Upcoming Events

07
May

Front & Center Webinar: Involvement, Innovation, and Impact--Academic Programs at Utah State University

Workshop/Training

Utah State University programs empower students to lead successful lives of involvement, innovation, and impact. The purpose of the session is to expand our capacity for making individualized recommendations to students aligned with their strengths, interests, and goals. Presenters will share information about their program and participants will learn about three programs of their choosing.

10:00 am - 11:00 am | Online/Virtual |
09
May

CIDI Workshop - New Quizzes in Canvas

Workshop/Training

Learn how to leverage New Quizzes in Canvas to create a more dynamic assessment experience. This workshop will include New Quizzes creation, question types, settings, moderating, and editing. Changes to the workshop curriculum can be made based on instructor experience.

9:00 am - 10:00 am | Online/Virtual |
09
May

CIDI Workshop - How to Quickly Create a Beautiful Canvas Course

Workshop/Training

Design Tools for Canvas allows you to rapidly stylize and build out your Canvas course, allowing you to focus more time on planning engaging content and learning activities in your course.

1:30 pm - 2:30 pm | Online/Virtual |
13
May

F & C Webinar: Appreciative Advising--A framework for Supporting Students to Achieve (Pt 1)

Workshop/Training

Appreciative Advising: A Framework for Supporting Students to Achieve Their Dreams, Goals, and Potentials (Part 1 of 2 sessions--2nd session will be May 15) Appreciative Advising is the intentional collaborative practice of asking generative, open-ended questions that help students optimize their educational experiences and achieve their dreams, goals, and potentials. This session is for student-facing professionals at Utah State University (USU) to explore the Appreciative Advising framework, learn from the strategies of student success professionals at USU, and enhance their student success practices.

9:00 am - 11:00 am | Online/Virtual |
13
May

CIDI Workshop - How to Quickly Create a Beautiful Canvas Course

Workshop/Training

Design Tools for Canvas allows you to rapidly stylize and build out your Canvas course, allowing you to focus more time on planning engaging content and learning activities in your course.

9:30 am - 10:30 am | Online/Virtual |
14
May

Habits of Mind Integration

Workshop/Training | Info Session

The Habits of Mind Integration event is sponsored by the Academic Belonging and Learning Excellence Office. Collaborating with learning specialists can help bring evidence-based learning science strategies to their students. In this workshop, Learning Specialists from the Office of Academic Belonging and Learning Excellence will provide instructors with ideas on how to seamlessly integrate Habits of Mind into their existing course structures, assignments, and assessments to foster the mindsets, aptitudes, and dispositions crucial for student success at Utah State University and beyond.

8:30 am - 5:00 pm | Huntsman Hall |
14
May

Revamping your Syllabus

Special Event | Learning Circles

Learning Circles are small collaborative groups of instructors who meet together to read and discuss teaching topics of interest. Participants in the learning circles (or communities of inquiry) engage with a book or selected readings and then lend their unique viewpoints from different disciplines and teaching experiences not only to discuss the content and build comradery but also to consider how they can implement the ideas and concepts they're discussing into the context of their own classrooms.

9:00 am - 10:00 am | Online/Virtual |
14
May

CIDI Workshop - Use Video Effectively in Teaching

Workshop/Training

This workshop will help you enhance your teaching with video.

10:00 am - 11:00 am | Online/Virtual |
14
May

How Humans Learn: The Science and Stories behind Effective College Teaching (Teaching and Learning in Higher Education)

Special Event | Learning Circles

Learning Circles are small collaborative groups of instructors who meet together to read and discuss teaching topics of interest. Participants in the learning circles (or communities of inquiry) engage with a book or selected readings and then lend their unique viewpoints from different disciplines and teaching experiences not only to discuss the content and build comradery but also to consider how they can implement the ideas and concepts they're discussing into the context of their own classrooms.

10:00 am - 11:00 am | Online/Virtual |
14
May

Front & Center Webinar: Developing a Personal Board of Directors (Leticia Wilson, Del Mar College)

Workshop/Training

DEVELOPING A PERSONAL BOARD OF DIECTORS: RECRUITING BOARD MEMBERS, NURTURING MENTORING RELATIONSHIPS, & IMPLEMENTING STRATEGIES FOR STUDENTS. Presenter: Leticia Wilson, Del Mar College What is a Personal Board of Directors? And how do student success professionals support students in building their Board of Directors? This session will address how to approach and recruit Board Members, how to build and nurture mentoring relationships, and how to implement these strategies with students.

