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• Expanding PIVOT with Proactive Course Design Peer Reviews
What’s new in Ultra for WT2022: Point-based rubrics, course banners, gradebook filters
• Creating Consistency in Course Sections with Ultra Templates
• Tips for Choosing Instructional Technologies for a Course
• Panopto Downtime on Jan 8 & Explorer Retirement
• VoiceThread Assignments for Media Projects and Peer Critique
• WT2021 Courses Created in Blackboard on 11.29.2021

• Coming Soon: Equitable & Inclusive Course for Faculty
• Webinar: What’s New in Ultra for Teaching & Learning for WT/SP2022 (1.11.22)
• Ultra Essentials Content & Engagement (1.13.22)
• Ultra Essentials Assessment & Grading (1.14.22)
• SP2022 USM Open Educational Resources Workshop Series
• Other Instructional Technology workshops for WT/SP2022

• What Faculty Should Know About Learning Analytics (10.14.21 event recording)
• National Distance Learning Week 2021 Series: Teaching & Learning in a Hybrid World
• Course Prep Checklists
• Tips to Wrap Up Your Blackboard Course for the Semester
• Effective Practices for Delivering Blackboard Tests
• Tips to Get Your Blackboard Course Ready for Next Semester

• DoIT’s Jack Suess and instructional tech team earn national awards for leadership, innovation
• Websites will be migrated to new Sites theme after January 7, 2022
• Maryland Open Source Textbook (M.O.S.T.) initiative seeks proposals for Faculty OER Mini-Grant Program