UIS subscribes to Quality Matters (QM) and has adopted a customized version of the research-based QM rubric for quality assurance. COLRS staff who review courses are trained Quality Matters reviewers.
We encourage instructors to use the QM rubric as a design guide when they develop online, blended, or hyflex courses.
From December 12 to January 6, the Center for Online Learning, Research and Service (COLRS) will be providing office hours daily from 10:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.
No office hours will be held on Thursday, January 5, 2023 (staff retreat)
Twice daily office hours at 10:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m. will resume January 7.
Canvas Commons is a learning object repository that enables instructors to share content created in Canvas. The content can be entire courses, a page, a module, a quiz, an assignment or a discussion. Content can be shared with only others at UIS or with the entire Canvas community. Learn more about Canvas Commons and how to search for resources and share resources to Canvas Commons.
Final grade submission deadlines are listed on the academic calendar for each term. Full final grade submission instructions are available in the Other Events/Dates section at the bottom of the Office of Registration website. Find the "grades due" events to view the instructions.
A gold course is a special type of course site that is used for developing, updating, and sharing content. Gold courses can be used to develop and update course content for a single instructor or with multiple instructors teaching the same course. Gold courses allow content standardization across multiple sections, which may be useful for accreditation and assessment purposes. The content can be copied into course shells for each term.
Canvas is a web-based course management learning system that UIS instructors can use to organize course content. Canvas allows instructors and students 24/7 access to their courses.
A Canvas course site is created for each course section taught at UIS, regardless of modality -- online, blended, hyflex, or on campus. Canvas has an easy-to-navigate interface on the web and via a mobile app. There is a separate app for instructors and students.
COLRS staff hold open office hours on weekdays that the university is open. We can assist with online, blended, and HyFlex pedagogy, Canvas, multimedia, accessibility concerns, and more!
Multimedia specialist, Scott Moomaw, joins office hours on Tuesdays and Fridays to assist with questions about videos.
Join the COLRS Office Hours Zoom meeting on weekdays at:
Teaching our students to value academic integrity -- to respect others' work and give credit for others' ideas -- is an important part of our work in the classroom. This page contains tips and tools for reducing and detecting violations of our community academic integrity standards.
Setting up your fall course and have questions? Need a little (or a lot) of help? Miss your COLRS people and want to chat?
Then this session is for you!
Join Zoom for the workshop (must be logged into your UIS Zoom account to access this meeting)