5 Faculty Earn QM Certification for Course Design

5 Faculty Earn QM Certification for Course Design More than half of USM's QM certified courses are from UMBC

After participating in rigorous peer reviews of their online and hybrid courses, five UMBC faculty have earned Quality Matters certification as part of the campus’ Quality Matters Impact (QMI) pilot. In partnership with the Provost’s Office, the QMI pilot launched in FA2021 as an extension of the award-winning PIVOT program to recognize exemplary course design.

Faculty participants received feedback from certified Quality Matters peer reviewers at UMBC and other online learning experts in the QM community. The five courses include:

AGNG 355 - The Experience of Dementia Louise Murray Date certified: 12.17.2021
CHEM 101 - Principle of Chemistry I Sarah Bass Date certified: 02.01.2022
EDUC 667 - Structure of English for TESOL Mary Tabaa Date certified: 11.18.2021
ENCH 300 - Chemical Process Thermodynamics Mariajose Castellanos Date certified: 01.24.2022
PBHL 100 - Survey of the US Healthcare System Katie Birger Date certified: 02.02.2022

These courses are eligible to display the QM Certification Mark, an internationally recognized symbol of online and blended course design quality. The QM Certification Mark represents these instructors’ ongoing commitment to creating learning environments that provide students with a clear pathway to success. QM Certification is the result of the faculty’s dedication to continuous improvement.

Promoting quality and lessons learned

In the first GO Chat of 2022, scheduled for February 25 at 1 PM, Louise Murray and Mary Tabaa will share their experiences with the formal review process and showcase their QM-certified courses.

The call for participation in the Quality Matters Impact program is open twice a year with reviews scheduled in fall/winter and spring/summer. Using the 6th edition of the QM Higher Education Rubric, a formal QM course review is designed to be a collegial process to provide helpful recommendations for continuous improvement and reinforce effective, research-based practices for online and hybrid course design.

A QM Official review provides independent validation of quality, learner-focused course design. As of February 2022, only nine courses in the University System of Maryland are formally certified by Quality Matters, which is valid for five years. To maintain QM certification, and be listed on QM’s website, courses may be recertified for an additional three years or officially reviewed again. A course achieves QM Certification when it meets QM Rubric Standards at the 85% threshold or better and meets all Essential Standards.

DoIT’s Instructional Technology team manages the formal review process and facilitates the fully online, asynchronous Applying the Quality Matters Rubric workshop designed to help instructors prepare for a formal course review. When a course is deemed having met QM standards, the instructor is eligible to display the QM Certification Mark on the syllabus or within the course itself. QMI program participants receive a $1,000 professional development award for completing required activities and their course meeting QM standards.

For more information about the Quality Matters Impact program, please contact the QM coordinators for UMBC:

Dr. Mariann Hawken

Director, Instructional Technology

mariannhawken@umbc.edu

Dr. Susan Biro

Manager, Online Learning

sbiro@umbc.edu

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After participating in rigorous peer reviews of their online and hybrid courses, five UMBC faculty have earned Quality Matters certification as part of the campus’ Quality Matters Impact (QMI)...

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---------- Forwarded message ---------
    From: Scott Brown 
    Date: Tue, Feb 8, 2022 at 9:10 AM
    Subject: UMBC STUDENTS HIRING
    To:
    
    The service of a student assistant is urgently required to
    work part-time and get paid $315 weekly. Tasks will be carried
    out remotely and work time is 7hrs/week. This position is
    available to both graduate and undergraduate students of the
    university.
    If interested, send a copy of your updated resume and a
    functional whatsapp number to our Department of Psychology via
    this email address to proceed further on the job
    roles/responsibilities. 
    
    Sincerely
    Anne E. Brodsky, Ph.D.
    Professor and Chair
    Department of Psychology
    Office: Math/Psychology 311
    Lab: Sondheim 508

In this case, the message was accidentally forwarded to a prominent mailing list, lending a slight bit of credibility. However, there are still some red flags in this message that should lead you to pause before responding.

Scammers love to ask for your WhatsApp number, and prefer this message of communication. It is more anonymous, and if their number is reported or blocked, they can easily create a new one. The same can be said of the from address from this forwarded message: it appears to be a randomly generated address from Gmail rather than one from UMBC. Be suspicious whenever you see these signs.
This email template is very common. We have even posted several stories right here for the same scam from different actors, and a quick Google search results in several other places with the same alerts.

