Request Forms Overview
The Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CETL) offers a variety of services for your convenience.
A blueprint course is a course that houses content you want to share to any number of associated courses. Note that blueprint courses exist outside of the semester and do not contain students. Content added to a blueprint course is synced to all courses associated with the blueprint course, and content can be locked or unlocked for editing in the associated courses.
Instructors can use a Canvas blueprint course as a template that contains the standardized course content, assignments, structure, and settings for associated courses. Blueprint courses are typically used when a large number of sections of the same course must contain identical content and assignments to maintain consistency.
Request a Consultation for Your Department
CETL will work with your department, school, or college to help your unit achieve its goals. CETL staff are here to facilitate workshops, deliver presentations, or provide consultations for your department. Please contact CETL in order to request our services.
The workshops listed below are examples of the presentations and workshops CETL can facilitate for your unit and can be adapted to meet your needs:
- Assessment and Evaluation
- Assignment Design
- Course Design (F2F, Blended, Online)
- Curricular and Organizational Development and Change
- Educational Technology Tools
- Engagement and Active Learning Strategies
- Inclusive and Effective Learning Environments for Student Success
- Teaching and Learning Technologies
UWM offers a variety of external tools that integrate with Canvas to extend its functionality. Use the External Tool Request Form to review the list of external tools and request to enable a tool in your Canvas class.
Request an Individual Consultation
CETL is committed to supporting the professional growth and development of all UWM educators. During your individual consultation, you will have the opportunity to discuss your teaching goals with an experienced educational consultant, who will work with you to develop strategies and solutions based on your specific needs. Our consultants can also provide guidance and training on the use of teaching & learning technologies to enhance your teaching and improve student learning. We offer individual consultations on various topics, such as:
- Assessment and Evaluation
- Assignment Design
- Course Design (F2F, Blended, Online)
- Engagement and Active Learning Strategies
- Inclusive and Effective Learning Environments for Student Success
- Teaching and Learning Technologies
New Course
Canvas courses are automatically created 60 days prior to the start of the course. You can request additional types of Canvas courses such as:
- Continuing Education Courses – For credit and non-credit certificates and community development.
- Sandbox Courses – For creating course templates, experimenting with Canvas, and organizing course content.
- Supplemental Courses – For student-oriented non-credit courses.
- Training/Development Courses – For professional development and non-academic student cohorts.
Combine Courses
Once semester courses are automatically created in Canvas, you can use the Combine Courses Form to request that separate Canvas courses be combined into a single Canvas course. For example – You might request to have the Canvas courses for two sections combined.
CETL provides technical support to instructors and their TAs in their use of teaching and learning technology tools such as Canvas, Zoom, My Media, Hypothesis, and more. The following is a complete list of tools CETL supports.
Lecture capture technology allows instructors to record themselves as they are delivering live lectures in certain classrooms on campus. All General Assignment and many department-managed classrooms on campus have Kaltura Classroom Capture (UWM’s lecture capture tool). Kaltura Classroom Capture allows instructors to make scheduled and ad-hoc lecture recordings.
To learn more about lecture capture and to determine which UWM classrooms have lecture capture capability, contact Classroom Services: classroomhotline@uwm.edu or call 414-229-4040
The UWM Helpdesk provides technical support for campus-wide tools that are not specific to teaching and learning technology, such as Microsoft Teams, Office 365, Outlook, passwords, and more. The following is a list of the areas supported by UWM’s Technology Services.
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