UCC Teaching & Learning Center Blog - Sue Shaffer Learning Commons and Library: Guides at Umpqua Community College

Welcome to the Teaching & Learning Blog! We’re using this opportunity to share a bit more about the happenings in each department housed within the Sue Shaffer Learning Commons & Library.

Library

Have your students been struggling with citations? Are you sick of seeing them turn things in that have quite obviously come from EasyBib or another citation generator? The library provides you and your students access to an easy-to-use, high-quality citation management system called NoodleTools.

With NoodleTools you can create, manage, edit, save, organize, annotate, and export accurately formatted bibliographies in APA, MLA, & Chicago style!

For more information on NoodleTools, check out this helpful Research Guide.

Tutoring

Tutoring is still looking for more students who meet the following criteria to become a tutor:

Required Qualifications:

Be a current UCC student with at least 6 credits.
Maintain a 3.0 GPA or higher each term.
Earned an 'A' or “B” in the courses(s) tutored.
Ability to communicate effectively, both orally and in writing.

Preferred Qualifications:

Promote a positive, safe, friendly environment amongst students and staff of diverse cultures and educational levels.
Previous tutoring experience.

We are very much in need of Math and Nursing tutors for next term. We could also use tutors for Computer Information Science/Computer Science and Business.

Student Tech Help

UCC Online

Are you spending too much time correcting the auto-captioning in your Panopto videos? OCCDLA pays for an allotment of professional captioning for UCC. Just reach out and let us know what videos you would like to have professionally captioned, and we can have that taken care of.

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Fall Term, Week 7

What's happening in the Teaching & Learning Center:Fall term is flying by. We are already in week 7 and finals will be here before you know it! We will have a Fall Study In for students on Thursday, November 21, so mark it on your calendar.LibraryContact us at library@umpqua.edu!Course ReservesAre your course reserves up to date? Are you sure? Send us an email at library@umpqua.edu to find out, or even better, swing by the library during our regular hours a take a peek. Are you looking at updating your course reserves? Use our new Course Reserve Requests form.Do you have items for your class that you need your students to have access to outside of class time? The library can help facilitate this! Fill out the Course Reserve Requests form to get the ball rolling!For more about Course Reserves, check out the Library Services for Faculty research guide.TutoringContact us at tutoring@umpqua.edu!The Tutoring Center has been really busy this term and my tutors are working hard. October 7-11 was National Tutor Appreciation Week and we did some great stuff for our tutors. I established a Tutor Appreciation board for people to come write notes of appreciation to our tutors and the great work that they do. So anyone and everyone should come see it and write their own notes.We also tried doing our first Nursing Study Group just before midterms with little success. It was pretty last minute so we will try again next term with more advance notice. If anyone would like to see a study group at any time formed for any of your classes, just let me know and we can accommodate that with space and tutors if needed (maybe even snacks if we have enough advance notice). Here are some shots of what’s been happening in the Tutoring Center: Student Tech HelpContact us at studenttechhelp@umpqua.edu!The UCC Library Tech Help Desk is working hard to bring you the most comprehensive support possible. If you have any questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to contact us.UCC OnlineContact us at ucconline@umpqua.edu!The Panorama training session was hosted on 10/16 for faculty. For those who could not make it, Ryan Ha has provided a recording of the session along with additional training material that can be found on the Faculty and Staff Training page.Make sure to check back again in November for more updates!...

Late Welcome to Fall Term!

