Making the Most of MyCourses Badge and Workshops

Making the Most of MyCourses Overview

Information Technology (IT) is pleased to offer faculty and staff the Making the Most of MyCourses badge.

The Most of MyCourses workshop series presents pedagogical best practices for course design regardless of instructional modality (online, hybrid, hyflex, face-to-face) combined with MyCourses best practices. Workshop topics include designing a supportive and easy to navigate course and syllabus, communicating assignment and activity expectations, incorporating time management strategies, humanizing your course, fostering engagement with readings, online lectures, and videos, digital content from the Kaufman Library, and assessing students.

To earn the Making the Most of MyCourses badge faculty and staff must provide evidence of a minimum of 20 of 27 artifacts. Participation in associated workshops is highly recommended but not required. Workshops will be recorded and available for faculty and staff to review at their discretion.

Faculty and staff earning the Making the Most of MyCourses badge exhibit a commitment to implementing best practices in course design and technology use. As such faculty and staff, may also choose to attend additional, optional workshops that are primarily focused on using specific MyCourses features such as but not limited to the Quiz tool, Assignment tool, Content tool, Grade Book, Kaltura, and Zoom.

Workshop Schedule

• September 6, 2024 10a-11a: MyCourses: Designing a supportive and easy to navigate course
• September 27, 2024 10a-11a: MyCourses: Creating an easy to navigate syllabus
• October 25, 2024 10a-11a: MyCourses: Humanizing your [online, hybrid, or face-to-face] course
• November 15, 2024 10a-11a: MyCourses: Incorporating time management strategies
• January 24, 2025 10a-11a: MyCourses: Leveraging digital content from the Kaufman Library
• February 7, 2025 10a-11a: MyCourses: Communicating assignment and activity expectations
• February 21, 2025 10a-11a: MyCourses: Fostering engagement with assigned readings
• March 21, 2025 10a-11a: MyCourses: Fostering engagement with online lectures and videos
• April 4, 2025 10a-11a: MyCourses: Assessing students

Why should faculty and staff earn this badge?

Faculty and staff should consider earning this badge to:

• gain insight into the technologies and services available at GGC for faculty and students to support teaching and learning.
• provide evidence of best practice implementation of Quality Matters (QM) using GGC technologies such as MyCourses, Kaltura, and more.
• participate in the development of best practice and standards-based courses that create consistency in course design across the college.
• share your commitment to expanding high-quality online, hybrid, face-to-face, and hyflex course offerings in support of the strategic plan.
• participate in the conversation around designing courses and leveraging technologies to promote student success.

How do you earn the badge?

1. Review the Making the Most of MyCourses badge rubric to identify the evidence you will provide in order to earn the badge.
2. Participate in workshops or review recordings.
3. Select a MyCourses course or request a sandbox to use to showcase your evidence.
4. Create your evidence.
5. Login to the Information Technology: Badges site and submit the Making the Most of MyCourses AY2025 Evidence assignment.
6. IT staff will review the assignment and award badges. Badge recipients will receive an email when the badge is awarded.