We need your help.
As you know, we still have about 40% of faculty who have yet to migrate to Ultra. We are still trying to avoid a stampede at the end of the semester and the beginning of Spring 2026. And yet, at the Open Labs, we are starting to see adjuncts who are totally disconnected from this.
We have started seeing people who have taken no training, just realized that Ultra is coming, are reluctant to sign up for training, and don’t read their COD emails. So it’s hard for us to reach them.
This is where you come in.
You might be the only COD person they are actually in touch with. Could you please reach out to all your adjuncts and remind them that the Spring shells dropping on October 1st will all be in Ultra? Could you please also double-check that they have all completed at least some Ultra training. If not, there is still time for them to do so? See the training options for Fall here.
Personally, I highly recommend the asynchronous courses (the non-PD version, since they don’t really need it). From personal experience, each courses takes less than a couple of hours to complete. Alternatively, LT still offers face-to-face and Zoom workshops. Lastly, there’s the open labs but those are not really useful if people need help from scratch.
We would really appreciate your assistance with this. The LT staff just does not have the capacity to handle a huge influx of people in need of a lot of help, within a short period of time. But please note that as helpful as the LT people are, they do not touch course content. In other words, as a rule, they do not migrate content from original to Ultra. So please convey that understanding to your adjuncts so they don’t show up at the open lab like, “Can you move my content?”
Thanks much for your help with this.
