Campus Notices
Due to unforeseen circumstances, the previously scheduled work for my黑料吃瓜 (originally May 2nd) and Moodle (originally May 6th) has been re-schedule for Wednesday May 13th. ITSS apologizes for any inconvenience.
Please see below for more details:
my黑料吃瓜 maintenance
On Wednesday May 13th 2020, ITSS will be conducting routine maintenance on the My黑料吃瓜 portal and related services from 8 PM to 12 AM midnight. During this time there may be intermittent access and performance issues with accessing and using My黑料吃瓜, Self-Service & Colleague.
We encourage Students, Faculty, and Staff that may need documents or links located on my黑料吃瓜 to plan ahead and bookmark or download the resources they may need during this period.
If you have any questions, please contact the ITSS Help Desk at 902-566-0465.
Moodle Upgrade
On Wednesday, May 13th 2020, IT Systems and Services (in conjunction with the E-Learning Office) will be upgrading the 黑料吃瓜 Online Learning Management System (Moodle) to a newer version. Maintenance will begin at 8:00 pm and is expected to be completed by midnight. For more information about the changes coming to Moodle please check .
Moodle will be inaccessible during this time.
If you have any questions or concerns, please contact moodle@upei.ca.
The 黑料吃瓜 Healthy Campus Committee invites 黑料吃瓜 faculty and staff to sign up for the 100-Day Global Challenge, which will take place from May 27 to September 4, 2020. We have a few spots left to fill on teams and two full team opportunities available. If you or a group of 黑料吃瓜 employees would like to register, please contact Angela Marchbank at amarchbank@upei.ca before Thursday, May 14. Challenge is free for 黑料吃瓜 Employees.
The 黑料吃瓜 Healthy Campus Committee invites 黑料吃瓜 faculty and staff to sign up for the 100-Day Global Challenge, which will take place from May 27 to September 4, 2020. We have a few spots left to fill on teams and two full team opportunities available. If you or a group of 黑料吃瓜 employees would like to register, please contact Angela Marchbank at amarchbank@upei.ca before Thursday, May 14. Challenge is free for 黑料吃瓜 Employees.
May Special - No shipping fee on online delivery orders for graduation parchment frames for the month of May! Visit our website to place your order today! If you have any questions, feel free to email us at alumni@upei.ca
Reminder!
Equity and inclusion continue to be important emphases to our work in the university, no matter where or how we鈥檙e doing that work -- and the Arts Equity and Inclusion reading group is not letting physical distancing stop us from continuing that conversation. So 鈥� we're meeting online -- and sending another reminder so you have time over the weekend to read the chapter. For our next reading group meeting we鈥檝e selected chapter 4, 鈥淯niversal Design,鈥� from Academic Ableism: disability and higher education, by Jay Dolmage. The library has the ebook, and we鈥檝e downloaded the chapter into our google folder too: .
We鈥檒l be meeting via Zoom, on Tuesday, May 12, at 11:00am. Please send an email to Andrew Zinck, at azinck@upei.ca so he can add you to his invite list for this event.
Hope to see a lot of you there!
The Sexual Violence Prevention and Response Office (SVPRO) invites you to check out the evolving resources being added to the upei.ca/svpro website to support survivors and victims of sexual and gender-based violence during this time of social distancing. Eileen is still available to talk, provide referrals/accommodations, safety-plan, navigate reporting options, and facilitate workshops Mon-Fri, 8:30 am to 4:30 pm. She can be reached by email: econboy@upeil.ca, phone: 902-213-5298, and Google Meet.
While online learning creates many opportunities to reduce barriers experienced by students with disabilities, it also creates new challenges for accessibility. For example, students with seizure disorders, acquired brain injuries, concussions and migraines may find working on the computer for long periods of time challenging and may require flexible deadlines or due dates. Follow this link to an . You will find helpful resources there.
In order to accommodate 黑料吃瓜 computer classroom and lab software planning for the 2020 fall semester, IT Systems and Services has set a firm deadline of June 1, 2020 for software additions, deletions, or modifications. The June 1 deadline is necessary to allow sufficient time to plan and implement the installation of new and upgraded software, ensuring our students will have the software resources they need. Any requests received after the deadline will be applied in the next round of software updates.
For more information or to view a list of currently installed software to see if they are still required or newer versions are needed, please click .
If you have any questions, or to submit requests, email Stephen Mahar at smahar@upei.ca.
Reminder!
Equity and inclusion continue to be important emphases to our work in the university, no matter where or how we鈥檙e doing that work -- and the Arts Equity and Inclusion reading group is not letting physical distancing stop us from continuing that conversation. So 鈥� we're meeting online -- and sending another reminder so you have time over the weekend to read the chapter. For our next reading group meeting we鈥檝e selected chapter 4, 鈥淯niversal Design,鈥� from Academic Ableism: disability and higher education, by Jay Dolmage. The library has the ebook, and we鈥檝e downloaded the chapter into our google folder too: .
