Past Events

This winter's shift to an alternative delivery method created tensions between maintaining academic integrity and recognizing equity and mental health challenges. In this talk, we focus on a Math project delivered to 600 CEPS second year students and an Engineering exam delivered to 250 Engineering first year students.

Integrating digital assessments such as blogs, videos and podcasts into your course can provide students the opportunity to develop much needed digital and professional skills, but also poses new challenges for instructors and students alike. Join staff from the library's Media Studio to discuss the process of selecting an appropriate assessment type, examine sample learning outcomes and learn about available supports. Hear from student staff who have assisted students in this process and have worked at developing their own digital literacies.

The core areas of multimedia accessibility are: synchronized captions, text transcripts and/or audio descriptions. This webinar will help you understand what is required, how to meet the requirements and what resources are available to make your digital content accessible. Accessibility should be considered during the design phase when choosing to use a digital platform to present and combine text, graphics, audio, and video with links and tools that let the user navigate, interact, create, and communicate.

OpenEd is very kindly going to hold a session for COA on Monday June 8th 1:00 to 2:30. This will be geared towards academic instruction. The top 3 things we hope to cover here:

An invitation to Faculty, Staff and Students to attend the Virtual University Budget Town Hall. Provost and Vice-President (Academic), Charlotte Yates will host a public forum on the 2020-2021 Budget. This is an opportunity for the University community to ask questions regarding the current fiscal outlook.

The time slot for the Teams sessions will be Monday, June 1st from 2 until 3:30 (or longer if needed). Jon (Teams guru from CCS) will lead us from 2 to 3, and Chris will stick around after 3 to address further questions for as long as it takes!

We regret to announce that this event has been cancelled. The University of Guelph is again hosting a series of 4-day workshops on topics related to digital humanities research and teaching, welcoming a wonderful, diverse group of instructors from a variety of disciplines and institutions. All are welcome! Please click this link for details on the workshops, instructors, and visiting Guelph.

From City Life to Country Life: Colonial Training for British Gentlewomen Emigrants at Swanley Hortizultural College, England and Macdonald Institute, Guelph Marie Ruiz, Associate Professor of British History Université Picardie Jules Verne, France