Blog Posts

More Than Fun and Games: How Wellness Shapes Belonging

💬A Conversation About Belonging When I sat down with Haley Mangette, Assistant Director of Student Engagement, one theme stood out: students can’t fully engage or belong until their basic needs are met. Haley works in the Office of Student Involvement (OSI), and while many people associate that office with game nights or campus festivals, she […]

Welcome to the Teaching, Learning, Equity, Diversity, & Inclusion Blog

Hi everyone, starting this blog as part of our new Teaching, Learning, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion website — a space for campus colleagues who teach, advise, mentor, and support students. What you’ll find here Whether you’re looking for: this site is a place to start. We’ll keep adding resources and using this blog to share […]

See details about your classroom online

The College’s room reservation platform (EMS) is loaded with helpful information about your classroom. A step-by-step example I see at HornetHQ (I needed my short form username and password) that I’m teaching in Olds Upton Hall, Room 207 this term. Click here for a post with more details about how to find details about your […]

Use the new Bookings app to schedule advising meetings

Dearest Advisors,  If you already use MS Outlook to manage your calendar, there’s a new app called Bookings available in our MS Office suite. Bookings allows students to sign up for meeting times based on your availability at Outlook. Here’s an 8-minute video screencast that shows the steps I used to set up my advising […]

Send a Moodle Message to students who haven’t submitted an assignment.

This morning I wanted to send a message to those students in my class who hadn’t yet submitted the first homework assignment at Moodle. A little Googling led to this solution. It requires several steps, but I found it easy once I put it all together. You can see the process from start to finish […]