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Institutional Research

Greetings from Institutional Research! For those I haven’t met yet, I am the College’s new IR Director. As I continue to acclimate to the College of Education, I’m asking for your patience as I implement systems that will work well for myself and all of you.

For data requests, please keep the following in mind for best service:

  • Email coeir@uw.edu (rather than my personal email) to help me streamline.
  • Include in your request:
    • Your research question
    • The audience for your question (Just you? A grant proposal? Accreditation or compliance report? Something else?
    • Do you anticipate this being a recurring or one-time request?
    • Your preferred timeline
    • (if applicable) The deadline for your report/proposal etc.

Cheers,
Courtney

Course Material Accessibility Support

As you prepare your Autumn courses, don’t forget that the CoE Technology Center can help you make your course materials more accessible for all students! If you will be uploading readings, sharing PowerPoint slides, or including videos in your materials, our group can remediate documents and caption Panopto videos so they are accessible to students who rely on alternatives to audio or visual content. For example, remediated PDFs are accessible to students who use assistive technologies like screen readers, and they’re also beneficial because any student can use Canvas to download an audio version! Note that some PDFs have accessible, full-text HTML versions via our library; however, scanned chapters, or PDFs of articles without an available full-text version online, need to be remediated in order to be screen-readable. If you are interested in this service, please email edhelp@uw.edu with your request! Due to the time-consuming nature of remediation and captioning, the turnaround time is usually several weeks, but we are happy to get started early on Autumn quarter course materials.

Engaging Practices to Take into Autumn Quarter and Beyond

If you’re thinking about the practices from this past year of online learning that you’d like to take with you into your in-person and hybrid classrooms, a new article from Educause offers some great ideas. Improved Student Engagement in Higher Education’s New Normal outlines five teaching enhancements that can increase and sustain student engagement across multiple modes of instruction. 

Thinking About Hybrid Learning Environments

As Spring quarter comes to a close, we in the Tech Center office are thinking ahead to Autumn quarter and the kinds of learning environments—in-person, online, or hybrid—that we all will encounter and create this fall. As you know, the university is planning a full return to in-person learning, and it will be so exciting to work and learn together on campus again! We also know that our continued flexibility in meeting students needs could necessitate a hybrid or blended approach to learning. With this in mind, we have developed a new page in our CoE Tech Center website that focuses on hybrid learning, and the many student participation modes that are possible in in hybrid learning environments. Our goal with this page is to outline a few of these possibilities, highlight the benefits and challenges of different approaches, and offer examples of instructional methods adapted to these environments. This resource is far from exhaustive, and is meant to be a starting point now, and later, a resource to refer to when you know more about what your Autumn quarter students and their needs and preferences

View the full post here

Accessible Technology Webinar Series

Accessible Technologies will be hosting webinars on popular IT Accessibility topics on the last Thursday of each month, 3:00 pm– 4:00 pm.

Webinars are free but require registration.  Watch for registration links as we get closer to webinar dates.

Future Webinar Schedule:

  • June 24: Alternatives to PDF
  • July 29: Teaching an Accessible Online Course
  • August 19: Accessible Web Content Creation
  • September 30: Video Accessibility
  • October 28: Testing with Screen Readers
  • November 4: Document Accessibility
  • December 2: Accessibility in Procurement: Reading a VPAT
Dates
Thursday, Jun 24, 2021, 3 p.m. Thursday, Jul 29, 2021, 3 p.m.
Thursday, Aug 19, 2021, 3 p.m. Thursday, Sep 30, 2021, 3 p.m.
Thursday, Oct 28, 2021, 3 p.m. Thursday, Nov 4, 2021, 3 p.m.
Thursday, Dec 2, 2021, 3 p.m.

Updated Access Policy for Canvas

In order to appropriately secure Canvas course content and student data, UW-IT will implement an access policy for Canvas on Thursday, June 17, 2021.

Under this policy, the ability to sign in to Canvas is restricted generally to current employees, faculty, as well as current and recent former students. Employees and retirees will lose the ability to sign in to the UW Canvas LMS when they separate from the UW, in parallel with other IT services.

Note: Because access to Panopto uses the Canvas sign-in, Panopto users — including those who want to view recordings — will also be impacted by the Canvas access policy.

Who will be impacted by this change

  • Separating employees and retirees lose access when they leave the University.
  • People with sponsored UW NetIDs, such as guest instructors.

Who will not be impacted by this change, and continue to have access to Canvas

  • Any faculty member who has an academic appointment in Workday.
  • Current instructors, faculty, staff, and students.
  • New and returning employees (will be able to access Canvas on their official start date.)

Review details about who has access to Canvas and for how long.

What you need to do

If you support any of the above groups, please:

  • Add information about employee and retiree loss of access to the Canvas LMS to any offboarding information or separation checklist that you maintain.
  • This access lasts for one year and must be renewed annually by a current UW employee.

Learn more about provisioning access to Canvas and the responsibilities that go along with provisioning access

Thank you for your attention to this policy change. If you have any questions, please contact help@uw.edu.

Regards,

Karin

Karin I. Roberts

Canvas Service Manager

UW-IT, Academic Experience Design & Delivery

Pronouns: she/her/hers

206.616.8153 | kroberts@uw.edu

Canvas Access Policy

UW IT is getting ready to broadly implement the access policy for Canvas on Thursday, June 17, 2021. Under this policy, the ability to sign in to Canvas is restricted generally to current employees and faculty, as well as current and recent former students. Employees and retirees will lose the ability to sign in to the UW Canvas LMS when they separate from the UW, in parallel with other IT services. 

Who will be impacted by this change

  • Separating employees and retirees lose access when they leave the University. 
  • People with sponsored UW NetIDs, such as guest instructors. 

Who will not be impacted by this change, and continue to have access to Canvas

  • A faculty member who has an academic appointment in Workday.
  • Current instructors, faculty, staff, and students.
  • New and returning employees will be able to access Canvas on their official start date.

 Review details about who has access to Canvas and for how long. 

 

Remember

If you support any of the above groups, please:

Looking for Open Education Resources at UW?

Pressbooks Webinars

New to Pressbooks? Need a refresher? Sign up for upcoming monthly trainings available to all UW Pressbooks users:

New: Pressbooks Directory!

We’re also happy to share the release of the Pressbooks Directory, where you can search, discover and use public books created on the PressbooksEDU platform (including those created at UW)! Books with complete metadata will now be eligible for a forthcoming “Recommended” tag. Let us know if you’d like more information on how to do this, or have any other questions about Pressbooks.

Check out these new featured titles in our Pressbooks catalog, including:

More information? Lauren Ray, Open Education Librarian, olray@uw.edu

Winter Enrollment Report

The 2021 Winter Enrollment Report has been released and includes data on COE demographics, student credits hours, etc. Find it and previous enrollment reports on the OIR website at education.uw.edu/coeir/reports/enrollment-reports.

Working with the Washington State Education Research and Data Center (ERDC) to validate the 2020 Professional Educator Standards Board (PESB) data submission, which maintains accreditation for our teacher education programs.

Working on the annual Title II data report for our teacher preparation programs as part of the Higher Education Act. National and state data can be found at title2.ed.gov/Public/Home.aspx.