The UPEI Healthy Campus Committee invites UPEI faculty and staff to sign up for the 100-Day Global Challenge, which will take place from May 27 to September 4, 2020. The challenge is a fun way for faculty and staff to become healthier and happier, even during this time of social distancing. The deadline to register is Thursday, May 7, by 11:00 pm. There is no registration fee. To register, log on to myUPEI and complete the 100-Day Global Challenge registration form found under “UPEI Forms”. As part of the registration process, participants will need to complete a waiver and consent form. If you do not have a team or enough participants for a team, complete the form, and you will be assigned to a team.

The Sexual Violence Prevention and Response Office (SVPRO) invites you to check out the evolving resources being added to the upei.ca/svpro website to support survivors and victims of sexual and gender-based violence during this time of social distancing. Eileen is still available to talk, provide referrals/accommodations, safety-plan, navigate reporting options, and facilitate workshops Mon-Fri, 8:30 am to 4:30 pm. She can be reached by email: econboy@upeil.ca, phone: 902-213-5298, and Google Meet.  

Providing content for a course can be easy to do. Figuring out how to explain to students what that content will do to them and for them can be far more challenging. There are numerous ways to describe learning and just as many opinions as to which is best. Are learning targets even necessary? Facilitated by the E-Learning Office, this webinar will take place on Wednesday, May 20th from 10:30 to 11:30 am. REGISTER

With the increase in quality and quantity of cognitive sciences research over the last few years, what of it can be usefully applied to teaching? This workshop aims to summarize that research on learning and memory and provide instructors with tips for integration into their teaching. Facilitated by the E-Learning Office, this workshop takes place online on Wednesday, May 13th from 10:30 to 11:30 am. REGISTER

While online learning creates many opportunities to reduce barriers experienced by students with disabilities, it also creates new challenges for accessibility. For example, students with seizure disorders, acquired brain injuries, concussions and migraines may find working on the computer for long periods of time challenging and may require flexible deadlines or due dates. Follow this link to an Online Accessibility Services Check List. You will find helpful resources there.

The E-Learning Office is hosting UPEI's 3rd Teaching Community Conference online this year on May 5th. The conference will feature a keynote presentation from Dr. Bonnie Stewart & Dave Cormier at 10am. The conference will also feature synchronous sessions where presenters will facilitate their sessions live through Blackboard Collaborate, as well as asynchronous sessions which will be videos posted on the Teaching Community Conference website. 

For more information and to register please visit http://upei.ca/teachingcommunityconference

If you have any questions please contact elearning@upei.ca 

On Wednesday, May 6, IT Systems and Services (in conjunction with the E-Learning Office) will be upgrading the UPEI Online Learning Management System (Moodle) to a newer version. Maintenance will begin at 8:00 pm and is expected to be completed by midnight. For more information about the changes coming to Moodle please check the Moodle New Features document.

Moodle will be inaccessible during this time.

If you have any questions or concerns, please contact moodle@upei.ca.

While online learning creates many opportunities to reduce barriers experienced by students with disabilities, it also creates new challenges for accessibility. For example, students with seizure disorders, acquired brain injuries, concussions and migraines may find working on the computer for long periods of time challenging and may require flexible deadlines or due dates. Follow this link to an Online Accessibility Services Check List. You will find helpful resources there.

The E-Learning Office is hosting UPEI's 3rd Teaching Community Conference online this year on May 5th. The conference will feature a keynote presentation from Dr. Bonnie Stewart & Dave Cormier at 10am. The conference will also feature synchronous sessions where presenters will facilitate their sessions live through Blackboard Collaborate, as well as asynchronous sessions which will be videos posted on the Teaching Community Conference website. 

For more information and to register please visit http://upei.ca/teachingcommunityconference

If you have any questions please contact elearning@upei.ca 

This fund is provided by a grant to the University of Prince Edward Island Student Union by the Province of Prince Edward Island. These awards will help support students financially impacted by COVID-19. 

The award is supported by the UPEI Student Union and the UPEI Scholarships & Awards Office within the Student Experience Hub of Dalton Hall.

