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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.

Teaching and Technology Workshop Calendar

December 2026 Teaching and Technology Workshops

The Instructional Design & Technology team will be offering the workshops below in its 2026 Teaching and Technology faculty development series. Join us for opportunities to continue innovating your courses as you design effective instruction in support of student success. This summer’s series has two special focuses:

  1. Digital Accessibility: Whether you are new to digital accessibility or need a refresher, come work with us on creating accessible documents and Camino content.

  2. AI and Learning Design: AI tools on campus can support an array of use cases for both faculty and students. We invite you to attend the workshops below, whose topics range from student AI literacy to assignment design to deploying AI in your course development.

View the calendar to sign up!

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 throughout the summer. View the calendar for specific dates.

Workshop Descriptions

Course Alignment to Support Student Success

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 learning materials, activities, and tools, as well as strategies for integrating student feedback, to put student learning at the center of your design.

Workshop Outcomes. After completing this workshop, you will:

  • Align learning objectives with learning activities/materials/tools and assessments
  • Identify learning materials, activities, and tools that are appropriate for meeting course learning objectives
  • Design opportunities for integrating student feedback that can help you improve the student learning experience

Creating Accessible Documents

Level up your digital accessibility knowledge to ensure that materials you create now and in the future provide equal access to all students! 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 help faculty improve 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 best practices for creating accessible learning content in Camino (text formatting, videos, images, and link descriptions) and managing inaccessible PDFs in your courses.

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
  • 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

AI Literacy Design Lab

In this workshop, you will strategize how to support students in developing their critical AI literacy. We will review core concepts from AI literacy frameworks and then design learning activities that support students’ critical and active engagement with AI. You will leave with an AI literacy activity to support students in your upcoming course(s).

Workshop Outcomes. After completing this workshop, you will:

  • Discuss key aspects of AI literacy 
  • Define the scope of how AI literacy can be addressed in your teaching
  • Design learning activities to support students’ critical engagement with AI

Assignment Design in the Age of AI

Learn how you can use AI to redesign assignments. In this workshop, you will bring an existing assignment and use generative AI to adapt it by applying Bloom’s Taxonomy and Universal Design for Learning (UDL) principles.

Workshop Outcomes. After completing this workshop, you will:

  • Design authentic assignments that provide options for students to demonstrate their knowledge
  • Design AI-related assignments applying Bloom's Taxonomy 
  • Integrate Universal Design for Learning (UDL) into AI-related assignments
  • Create a rubric for assessment using AI
  • Redesign one existing assignment using the strategies discussed and generative 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

Contact

If you have any questions about the workshops or instructional technology support in general, please contact the Instructional Design & iTechnology team at caminosupport@scu.edu.