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.
Summer 2025 Teaching and Technology Workshops
The Instructional Technology team will be offering the summer workshop series below to support Santa Clara faculty members and their continued innovations with digital tools in support of their teaching, and student learning and engagement.
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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 several times throughout the summer.
Workshop Descriptions
Streamlining Your Assessment: Rethinking Grading for Student Success
This workshop will focus on exploring alternative grading models that emphasize meeting learning objectives, tracking student progress, and providing more meaningful feedback. You will engage in reflective, practical exercises aimed at helping you design clear, transparent grading policies. Whether you plan to implement competency-based assessment strategies or labor-based grading, you will explore methods for tracking student progress to support meeting course learning objectives.
Workshop Outcomes. After completing this workshop, you will:
- Identify and assess the benefits and challenges of at least two alternative grading approaches (e.g. labor-based grading, standards-based grading) that may work in your course/discipline
- Develop a grading policy that transparently outlines the criteria for different grade levels, reassessment opportunities, and success strategies
- Create a plan to integrate an alternative grading strategy into your course
- Design an assessment monitoring strategy in Camino (or another tool) that tracks student progress through learning objectives, ensuring transparency and alignment with your grading policies
- Write a student-friendly syllabus statement explaining your alternative grading policy, how it benefits students, and how they can track their progress
Student-Centered Syllabus Clinic
In this hands-on workshop, you will learn to create engaging and visually appealing syllabi that promote a student-centered learning environment. By integrating inclusive teaching strategies and basic design principles, you will craft a syllabus that conveys essential course information in welcoming, student-friendly language. You will focus on (re)designing a syllabus that helps students easily navigate your course, fostering a sense of connection and clarity.
Workshop Outcomes. After completing this workshop, you will:
- Design a clear course roadmap in a syllabus that conveys essential course details
- Write a syllabus introduction that fosters positive, student-friendly course culture
- Organize key course details in a user-friendly format
- Apply accessibility guidelines and design elements to enhance syllabus readability and accessibility
Staying Current in AI
In this workshop, you will strategize for staying up-to-date with AI developments relevant to your teaching practices. The session will cover key resources available on campus, including the newly released Gemini tool at SCU. We will also discuss academic integrity in the context of AI, and the responsible incorporation of AI in teaching.
Workshop Outcomes. After completing this workshop, you will:
- Identify key AI developments and resources relevant to your teaching practice.
- Examine SCU's newly released Gemini tool and how it can enhance your teaching strategies.
- Analyze the implications of generative AI on academic integrity and develop strategies for student use of AI in your class.
- Discuss how incorporating AI tools in your teaching can enhance student learning and engagement.
Designing Learning for Student Success
How can you design your courses and learning activities to meet the learning needs of all students? In this workshop, you will apply the Universal Design for Learning framework to approach practical challenges and innovate new solutions for meeting instructional goals. You will strategize ways to bring principles of UDL into your teaching practice, and will leave with the necessary knowledge and skills to implement a solution ideated in the workshop.
Workshop Outcomes. After completing this workshop, you will:
- Identify the needs of you learners
- Describe practical applications of UDL principles
- Create a plan to address one learning challenge or opportunity using UDL
- Develop a plan for assessing their implementation of a UDL principle
Active and Collaborative Learning in the Classroom
In this workshop, you will learn how to "flip" an upcoming class, bringing your lecture content and learning content outside the classroom to enable you to foster an active learning environment. Topics to be covered include: planning, recording, and editing lectures; gathering learning materials for online engagement; using Camino quizzes for knowledge checks to ensure student learning; building Camino courses that support flipped classrooms; and planning active learning strategies for your live sessions.
Workshop Outcomes. After completing this workshop, you will:
- Identify content/meetings that can be "flipped"
- Develop a plan for active learning
- Identify the best tools for creating content
- Produce lecture content and learning materials
- Use Camino to check your students’ learning
- Use Camino to support online content, active learning, and assessment
Multimodal Student Projects
In this workshop, you will learn how to design, implement, and assess multimodal student projects. These projects—which may take such forms as videos, podcasts, digital exhibits, e-portfolios, or student blogs—allow students to creatively demonstrate their learning.
Workshop Outcomes. After completing this workshop, you will:
- Incorporate multimodal assignments into the classroom
- Evaluate existing assignments to remediate
- Identify fitting modalities for student projects
- Create an assignment plan for student projects
- Assess multimodal assignments vis-à-vis learning objectives
Optimizing Teaching and Learning Through Course Design
This workshop will teach you how to enhance student engagement through thoughtful Camino course design. Drawing from instructional design principles and research-based frameworks for course development, you will learn ways to align your learning objectives with course materials, learning activities, instructional tools, and course accessibility to put student learning at the center of your Camino design.
