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The Teaching Innovation Incubator, in collaboration with the Associate Academic Vice President is hosting a two half-day Accessible Education Day on October 16th and October 17th. Topics to be covered include legislation governing Accessibility, Post-Secondary Course Accessibility Guide, Navigating Accommodations, Universal Design for Learning, available assistive technologies, among others. Be sure to register to attend! 

Following the initial round of testing on the efficacy of the Creator+ and Performance+ tools, the project team received budget approval to proceed with a two-year pilot of both tools. We are seeking interested individuals from across the faculties to join the pilot. 

The Performance+ project team continues to investigate the functionality of the tool for accessing and assessing student data in LEARN. Consultations have taken place with user-groups including academic advisors and faculty across campus about potential use cases of the tool. 

The Performance+ project team has begun piloting the tool with a small group of instructors using live student data in LEARN to determine its efficacy and utility for faculty at Waterloo. 

ITMS and the TII are looking for instructors, students, and staff with experience, or who are willing to use polling tools Vevox and/or iClicker to participate in a pilot during the Fall 2024 and/or Winter 2025 terms. Note: interested students can apply to join the pilot so long as they have experience using either polling tool; there is no requisite that students must join the pilot with their instructor.

NEW! Vevox, one of the supported polling tools currently being piloted, will have an integration with LEARN enabled for the Fall 2024 term. This integration will allow Vevox to push grades to LEARN for correct answers and/or for participation.  

Sustainability in the Curriculum now has its own website which shares information, resources, and other information for faculty, staff, and students interested in learning more about how they can integrate and study sustainability principles into their courses. 

Join us on July 25th, 2024 from 12:30pm-2:30pm at the Wicked Problem of Precarity Symposium. The symposium will feature the culmination of student and instructor work with poster presentations, networking, and graduate students insights. 

The Accelerating Sustainability into the Curriculum Report is here. The report highlights existing siloed efforts at integrating sustainability principles into education at Waterloo and strong campus support for a more cohesive approach to integrating sustainability into education.  

Sign up to join the Introduction to Creator+ in LEARN workshop for insight into how you can make your LEARN course more engaging for students.