The COVID-19 Student Support Fund is designated for students that meet the following criteria:

- Were registered as a Full-Time student during the 2020 Winter Semester at UPEI

- Must be currently living in Prince Edward Island

- Preference will be given to applicants who have not previously received adversity funding through either the UPEI Student Union or UPEI's Scholarships & Awards Office

For further details on the fund, please visit https://www.upei.ca/scholarships-and-awards/display?awardid=1106. 

Applications can only be submitted electronically to scholarships@upei.ca. 

The UPEI Healthy Campus Committee invites UPEI faculty and staff to sign up for the 100-Day Global Challenge, which will take place from May 27 to September 4, 2020. The challenge is a fun way for faculty and staff to become healthier and happier, even during this time of social distancing. The deadline to register is Thursday, May 7, by 11:00 pm. There is no registration fee. To register, log on to myUPEI and complete the 100-Day Global Challenge registration form found under “UPEI Forms”. As part of the registration process, participants will need to complete a waiver and consent form. If you do not have a team or enough participants for a team, complete the form, and you will be assigned to a team.

The Arts Equity and Inclusion group is not letting a pandemic and physical distancing stop us! Equity and inclusion continue to be important emphases to our work in the university, no matter where or how we’re doing that work. So – let’s meet online and continue our discussions. For our next reading group meeting we’ve selected chapter 4, “Universal Design,” from Academic Ableism: disability and higher education, by Jay Dolmage. The library has the ebook, and we’ve downloaded the chapter into our google folder too: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1C-Kp3Rgic3p4Beu_26WK5h4i0ZD4LZmv?usp=sharing.

We’ll be meeting via Zoom, on Tuesday, May 12, at 11:00am. Please send an email to Andrew Zinck, at azinck@upei.ca so he can add you to his invite list for this event.

Hope to see a lot of you there!

The Office of Continuing Education and Professional Development recognizes how important stress reduction and mindfulness is during this challenging time, so we have reduced the cost of our Stress Reduction and Mindfulness in the Workplace course that is starting on May 6th.

This course will provide the tools and knowledge needed to transform the way you manage yourself and balance the demands being thrown your way during this stressful time.

This will be a six-week session starting on Wednesday, May 6. For those who like to be online at a certain time, the course will take place weekly from 9am to 11am starting May 6th.  

For those who cannot be online weekly from 9am to 11am, recorded session material will be available to explore at your own pace. 

The Stress Reduction and Mindfulness in the Workplace course will be facilitated by Jill Stewart, a Registered Social Worker in Prince Edward Island and the founder and owner of Your Life Design Inc.

For more information and to register, click here.

If you are UPEI staff or faculty, there may be funding available to you. Visit these links:

Contract employees:
Information about your PD coverage
Application Form

CUPE employees:
Information about your PD coverage    
Application Form 

Faculty members:
For information on submitting a Professional Development and Travel Reimbursement (PDTR) claim, please email apadmin@upei.ca. 

PEI Energy Systems has notified Facilities Management of necessary maintenance work that is required on the district heating lines.

This work will require a shutdown of the heating system and domestic hot water for the buildings listed below. Cold water will not be impacted.

The shutdown is scheduled for Tuesday, May 5, 2020 beginning at 8:00 am and is expected to take approximately 8 hours to complete.

Facilities Management apologizes for any inconvenience this may cause. If you have any questions or concerns, please contact Jackie MacPhail at jmacphail@upei.ca.

Affected Buildings

Atlantic Veterinary College

Bernardine Hall

Cass Science Hall

Chaplaincy Centre

Dalton Hall

Daycare Centre

Duffy Research Centre

Duffy Science Centre

Faculty of Sustainable Design Engineering

Health Sciences Building

K. C. Irving Chemistry Centre

Kelley Memorial Building

Don and Marion McDougall Hall

Memorial Hall

Robertson Library

SDU Main Building

Steel Building

W.A. Murphy Student Centre

The UPEI Healthy Campus Committee invites UPEI faculty and staff to sign up for the 100-Day Global Challenge, which will take place from May 27 to September 4, 2020. The challenge is a fun way for faculty and staff to become healthier and happier, even during this time of social distancing. The deadline to register is Thursday, May 7, by 11:00 pm. There is no registration fee. To register, log on to myUPEI and complete the 100-Day Global Challenge registration form found under “UPEI Forms”. As part of the registration process, participants will need to complete a waiver and consent form. If you do not have a team or enough participants for a team, complete the form, and you will be assigned to a team.