We鈥檒l be meeting via Zoom, on Tuesday, May 12, at 11:00am. Please send an email to Andrew Zinck, at azinck@upei.ca so he can add you to his invite list for this event.
Hope to see a lot of you there!
The Sexual Violence Prevention and Response Office (SVPRO) invites you to check out the evolving resources being added to the upei.ca/svpro website to support survivors and victims of sexual and gender-based violence during this time of social distancing. Eileen is still available to talk, provide referrals/accommodations, safety-plan, navigate reporting options, and facilitate workshops Mon-Fri, 8:30 am to 4:30 pm. She can be reached by email: econboy@upeil.ca, phone: 902-213-5298, and Google Meet.
Teaching Community Conference Follow-Up Session
During the 2019-2020 academic year, we, a group of seven business faculty members (Drs. Chen, Evans, James, Jelley, Mady, Pauley & Wagner), taught in the BBA and MBA programs at the University of Canada, Egypt (UCE). We delivered a wide range of in-person as well as online courses (e.g., entrepreneurship, marketing, organization management, strategy). Collectively reflecting upon this unique teaching experience, we will host this 1-hour 鈥淎sk an Expert鈥� follow up session to the 黑料吃瓜鈥檚 3rd Annual Teaching Community Conference.
While online learning creates many opportunities to reduce barriers experienced by students with disabilities, it also creates new challenges for accessibility. For example, students with seizure disorders, acquired brain injuries, concussions and migraines may find working on the computer for long periods of time challenging and may require flexible deadlines or due dates. Follow this link to an . You will find helpful resources there.
The 黑料吃瓜 Healthy Campus Committee invites 黑料吃瓜 faculty and staff to sign up for the 100-Day Global Challenge, which will take place from May 27 to September 4, 2020. The challenge is a fun way for faculty and staff to become healthier and happier, even during this time of social distancing. The deadline to register is Thursday, May 7, by 11:00 pm. There is no registration fee. To register, log on to my黑料吃瓜 and complete the 100-Day Global Challenge registration form found under 鈥満诹铣怨� Forms鈥�. As part of the registration process, participants will need to complete a waiver and consent form. If you do not have a team or enough participants for a team, complete the form, and you will be assigned to a team.
The Sexual Violence Prevention and Response Office (SVPRO) invites you to check out the evolving resources being added to the upei.ca/svpro website to support survivors and victims of sexual and gender-based violence during this time of social distancing. Eileen is still available to talk, provide referrals/accommodations, safety-plan, navigate reporting options, and facilitate workshops Mon-Fri, 8:30 am to 4:30 pm. She can be reached by email: econboy@upeil.ca, phone: 902-213-5298, and Google Meet.
Providing content for a course can be easy to do. Figuring out how to explain to students what that content will do to them and for them can be far more challenging. There are numerous ways to describe learning and just as many opinions as to which is best. Are learning targets even necessary? Facilitated by the E-Learning Office, this webinar will take place on Wednesday, May 20th from 10:30 to 11:30 am.
With the increase in quality and quantity of cognitive sciences research over the last few years, what of it can be usefully applied to teaching? This workshop aims to summarize that research on learning and memory and provide instructors with tips for integration into their teaching. Facilitated by the E-Learning Office, this workshop takes place online on Wednesday, May 13th from 10:30 to 11:30 am.
While online learning creates many opportunities to reduce barriers experienced by students with disabilities, it also creates new challenges for accessibility. For example, students with seizure disorders, acquired brain injuries, concussions and migraines may find working on the computer for long periods of time challenging and may require flexible deadlines or due dates. Follow this link to an . You will find helpful resources there.
The E-Learning Office is hosting 黑料吃瓜's 3rd Teaching Community Conference online this year on May 5th. The conference will feature a keynote presentation from Dr. Bonnie Stewart & Dave Cormier at 10am. The conference will also feature synchronous sessions where presenters will facilitate their sessions live through Blackboard Collaborate, as well as asynchronous sessions which will be videos posted on the Teaching Community Conference website.
For more information and to register please visit
If you have any questions please contact elearning@upei.ca
On Wednesday, May 6, IT Systems and Services (in conjunction with the E-Learning Office) will be upgrading the 黑料吃瓜 Online Learning Management System (Moodle) to a newer version. Maintenance will begin at 8:00 pm and is expected to be completed by midnight. For more information about the changes coming to Moodle please check .
Moodle will be inaccessible during this time.
If you have any questions or concerns, please contact moodle@upei.ca.
While online learning creates many opportunities to reduce barriers experienced by students with disabilities, it also creates new challenges for accessibility. For example, students with seizure disorders, acquired brain injuries, concussions and migraines may find working on the computer for long periods of time challenging and may require flexible deadlines or due dates. Follow this link to an . You will find helpful resources there.
