Teaching with Technology

1. TEACHING WITH TECHNOLOGY
GETTING STARTED

2. Faculty Center Portal Overview
Pamela R. Ogden
Enrollment Services Division – Student Affairs
Integrated Staff Support
August 18, 2015

3. myUH Faculty Center Components
The myUH Faculty Center is your “academic
toolbox.” The module allows faculty/instructors to:
• View updated roster of enrolled students for a
term
• View your weekly schedule
• Enter/change grades
• View students’ program/plan
• View rosters of past semesters, including course
information and students’ classification/major

4. Accessing the myUH Faculty Center
1. From the UH home page (www.uh.edu), click the
“Login to AccessUH” link.
2. Log in with your seven-digit myUH ID (PeopleSoft ID),
or use your Cougarnet ID.
3. Enter your password.
4. Click on Login to AccessUH link.

5. Accessing the myUH Faculty Center
Click on the “myUH Self Service” icon in the University
Services section.
**The left side of the landing page provides updated
announcements that are important — such as grading
timelines, academic calendar information and
information on uploading your CV and syllabus. Please
take some time to read them.

6. Announcements Click on the Faculty Center Icon
Accessing the myUH Faculty Center

7. Viewing Your Schedule

8. Viewing Your Schedule
Click on the “mySchedule” icon to see your schedule for
the term. Then click the View Weekly Teaching Schedule
link.

10. Viewing Courses and Enrollments

11. Viewing/Printing
Unblock pop-up blockers!
Download roster to Excel
spreadsheet. Roster will
download to location set on
your browser.
View different
versions of the
roster.
Students’
names
appear
here.

12. Viewing/Printing Class
Click
icon to
view
student
photo.
Notify all or selected students (click the box to right of student’s
name) via email by clicking on the appropriate link.
Print a copy
of the roster.
*Use the
print icon
from your
toolbar.

13. Course Grading

14. Course Grading
Faculty members will receive an email when Grade Rosters are
available. At that time, the Grade Roster icon will appear to the right
of the Class Roster icon in the Faculty Center. Click on the Grade
Roster icon for the course to be graded. There are two ways to enter
a grade: a) Manually enter a grade by each student’s name; or b)
Upload grades from a spreadsheet. This presentation includes
instructions for manual entry. Click here for spreadsheet upload
instructions.

15. Course Grading
Click the drop-down icon in the Roster Grade
column and select appropriate grade for the
students. Be sure to Save your entries.
Note: The Office of the University Registrar posts grades to
student’s records every 3 hours, which allows students to
see their grades.

16. Course Grading
Notes regarding grading:
Please pay special attention to those students on your
roster who have an Applied to Graduate indicator of “Y”.
Please grade them as quickly as possible.

17. Course Grading
• Faculty members will have access to input grades until the “fully
graded” date listed in the announcements in the Faculty Center
entry page.
• After the “fully graded” date window closes, the “Request Grade
Change” icon will appear on the Grade Roster link in the Faculty
Center. Use this link if you wish to change a grade.
• Detailed instructions on submitting a grade change after the
“fully graded” date can found at this link.

18. Uploading Your CV and Syllabi

19. Uploading Your CV and Syllabi
• Timelines for uploading CVs and Syllabi are
located in the announcements sections in the
Faculty Center landing page.
• A link to detailed instructions for uploading CVs
and Syllabi are located in the Faculty Center
landing page.

20. Uploading Your CV and Syllabi
• Instructors who teach undergraduate courses are required
to upload syllabi per HB2504.
• Instructors who teach graduate courses will not see the
“upload syllabus” link in the class roster.
• Uploads of both CV and Syllabi must be performed in the
Faculty Center and cannot be done in the Blackboard
module.

21. myUH Student Administration
(PeopleSoft)
Pamela R. Ogden
Enrollment Services Integrated Staff Support
progden@central.uh.edu
832.842.9606

22. Blackboard Learn – Dr. Georgette
Michko
• University-supported online course
management system
– Over 3,000 UH courses in Fall and Spring
– Uses CougarNet IDs for students and
instructors

23. Blackboard Learn
• Enrollments loaded automatically from PeopleSoft
rosters
– 5 days before start of classes or upon request
– Twice daily after that
• You must request Blackboard each semester for each
course via AccessUH or directly at https://crs.uh.edu
– How to combine courses and sections?
– Copy old course?
– Add TAs

24. Blackboard Learn
Blackboard Support and Information:
http://www.uh.edu/blackboard/faculty/
- 24 hours a day / 7 days a week
- By phone, chat, or email

25. Blackboard Learn
• Built-in Blackboard tools
– Assessments, Assignments, Gradebook
– Discussion, Mail, Announcements
– Calendar
– And many more
• Additional tools integrated with Blackboard
– Respondus for quiz creation/
– Respondus Lockdown Browser
– Turnitin
– Clickers
– Collaborate

26. Blackboard – New This Year
Course Reserves integrated in Blackboard

27. Faculty and Departmental
Instructional Support (FDIS)
Dr. Teresa Acosta

28. Faculty and Departmental
Instructional Support
• We are the go-to Instructional Design team for the
following colleges​:
– Architecture​
– Business​
– Natural Science and Mathematics​
– Optometry​
– Social Work​
• Other colleges on campus have at least one
dedicated Instructional Designer.

29. Faculty and Departmental
Instructional Support
Services include:
• Consultations and needs assessment
• Course design/re-design
• Quality Matters™ course review
• Workshops
• Sponsor Faculty Technology Events

30. Faculty and Departmental
Instructional Design Support
Supported technologies:
• Blackboard--Learning
Management System
(Learn 9.1)
• Turnitin--plagiarism
detection
• TurningPoint (clickers)--
student response
system

31. Faculty and Departmental
Instructional Support
Supported technologies:
• Collaborate--virtual
classroom/web
conferencing
• Mediasite/myMediasite--
lecture capture
• Respondus--exam creation
software
• Respondus lockdown
browser--test security

32. Faculty and Departmental
Instructional Support
Technical Support for Faculty, fdis@uh.edu
or 832-842-2147
Blackboard Faculty Support Services Tier 1 level
• Call 1-844-570-6763
• Live Chat
• Email
• Self-help articles and knowledge base
• http://uh.edusupportcenter.com/
• 24/7 Support!

33. Faculty and Departmental
Instructional Support
Opportunities:
• Teaching Innovation Program Grant (CFP early
spring)
• Online Graduate Degree Development Grant
(year-round submission)
• Active Learning Classroom (Cougar Place 1020)

34. Distance Education and Special
Programs
Sandra Lozano

35. Distance Education
Online programs - UGRD degree completion programs
and fully online GRAD programs.
• Online program development
• Course scheduling
Sandra Lozano - slozano@uh.edu

36. Distance Education
Off-campus programs - UGRD degree completion and
GRAD programs delivered at UH Northwest Campus, UH
Sugar Land and UHS Cinco Ranch.
• Program development
• Course scheduling
Nancy Herron - nherron@uh.edu

37. Distance Education
• Provide information on programs and courses to
prospective and current students.
• Provide academic support services to current students
and instructors, e.g. academic advising, exam
proctoring, off-campus computer labs and office
space.
www.uh.edu/distance
713-743-3327

38. Special Programs
• UH WeekendU - Core curriculum courses taught on
Saturdays in fall and spring semesters. Offering
students additional enrollment opportunities.
– www.uh.edu/weekendu
• UH Sessions - Courses offered in accelerated format
during short sessions.
– www.uh.edu/sessions