Dear OCL Students,

 

Please see below several relevant updates that are taking place during the summer and fall semesters.

 

Transition to Brightspace and the Many, Many Ways to Be Ready

As a reminder, the school will transition from Canvas to Brightspace as its primary learning management system (LMS) for the Fall 2024 term. This transition will allow USC Rossier to align with the rest of USC to provide enhanced support services to students, faculty and staff.

 

Classes will continue to be administered through Canvas until the end of summer, at which point they will transition to Brightspace.

 

If you have not already done so, we recommend taking a few moments to save any materials you need for future reference. Please download any relevant course notes, Zoom recordings and other relevant course materials from your Canvas account to another storage platform (Google Drive, Dropbox, etc.) before classes shift to Brightspace. You can click here to access information about downloading assignment submissions through Canvas.

 

Access to Zoom Accounts 

 

You may still be using your 2U-administered Zoom accounts as your primary zoom account when hosting meetings and attending classes. Once the transition to Brightspace is complete, your 2U-administered Zoom account will no longer be active. Therefore, it is imperative that all students have an active USC Zoom account by the Fall semester. If you need to establish a USC Zoom account, please visit usc.zoom.us.

 

More information can also be found here: https://itservices.usc.edu/zoom-video-and-audio-conferencing/.

 

If you have any questions about the Brightspace transition or the Fall 2024 semester, please e-mail us at rsoeedd@rossier.usc.edu.

Dear OCL Students,

 

Please see the following important update from the USC Office of Research.

 

Per the Office of Research, the following site licenses will be discontinued: Citavi, Grant Forward, Atlas.ti, and N-Vivo. If you use any of these platforms, you should plan to download your data before the dates listed below:

 

• Citavi. Your Citavi reference library will no longer be available as of July 15th
• Grant Forward will be discontinued as of July 31st. If you have a reference library in grant forward it will no longer be available as of July 31st.
• Atlas.ti will be discontinued, and users will have until July 30th to download their data
• N-Vivo will be discontinued, and users will have until July 19th to download their data.

 

Sincerely,

EdD Program Office

Dear OCL Students,

 

Please see more information below about an upcoming event sponsored by the USC Race and Equity Center:

Join Kimberlé Crenshaw and Shaun Harper for Doubling Down on DEI: No U-Turn on Equity, a dynamic virtual forum that is being held on the 60th anniversary of the landmark 1964 Civil Rights Act. During this hourlong event, we will contemplate how far we’ve come and yet how far we still must go to achieve our freedom dreams.

 

Just last week, legislation was introduced to end all federal diversity, equity, and inclusion programs. The Dismantle DEI Act would extinguish funding for government agencies, contractors, educational institutions, and other organizations sponsoring DEI programs. This latest example is but one of many backlash efforts at local, state, and federal levels in recent years. Yet, despite attempts by an extremist minority to turn back the clock on DEI, an overwhelming majority of Americans support equity and inclusion ideals.

 

This free event is part of the African American Policy Forum’s 2024 Freedom Summer series.

 

Click here to register.