Monday, March 23

Good evening,

First day back from spring break and it has been a pretty quiet day considering. Please be sure to review the information shared below. Pay special attention to the invitation at the bottom to host a virtual meetup.

Attention Faculty - Many students have not been contacted by their faculty regarding online instruction. If you have not reached out to your students, please do so as soon as possible. Also, please post the video below in your CANVAS shell along with a link to the Student Resources page (See Faculty Section). Please submit midterm grades if you have not done so already.

Highlights from Monday 3/23/2020

General

• Access the College-wide staff meeting slide deck here
• For more information from UK Philanthropy on how you can support our students during this unprecedented challenge, please click here
• Gatton’s COVID-19 resource page: http://gatton.uky.edu/coronavirus
• Share Student resources page as needed

Faculty

• Please post this video on your CANVAS shell here and Student resources
• Please click here for updates and guidance from the Graduate School regarding policies for graduate students
• REMINDER: Research Spring Lunch & Learn Series - Mar. 25th (Zoom: https://uky.zoom.us/j/3802651862)
• UPDATE P/F for undergraduates. An email was sent last evening regarding the faculty senate taking up the issue of P/F for undergraduates. The issue has not been resolved. Please continue to monitor the Gatton Daily for updates.

Connectivity & Virtual Teaching

• Gatton IT Dept. Virtual Helpdesk is available M-F 8AM-5 PM
  • Zoom Meeting room - https://uky.zoom.us/j/128399829
• Accessing online tutoring.
  • Please click here for the Lab for Economics & Accounting Proficiency (LEAP)
  • Please click here for the Business Analytics Lab (BA Lab)
• The college has conducted numerous training on Zoom, Canvas, Echo360 and Respondus Monitor. These trainings were recorded and available on the Gatton from Anywhere page or by clicking this link.

Community

• Click here to access the latest Message from the Dean
• If you like to host a virtual meetup please contact Jackie Carbuccia with a title, description, day and time
• Visit our collection on Flickr photos. Check out Gatton faculty and staff while they setup to Work From Home #WFH on Flickr! Also see photos from Gatton IT this week! Want to add your Photo to the album? Click to Email Keri Orso
• How to Thrive in a Virtual Workspace

If you want to forget about Earth for a moment:

• The Mars Rover has been broken down for the last few weeks, but NASA finally fixed it by having the robot hit itself with a shovel. This blurb has no point, we just found the mental image of this to be hilariously charming.