Welcome back to the Teaching & Learning blogWe're using this opportunity to share a bit more about the happenings in each department within the Sue Shaffer Learning Commons & Library. We will be publishing a new post on the last Friday of every month.LibraryContact us at library@umpqua.edu!Welcome back, faculty! We here at the library hope you had a restful and magnificent summer! We've been hard at work getting our resources (physical and digital) ready for you and your students this fall!Are you wondering what services we at the library are able to offer you and your students? Check out our new Library Services for Faculty research guide!Many of our resources were given a facelift over the summer, so they may look a bit different, and they may act a bit different, but they are still the same solid resources that you've come to rely on. That said, a few of the links have been updated, so you will want to use the link-checking feature in your Canvas shell to identify any broken links.Perhaps the largest update to our library resources has been with EBSCO. Almost every one of our 30+ EBSCO databases have a new user interface - a welcome update for these products. This might mean that people who were once familiar with them are now wading into unfamiliar territory. Never fear, we're here to help! Any database on the A-to-Z list that has a green play button next to it has a quick tutorial on how to use it.Are you interested in learning more about using Kanopy films in your courses? Join us in the library on October 8th from 11:30 - 12:30 for Maximizing Digital Resources in Education, register here!TutoringContact us at tutoring@umpqua.edu!Welcome back! Tutoring started Week 1 and was super busy. We have 14 tutors available in the Tutoring Center and they are here to help. So, whatever questions you have, whether it be math, science, any nursing subjects, social sciences, humanities, filling out an application, getting tips on study skill or test prep, and many other subjects and skills, they are here for you! Just stop by the Tutoring Center in the library and we can get you all set up with whatever you need.We also have Pear Deck Tutor (formerly TutorMe) in Canvas which is live online 24/7 tutoring help. Just click the link in the left navigation menu for TutorMe and follow the steps to talk to a live tutor anytime.If you or anyone you know excels at math, science, or business courses, we are always looking for those tutors. If you are taking at least 6 credits and have a GPA of 3.00 and have had As or Bs in those courses come see us in the Tutoring Center or contact us at tutoring@umpqua.edu. We can set you up to make a little extra money during the term. We have very flexible hours and is a great place to work!Student Tech HelpContact us at studenttechhelp@umpqua.edu! The UCC Library Tech Help Desk is working hard to bring you the most comprehensive support possible. If you have any questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to contact us. You can even schedule appointments here (Library Tech Help Desk 2024-2025) with WC Online now!UCC OnlineContact us at ucconline@umpqua.edu!Mark your calendars, there is an upcoming faculty Panorama Digital Accessibility training scheduled for Oct. 16th at 2:00pm by Ryan Ha from Yuja over Zoom. He will dive into the features of Panorama including accessibility reports, alternate formats, and accessibility tools when building content in the Canvas rich text editor. Invites will be going out shortly so keep a look out.Quick Canvas tip! Are you having issues with accessing third-party tools in Canvas like Panopto, Turnitin, or your digital textbook? Make sure you are not using a browser that has heavy privacy settings like DuckDuckGo or using a browser that is Incognito or Private Mode. This prevents Canvas from passing your authentication credentials to that third-party software and will block you from gaining access.UCCOnline will be hosting training sessions and workshops both in person and online in the near future. They will cover a range of topics including Quality Check Reviewer training, rubric enhancements, New Quizzes, Canvas Outcomes, Master Shell best practices, and more. Keep an eye on your email as well as the Faculty and Staff Training page as details are released.Check back next month for more updates!...

Stay Tuned! (04/17/2024)

What's new?Are you looking forward to learning about what exciting things are happening at the Teaching & Learning Center in Spring Term? So are we!Stay tuned for the return of the blog in Week 4 of the term! ...

How is it already nearly the end of week 8! (02/29/2024)

Library Contact us! Library@umpqua.edu The library is doing some springtime cleaning, and asks that you do, too! If you (or your students) have items that have been checked out from the UCC Library, please bring them back to us. We’re gearing up for a much-needed inventory of our collections and need to know what’s still outstanding (aside from our customer service, we know that’s outstanding! 😉). On the flip side, if there’s anything that you’re wanting the library to offer, please reach out to us using one of the following forms: Tutoring Contact us! Tutoring@umpqua.edu Tutoring is still looking for more students who meet the following criteria to become a tutor: Required Qualifications: Be a current UCC student with at least 6 credits. Maintain a 3.0 GPA or higher each term. Earned an 'A' or “B” in the courses(s) tutored. Ability to communicate effectively, both orally and in writing. Preferred Qualifications: Promote a positive, safe, friendly environment amongst students and staff of diverse cultures and educational levels. Previous tutoring experience. We are very much in need of Math and Nursing tutors for next term. We could also use tutors for Computer Information Science/Computer Science and Business. Student Tech Help Contact us! HawkITSupport@umpqua.edu UCC Online Contact us! UCCOnline@umpqua.edu You might recall that we will be moving our digital accessibilities tools from ALLY to Panorama for the coming Spring term. Yuja hosted a training session for faculty but if you missed it, fear not! You can find a recording of the session here. You can also find additional Panorama training materials on the Faculty and Staff Training site. ...

Week 5 and Midterms (02/07/2024)