At Hawkes, we pride ourselves on upholding an exceptional standard for both student and instructor support. While you’ve been busy preparing for your fall courses, we’ve been working behind-the-scenes on some exciting platform updates to help streamline your course management experience. These updates are designed with one important goal in mind: to make instructors’ lives easier. Starting July 25th, when instructors log in to their Teach account, they’ll see the option to opt-in to a new navigation menu, simplified editing for instructor and section management, an improved course configuration experience, and more.
For a deeper insight into these updates, we asked Dr. Jerome Lewis, one of our esteemed Hawkes Faculty Consultants and a key contributor, to share his thoughts.
During the summer months, faculty and course managers work hard putting together syllabi, revising courses, and preparing their instructors for the spring term. Hawkes Learning has also been busy this summer with exciting updates to their platform. As you navigate your summer plans, consider taking a breather to check out the refreshing, new Hawkes navigation setup or perhaps get out of the heat and check out the cool, improved course management section.
“As a full-time professor and part-time course coordinator for Introduction to Psychology at my university, I am responsible for setting up and overseeing multiple sections of a course that is taught by a legion of invaluable instructors. Hawkes Learning makes the tasks related to coordinating these course sections simple, straightforward, and swift.“
Personally, I am most looking forward to the streamlined instructor management section. As I mentioned in a previous post, I have been a huge fan of Hawkes Learning’s instructor management setup since I first adopted it for my department’s Introduction to Psychology course. Creating new sections and assigning instructors has always been straightforward. However, Hawkes Learning is always aiming to improve.
Over the last several months, I had the opportunity to provide feedback on how to streamline this process even further. I think this collaboration has led to an updated process that is intuitive and even easier. Now, it will only take a few clicks to assign and edit course instructors, create new course sections, and edit course information. Using a spreadsheet approach, many of the features of each course section can be modified individually or as part of a group of sections. Regardless of whether you are working on a single course, managing multiple sections, or managing the materials for your entire department, these platform updates should give you back a few precious summer hours.
