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Ready, Set, Pony Up! Getting Started with Canvas

Let’s make sure your course (and you!) are ready to start the spring semester in Canvas. In this workshop, you will learn how to:

• Import course content
• Update imported announcements
• Review the syllabus, assignment settings, and gradebook for alignment
• Set up proctoring tools and adjust navigation links
• Check for broken links

ÎÞÂëרÇø Cayuse: An Introduction to Digital Tools for Managing Research Activities

Cayuse is a cloud-based platform that ÎÞÂëרÇø is implementing for research proposal development, submission, management, and tracking, including tools for research compliance and technology transfer.  In this seminar, you will learn about:

• What is ÎÞÂëרÇø Cayuse?  Features, interface, implementation, and timeline
• Cayuse Sponsored Projects:  How to submit a proposal in Cayuse SP
• Additional Capabilities:  Reporting, research compliance, post-award capabilities, tech transfer

The audience for this session includes faculty and staff who submit outside funding requests and administrators who manage research portfolios and activities.

Canvas Assignments + Enhanced Rubrics: Assess for Success

Canvas Assignments are a great way to assess student learning. In this workshop, you will learn how to:

• Create different assignment types;
• Set availability and due dates;
• Access Speedgrader for grading; and
• Add Enhanced Rubrics for assignments, quizzes, and discussion

Increase Student Retention with Dropout Detective

Help increase student retention by using Dropout Detective to analyze performance data. In this workshop, you will learn how to:

• View performance data for your students by class
• Identify students that may be at risk for attrition

Introduction to High Performance Computing (HPC)

High Performance Computing (HPC) uses powerful computer systems and parallel processing to handle complex tasks like large data analysis, simulations, and research computing—far beyond the capabilities of standard desktops. In this workshop, participants will learn:

• Identify the high-performance computing (HPC) resources and support available at ÎÞÂëרÇø.
• Understand account eligibility and the process for requesting HPC access.
• Learn how to log in to the HPC system and perform basic job submission and execution.

Prompt Engineering & AI Basics

This workshop introduces faculty and staff to the fundamentals of prompt engineering for AI tools like ChatGPT and other large language models (LLMs). Participants will learn how to craft effective prompts to enhance productivity, improve communication, and leverage AI for teaching, research, and administrative tasks. In this workshop, you will learn:

• Key principles for designing clear and effective prompts to achieve desired outcomes.
• How to adapt prompts for various professional use cases, including lesson planning, report drafting, and brainstorming.
• Strategies to troubleshoot and refine prompts for improved AI responses.

Faculty Guide to General Education Assessment

An introduction to the purpose and process of assessing the Common Curriculum—ÎÞÂëרÇø’s general education program. This session will cover federal and accreditation requirements, ÎÞÂëרÇø’s three-year assessment cycle, and best practices for designing assignments that align with Common Curriculum rubrics. Participants will explore:

• the types of assessment assignments (objective vs. non-objective)
• methods for collecting evidence using Canvas and Box
• how to ensure alignment with component-specific rubrics.

Readings & Resources: Organize Course Materials, Track and Improve Student Engagement

January 12, 9:30 AM, Online Session ÎÞÂëרÇø Libraries incorporated Readings & Resources as a tool in Canvas that organizes your course materials in one place and tracks and encourages student engagement. In this workshop, you will learn how to:

Grading – The Good, The Late, and the Extra Credit

The Canvas Gradebook helps instructors easily view and enter grades for students. In this workshop, you will learn how to:

• Manage your late policy grades
• Organize your gradebook
• Weight assignment groups
• Give extra credit

New AI Features in Canvas

Canvas continues to improve, so come learn about new and updated features! In this workshop, you will learn about Ignite AI and how it can be used in Canvas for:

• Discussion Summaries
• Translations for Discussions, Inbox, & Announcements

Streamline Class Attendance with Qwickly Attendance

Whether you're teaching in-person or online courses, Qwickly simplifies attendance management with multiple modes, robust reporting, and direct gradebook integration. Come explore features such as manual check-in, student self-check-in with QR codes or PINs, and reporting tools. In this workshop, you will:

• Configure and launch Qwickly Attendance Pro in Canvas courses using settings that match your teaching modality and attendance policy.
• Utilize various attendance-taking methods (manual, check-in, QR code, or PIN) and understand when each is most effective.
• Interpret and export attendance data reports to identify student attendance trends and integrate attendance records with the Canvas Gradebook.

