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The August 2025 faculty workshop was structured as five days of morning sessions. The primary report on the workshop this term was produced in the form of a presentation . The Tuesday morning session was well attended. Attendance decreased with each day. The Friday session was for new instructors only. Tuesday afternoon I presented on Google Workspace. This presentation was a reworking of a presentation first put together in July 2022. The presentation was reworked again in August 2023. The presentation was then updated for an online presentation to non-instructional employees in July 2025. Non-instructional employees also attended a second session that focused on Google Forms . Further updates were made for a presentation to faculty in August 2025. Wednesday program assessment summaries. 

Faculty development day began with departmental informational updates from the office of the president, enrollment management and student services, institutional effectiveness and quality assurance, cooperative research and extension, and administration.  The workshop evaluation asked faculty to respond to prompts by agreeing or disagreeing with the prompt. The responses were converted to numeric values: Strongly disagree Disagree Neutral Agree Strongly agree With 14 responses recorded, averages were calculated for each prompt.  Results by individual prompts for each session With all of the averages above four, faculty generally agreed or strongly agreed with the prompt. The overall average was 4.51. Averages close to 4.51 are yellow, averages elevated above 4.51 are green, averages below 4.51 are shades of orange. Overall averages by session The morning sessions rated higher than the afternoon sessions. The differences are small and faculty generally agreed or strongly a...

Comments on and suggestions for the Monday morning offices information sharing presentations Provide a handout so that faculty and refer to the important information during advising. None. All presenters did their work wel List two things you liked most about the Monday and Tuesday sessions I appreciated the fact that we were informed of what is expected of us before we resume classes. I am also so thrilled that I and the others had the opportunity to get assistance from Fiji. A great thank you to Administration Office! Moodle and Financial Aid Not too long and responsive to questions.  Moodle training and Financial aid presentation  Presentation from Moodle was well clear and makes me understand. one on one moodle training We are able to work together We are able to learn from our neighbor states. More participated, and somewhat clear List two recommendations for improvement of the Monday and Tuesday sessions Attendance and Punctuality as well as mutual understanding in terms...

The second day of faculty development workshops at the national campus began with program assessment summaries. That afternoon the workshop considered the assessment data and worked on planning and reflection. On Wednesday morning the workshop looked at the suggested program schedule in the catalog. The workshop evaluation asked faculty to respond to prompts by agreeing or disagreeing with the prompt. The responses were converted to numeric values: Strongly disagree Disagree Neutral Agree Strongly agree With 18 responses recorded, averages were calculated for each prompt by session. The overall average was 4.35. In general faculty agreed or strongly agreed with the prompts. Differences in the means between prompts were not large.   In the Tuesday morning session, the last prompt on the evaluation was the lowest rating for any of the prompts across both days. This was a result of the prompt being the only prompt to receive multiple responses of neutral. 17% of the responses wer...

Faculty development day began with departmental informational updates from the office of the president, enrollment management and student services, institutional effectiveness and quality assurance, cooperative research and extension, and administration.  The workshop evaluation asked faculty to respond to prompts by agreeing or disagreeing with the prompt. The responses were converted to numeric values: Strongly disagree Disagree Neutral Agree Strongly agree With 52 responses recorded, averages were calculated for each prompt. With all of the averages above four, faculty generally agreed or strongly agreed with the prompt. The strongest agreement was that the morning presentations were informative. The first presentation after lunch was on updates in the Instructure Canvas learning management system. Faculty expressed strong agreement with the prompts for the Canvas updates session. This might be expected as Canvas is what faculty interact with on a daily basis and which has the ...

The faculty development workshop consisted of three systemwide sessions in the morning and two national campus sessions in the afternoon.  Nuventive Improve assessment management system Canvas Update Tools for Tracking Progress with McGraw Hill Mindtap platform overview, course setup, and customization Mindtap hands-on practice session and effective teaching strategies with MindTap discussion The evaluation for each session included the same four statements: Presentations were informative The amount of time was sufficient Feature coverage was sufficient I will be able to apply what I have learned Response options were numerically encoded on a one to five scale: Strongly disagree (1) Disagree Neutral Agree Strongly agree (5) Responses were received from all campuses.  Overall means table for March 2024 The differences in the means were small and centered around a response of four: in general there was agreement with the statements. To provide some context, the faculty workshops...

The faculty development workshop consisted of six sessions held across two days. The six sessions in the workshop were: Information sharing sessions Accessing online resources for both faculty and students: Cengage Unlimited Google Workspace for Education and Canvas update Program coordinators introduction and their purpose Closing the loop on assessment Digital devices preventative maintenance and personal safety The evaluation for each session included the same four statements: Presentations were informative The amount of time was sufficient Feature coverage was sufficient I will be able to apply what I have learned Response options were numerically encoded on a one to five scale: Strongly disagree Disagree Neutral Agree Strongly agree Overall means table. n = 22 respondents. Updated 09 Aug at 08:28 Overall means for each session are reported in the above table. The differences are small and the underlying sample size is also small. Session criteria tables. n = 22. Updated 09 Aug at ...

Faculty development day was designed with whole faculty sessions and concurrent breakout sessions to permit faculty some degree of choice among the offerings. All faculty opening session      Building Bridges: Strengthening Faculty-Student Interaction for Better Learning Concurrent morning sessions      Best Practices for Canvas: Strategies for Enhancing Student Learning      Engage to Learn: Techniques for Maximizing Student Engagement  All faculty morning and after lunch sessions      Feedback Matters: Using Feedback to drive success      A Demonstration Tour of Smartboard Capabilities plus Lumio  Concurrent afternoon sessions      Assessment: Leveraging Canvas Preloaded Learning Outcomes in Rubrics and Question Banks       Unleashing the Library’s Potential: A Guide for Faculty Resource Use  An evaluation was sent to faculty who were asked to evaluate each se...

A systemwide workshop for faculty was held on 03 January 2023 covering the following topic areas: Student Orientation in Canvas Online Course Effectiveness  Google Slides  Canvas interface updates Updates on processing of ordering textbooks  Informed Academic Advising by Office of Admissions and Records  Student Financial Student Aid informed academic advising  Counseling collaboration with faculty and academic advisors  Nuro Retention  A follow-up survey asked whether the presentation was informative with multiple choice response options of Strongly agree, Agree, Neutral, Disagree, Strongly disagree, and Did not attend.  Respondents tended to usually respond with Agree or Strongly agree. In general faculty agreed that the presentations were informative. With strongly agree set to five and strongly disagree set to one, the overall average was a 4.32. Individual presentation averages were as follows. Faculty were asked to comment in response to fou...

An online faculty workshop was held on August second and third. A multiple choice post-workshop was administered with the following rating scale: Strongly disagree Disagree Neutral Agree Strongly agree Not applicable was a non-scored answer option. For a sample size of 48 respondents, the overall mean on all statements was a 4.22 with a sample standard deviation of 0.68.  As is also typically seen in student responses on evaluation surveys ,  there is a tendency to agree or strongly agree with a statement on a survey. The following ten statements were rated by faculty, with first seven prefaced by "Presentation about the following was informative:" Canvas Ready Integrating Technology into Courses Google Workspace Linking College Course Outcomes to Canvas Timely Feedback Syllabus Template Covid Protocols The amount of time given to each subject was enough. I am now well informed of the expectations and important events for this new year. "I will be able to easily apply wh...