Teaching Resources

As part of its Continuity Plan, WLS has formed Innovative Learning & Teaching Teams so that small groups of teachers can pool expertise and experience to make our transition to online instruction as consistent and clear as possible. While these ILT teams develop online strategies and attend trainings, they are drawing from an international community of teacher-scholars with online support materials (compiled here). If you’re a WLS teacher, you can also contact George Handley, our long-time partner and Instructional Designer at COLTT, and please check out the COLTT trainings for the week of March 16-20.

 

Information from COLTT Office

The Center for Online Learning & Teaching Technology would like to provide you a list of upcoming Blackboard training sessions for your department. The sessions will prepare faculty to transition to delivering remotely. All courses offered at UTRGV, have a Blackboard course site already available with faculty enrolled in them.   We ask that you please pass this on to your faculty that do not teach online.

Trainings

The goal for trainings is to prepare faculty to create and organize content in their Blackboard course(s) for remote instruction. As well as provide additional trainings to provide video lectures (with Panopto), and offer live sessions if needed (through Zoom).

We are offering the following training sessions via Face-to-Face and Online: 

  • Blackboard Training  
    • Please bring your Syllabus 
  • Panopto – Allows instructors to record video lectures 
  • Zoom – Training will provide faculty with instructions on how to implement zoom to host live sessions with your students 

We will be available to offer these sessions online, via Zoom or face-to-face. If you would like to have face-to-face sessions, please reserve a computer lab for our staff to use.  

You can register at http://utrgv.edu/training

COLTT Continued Support 

Our department will continue to provide support with our normal office hours.  Support will be provided: 

  • Through Phone:
    • Brownsville: 956-882-6792
    • Edinburg: 956-882-6792
  • On Campus
    • Brownsville: Casa Bella (BCASA) 613
    • Edinburg: Education Complex (EEDUC) 2.202
  • Through Support Ticket

Office Hours: Monday -Friday: 7:30AM – 6:00PM

If you are at a distance, we can support you via Zoom or Bomgar. Please contact our offices so that we can connect with you.

Contingency, In case department is notified to work from home

If the University offices are asked to work remotely, we will be available via:

  • Through Zoom (Each Instructional Designer will be assigned departments to support) 
  • Through Phone (Our office numbers will be redirected to our home phones) 
  • Through Support Ticket - Submit a Ticket 
  • Through Email (if you are currently working with an Instructional Designer use the same email) 
  • We will also provide contact information of Faculty Champions from your department that are available to assist you.

In Blackboard, a Faculty Continuity Support tab will appear with needed contact information to gain access to support, trainings and resources. If in the event offices are asked to work remotely, the Faculty Continuity Support tab will provide our contact information. See image below. 

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COLLT remains dedicated to continuing our high level of care and support. We will be available to assist you to help maintain your high standards of academic rigor and collaboration in the online environment during our transition. 

Student Inventories

We are reviewing the UTRGV suggestion for a student inventory form, and a university-wide one may be in development. We should have a shared strategy by Monday, but I am also collecting different models here.

 Continuity Planning