Provost Unit Requests

Hello, Recent calendar events we created in events.tc.umn.edu are not showing up on our events page: https://cei.umn.edu/events Examples of recently created events not showing up include: Designing Better Discussions: https://events.tc.umn.edu/educational-innovation/event/17968-designing-better-discussions Journal Club: https://events.tc.umn.edu/educational-innovation/event/18394-journal-club-group-work-enhances-student-performance-i Teaching with AI Book Club: https://events.tc.umn.edu/educational-innovation/event/18986-teaching-with-ai-book-club-part-i-thinking-with-ai There could be an issue with the RSS import that is supposed to happen once per day. Most of the events listed above were created last week. Could you please advise? Thanks, James

Hello! CEI would like to launch a reformatted newsletter that will send a Salesforce email that directs readers to a to-be-created webpage that holds the newsletter content. We are imagining this will operate much the way ATSS does their newsletter (June 2024 webpage: https://it.umn.edu/teaching-with-technology-news/june-2024 ). If we want to launch this in January 2025 and sought your expertise to build a Drupal template that James Ondrey could then populate each month, how far in advance would you need us to finalize the content sections for you to build? Happy to clarify and discuss, Kate

Hello, on our website we display all our upcoming events, but it appears this functionality may not be working properly now, as past events are also present: https://cei.umn.edu/events Our event feed pulls from events.tc.umn.edu . Can you please help us display only upcoming events? Thanks, James

Kate Martin requests that all staff pages remove information related to phone numbers, emails, and addresses. I'm able to delete emails and phone numbers, but the listing for "Address" still remains. Can you help us remove this option from staff pages all together? See image for reference. Thanks, James

Hello, I made a request last week to remove the MPACT announcement from our homepage (in the blue section). Kate Martin wants to bring it back now. It appears I am unable to revert back to that version, so I'm hoping Charlot can since she made the change, but I'm not sure. Here is the copy wanted which I think is the same as before: CEI MPact 2025 Education Grants The Center for Educational Innovation will be funding projects from academic and central units that accelerate meaningful educational change by advancing the teaching and learning priorities of the MPact 2025 systemwide strategic plan: student success and engagement; student community and belonging; and student mental health and well-being. Funding decisions will be communicated by January 5, 2024. Learn more. Is someone able to help with this please? Thanks, James

Hello, We need to make an edit to our homepage that we're unable to make ourselves. On the homepage ( cei.umn.edu ), we would like to add the following text in the blue box and above the CEI MPACT photo/announcement text: CEI seeks innovative & collaborative Director [in bold] An internal UMN search is underway for the next CEI Director. Learn more ["Learn more" links to https://provost.umn.edu/about-evpp/leadership-searches/search-director-center-educational-innovation?j=12261436&sfmc_sub=38645728&l=591_HTML&u=252003073&mid=6332853&jb=2 ] then nominate a colleague or apply for the position. Priority deadline is December 15, 2023. Is this something you could please help us with soon? Thanks, James

This will be the editing/updating of our current Aligned Course Design site ( https://cei.umn.edu/teaching-resources/aligned-course-design ) that Kate Martin would have mentioned earlier in the summer. I'm currently revising the main text in wording and resources, incorporating segments on syllabus design, incorporating a couple of images, and updating the main video (on the 4As). I'l have the edits google doc completed by the end of 10 August, and the 4As video by the 18th. A next level of edits will happen during fall semester

Hello, Our events page ( https://cei.umn.edu/events ) takes the UM Events Calendar feed of CEI events. Is it possible to modify how each event looks and reads on our website? For example, when we create an event that is a program that goes over 2 weeks and is listed as an all day event, the start time on our website reads midnight and lists every single day as it's own event. We'd prefer to not include a start time when it's all day event and not have the event listed for each of the 14 days. On UM Calendar the event will just say "All Day" and provide the date range. We also noticed that some of the text formatting is lost when appearing on the website, such as bold and bulleted text. Is any of this modifiable without having to change the event text itself on UM Calendar? Please let me know if I can provide further context. Thanks, James