Do you want an easy way to share your video and audio files with your students? Ensemble is the media server solution that allows the Buffalo State community to manage and publish audio and video files on websites and in learning management systems such as Blackboard.

To learn more about Ensemble, please join us for the workshop "Ensemble: Campus Video Solution – Introduction and Demo" on Tuesday, October 20, from 12:30 to 1:20 p.m. in Bulger Communication Center 104.

Please register through the CyberQuad Workshop Registration System.

January Term (J-Term) 2016 is a stand-alone term, which means it is separate from and not associated with or linked to spring semester 2016. J-Term classes begin Monday, January 4, and end Friday, January 22. Download the J-Term flier (PDF) for details and important information from the Financial Aid, Registrar's, and Student Accounts offices.

Are you interested in teaching online? Perhaps you’re already teaching online but are interested in developing new strategies to help your students succeed. Maybe you would like to incorporate online activities into your face-to-face course. Please join us for the new Online Course Design Specialization Webinar Series, beginning in November. Attend all the one-hour webinars in the series and earn a certificate, or attend just the webinars that interest you.

Webinar Titles

• Introduction to Online Learning
• Backward Design Step 1: Developing Course Objectives and Priorities
• Backward Design Step 2: Developing Course Assessments
• Backward Design Step 3: Developing the Learning Plan
• Designing and Organizing your Course in Blackboard
• Interaction: Communication and Collaboration

Additional Course Development Webinars

• Authentic Assessment
• Locating and Using Electronic Resources in Your Course
• Interaction: Using Online Discussions to Facilitate Interaction
• Open SUNY COTE Quality Rubric (OSCQR)

For more information about the Online Course Development Certificate, please visit the Instructional Design website.

Visit the CyberQuad Workshop Registration site to view webinar times and to register.

Schedule Planner, an online planning tool to make registration easier, helps students create the best schedule of classes. Schedule Planner conforms to students' availability, replacing paper or other manual methods previously used to organize course schedules.

Students enter the courses they wish to take, then enter the times they are unavailable for classes, such as work, lunch, or study time. All possible schedule combinations are returned, allowing students to pick the best option. Students can then send the schedule to Banner, where it will be held in their registration cart until their assigned registration date. (Students must always SUBMIT the cart.)

Schedule Planner has added a new paging feature to the upper-right corner of the View Schedule page, allowing students to page between schedules using the screen or keyboard arrows without having to go back to the list of generated schedules.

Please download the Student Schedule Planner PDF for visual instructions.

Both J-Term and Spring 2016 master schedules are now available on the Registrar's Office Courses web page. Registration for both terms begins Wednesday, November 4. Students are able to view their scheduled registration dates directly in Banner Self-Service. All registration-related activity begins at 6:00 a.m. on the assigned date and is then continuous. Time tickets are based on earned credit hours. For more information on time tickets, please view the Registration Time Ticket web page.

Intercollegiate Athletics invites the campus community to a presentation on plant-based nutrition by Corine Cicchetti of Buffalo Spine and Sports Medicine on Friday, October 23, from noon to 1:00 p.m. in the Bengal Room (Sports Arena 226). Lunch will be served.

The discussion, the second in a series of talks hosted by Intercollegiate Athletics and offered by Buffalo Spine and Sports Medicine, will center on the prevention and reversal of disease through a plant-based diet and its implications for athletes, including "weekend warriors," and athletic performance.

Cicchetti is a graduate of Wells College and the University at Buffalo's School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences.

Seating is limited. Interested participants must RSVP by noon Thursday, October 22. Contact Tom Koller, senior associate athletics director, 878-6514. 

The Educational Opportunity Program (EOP) will host its sixth biannual Student Professional Development Conference on Friday, October 16, from 2:00 to 7:30 p.m. in the Campbell Student Union Social Hall. This symposium is free to all Buffalo State students who are interested in pursuing a career or graduate school. Please encourage students to register.

The conference includes a graduate school fair, an array of workshops, and a keynote address by EOP alumnus Joseph Perez. The conference is a collaboration between the Career Development Center, Faculty Student Association, Graduate School, and McNair Scholars Program.

Tenure-track and non-tenure-track faculty members, lecturers, adjuncts, and staff members with teaching responsibilities from across the curriculum are invited to participate in a Scholarship of Teaching and Learning research study, "How Student Learning Outcomes Shape Attitudes in Teaching and Learning.” The study will examine how SLOs are used in course design, delivery, and assessment from the perspective of instructors and students.

Faculty members are asked to complete a short online survey and/or participate in a short face-to-face interview. Interested faculty members should e-mail Ann Emo, associate professor of theater. Faculty members are also asked to encourage their classes to participate: full- and part-time students from all disciplines are asked to complete an online confidential survey.

The main (north) entrance doors of Moot Hall will be off-line for replacement beginning Monday, October 19. The project is expected to last three days. The doors will be available for emergency exit only while the work is under way. Four metered parking spaces at the south end of Lot R-4 will also be off-line throughout the project.

Access to the Registrar’s Office, Financial Aid, and Student Accounts will be maintained via Moot Hall’s east and west entrances. The west entrance is barrier-free.

Your patience and understanding are appreciated. Questions about this project can be e-mailed to vpfm@buffalostate.edu. Please refer to the Facilities Planning website for the latest information about current and upcoming construction projects.

Karsten Krejcarek, a New York–based sculptor, photographer, and videographer, will speak at Buffalo State on Thursday, October 15, from 12:15 to 1:30 p.m. in Upton Hall 230. Karsten’s work is concentrated on esoteric narrative, mystical symbolism, and nature landscape.

Sponsored by the Dr. Margaret E. Bacon Visiting Visual Artists Series Fund and the CEPA Gallery.