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.
Winter Break 2023 Teaching and Technology Workshops
To help support faculty at all stages of their course development, in December and January the Instructional Technology team will offer the workshop series listed below. We hope you’ll join us for one or all.
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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 winter break.
Workshop Descriptions
Beyond the Classroom: Designing Communities for Anytime, Anywhere Online Learning
This workshop covers skills and tools to help design asynchronous learning modules that meet course learning objectives. Whether you are planning a module for an in-person course or developing an online course, you will learn how to help students remain connected and engaged asynchronously.
Workshop Outcomes. In this workshop, you will learn how to:
- Describe differences between asynchronous learning activities and traditional homework formats
- Evaluate available learning tools for asynchronous activities
- Design or revise a module for meeting learning objectives asynchronously and building community
AI on Your Side: New Opportunities for Innovation in Teaching and Learning
Generative AI tools such as ChatGPT took the world by storm this year, bringing on an expansive array of opportunities and concerns for educators. It’s a threshold moment for higher education. During this workshop, you will learn about how students and faculty can use generative AI in their teaching and learning, and how you can thoughtfully integrate it into your pedagogy.
Workshop Outcomes. In this workshop, you will learn how to:
- Communicate to your students about how AI will be used in your class.
- Discuss different perspectives on the use of AI in the classroom.
- Design an assignment that engages student use of AI
Accessible Course Materials: What You Need to Know
Learn best practices for creating inclusive course materials by exploring key accessibility features of common formats for documents and media. Gain hands-on experience with Camino’s integrated accessibility tools, and learn how to create accessible content.
Workshop Outcomes. In this workshop, you will learn how to:
- Create accessible Word documents and PDFs
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Remediate common accessibility problems in Camino courses
- Assess your own course using Camino’s UDOIT accessibility checker
The Mobile Professor
A majority of SCU students use the Canvas mobile app to access content in their Camino courses, to engage with peers, and to submit assignments and assessments. Learn how you can use the app as an instructor to optimize your students' mobile Camino learning experience and to further engage with your students.
Workshop Outcomes. In this workshop, you will learn how to:
- Design Camino course content with mobile-first users in mind
- Use the Canvas mobile app to grade and engage with your students
- Leverage mobile devices to enhance engagement in your courses
Optimizing Teaching and Learning in Camino
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 and activities to put student learning at the center of your Camino design.
Workshop Outcomes. In this workshop, you will learn how to:
- Design courses in Camino that align learning objectives with learning activities/materials/tools and assessments
- Implement good design practices to 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 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. In this workshop, you will learn how to:
- 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. In this workshop, you will learn how to:
- 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 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. In this workshop, you will learn how to:
- 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. In this workshop, you will learn how to:
- 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)
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: Raymundo Duron, Eric Haynie, Colin Justin, Jeremy Kemp, Keith Yocam, or caminosupport@scu.edu.