Workshop Outcomes. After completing this workshop, you will:
- Design courses in Camino that align learning objectives with learning activities/materials/tools and assessments
- Implement good design practices to create courses whose accessibility and usability maximizes support for learners in meeting learning objectives while minimizing cognitive load
- Create course overviews, module overviews, and course introductions that let learners know what to expect and that provide guidance to help learners succeed
Camino and Tools Workshops
Camino Basics
Learn the basics of Camino, SCU’s branded version of the Canvas Learning Management System. Topics include: how to log in, access courses, communicate with students, change your personal and course settings, upload a syllabus, and organize resources in Camino modules.
Workshop Outcomes. After completing this workshop, you will:
- Access Camino and locate your courses
- Explore the Camino interface for global and course navigation
- Evaluate and select different ways to communicate with students
- Upload content to your Camino course
- Configure publishing settings for a Camino course, assignment, and module
Camino Course Design
Well-designed Camino courses enhance student engagement while helping you stay organized. Using modules, students can find documents, slides, and assignments all in one place. This hands-on workshop focuses on the use of modules to structure course content effectively.
Workshop Outcomes. After completing this workshop, you will:
- Organize course content using modules
- Add course content as external links, files, pages, or modules
- Determine when and how students can see modules, and what is in them
- Build a module structure and content for Week 1 of an upcoming course
Camino Assignments
The Camino Learning Management System allows you to create a variety of assessment types using the Assignments tool. A well-planned series of assignments in Camino gives your students the feedback they need to succeed while simplifying your grading process. Learn how to create, grade, and provide feedback to students in Camino in this hands-on workshop.
Workshop Outcomes. After completing this workshop, you will:
- 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
Camino Quizzes
Learn how to create, moderate, and grade quizzes in Camino's New Quizzes tool. This workshop focuses on the creation of different question types, the use of question banks, grading Camino quizzes, and how to interpret quiz result reports.
Workshop Outcomes. After completing this workshop, you will:
- Create different question types in New Quizzes
- Grade different question types in SpeedGrader
- Grant additional time and moderate attempts on quizzes
Camino Gradebook
Make full use of Camino’s grading features to manage grade visibility and execute complex grading processes. Understand 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.
Workshop Outcomes. After completing this workshop, you will:
- Create assignment groups
- Weight grades for different assignments
- Understand how students view feedback and grades
- Show/hide grades for individual assignments/quizzes
- Create extra credit assignments (for participation, extra credit assignments, and quiz questions)
Visual Collaboration with Lucid
Camino now has the Lucid information mapping and visual collaboration tool integrated across campus. Come learn how you can use and assign Lucid to help students visualize, organize, and understand information and concepts in your courses. This hands-on tutorial will teach you everything you need to know to begin using Lucid in Camino.
Workshop Outcomes. After completing this workshop, you will:
- Identify appropriate uses of concept mapping tools in your teaching
- Design student collaborative activities and assignments with Lucid
Student Collaboration with Hypothes.is
Learn how you can use the Hypothes.is social annotation tool to support student learning and collaboration. Students can use Hypothes.is to learn from one another as they collaboratively take notes and ask questions about shared materials. This hands-on tutorial will teach you everything you need to know to begin using Hypothes.is in Camino.
Workshop Outcomes. After completing this workshop, you will:
- Identify uses for social annotation in your courses
- Create social annotation assignments within Camino
Video Basics in Camino
In this workshop, you will learn how to use the in-built Camino video tool, as well as the Zoom/Panopto tools integrated in Camino, to create short instructional videos.
Workshop Outcomes. After completing this workshop, you will:
- Identify the video creation tools available in Camino and at SCU
- Determine which video creation tool is most appropriate for your instructional videos
- Create short instructional videos
UDOIT Tutorial
In this hands-on workshop, you will learn how to use the UDOIT accessibility checker in your Camino course(s) to identify and address accessibility issues, and create a plan for prioritizing the most impactful fixes to your course materials.
Workshop Outcomes. After completing this workshop, you will:
- Scan your Camino course for common accessibility issues
- Determine which accessibility issues are priority fix issues
- Fix inaccessible documents in Camino
- Create a plan for improving the materials in your Camino courses
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: Colin Justin, Eric Haynie, Jeremy Kemp, Keith Yocam, Raymundo Duron, XinYun Peng, or caminosupport@scu.edu.