Agenda and Notes

Natalye Harpin, ESBS (English, Social and Behavioral Sciences)
Tim Cliffe, MNSESW (Mathematics, Natural Sciences, Exercise Science and Wellness)

Minutes were approved.

Agenda was approved.

Dawn shared the implementation of a new login screen.
Dawn discussed a potential summer/fall Canvas IMPACT campaign to promote effective Regular and Substantive Interaction (RSI).

Adelle shared plans to use a mock course as a training tool for faculty evaluators and instructors.
She proposed recruiting volunteers to participate as students for a week, completing discussion boards, quizzes, and assignments.
The goal is to create a realistic and safe course artifact to model the evaluation process, focused on RSI.
Adelle also described creating a separate “dark side” course to demonstrate practices that need improvement.
The group reviewed a sample page and discussed issues such as excessive warnings, low-trust tone, and poor user experience.
Suggestions for additional “needs improvement” examples included using text headers to break up long paragraphs and explaining links to PDFs (rather than linking without context).
Adelle agreed to incorporate suggestions and intentionally worsen the layout for training purposes.
The group considered combining good and bad examples into one course, but decided to keep them separate for now.
Adelle shared that the project will start next week and will include grading and submitting assignments in the mock course.

Tate shared that an AI task force is forming and will have implications for online teaching and learning.
Draft membership includes the Online Education Coordinator and the Instructional Design Technology Specialists from both colleges.

No resources shared for this meeting.