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.