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Workshop: D2L Syllabus Alignment

Workshop: D2L Syllabus Alignment

Plagiarism: Resources for Identifying, Preventing and Dealing with Plagiarism

Resources for Identifying, Preventing and Dealing with Plagiarism

This resource contains some helpful information to get started identifying issues regarding plagiarism and cheating.

University of Arizona policies from the Dean of Students Office

Workshop: Applying the Quality Matters Rubric

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Applying the Quality Matters Rubric

Seminar: Getting Started With D2L: Everything you need to know to get up and running

Getting Started with D2L: Everything you need to know to get up and running
Faciitated by Elle Tvine
This introduction to D2L, tools and functions, will be offered twice.  Once as a face-to-face session, and once as a Webinar.  This introduction will provide the basics to get your course sites established for the semester.
Session 1 Thursday August 23, 2:30 pm. Live session in ILC Room 136
Session 2 Friday August 24, 11am Webinar
(You may register for both sessions)

OIA's Annual Teaching Academy-Thursday August 16, 2012

Join us for the Fall 2012 Teaching Academy.  Seminars, Workhops and Information Sharing that supports instruction on the campus of the UA.

Full schedule with descriptions (pdf)

Online Education Project (OEP) Proposals Now Accepted

The Office of Instruction and Assessment is proud to announce a call for Online Education Project (OEP) proposals. Project proposals for this second year of the OEP will be due by 3:00 p.m. on Friday, September 28, 2012.  Please see the attached RFP for details on project specifics and proposal requirements.

What’s New in D2L- Webinar

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What:    Online Webinar- What’s New in D2L

When:   Tuesday August  7, 11am to Noon.

Second iBook from OIA, the OIA Newsletter

The OIA has created its second iBook, using the iBook Author software from Apple. 

While reading this on an iPad you can access the OIA Newsletter ibook by clicking here.  When accessing this post from something other than an 'i' device, you can download a pdf version of the Newsletter.

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Creating Effective Multiple Choice Questions

Terri Riffe facilitated a session on Creating Effective Multiple Choice Questions for the May 3 Reading Day Showcase.

That session was recorded and can now be viewed online.

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Terri Riffe of the OIA

View the video of this session here (.wvx format) 1 hour and 8 minutes

During this session participants:

Highlighting Success With Video Solutions

The UA Undergraduate Biology Research Program enables UA students to experience how research is done. As part of their program, they participate in an end of year conference where they highlight their research in poster sessions.