Week of February 20th, 2025

The Forestry Teaching & Learning Support Team has prepared a check-in survey for students. Instructors can share the survey link in their Canvas courses. After the survey feedback is collected, we will email you the results.

Note that the deadline for students to complete the survey is Mar 5.

Faculty members at UBC Vancouver are invited to submit a proposal to work with the Emerging Media Lab (EML) team on incorporating technologies (e.g., virtual reality, augmented reality, artificial intelligence, etc.) into teaching, learning or research projects. Learn more about EML projects on this projects page.

Please submit the proposals by Mar 15.

A new interim process is now in place to include publisher content and tools in Canvas, such as materials from Macmillan Achieve, McGraw Hill Connect, Norton Learning Tools, and Cengage MindTap.

If your courses involve these publisher content and tools:
– You can continue to request publisher content and tools as usual. The LT Hub will enable access to the publisher directly in your Canvas course.
– You will see a student privacy notice added to your Canvas course. Please do not remove this notice from your course.

For more info, refer to this webpage.

Interested in making your teaching more accessible? Check out our tip-sheet for creating accessible text-, media-, and AI-based content and activities.

Additionally, more resources on inclusive teaching and universal design for learning (UDL) can be found on the Forestry Teaching & Learning Support website.

For questions or support, contact forestry.tls@ubc.ca.

H5P (HTML5 Package) is an open-source tool available at UBC that allows instructors to create engaging, interactive content.

With 40+ different content types (e.g., interactive maps, virtual tours, etc.), H5P supports a variety of learning activities.

Feel free to check out these Forestry examples on this webpage.

For questions or support, contact forestry.tls@ubc.ca.

This guide offers a wealth of resources to support the delivery of forestry courses with practical applications. It includes a range of software tools for 3D modelling, structural analysis, and geospatial data processing.

It also features hardware solutions like integrated smartphone data collectors, mixed reality viewers, and high accuracy GNSS positioning devices.

To subscribe to the software, please email forestry.licensing@ubc.ca.

We’re thrilled announce Forestry’s many successful Teaching & Learning Enhancement Fund (TLEF) project proposals this year. A huge thanks to the creative and enthusiastic teams behind these projects (which extends well beyond the project leads listed below).

Our list of awarded projects is:
– Michelle Zeng. Small TLEF – Year 2: “Innovating Forestry Education: Advancing Accessibility, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion”
– Carrie Anne Vanderhoop. Small TLEF: “Haida Gwaii Institute’s Foundational Indigenous-focused course”
– Jorn Dettmer. Small TLEF: “Augmented Reality Assisted Equipment Safety and Setup Learning Tool”
– Andres Varhola. Small TLEF: “Bridging Learning Outcomes and Competencies for Student Success with a Curriculum Mapping Tool”
– Sarah Gergel, Michelle Zeng and many others. Large TLEF Transformation: “AI-powered Course Assistant: Enhancing engagement and interactive learning”

We also thank the members of Forestry’s internal TLEF review panels for the small and large competitions which include Andrew Almas, Lindsay Cuff, and Paul Pickell.