Congratulations on a great Spring term! In this newsletter, we share resources for final grades, announce a summer online course development bootcamp, and share additional training and technology tips. Our next newsletter will be the midsummer newsletter, released in July.

Resources for Final Grades

A good final grading practice is to give students time to review their grades in Canvas before you submit them to Banner. Also, make sure every student has a grade for every assignment, and make sure all assignment grades are posted for all students. For more information on preparing and posting grades, see the following tutorials:

• Preparing grades in Canvas and submitting grades from Canvas to Banner
• Submitting grades directly to Banner

Grades submitted to Banner are "rolled to history" at about 5pm each weekday. Afterward, they can be changed only by submitting a change of grade form.

Grades are due 96 hours hours after the final examination (not counting weekends).

Incomplete grades: Students with extenuating circumstances, who have completed most of their coursework, may petition you for extra time to finish the course. If you are willing to grant the student's petition, you must submit an incomplete grade request form on behalf of the student. The registrar's office reviews the form and decides whether to grant the request. You do not submit a grade for the student until they have finished their course work. When they are done, you will submit a change of grade form with the student's official grade.

Last date of attendance for F grades: When a student receives a failing grade, you must enter the student's last date of attendance. For classes with meeting times, this can be the last day the student appeared in class. You can also go to the New Analytics tool in your Canvas course and use the last date of participation shown for the student.

Summer Online Course Development Bootcamp

We are excited to announce a unique training and development opportunity. The Summer Online Course Development Bootcamp is a cohort-based program designed to help faculty systematically build (or rebuild) an online or hybrid course from scratch. Faculty will be paid for their time and deliverables as they receive training and support from CIDI and other university staff. Courses that meet quality standards will receive a Quality Course Certification. Additional details are as follows:

• June 5–July 21: 7-weeks of cohort working time, plus a guided first semester of teaching
• Two Live Meeting Times: Choice of June 5 or 8 for the first meeting; Choice of July 10 or 13 for the second meeting; Choice of in-person or Zoom attendance
• Four Consultations: Two consultations with a CIDI designer during the 7-week session and a mid-semester and end-of-semester consultation as the course is taught.
• Online Learning: An online curriculum to provide additional assistance.
• Quality Standards Review: Two standardized quality reviews, by a peer and an instructional designer
• Course Certification: A 3-year, renewable Quality Course Certificatition provided to courses that pass the quality review
• Payment: Amount varies depending on course delivery method and credit hours

Interested faculty should fill out the Bootcamp Application Form. Up to 30 fully-online or hybrid courses will be selected with approval from the academic department. Courses developed through the program will be USU Commissioned works. More details will be posted soon on teach.usu.edu. Faculty may also ask questions, including questions about payment, by emailing cidi@usu.edu.

Additional Training Opportunities

• The annual Empowering Teaching Excellence (ETE) Conference will take place on August 16. Proposal submissions are due May 13. Learn more and submit a proposal on the ETE Conference webpage.
• CIDI Workshops: CIDI will continue to host workshops, taught via Zoom, throughout the Summer term. See all topics and register at teach.usu.edu.

Technology Notes

• CIDI continues to keep tabs on developments in AI. Many tools exist beyond ChatGPT that leverage AI. A curated directory of many existing AI tools can be found at https://allthingsai.com/. An interesting trend in AI development that is likely to be impactful is the development of autonomous agents.
• Speaking of AI, be sure to include a note in your upcoming syllabi about your approach to AI use on your course assignments. CIDI has put together a small number of generic examples you can look to for reference.
• Some recent and upcoming Canvas features include grading-by-question in Canvas New Quizzes, automatically sharing a New Quiz item bank with the current course, and dragging-and-dropping multiple files onto the Canvas Rich Text Editor. See all release notes on the Canvas Release Notes page.

Contact CIDI

For on-demand support with teaching technologies, contact CIDI at cidi@usu.edu, via chat, or at 435.797.9506. Schedule an appointment with an instructional designer to get help making your courses more engaging, usable, and accessible.

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