For more information about phishing, visit https://itsecurity.umbc.edu/critical/?id=98136.

If you have received any message similar to the one listed above, please forward it with its headers to security@umbc.edu. For instructions, visit: https://wiki.umbc.edu/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=1867970.

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For those not yet familiar with this tool, Panopto provides both a downloadable and web-based recorder for faculty, students, and staff to create video screencasts, as well as a cloud-hosted platform for sharing content. Recordings can be embedded within Blackboard (Bb), or shared independently of our Learning Management System (LMS). The benefits of Panopto for instruction are numerous: faculty use the tool to support their overall instructional strategies for engagement, communication, and assessment. Users create easy-to-make and publish, accessible content with a stable, user-centered interface and workflow that promotes academic success with student-submitted assignments and embedded quizzing for knowledge checks; they leverage detailed analytics metrics to identify potential risk behavior; and they reduce the impacts of Bb quota limitations and improve system performance by pulling video content out of the LMS.

A survey of those UMBC faculty who use Panopto most frequently highlighted several benefits of using the tool, including facilitation in creating active learning environments, development of accessible content, and enhanced student learning assessment. Respondents provided rich qualitative details about their experience with this platform. Professor Manil Suri with the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, for example, noted the utility of the platform for facilitating learning. “I now have students watch my recorded lectures, many of which have quizzes embedded in them, to make sure they are following things….Panopto enables me to turn the classroom into an active learning environment.”

Dr. Neha Raikar, a lecturer in the department of Chemical, Biochemical, and Environmental Engineering, echoed this sentiment that these screencasts can help bridge the synchronous/asynchronous divide by breaking down difficult lecture concepts using videos with built-in knowledge checks. “Panopto allows the students to digest the content at their own convenience.”

Anushka Aqil, an adjunct faculty member with the Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Public Health, described the complementary benefit of the platform’s integrated media captioning, which supports Universal Design for Learning (UDL). “Panopto allows me to record videos that can have an automatic transcription at the end so students can easily follow along at their own pace choosing to read the transcript or listen to my voice!"

Panopto’s recent product updates released at the beginning of January offer a number of improvements, as detailed in their release notes. Please note that with updates to Version 11.0.0, Mac users should confirm that they have updated their operating system to the latest version, as support for legacy operating systems will become more limited in Summer 2022. More details about Panopto versions and Mac operating system functionality is available in this FAQ.

To learn more about Panopto, please register for these upcoming training sessions:

By Tom Penniston, Peter Ariev & Josh Abrams

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New REX Report : Weekly Utilization Rates for Rooms

Folder : Curriculum Management > Room

This new report allows departments or colleges to see how well their rooms are being utilized. There are a few key metrics in the report.

% Time Utilization

How well is the room being used for the given time period?
The number of hours a room is scheduled per week divided by the number of available hours for a week within the selected time range.

% Potential Seat Utilization

How well are the section capacities aligned with the room capacities?
Potential seats are the enrollment capacity for a section or meeting.
This utilization rate is the enrollment capacity divided by the room capacity.

% Actual Seat Utilization
- How well are the section enrollments aligned with the room capacities?

Actual seats are the enrollment for a section or meeting.
This utilization rate is the enrollment divided by the room capacity.

% Room Utilization

How well is the room using its time and how well are the seats being used?
The % Time Utilization multiplied by the % Actual Seat Utilization.

The report shows aggregate numbers for UMBC, each college and then departments and down to each room for each department. The vertical lines in the charts are the expected targets, with red lines indicating values below target. By clicking the "+ Meeting Details" column header, you can see more details about the actual course sections in each room and their meeting times.

This report can be accessed by going to rex.umbc.edu, clicking on 'Guided Reports', then navigating to the folders mentioned above.

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New REX report : Plan Selection Related to Course
Folder : Student Records and Enrollment > Course Enrollment

This new report counts how many students in each course joined a particular plan before, during or after taking the course. It breaks down the numbers by cohort type (entered as freshman or transfer) and each selected plan for each selected course. Here is a sample screenshot of the first page.

