Greetings RIT 365 Facilitators,

We hope to see you at our Recognition Reception next week. Feel free to drop by for as long as you like! This week we have many important items to share. Please take some time to read and respond (via links) to this PULSE. 

In this issue:

• Last Class Plan
• Returner interest and recommend someone
• NOMINATE AWARD WINNERS
• Semester Grades 
• Instructor Perspective Survey

LAST CLASS PLAN
As promised, our updated Last Class Plan is now available. This plan will help students reflect on their top tagged skills developed in RIT 365. You can find the Last Class Plan here and ALSO in your myCourses Quick Links to PDR Guides for your course. 

WE WANT YOU FOR FALL 2024!
Of course we’d love to see each one of you return as a Facilitator for our Fall 2024 semester! Please let us know of your interest by completing this form. You’ll also be able to recommend others for the position (think current RIT 365 students, classmates or colleagues).  Our Best recruitment tool is referrals of others as great as you. 

NOMINATE AN AWARD WINNER
Please complete by Friday morning. Our Facilitators and Host Partners have done some award-worthy work here with RIT 365!  Please take a moment to complete the nomination survey for our yearly Recognition Awards. You can nominate someone in more than one category. Click here to complete the easy nomination form!

SEMESTER GRADES    
Final grades are due to the University on Friday 12/22. For information on supporting your students with course requirements please read last week’s PULSE 11 here.
The YOP Team will conduct two optional Grading Support Study Halls on December 19 and December 20th from 9am to 11am, CPC 2740 (across from Bamboo Room biweekly meeting location). Join us for a few minutes or a couple of hours. We’ll be there to support you and answer any questions you may have while you finish and submit your grades for the semester. 

INSTRUCTOR PERSPECTIVE SURVEY
Our RIT Teaching and Learning Center Fellow, Phil Shaw, is conducting a voluntary survey of faculty about their experiences teaching “gateway courses,” the courses that introduce students to the academic disciplines of higher education. As RIT’s highest-enrolled gateway course, your experiences as facilitators of RIT 365 is a vital part of this research!

The survey is designed to take about 10 minutes, is anonymous and the raw data and responses will go no further than Phil. There’s a fuller description of research ethics and consent at the beginning of the survey.  Please click here to complete this voluntary survey: https://rit.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_0oAjjsyJDK1J3lc

For questions that can not be answered by visiting the Facilitator Resources website, feel free to contact one of us as follows.

PRIMARY POINTS OF CONTACT 
● Facilitator general questions:  
Deborah (faculty/staff, ddlyop@rit.edu) or Robyn (peers, rmrldc@rit.edu)
● myCourses, PDR guides, course schedule, “Do” experiences: Wendy (wsgrla@rit.edu) 
● Generic questions (not time sensitive): yop@rit.edu 

Thank you for all you do, 
The YOP Team