CATL on the MOO-ve: Spring 2025 College Drop-In Hours

With CATL’s college drop-in hours, we are bringing our services directly to you. One of our instructional designers, instructional technologists, or our Canvas administrator will be holding drop-in hours for 2 hours per week in each of the four colleges on the Green Bay campus. In addition to these on-campus hours, we are also offering virtual drop-in hours on Zoom. No appointment needed!

College drop-in hours will run on the weekly schedule below throughout the spring semester. Please note that there will be no college drop-in hours during finals week, May 12-16.

College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences (CAHSS) Drop-in Hours

Mondays, 2:30 – 4:30 p.m. | Mary Ann Cofrin Hall B334 (Bridge room)

College of Science, Engineering, and Technology (CSET) Drop-in Hours

The location for CSET’s drop-in hours will alternate each week between Environmental Sciences 317 and Laboratory Sciences 468.

Mondays, 2:30 – 4:30 p.m. | Environmental Sciences 317 or Laboratory Sciences 468

  • Jan. 27 | Environmental Sciences 317
  • Feb. 3 | Laboratory Sciences 468
  • Feb. 10 | Environmental Sciences 317
  • Feb. 17 | Environmental Sciences 317 – note the location change for this week
  • Feb. 24 | Environmental Sciences 317
  • Mar. 3 | Laboratory Sciences 468

Austin E. Cofrin School of Business (CSB) Drop-in Hours

Tuesdays, 11 a.m. – 1 p.m. | Wood Hall 430

College of Health, Education, and Social Welfare (CHESW) Drop-in Hours

Wednesdays, 11 a.m. – 1 p.m.| Rose Hall 305 (conference room)

Virtual Drop-in Hours

Thursdays, 2:30 – 4:30 p.m. | Zoom link

Connect with CATL

In addition to the above dates and times, CATL is always available for consultations Monday – Friday, 7:45 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. Whether you’re a new instructor looking to design your first course, a skilled instructor teaching in a new modality, experienced faculty looking for a refresh, or anything in between, CATL is here to help with instructional design consultations, a host of professional development programming, and technology consultations. Request a consultation.

Spring 2024 Events & Programming Overview

Find all of CATL’s spring events and programming all in one place! We already have drop-in hours, training courses, workshops, and several other events on the calendar with more to come.

Spring 2024 Programming (PDF Version)

Teaching with Technology Certificate (LITE 101, 201, & 301 Courses)

The Teaching with Technology Certificate program consists of three courses that act as steps in the certification sequence: Learning and Integrating Technology for Education (LITE) 101, LITE 201, and LITE 301. Participants will earn a badge after completing the first and second courses in the sequence, and the Teaching with Technology Certificate after completing the third course. Full-time instructors who complete the second and third courses may also be eligible for a stipend.

LITE 115: Enhancing Course Videos with PlayPosit

LITE 115: Enhancing Course Videos with PlayPosit is a self-paced course with optional synchronous meetings. In this course, you will discover the basics of PlayPosit, build your first bulb, and implement PlayPosit bulbs in one of your courses.

LITE 120: Accessibility in Canvas

LITE 120: Accessibility in Canvas is a self-paced course. In this course, you will learn how to leverage the Canvas accessibility checker and the UDOIT accessibility checker to make your digital course materials more accessible.

CATL on the MOO-ve: College Drop-In Hours

CATL is bringing our services to you with more College Drop-in Hours this spring! Each week, one of CATL’s instructional designers, instructional technologists, or our Canvas administrator will be holding drop-in hours in each of the four colleges on the Green Bay campus, with additional virtual offerings.

Workshop Wednesdays

On the first Wednesday of February, March, and April, CATL will host a “Workshop Wednesday” event from 3:30 – 4:30 p.m.

Wacky Wednesdays

Take a short break, enjoy snacks and good company, and try games or engagement strategies you can use in your classes! Join the CATL team for a little fun at these “Wacky Wednesday” events.

Co-Writing Community

Tara DaPra, one of CATL’s Instructional Development Consultants, will lead another Co-Writing Community this spring. Each Friday from 8:15 – 9:15 a.m., faculty and staff are invited to gather via Zoom and work on a personal or professional writing project.

“Radical Hope” Book Group

This spring, CATL will be leading a book group on “Radical Hope: A Teaching Manifesto” by Kevin M. Gannon, our keynote speaker from the 2024 IDI. Meetings will be virtual with days and times selected based on the availability of those interested.

Fall 2023 Events & Programming Overview

Find all of CATL’s fall events and programming all in one place! We have office hours, training courses, workshops, and several other events on the calendar already with more to come.

Fall 2023 Programming (PDF Version)

Pre-Semester Workshops

CATL’s virtual pre-semester workshops on Aug. 25 – 31 have something for everyone! Whether you need a refresher on Canvas, ideas for communicating with students, tips for working with video, or recommendations for making your course more accessible, we’ve got you covered.