Some of the parameters

Plan(s) : It defaults to bachelor plans (majors), but does allow selection of minors and any plans that are associated with the selected Plan Rptg Org parameter.
Ever in Plan : It defaults to only showing those students who were in a plan before, during or after, but it does allow an option to also show the students "Never" in a plan.
Course Term(s) : It allows terms for the last 10 years, but defaults to the last 5. The trend page will show 10 years regardless of this parameter. On that page, hover over the dots to see the year and count.
Course Rptg Org : It defaults to the reporting org selected for the plans, but it can be changed. For example, how many students in MATH 151 are a Biology major before, during or after taking the course.

For those users with access to Details reports, there is a link to a separate report which has the detail records more suitable for export to Excel for further filtering or summaries.

This report can be accessed by going to rex.umbc.edu, clicking on 'Guided Reports', then navigating to the folders mentioned above.

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New REX report : Plan Selection Related to Course Folder : Student Records and Enrollment > Course Enrollment This new report counts how many students in each course joined a particular...

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For the Spring 22 semester, DoIT's Analytics & Instructional Technology groups will continue to offer student success and learning analytics-related workshops for the UMBC community.

All workshops will start at noon, and be available via video conference (virtual meeting URL to be announced on the day of the event). To register and view more information, check the links below:

More information is posted here.

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For the Spring 22 semester, DoIT's Analytics & Instructional Technology groups will continue to offer student success and learning analytics-related workshops for the UMBC community.

All workshops will start at noon, and be available via video conference (virtual meeting URL to be announced on the day of the event). To register and view more information, check the links below:

"How Do UMBC Bb Course Designs Correlate to Final Grades?" (2/17, Noon). This workshop will demo a UMBC Tableau dashboard prototype recently featured in Blended Learning Research Perspectives.

"Introducing HelioCampus Playbooks for Retention Modeling" (2/25, Noon). In this session, DoIT's Robert Carpenter and Len Mancini will lead a demo & discussion about the importance of predictive scores for each student using a series of dashboards that describe the risks associated with a particular score and how the model comes to that decision.

"Do Students Carry 'Lessons Learned' From One Course to the Next?" (3/10, Noon). Chemistry Principal Lecturer Tara Carpenter will share preliminary results from her Spring 21 learning analytics "mini-grant." FYI: The Spring 22 call for proposals is due 5/27/22.

"Revisiting UMBC's 6-year Graduation Rate" (3/18, Noon). UMBC's Data Science team developed a predictive model to predict the likelihood a First Time Full Time Freshman would graduate in 6 years. In this session, DoIT's Robert Carpenter and Len Mancini will discuss how student predictions tend to change from semester 2 to semester 3, some of the observed trends from cohort to cohort and the implications of those trends.

"Nudging Students to Success" (4/22, Noon). In this analytics workshop, DoIT's Robert Carpenter and Len Mancini will break down the nudges sent to students by demographic group, college, and program, and show how student predictive scores change from week 4 to week 7. Moreover, we will talk about how the importance of engagement features increases as the semester progresses.

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Dear taki Users, dear colleagues, dear students,

I am writing as chair of the governance committee and faculty-lead for the user support in HPCF.

It was great to have people visit with me, the HPCF RAs Carlos Barajas and Dan Kelly, and the system administrators Roy Prouty and Randy Philipp.

A recording of the meeting is now available in Panopto at the link

https://umbc.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=be812af2-fed6-4976-a451-ae2b0130521b

You may need to be logged in to UMBC before, maybe on the VPN.

Remember to send me citations for papers as well as theses!

Thank you all,

Matthias Gobbert, Math & Stat, gobbert@umbc.edu,

chair, HPCF Governance Committee

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As an extension of the award-winning PIVOT program, the Quality Matters Impact program is a new initiative to formally recognize courses that meet Quality Matters standards and demonstrate exemplary online/hybrid course design. As part of this process, faculty participants will receive feedback from certified Quality Matters peer reviewers including UMBC faculty and staff and other online learning experts in the QM community.

A formal QM course review is designed to be a collegial process to provide helpful recommendations for continuous improvement and reinforce effective, research-based practices for online and hybrid course design. DoIT's Instructional Technology team will manage the review using QM's Higher Education Rubric, 6th Edition (pdf). When a course meets QM standards following a formal review, it is eligible to display the QM Certification Mark.