The Arts Equity and Inclusion group is not letting a pandemic and physical distancing stop us! Equity and inclusion continue to be important emphases to our work in the university, no matter where or how we’re doing that work. So – let’s meet online and continue our discussions. For our next reading group meeting we’ve selected chapter 4, “Universal Design,” from Academic Ableism: disability and higher education, by Jay Dolmage. The library has the ebook, and we’ve downloaded the chapter into our google folder too: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1C-Kp3Rgic3p4Beu_26WK5h4i0ZD4LZmv?usp=sharing.

We’ll be meeting via Zoom, on Tuesday, May 12, at 11:00am. Please send an email to Andrew Zinck, at azinck@upei.ca so he can add you to his invite list for this event.

Hope to see a lot of you there!

The Office of Continuing Education and Professional Development recognizes how important stress reduction and mindfulness is during this challenging time, so we have reduced the cost of our Stress Reduction and Mindfulness in the Workplace course that is starting on May 6th.

This course will provide the tools and knowledge needed to transform the way you manage yourself and balance the demands being thrown your way during this stressful time.

This will be a six-week session starting on Wednesday, May 6. For those who like to be online at a certain time, the course will take place weekly from 9am to 11am starting May 6th.  

For those who cannot be online weekly from 9am to 11am, recorded session material will be available to explore at your own pace. 

The Stress Reduction and Mindfulness in the Workplace course will be facilitated by Jill Stewart, a Registered Social Worker in Prince Edward Island and the founder and owner of Your Life Design Inc.

For more information and to register, click here.

If you are UPEI staff or faculty, there may be funding available to you. Visit these links:

Contract employees:
Information about your PD coverage
Application Form

CUPE employees:
Information about your PD coverage    
Application Form 

Faculty members:
For information on submitting a Professional Development and Travel Reimbursement (PDTR) claim, please email apadmin@upei.ca. 

On Wednesday, May 6, IT Systems and Services (in conjunction with the E-Learning Office) will be upgrading the UPEI Online Learning Management System (Moodle) to a newer version. Maintenance will begin at 8:00 pm and is expected to be completed by midnight. For more information about the changes coming to Moodle please check the Moodle New Features document.

Moodle will be inaccessible during this time.

If you have any questions or concerns, please contact moodle@upei.ca.

PEI Energy Systems has notified Facilities Management of necessary maintenance work that is required on the district heating lines.

This work will require a shutdown of the heating system and domestic hot water for the buildings listed below. Cold water will not be impacted.

The shutdown is scheduled for Tuesday, May 5, 2020 beginning at 8:00 am and is expected to take approximately 8 hours to complete.

Facilities Management apologizes for any inconvenience this may cause. If you have any questions or concerns, please contact Jackie MacPhail at jmacphail@upei.ca.

Affected Buildings

Atlantic Veterinary College

Bernardine Hall

Cass Science Hall

Chaplaincy Centre

Dalton Hall

Daycare Centre

Duffy Research Centre

Duffy Science Centre

Faculty of Sustainable Design Engineering

Health Sciences Building

K. C. Irving Chemistry Centre

Kelley Memorial Building

Don and Marion McDougall Hall

Memorial Hall

Robertson Library

SDU Main Building

Steel Building

W.A. Murphy Student Centre

On Saturday, May 2, ITSS will be conducting routine maintenance on the MyUPEI portal and related services from 8 pm to 12 am midnight. During this time there may be intermittent access and performance issues with accessing and using MyUPEI, Self-Service & Colleague.

We encourage students, faculty, and staff that may need documents or links located on myUPEI to plan ahead and bookmark or download the resources they may need during this period.

As a reminder, you can access Moodle directly using https://moodle.upei.ca.

If you have any questions, please contact the ITSS Help Desk at 902-566-0465.