Teaching with Technology Certificate (LITE 101, 201, & 301 Courses)

The Teaching with Technology Certificate program consists of three courses which act as steps in the certification sequence: Learning and Integrating Technology for Education (LITE) 101, LITE 201, and LITE 301. Participants will earn a badge after completing the first and second courses in the sequence, and the Teaching with Technology Certificate after completing the third course.

LITE 115: Enhancing Course Videos with PlayPosit

LITE 115: Enhancing Course Videos with PlayPosit is a self-paced course with optional synchronous meetings. In this course, you will discover the basics of PlayPosit, build your first bulb, and implement PlayPosit bulbs in one of your courses.

LITE 120: Accessibility in Canvas

LITE 120: Accessibility in Canvas is a self-paced course. In this course, you will learn about how to leverage the Canvas accessibility checker and the UDOIT accessibility checker to make your digital course materials more accessible.

CATL on the MOO-ve: Fall 2023 College Drop-In Hours

CATL is bringing our services to you with more College Drop-in Hours this fall! Each week, one of CATL’s instructional designers, instructional technologists, or our Canvas administrator will be holding office hours in each of the four colleges on the Green Bay campus, with additional virtual offerings.

Workshop Wednesdays

The last Wednesday of each month this semester, CATL will be hosting a Workshop Wednesday from 3:30 – 4:30 p.m.

  • Sept. 27 | 3:30 – 4:30 p.m. | Topic: Engaging Students with Evidence-Based Activities
  • Oct. 25 | 3:30 – 4:30 p.m. | Cold Lunch & Hot Topics
  • Nov. 29 | 3:30 – 4:30 p.m. | Career Infusion in Higher Education

Using Zoom for Office Hours

Whether your course is held completely online, face-to-face, or somewhere in between, offering your students the opportunity to meet for office hours remotely rather than just in person is a great way to offer additional flexibility and help meet your students’ needs. With its robust Canvas integration, Zoom is a solid choice for virtual office hours. Using Zoom for office hours is mostly the same as setting up a meeting for a virtual class session, though there are a few additional options you may wish to consider. 

Enabling the Waiting Room 

For office hours, we highly suggest enabling the waiting room in your meeting settings. When the waiting room is enabled, it means that each attendee will have to be manually let into the Zoom meeting by you, the host. This gives you more control of who joins the call and when, and you can prevent a student from “popping in” and accidentally intruding on a private meeting. 

Security options for Zoom meetings
The waiting room is one of the options you can select in the “Security” section of your meeting settings. You can require both a passcode and the waiting room, if you desire.

Setting Up a Recurrence 

If you have office hours at the same time each day and each week, you can set up a recurring meeting just like you would for virtual sessions. Let’s say you have office hours from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Tuesdays and Thursdays. You would set your recurrence to “weekly”, check Tuesday and Thursday, set the start time as 11 a.m., and set the duration to two hours. The start and end dates of the recurrence would be the first and last days of the semester. When you set up your office hours through the Zoom Canvas integration, this will also populate the Canvas calendar with these meeting times. 

"When", "duration" and "time zone" settings for Zoom meetings; the meeting is set to start at 11 a.m. for a duration of 2 hours. Recurrence is checked and set to "weekly", with Tuesdays and Thursdays checked. The end date is set to May 9, 2022.
Sample office hour recurrence settings based on the scenario described above.

But what if your office hours don’t occur during the same time slot each day, such as 8 to 10 a.m. on Mondays and 1 to 3 p.m. on Thursdays? You could set up two recurring meetings, one for Mondays and one for Thursdays. In this case, you will want to make sure your two meeting links are clearly labeled with the day of the week so students don’t mix them up. You could also set up a single recurring meeting and ignore the fact that the meeting time for one of the two days is incorrect—the link will still work outside of the designated time slot, but it does mean that it will also list the incorrect time on the Canvas calendar and in Zoom. 

In these cases, another solution is to create a recurring meeting with “no fixed time”, which can be set from the “recurrence” dropdown menu when adjusting your meeting’s settings. This will create an open-ended meeting link that won’t expire for 365 days. Note that “no fixed time” meetings will not show up on the calendar in Canvas, though you could still manually add your office hours to the Canvas calendar and your Outlook calendar. 

The "recurring meeting" box is check in the Zoom settings and the recurrence dropdown is set to "no fixed time"
Recurrence settings can be managed under the “Time Zone” section of your meeting settings in the Zoom Canvas integration.

Questions? 

For most technical questions, please contact Zoom support or the GBIT Service Desk. If your questions pertain to the Zoom Canvas integration, your best point of contact is dle@uwgb.edu. Lastly, if you have general questions about how you can use Zoom to support your teaching, we always welcome you to email the CATL inbox (catl@uwgb.edu) or schedule a consultation with a CATL member.