CITL Events

Please join us for the inaugural meeting of the New Faculty Community of Practice being convened by the Center for Innovation Teaching and Learning. We’ll be holding this first hybrid meeting on Wednesday, November 16, from Noon - 1PM, in E.W. Fairchild-Martindale Library RM 625 or on Zoom. 
 

The intent of this community will be to provide you with an opportunity to be part of a network of Lehigh faculty, across disciplines and colleges, who want to discuss teaching and learning at Lehigh. If you’re curious about how other faculty foster student engagement, are interested in hearing alternative assessment strategies, would like to share experiences in large enrollment courses or are looking for guidance from peers on challenges you’re facing, please consider joining us. CITL staff will facilitate these sessions, and we will look to you to determine topics and areas of mutual interest as the group moves forward.

If you’d like to join us, please RSVP by Monday, November 14, indicating whether you’ll join us for lunch in EWFM 625 or connect remotely. If you plan to join using Zoom, please add the event to your calendar (via the link on the RSVP page) so that you have the Zoom link to attend remotely.

Back again with a fresh Moodle Moments session never offered before: How to Create Good Quiz Questions. We’ve spent time looking in-depth at quiz administration, settings, and setup. But we rarely have time to deep dive into best practices in assessment, question design, and related pedagogy and how the many question types available in Moodle can be leveraged to create effective and creative quizzes.

And that’s why, in our next just-in-time Course Site training this Friday 10/14, 2022 at 12:00pm, we will be taking an in-depth, practical look at creating good quiz questions, specifically focusing on best-practices, key settings, and reviewing common questions and answers. By the end of this 45 minute session, attendees should feel more comfortable and empowered to create good quiz questions using the many question types available in Moodle.

We look forward to seeing you in this online session.

Claudia Tobar, chief innovation officer and professor at Universidad San Francisco de Quito (USFQ) in Ecuador, will visit Lehigh on September 21 to deliver the workshop, “Lessons from the Pandemic: Globalization through Virtual Exchange and COIL as Strategy.” She will discuss COIL (Collaborative Online International Learning) and virtual exchange and share why the innovative pedagogies are part of the internationalization strategy at USFQ.

The workshop is sponsored by the Office of International Affairs and the Center for Innovation in Teaching and Learning. It will take place in Fairchild-Martindale Library Room 625 from 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm. Lunch is provided. 

To learn more about the workshop and Tobar’s experience, please visit the OIA website.

Did you know the best time to set up your course gradebook is at the beginning of the semester? View the Recording, Slides, of our first just-in-time Course Site training of the fall semester, an in-depth look into the Moodle gradebook, specifically focusing on best-practices, the Natural calculation method and why everyone should consider using it, and reviewing common questions and answers.

This session is aimed at helping faculty set up their gradebook early on in the semester so that as more activities are added and graded, the gradebook can grow and populate efficiently and automatically. By following these best practices and strategies, faculty can, in most cases, significantly reduce the amount of time that goes into setting up and configuring a course gradebook later in the semester.