Conquering Quizzes in Canvas

Quizzes are a way of assessing student learning. In this workshop, you will learn how to:

• Understand Classic Quizzes versus New Quizzes
• Use Question Banks/Item Banks

Course Design with Generative AI

In this session hosted by the Center for Teaching Excellence (CTE), participants will learn how to engage with Generative AI tools as partners in the course design process. When intentionally engaging with GenAI tools and backward design, the course design process becomes significantly more efficient. Participants will:

• Discover how to use Generative AI to streamline course design.
• Explore ways to align GenAI tools with backward design principles.
• Assess the benefits and limits of partnering with AI in teaching.

Advanced Prompt Engineering

Building on foundational skills, this workshop dives deeper into advanced prompt engineering techniques. Participants will explore methods to optimize prompts for complex tasks, integrate multi-step workflows, and use advanced features of LLMs to achieve sophisticated outcomes. In this workshop, you will learn:

• The evolution of NLP, LLM and GenAI
• Techniques for chaining prompts and designing multi-step workflows to manage complex projects.
• How to leverage advanced AI capabilities like contextual memory, structured output, and parameter tuning.
• Best practices for using prompt engineering to solve domain-specific challenges in teaching, research, and administration.

Copyleaks for Plagiarism Detection

Copyleaks uses state-of-the-art AI to provide more accurate and comprehensive plagiarism detection, ensuring that even sophisticated attempts at plagiarism are caught.

• Scans an extensive database that includes academic publications, student papers, and web content, plus added capabilities to scan and compare content from various sources, including code, which is beneficial for detecting plagiarism in computer science and engineering disciplines.
• Provides in-depth plagiarism reports with visual representation of matched content, paraphrased text, and a clear breakdown of sources. Includes tools for generating detailed feedback for students.
• Supports multiple languages and can detect plagiarism across different languages, making it suitable for our increasingly diverse and international student body.

Enhance Student Engagement Using Poll Everywhere

Poll Everywhere provides a safe platform for every student to ask questions, participate in group activities, and share thoughts and insights, right from their phone or computer. In this workshop, you will:

• See a demonstration of the multiple ways you can utilize Poll Everywhere in your course
• Learn how to create graded activities that directly integrate with the Canvas gradebook

Power of Effective Feedback Strategies with PlayPosit

This training will highlight the fundamentals of PlayPosit with an emphasis on the feedback functionalities within the platform. In this workshop, you will:

• Learn what is PlayPosit
• Experience PlayPosit from your students’ perspective
• Build an interactive video together that you can use immediately with various forms of feedback for learners
• Participate in Q&A
• Obtain PlayPosit resources

Generative AI Tools for ÎÞÂëרÇø Researchers

Join ÎÞÂëרÇø Libraries and OIT Research Technology Services as we delve into the fundamentals of generative AI and its impact on research. In this workshop, you will learn how to:

• Recognize Generative AI basics
• Explore Generative AI applications to research
• Investigate guides for researching with Generative AI
• Discuss the ethical implications of generative AI applications involving labor, the environment, and privacy
• Learn about Consensus, an AI-powered academic search engine that ÎÞÂëרÇø Libraries is providing access to

Gradescope - Make Grading Less Tedious!

Gradescope is a feedback and assessment tool that enables instructors and graders to give better and more timely feedback on exams, homework, and other assignments. Dynamic rubrics help streamline the tedious parts of grading while increasing grading consistency. In this workshop, you will learn the great features that reduce the pain and time associated with grading.

Empower All Learners: Accessibility Check-up

Create an inclusive and effective learning environment by exploring strategies to support diverse learners and enhance the accessibility of Canvas course materials for your students. In this workshop, you will learn how to:

• Apply strategies to make Canvas materials more accessible
• Identify accessibility areas of improvements