitytv.com/college-tips/7-important-things-every-teacher-know-students/

"How Online Education is Evolving" by Quora for Forbes: https://www.forbes.com/sites/quora/2017/06/15/how-online-education-is-evolving/#3ff153644de5

"Top 5 L&D Priorities in FY17 for Chief Learning Officers" by Nipun Sharma for eLearning Industry: https://elearningindustry.com/top-5-priorities-in-fy17-chief-learning-officers

New User Guides Available

Several new user guides have been made available on the website and more are in development. Please see the website for links:
https://sites.google.com/view/gwc-idc/resources/ivylearn-for-faculty

Week's End Report - June 2nd

Getting Started Summer 2017!

Saturday morning the Summer 2017 8-week courses will become available in IvyLearn! Are you ready?

Setting Up Your Courses

When setting up your courses, please remember to use the Getting Started website:

https://link.ivytech.edu/GetStart

The Getting Started website contains all of the information you need: how to set up your Profile, how to fill out your syllabus, dates, etc.

Getting Your Students Ready

Students can use the Online Education website to prepare for courses in IvyLearn. Please share the following link with your students:

https://link.ivytech.edu/Students

Did You Know?

We know Greyhounds are fast runners but did you know that the small but mighty Jack Russell Terrier is the third fastest dog breed? Despite their stature they can achieve speeds of up to 38 mph, compared to 43 mph for a Greyhound.

  

Didn't Get Training or Need More Training?

Go to the website and get caught up on what you need to know:

https://sites.google.com/view/ivylearn/training

Week's End Report - June 9th

Town Hall Links

For those of you who were unable to attend the Town Hall Meeting today, the recording may be accessed here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHnCQnsRQjs

If you have questions regarding the transition and would like to submit those to potentially be answered at the follow-up meeting on Monday, those questions may be submitted here:  https://ivytech.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_bk1DkaYCKsHlZ2t

Course Checks

The course checks of all online courses in the Greater West Central Region have been completed and all faculty have received an email from us regarding their course. We were very pleased with how well faculty have adopted the system! We found few issues, all of which were minor and many of those issues have already been resolved. 

Thank you to all faculty for your hard work and diligence and your quick responses!

As a reminder, when setting up your course for the fall you will find all of the resources in the same place: https://link.ivytech.edu/GetStart

We are in the process of adding additional resources to the website which includes (but is not limited to):

• How to add a picture to your syllabus
• How to assign due dates
• Printing your syllabus to PDF file
• How to crochet a granny square
• Setting up your grade center
• Locating proctor forms and other resources
• Whatever you tell us you want added!

As you work through the summer semester, please let us know areas or processes where you would like to have more information and we'll gather or create materials as needed.