Registration Open: Diversity Forum 2021
Registration is open for Diversity Forum 2021, scheduled for Monday, July 26, through Thursday, July 29. The forum, “Dismantling Oppressive Systems: Building Just Communities,” is online, free, and open to all. This year’s forum sessions and workshops will engage and equip participants with the knowledge, skills and resources to identify sources of systemic oppression, consider strategies for dismantling that oppression, and identify actions critical in fostering more equitable and just communities in which to live, work and learn. You can register online today.

Teaching with Panopto
Teaching With Panopto is a fully online asynchronous learning opportunity open to all Pitt faculty, staff and teaching assistants. Participants will learn about the major components of using Panopto via self-paced, step-by-step tutorials and help videos prepared by the course instructors, as well as exercises for you to practice what you’ve learned in each segment. Learn more about this self-paced learning opportunity.

The Teaching Center is Here to Help
As you prepare your course(s) for the fall, the Teaching Center is available to provide advice, guidance, and assistance for a variety of instructional needs. If you're interested in things like:

• Talking about the design of a new assessment
• Identifying new ways to use Canvas to support your course
• Introducing active learning in your course
• Creating video content
• Brainstorming ways to use educational technologies to support your teaching

Upcoming Workshops
The Teaching Center added new faculty learning opportunities for July and August, including workshops for Canvas and digital accessibility tools. You can review the workshops schedule and register for them by visiting our workshops and events page.

Moving from Box to OneDrive
As part of the University’s planned retirement of Box and migration of data to OneDrive, the Box integration will be removed from Canvas on Aug. 19. While Box will still be available for current users during this migration process, new users (such as first-year students, or newly hired instructors) are not being given Box accounts, and for this reason the use of Box for instructional purposes is discouraged. More information about the cloud storage migration is available from Pitt IT, as are training webinars for OneDrive.

Register for the 2021 Diversity Forum
Registration is now open for the 2021 Diversity Forum, to be held July 26-29. The aim of the forum, themed Dismantling Oppressive Systems: Building Just Communities, is to engage and equip participants with the knowledge, skills and resources to identify sources of systemic oppression, consider strategies for dismantling that oppression and take actions critical to fostering more equitable and just communities. Learn more and register on the Diversity Forum web page.