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Teaching Center Update For Feb. 12, 2024

Teaching Center Update for Feb. 12, 2024

Early Progress Reporting
The Early Progress Reporting period closes on Feb. 13. Faculty have until the end of the day Tuesday to complete the EPR requests. Visit the Pathways website for additional information and to hear your colleagues, John Ramirez and Rachel Parkes, in a new video talking about the importance of Early Progress Reports and Midterm Grades.

Teaching Center Update For Jan. 2, 2024

Teaching Center Update for Jan. 2, 2024

Request a Teaching Consultation
Our teaching consultants can help you to conceptualize, design, and implement a new approach. Whether your goal is to update your teaching practice to better engage your students, get feedback from a teaching observation, or simply raise your teaching survey scores, we can help.

Teaching Center Update For Dec. 21, 2023

Teaching Center Update for Dec. 21, 2023

2024 Innovation in Education Awards
The Provost’s Advisory Council on Instructional Excellence (ACIE) invites proposals from University faculty for projects to enhance teaching by fostering new instructional approaches, techniques, or activities that represent advances over existing methods to promote and support student learning. Proposals are due by Feb. 16.

Teaching Center Update For Dec. 8, 2023

Teaching Center Update for Dec. 8, 2023

Therapy Animals During Finals
Therapets will be on hand in the Testing Center (G-35, Cathedral of Learning) with a mix of therapy dogs, cats, and bunnies during finals week. Animals will visit at the following days and times:

  • Dec. 11: 11 a.m.-Noon
  • Dec. 12: 10-11 a.m.
  • Dec. 13: 1-2 p.m.
  • Dec. 15: 11 a.m.-Noon

Combining Paper-and-Pencil Testing With Gradescope

Combining Paper-and-Pencil Testing with Gradescope

A longtime favorite of disciplines that rely on paper-and-pencil classwork and testing, Gradescope can support faculty efforts to solve for ChatGPT and other academic integrity risks during testing.
Teaching Center Update For Nov. 17, 2023

Teaching Center Update for Nov. 17, 2023

Academic Calendar: Important Dates
As we approach Thanksgiving recess, finals week, and the end of fall term, here are some important dates to be aware of on Pitt's academic calendar.

  • Nov. 20-Dec. 10: Teaching survey period
  • Nov. 19-26: Thanksgiving Recess for students (no classes), all schools
  • Nov. 23-24: Thanksgiving Recess for faculty and staff (University closed)
  • Nov. 27: Classes resume (all schools)

Teaching Center Update For Oct. 6, 2023

Teaching Center Update for Oct. 6, 2023

Now Hiring: Post Doctoral Associate
In partnership with the Learning Research & Development Center, we are seeking a two-year appointment for a post-doctoral position on the interface of learning science and generative AI. Incumbent will combine support for learning-science AI in university instruction with research related to technology-enhanced learning.

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