When: Tuesday, December 3, 9:00am – 12:00pm
Where: Online via Zoom
The Summer/Winter Session Office, in partnership with the ITDS team, will offer workshops online during this half-day event. Workshop participants will receive resources in Canvas.
All faculty are encouraged to register for a one-on-one consultation as needed.
| Time | Sessions |
| 9:00 – 9:40 | Excelling in Accelerated Formats: Strategies and Best Practices for Winter Session Faculty
Adapting your course to an accelerated format requires special attention to pacing, workload, and other considerations to facilitate student success in just four weeks. This session describes strategies and best practices to consider while adapting your course. Dr. Mary English, Chairperson, Classics and General Humanities, College of Humanities and Social Sciences, joins us to share her experience, successes, and lessons learned. |
| 9:45 – 10:25 | Keeping Up With What’s New in Canvas
Join us for an insightful session where we’ll share a curated set of Tips & Tricks to help you prepare your Winter courses. Whether you’re a Canvas veteran or just getting started, this session is designed to uncover features you might not yet know about and highlight strategies that can enhance your teaching workflow. We’ll also walk through the latest Canvas updates, ensuring you’re up-to-date with the newest tools and functionalities. |
| 10:30 – 11:10 | Designing Courses in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
Generative artificial intelligence tools such as ChatGPT have exploded in popularity and pose many questions in higher education related to academic integrity and authenticity of work produced by our students. This session empowers faculty with an overview of AI text generators, approaches for mitigating misuse through assessment design and course policy creation, and considerations on leveraging these tools to enhance learning activities. |
| 11:15 – 12:00 | Promoting Student Engagement with Padlet, Lucid, and Hypothesis
Are you looking to increase student engagement in your course this coming semester? Join us for a look at some of the ways you can engage students during class and build in opportunities for students to work together in Canvas, with a look at some of the tools and strategies that promote active learning, teamwork, and collaboration. |
Instructional Technology and Design Services offers many workshops and faculty development opportunities year-round to support teaching and learning. We’ve highlighted a few to help you prepare your Winter Session courses.
Excelling in Accelerated Formats: Strategies and Best Practices for Winter Session Faculty
This workshop provides best practices on repackaging your course content for accelerated formats, tips on student engagement and assessment, and advice from faculty teaching accelerated courses.
Our team of instructional designers are available to work with you on many aspects of designing your course(s). Whether you’re implementing a quick fix or developing long term changes, instructional designers offer valuable support rooted in pedagogical best practices and experience.
We offer support on using Canvas to build a student-friendly course, including building and configuring course content, course management, and more.