Past Workshops

Supporting International Students’ Academic Success Series Spring 2023

April 18, 2023 | Instructor Voices: Lessons Learned About Effectively Teaching International Students. How might instructors help them to be as successful in the classroom as possible?

Creating an Inclusive Classroom for Neurodivergent Students

April 25 | This workshop will explore the ways in which neurodivergence may impact the learning experiences of students.

Inclusive Teaching Strategies that Foster an Anti-Racist Classroom

1-23-23 | Participants learned basic principles of how to make teaching more inclusive to best serve all students.

Learning Analytics for Everyday Teaching

This 3-session program begins November 17 and introduces participants to course-level learning analytics (LA). Each 60-minute in-person session will be followed by an optional 30-minute hands-on session.

Intro to Inclusive Teaching

9-8-22 | Participants will learn some basic principles of how to make teaching more inclusive to best serve all students.

Academic Technologies Learning Opportunities

Fall '22 | Academic Technologies conducted weekly, synchronous sessions on topics such as Canvas, Respondus, YuJa, and more.

Developing a Teaching Portfolio

12-19-22 | This workshop helped participants with developing a teaching portfolio.

Backward Design: Course Mapping

5-18-22 In this four hour, highly interactive workshop participants through the backward design process from writing course goals all the way up to brainstorming learning experiences.

Aspirational Teaching Institute

The Aspirational Teaching Institute will be a 16-week long program designed to help tackle major teaching challenges. Those interested can join the individual learning sessions.

Course Mapping

1-13-22 This four-hour, highly interactive workshop will walk participants through the backward design process from writing course goals all the way up to brainstorming learning experiences.

Teaching Philosophy: Finding Your Why

1-12-22 This 90-minute, discussion-focused workshop will help participants consider what aspects of teaching they're most passionate about to write or revise a teaching philosophy.

Striving for Equity in Education

1-11-22 In this 90-minute, discussion-centered workshop we will share some key principles and strategies of inclusive teaching, but will also ask you to discuss with peers and review your own materials through this lens.

Encouraging Integrity: Using course design to create an anti-cheating classroom culture

11-16-21This session aims to explore the reasons students cheat, and to provide strategies for building a classroom culture of learning through course design and harnessing students' intrinsic motivation.

Finding and Implementing OERs

11-2-21 This workshop was beneficial for instructors interested in alternatives to or supplements for current textbooks.

How to take a Scholarly Approach to your own Classroom

10-18-21 Develop research questions about pedagogy, discuss potential methods to answer questions, give examples of where to find funding, and how to publish projects.

An Introduction to Backward Design

10-7-21 In this workshop, participants learned about the basic components of backward design and how it can help ensure alignment between course goals and assessments.

Getting Started with UDL

9-24-21 Participants were introduced to the fundamentals of UDL and learn methods of implementing UDL.

Moving Forward with Equity

7-17-21 Participants examined courses from before and during the pandemic to identify the strongest aspects of each.

Engaging Environmental Justice through Art Objects

8-16-21 This interactive workshop invites faculty to broaden class discussion strategies by looking at ecology and sustainability through the lens of art.

Strategies for the First Day of Class

8-9-21 Participants learned research-based best practices for creating a first-day lesson plan and reviewed examples used by other faculty.

Using the Canvas Gradebook

9-7-21 Presenters shared Canvas grade book management tips that help save time and effort and increase the accuracy of grading.

The Urgency of Inclusive Classrooms

CASNR offices came together and created a summer discussion series about what an inclusive classroom looks like, and how to create an inclusive environment.

Aspirational Teaching: Fostering Co-Creation in Our Classrooms

5-10-21 This workshop gave instructors examples of different approaches for implementing co-creation within their classrooms.

Developing an Undergraduate Learning Assistant Program

3-29-21 Participants learned how to establish and manage an undergraduate teaching assistant program to support the needs of their course or program.

