UCI Center for Engaged Instruction

The UCI Center for Engaged Instruction (CEI) is a main campus unit whose mission is:

• to improve the quality of teaching and learning through pedagogical development for faculty, lecturers, postdoctoral fellows, and teaching assistants
• to promote the use of innovative teaching techniques, including the use of instructional technology
• and to foster campuswide conversation about enhancing student learning through innovative teaching.

CEI provides valuable instructor resources, workshops, programs and services to fulfill their mission to instructors at UCI. School of Medicine faculty who are interested in receiving further faculty development should feel free to contact the CEI directly or visit their webpage at: UCI Center for Engaged Instruction.

Ilios and Canvas Upgrades

Faculty and students who use the Ilios curriculum management system and the Canvas learning management system will have noticed that both systems have been upgraded during the past week. The Ilios upgrade involved migrating from Version 2.x to Version 3.x, a major release of the system. This migration did not affect our existing data in Ilios, but presents a significant change to the user interface for the system.

Canvas was also upgraded to a new user interface with the most striking difference apparent on the Home page (a.k.a. Dashboard) after you log in. Courses are now represented with block icons (as they currently appear in the Canvas iPad app). Otherwise, the functionality remains largely the same. Also, note that on the top of the Dashboard page, there are new Med Ed buttons including one which will take you to the current UCISOM Student Handbook.

If you have questions about the Ilios and Canvas upgrades and/or require further training on them, let us know by using the iMedEd Service Request Form.

Reminder: Integrating Audience Response into your Presentations using Poll Everywhere Workshop

This workshop presents how to create polls using Poll Everywhere and highlights best practices/common uses for audience response.

• Thursday, June 30, 2016, 10 to 11 a.m., Conference Room A1000, Medical Education Building (Irvine)
• Friday, July 22, 2016, noon to 1 p.m., ITC Classroom, Grunigen Medical Library (Orange)

To read more about Poll Everywhere, visit: Poll Everywhere introduction.

To sign up for these workshops, email: Dr. Julie Youm at jyoum@uci.edu.