Artificial intelligence has been in our everyday lives for some time. Think of Amazon's Alexa and Apple's Siri voice assistants. They can be helpful to perform tasks.
Generative artificial intelligence has been researched for decades, but has not been widely implemented or discussed outside research circles. You may have experienced generative AI though predictive text (Smart Compose) in Gmail.
UIS subscribes to Quality Matters (QM) and has adopted a customized version of the research-based QM rubric for course quality assurance. COLRS staff who review courses are trained Quality Matters reviewers.
Individual faculty or entire programs may request to have their courses reviewed.
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.
Due to federal financial aid eligibility for students, UIS instructors must engage in regular and substantive interaction with students in online courses. The definition of distance education from the U.S. Congress and guidance on regular and substantive interaction from the U.S. Department of Education are general and discussed in detail below.
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.
Download the UIS Examity Quick Guide for Students.
You can access Examity® through your course on Canvas. Click on the Examity link within the course.
Click to log in to Examity.
This will take you to your Examity dashboard.
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:
COLRS is closed for the university holiday on September 2.