Lessons Learned from the Fall

1-19-21 This workshop presented data collected from the students that visited CAST this fall to help faculty and staff better understand the challenges that students were facing.

Engaging Students Through Art

12-1-20 Faculty learned about the Sheldon Museum of Art and how to incorporate art and/or the museum to further teaching goals.

Making your course more user-friendly for students

11-20-20 Students are reporting that one of their biggest challenges this semester is dealing with the cognitive load required just to navigate their widely varying courses.

Strategies for Faculty Efficiency: Grading and Time Management

7-31-20 Participants learned how to decrease time spent on grading such as developing useful rubrics and keeping a list of frequent comments.

Teaching in a Flexible Hybrid Classroom

7-30-20 This interactive workshop identified which aspects of a course are best delivered online versus in the classroom.

Remotely Facilitating an In-Person Course

7-29-20 This interactive workshop provided strategies for promoting an engaging instructor presence and maintaining student interest without being physically present in the classroom.

Designing Your Course: Showcasing the CAS Flexible Course Models

7-27-20 Faculty visualized strategies to design courses and meet the demands of the fall 2020 semester.

Ensuring Exam Security

8-27-20 Participants discussed using exam randomization techniques, dividing exams into smaller pieces, and implementing lock-down browsers.

Having a great first week online

7-23-20 This workshop helped faculty teaching face-to-face/hybrid courses and focused on making the best use of this time to prepare students.

Maintaining Student Motivation and Interest in Online and Hybrid Courses

7-22-20 This webinar taught strategies for assessing student interest and helping students stay motivated online.

Using Zoom to Facilitate a Hybrid Course

7-21-20 This workshop gave detailed instructions on the different settings and functions available in Zoom.

Creating a Sense of Community in Your Online or Hybrid Course

7-20-20 This workshop helped instructors create a sense of community in their online courses and gave guidance on making sure students feel connected.

Building an Inclusive Classroom

7-17-20 This workshop shared several strategies to model inclusivity and establish a respectful and supportive classroom culture.

Building a Better Container: Accessibility, Access, and Universal Design

7-16-20 The goal of this workshop was to provide faculty with an overview of the interrelationship between accessibility and Universal Design for Learning (UDL).

Moving Beyond Exams

7-14-20 This webinar discussed how the use of alternative assessments can foster unique experiences and a conducive environment for academic growth.

Essentials for Getting Started

7-14-20 Instructors were provided with strategies that have a significant impact on online learning, especially for the first week of classes.

Facilitating Group Work in an Online or Hybrid Classroom

7-13-20 The workshop discussed the benefits of formal and informal group work, the challenges it presents and best practices for coordinating successful collaborative experiences.

Academic Integrity and Assessment Workshop

7-10-20 Participants gained a greater understanding of their colleagues' experiences with academic integrity and assessment.

Teaching Strategies that Increase Instructor-Student Connection

7-9-20 Participants were challenged to consider pedagogical methods to enhance the learning environment, and to partner with students to empower learning.

Pivot Game

7-8-20 This workshop required attendees to rethink existing learning activities from their own in-person teaching.

Course Mapping: Applying Backward Design to your Course Planning

7-7-20 Participants were guided through the backward design process to ensure their course design aligned with their overall goals.

Anti-Perfectionism: How to Roll with the Punches During a Pandemic

7-6-20 This session began by providing a few “anti-perfectionist” teaching strategies that involve figuring out when a teaching goal matters.

"Keep Teaching" Mini-Course Registration

3-23-20 This course will focus on helping prepare plans to facilitate a smooth transition to remote teaching.

Evaluating & Teaching Critical Thinking

2-7-20 This workshop focused on the evaluation and teaching of critical thinking using machine-graded questions.

Teaching and Technology: Semester Closure Workshop

12-12-19 Topics were drawn from common questions and challenges using the Canvas gradebook.

Feedback Culture: Making it Work

12-1-19 This workshop examined the process of gathering and responding to student feedback in order to promote student success and to complement new course evaluation metrics.