Winter 2021 Orientation Announcement

The Orientation Team within Student Success and Engagement (SSE) has been working hard to continue to develop an innovative and responsive online product that will support and inform our students for the Winter 2021 term.  

We wanted to reach out to members of the Humber Community to provide important updates and information regarding Winter Orientation 2021. Below is a summary of what Winter Orientation 2021 will look like:

Winter Orientation will be fully online. We have applied lessons from our Fall Orientation, which was our first foray into a fully online Fall Orientation program:

  • Monday, December 14 we will launch online orientation in two parts:
  1. Our Orientation website: a hub/resource for new students, including pre-recorded video workshops, digital swag, links to The Open Learning Centre and other key information (including those returning to campus). To view our current Fall 2020 website, please visit this link.
    • Note: Our Winter 2021 Opening Ceremony format continues be revamped with a Welcome Video that highlights student voices and the strength in our equity and diversity at Humber. This will be featured on our website along with the Blackboard modules. To view our Fall 2020 Welcome Videos, please visit this link.
  2. An Orientation Blackboard module will launch for all new students which will further strengthen students’ knowledge of supports/resources that are available to help them succeed in their new journey at Humber.  
  • Tuesday, January 12 – Thursday, January 14 we will host Academic Orientation which will consist of Meet Your Faculty sessions. All new students will receive direct links to their session prior, as well as a reminder, and each Meet Your Faculty Session will be conducted through Blackboard Collaborate. The Orientation Team will provide all students and faculty with a Blackboard Collaborate link to use for their session, a PowerPoint template with Humber’s Land Acknowledgement, suggested learning outcomes and key student services information (optional for faculty to use), two Orientation Volunteers to introduce the session and take attendance as well as some best practice/Blackboard guidelines for Faculty to run their session. Similar to Fall, our team will host a “Lost and Found Room” for all faculty, staff and students to access during the three days should there be any questions or wayfinding concerns.

Note: All Faculty will be contacted shortly with more details pertaining to confirming Winter 2021 MYF sessions.

  • Tuesday, January 18 – Friday, January 29 Orientation will offer students a Winter Welcome Month calendar of events through collaboration with campus partners and great interactive social media contests. In the Fall 2020 semester, the team delivered 38 successful events where new students were able to connect with new peers, and Humber staff and students, and we look forward to continuing this method of reaching our students virtually by way of intentional new student collaborative programming.

We appreciate everyone’s continued patience and support as we continue to roll out our Winter 2021 Orientation and look forward to answering any questions you may have via email.

Christina Alcena (she/her)
Manager, Equity & Student Life
Kimberly Daniels (she/her)
Orientation & Student Life Programs Coordinator