Selection Criteria:

Participants selected for the Spring/Summer 2022 Quality Matters Impact cohort agree to submit a hybrid or online course for a formal Quality Matters course review.

Full or part-time faculty who meet the criteria and have not previously received funding through the Quality Matters Impact program are encouraged to apply by February 4, 2022.

Recognizing that the QM Impact program does require an investment of time to participate, a $1000 professional development award will be provided to faculty by the Provost's office once a course meets QM standards.

Eligibility:

You must have taught your course as hybrid or online for at least two semesters at UMBC.
You should have some demonstrated proficiency with and consistent use of Blackboard by your:

Ability to demonstrate the skills in at least six of the eight Skill Builder themes for Blackboard in current/past classes.
Ranking in the top 50 percent of your discipline's Bb course activity during the current and previous academic years (to be determined by the Blackboard administrative staff and/or faculty using the “Blackboard Analytics for Learn” report in each course).

Complete a complete QMI application by February 4, 2022.

PARTICIPATION REQUIREMENTS

Faculty accepted in the QMI Spring/Summer 2022 cohort agree to participate in the following activities during the spring 2022 semester:

Attend 45-minute orientation session: Friday, February 4, 2022 at 12 PM or 2 PM (choose one)
Complete the DoIT-facilitated Applying the Quality Matters Rubric (APPQMR) asynchronous workshop (2 weeks, fully online, February 15 - March 2)
Complete a QM self-review of your course (recommended)
Meet with your assigned review team for a pre-review conference call
Implement recommendations to meet standards based on helpful recommendations from your assigned review team
Respond to a QMI survey after the program concludes
Participate on a future panel or record a testimonial about your experience

SUPPORT

A 2-week, asynchronous workshop, Applying the Quality Matters Workshop, will be held online from February 15 - March 2, 2022.
Each participant will be assigned an Instructional Design Specialist to answer Quality Matters questions.

PROPOSAL REQUIREMENTS

A proposal to participate in the Spring/Summer 2022 Quality Matters Impact cohort must include your course-level and unit-level objectives.

Ready to submit? Please complete the QMI application.

For more information about the Quality Matters Impact program, please contact the QM coordinators for UMBC:

Dr. Mariann Hawken

mariannhawken@umbc.edu

Dr. Susan Biro

sbiro@umbc.edu

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This is just a reminder of our user meeting this Friday, 01/28/2022, 11:00-12:00. The following is the original post with more details.

For PIs, you may want to alert also other users in your group to make sure the information does not get missed.

Dear taki Users, dear colleagues, dear students,

I am writing as chair of the governance committee and faculty-lead for the user support in HPCF.

First of all, I am glad that you are all users of our system! We hope that it is useful to you and enables you to conduct more research.

Then as general reminders:

- For all, please send me citations for papers and theses (undergrad, Master's, PhD)! This is for our HPCF Publications webpage and our most important documentation of the success of HPCF.

- For PIs, you might want to review the users who have access to your group's data. These are the users in your Unix group. You can see the usernames of all from the output of the "getent group" command; to see your own group's users only, pipe the output into the grep command. For instance, for me with username gobbert, my group is pi_gobbert, so I issue the command "getent group | grep pi_gobbert". The point is that some of your students may have graduated or some previous collaborators are not active any more.

- For PIs, if you could, review which projects we list for your group. Maybe you have new/additional ones (or maybe we failed to post ones that you submitted). Just send me the title, abstract, and people involved.

Finally, the real point of this message is that I am offering to meet with all interested in an online user meeting. Rough agenda:

1. Welcome, thank-you, introductions of HPCF staff and all attendees.

2. Review of the HPCF webpage, in particular, of the systems available.

3. Overview of ongoing projects to improve documentation (Matlab, R).

4. Collection of technical questions and comments on the existing systems.

5. Collection of suggestions for the future.

6. If needed, meeting of PIs only.

The meeting will be on Friday before the start of the spring 2022 semester, that is, Friday 01/28/2022, 11:00-12:00, online in my personal room at https://umbc.webex.com/meet/gobbert

Thank you all,

Matthias Gobbert, Math & Stat, gobbert@umbc.edu,

chair, HPCF Governance Committee

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