1. Faculty Workshop
Fall 2016

2. Welcome Adjuncts, go to forms.ovu.edu. Find
Academic Information for Instructors
Check Items 2, 3, & 4 on that list and complete the tasks.
Print/Sign/Date the page and give it to Terri Butterfield

3. From Dr. Joy Jones, VPAA:
* Do not allow students to use phones as calculators. * Focus your courses on content and nothing else. * Address your courses’ assigned learning outcomes. * Check Sakai site-OVU Syllabi for updated templates. * Provide your OVU address to your students. * Send completed syllabus to your dean by for review. Your dean will upload it to the Sakai site. * Change your password for computer & MyLink logins. * Check your OVU .

4. Professional Development
It is important to stay up-to-date in content and teaching strategies. See your dean for details about free resources.
Magna Commons
SmartBrief in your discipline
Faculty Focus, Eduwire, EducationDive, national associations’ online journals
Faculty Meetings, 1st and 3rd Tuesdays each month, 11:30am-1:00pm, Room 104. YOU are welcome.
Webinars- Academic Impressions and others
College/program meetings- you are welcome.

5. Classroom Courtesies
Please don’t allow anyone to sit on classroom tables.
If you use the screen, raise it before leaving.
Before leaving:
* Arrange the room in the original set-up.
* Erase the boards.
* Have everyone dispose of trash.
* Close the windows, even if another class is coming.
Would you adopt your classroom (TLC, report maintenance needed, etc.)? Tell Terri Butterfield.
Thank you.

6. Sakai Lassie creates a shell for every course on the schedule.
Add basics to your course-syllabus, resources. Could use for communication, assignment submission, Lessons tool, calendar/schedule. Important for unavoidable absences.
Tell your students that, in an emergency that requires cancellation of a class (your illness, weather), that you will place an assignment on the course site.
Brown Bag Lunches in Room 142 on 2nd and 4th Fridays each month, 11:40-1:00pm. Training. Sharing. Reminder s will go out.
Sakai 11 installation on Dec. 19. Different look. Tools will have some new features. Training in Jan Faculty Workshop.
Training available & painless. G.K. Pennington,

7. Kathy Muller-Dean of Student Success
Have an at-risk student? Contact Kathy at or
Literacy Initiative- need volunteers
100/100 Challenge and Helping Hands
Don’t hesitate or wait long before contacting Kathy.

8. Move-In and Kickstart
Check messages from Lindsay Cole. Help if you can. This builds priceless relationships.
Advisors follow schedule with new students.

9. Colleges met on Thurs., 8-11-16, 7:00pm
Add your thoughts to the discussion by talking with your dean:
* Dead Week * Base course grades on content
* e-Portfolio * Service to our community
* Evaluation and planning next steps:
1. What are we doing that is effective?
2. What do we need in order to make progress?
3. What strategies or resources do we need
for those tasks/ initiatives?