Academic Technology regularly holds workshops to help faculty better integrate technology with their teaching. These workshops will focus on making in-person, hybrid, and online classes as engaging as possible for faculty-student interaction and student-student interaction using the resources and tools available at Santa Clara.
December 2025 Teaching and Technology Workshops
The Instructional Technology team will be offering the workshops below to support Santa Clara faculty members as they innovate with digital tools in support of student learning and engagement. This December, there two special focuses:
- Digital Accessibility: These workshops will support faculty in meeting the April 2026 deadline to make all documents and media in Camino courses accessible. Per a recent ruling of the Department Justice on Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act, all Camino content must meet Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1 AA accessibility standards. We have designed three workshops to ensure you can create accessible content and manage inaccessible documents.
- AI and Learning Design: There are a number of AI tools available on campus, supporting an array of use cases. Whether you'd like to expand the ways in which your course design engages with AI, or strategize how you can have your students use AI to support their learning, we invite you to attend our AI-centered workshops.
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Format
Some workshops will be held in person in the Learning Commons, and others will be held over Zoom.
Schedule
Each workshop will be offered twice during the weeks of December 8th and December 15th.
Workshop Descriptions
Creating Accessible Documents
You can provide equal access to all students through leveling up your digital accessibility knowledge. In this workshop, we will cover best practices in creating accessible materials in Word, PowerPoint, and Google Apps. You will also learn how to use the accessibility checkers built into these tools.
Workshop Outcomes. After completing this workshop, you will:
- Apply best practices for creating accessible documents and slide decks
- Identify and fix accessibility issues using automated accessibility checkers in common applications (Word, PowerPoint)
Making Your Camino Course Accessible
Get to know the tools SCU provides to faculty to support accessibility for all students. In this workshop, you will get hands-on experience using Camino’s accessibility tools: UDOIT and Convert. You will also learn good practices for creating accessible learning content in Camino (text formatting, videos, images, and link descriptions).
Workshop Outcomes. After completing this workshop, you will:
- Locate and utilize Camino’s accessibility tools
- Apply best practices for creating accessible Camino pages, assignments, and quizzes
Managing Inaccessible Documents in Camino
Create a personalized plan for ensuring your course materials are accessible to all students. In this workshop, you will learn how to identify inaccessible files in Camino and determine the best workflow for modifying or replacing them. We will also review the resources available to you for managing inaccessible files.
Workshop Outcomes. After completing this workshop, you will:
- Conduct an audit of the files in your Camino course
- Compare options for remediating and replacing inaccessible files
- Determine the strategies and resources you could use to find accessible materials for your course
Custom ChatBots to Support Student Success
In this hands-on workshop, you will design a “course bot” using Google Gems to use in an upcoming class that helps students stay on track with assignments, course policies, and course resources. We will focus on chatbot design that prioritizes learning as we discuss how to script prompts, set usage parameters and boundaries, and align the bot with your course goals. By the end of the workshop, you will leave with a prototype tailored to one of your classes.
Workshop Outcomes. After completing this workshop, you will:
- Describe how AI chat bots can support student learning
- Develop and train a Google Gem for an upcoming course
NotebookLM for the Classroom
Discover how Google’s NotebookLM can support your teaching. This workshop introduces the pedagogical potential of NotebookLM as a multimodal AI environment. You will learn how to create Notebooks to generate podcasts, video infographics, quizzes, and flashcards based on sources you upload. By the end of the workshop, you will leave with a detailed Notebook tool and a plan for integrating NotebookLM into course design and student project workflows.
Workshop Outcomes. After completing this workshop, you will:
- Use NotebookLM to create podcasts, explainer videos, quizzes, flashcards, and concept maps
- Design student projects centered around custom sets of research and learning materials
Assignment Design in the Age of AI
Learn how you can use AI to redesign assignments. In this workshop, you will bring an assignment and adapt it as you use generative AI to apply Bloom’s Taxonomy and Universal Design for Learning (UDL) principles to support student learning. You will also learn strategies for using AI to generate assignment rubrics.
Workshop Outcomes. After completing this workshop, you will:
- Design assignments using AI that apply Bloom's Taxonomy and Universal Design for Learning (UDL)
- Create a rubric for assessment using AI
Camino/Canvas Workshops
Getting Started in Camino
Learn the basics of using Camino, SCU’s branded version of the Canvas Learning Management System. We will cover strategies for communicating with students, uploading course media, configuring course settings, and best practices for creating well-designed Camino courses that help you and your students communicate and stay organized.
Workshop Outcomes. After completing this workshop, you will:
- Explore the Camino interface for global and course navigation
- Evaluate and select different ways to communicate with students
- Upload content to your Camino course
- Organize course content using modules
Assessments and Quizzes in Camino
This workshop focuses on using Camino for assigning and assessing student work. You will learn how to create, grade, and give feedback to students using a variety of Camino assignment types. In addition to Assignments, we will cover creating, moderating, and grading in Camino's Quizzes tool.
Workshop Outcomes. After completing this workshop, you will:
- Create extra credit assignments (for participation, adjusting grades for extra credit, and quiz questions)
- Create a variety of assignment types in Camino
- Use Camino's SpeedGrader tool for grading student work and providing feedback
- Determine appropriate use cases for the CopyLeaks plagiarism detector and know how to configure the tool
- Create a rubric for grading an assignment to provide students with transparency about how they will be assessed
Grading and Feedback in Camino
You can use settings in Camino to ensure your course is optimized for your grading and teaching workflows. In this workshop, you will learn how you can set up your gradebook with a grade posting policy that matches your grading workflow, configure weighted grades, and show students where they can view instructor feedback. You will also learn about advanced Camino settings to stipulate when and how students access course materials.
Workshop Outcomes. After completing this workshop, you will:
- Create assignment groups
- Weight grades for different assignments
- Communicate to students how to view instructor feedback and grades
- Customize publishing and hiding settings for assignment and quiz grades
- Configure student access and visibility settings for your course
Instructional Technology Consultations
Individual consultations with Instructional Technology staff or experienced faculty are available. Email caminosupport@scu.edu to request to schedule a session to have your specific questions answered about technology and to get help with digital content, resources, and assignments.
Contact
If you have any questions about the workshops or instructional technology support in general, please contact the Instructional Technology team at caminosupport@scu.edu.