10:00 am - 11:00 am | Online/Virtual |
14
May

CIDI Workshop - Getting Started With Canvas

Workshop/Training

Grading is the most important thing to get right in Canvas. To help, this workshop covers: * The basic logic of Canvas grading, with assignments and assignment groups. * Using the SpeedGrader and rubrics * Assignment rules and assignment weighting * Showing and hiding grades * Late work policies * Extra credit scenarios * Pushing grades to Banner * Grades from third-party tools and content (Time permitting) * Outcomes (Time permitting)

1:30 pm - 2:30 pm | Online/Virtual |
15
May

F&C Webinar: Appreciative Advising: A Framework for Supporting Students to Achieve (Pt 2)

Workshop/Training

APPRECIATIVE ADVISING: A FRAMEWORK FOR SUPPORTING STUDENTS TO ACHIEVE THEIR DREAMS, GOALS, AND POTENTIALS (Part 2 of 2 sessions) Appreciative Advising is the intentional collaborative practice of asking generative, open-ended questions that help students optimize their educational experiences and achieve their dreams, goals, and potentials. This session is for student-facing professionals at Utah State University (USU) to explore the Appreciative Advising framework, learn from the strategies of student success professionals at USU, and enhance their student success practices.

9:00 am - 11:00 am | Online/Virtual |
15
May

Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom

Special Event | Learning Circles

Learning Circles are small collaborative groups of instructors who meet together to read and discuss teaching topics of interest. Participants in the learning circles (or communities of inquiry) engage with a book or selected readings and then lend their unique viewpoints from different disciplines and teaching experiences not only to discuss the content and build comradery but also to consider how they can implement the ideas and concepts they're discussing into the context of their own classrooms.

3:00 pm - 4:00 pm | Online/Virtual |
16
May

Intentional Tech; Principles to Guide the Use of Educational Technology inCollege Teaching

Special Event | Learning Circles

Learning Circles are small collaborative groups of instructors who meet together to read and discuss teaching topics of interest. Participants in the learning circles (or communities of inquiry) engage with a book or selected readings and then lend their unique viewpoints from different disciplines and teaching experiences not only to discuss the content and build comradery but also to consider how they can implement the ideas and concepts they're discussing into the context of their own classrooms.

10:00 am - 11:00 am | Online/Virtual |
16
May

Getting Started in Zoom

Workshop/Training

Learn the basics of Zoom, including scheduling, recording, managing settings, and making a good learning environment for your students.

10:30 am - 11:30 am | Online/Virtual |
20
May

eLearnX

Workshop/Training

The eLearnX event is cosponsored by the Empowering Teaching Excellence (ETE) and by the Center for Instructional Design and Innovation (CIDI). This three-day event provides a hands-on deep dive into the teaching tools and methodologies of online, virtual, and hybrid instruction.

Day 1: Sessions on digital pedagogy and instructor presence.
Day 2: Breakout sessions on edtech teaching tools and practical applications of instructional approaches from USU instructors and instructional professionals.
Day 3: Culminates in each participant designing an activity for their course, and access to other useful resources that can be immediately implemented.

*Enrollment cap of 30

9:00 am - 4:00 pm | Huntsman Hall |
21
May

eLearnX

Workshop/Training

The eLearnX event is cosponsored by the Empowering Teaching Excellence (ETE) and by the Center for Instructional Design and Innovation (CIDI). This three-day event provides a hands-on deep dive into the teaching tools and methodologies of online, virtual, and hybrid instruction.

Day 1: Sessions on digital pedagogy and instructor presence.
Day 2: Breakout sessions on edtech teaching tools and practical applications of instructional approaches from USU instructors and instructional professionals.
Day 3: Culminates in each participant designing an activity for their course, and access to other useful resources that can be immediately implemented.

*Enrollment cap of 30

9:00 am - 4:00 pm | Huntsman Hall |
21
May

Revamping your Syllabus

Special Event | Learning Circles

Learning Circles are small collaborative groups of instructors who meet together to read and discuss teaching topics of interest. Participants in the learning circles (or communities of inquiry) engage with a book or selected readings and then lend their unique viewpoints from different disciplines and teaching experiences not only to discuss the content and build comradery but also to consider how they can implement the ideas and concepts they're discussing into the context of their own classrooms.

9:00 am - 10:00 am | Online/Virtual |
21
May

Right Referral Webinar: ALEKS & Math Stats Competency Based Exams

Workshop/Training

A Right Referral Webinar

10:00 am - 11:00 am | Online/Virtual |
21
May

How Humans Learn: The Science and Stories behind Effective College Teaching (Teaching and Learning in Higher Education)

Special Event | Learning Circles

Learning Circles are small collaborative groups of instructors who meet together to read and discuss teaching topics of interest. Participants in the learning circles (or communities of inquiry) engage with a book or selected readings and then lend their unique viewpoints from different disciplines and teaching experiences not only to discuss the content and build comradery but also to consider how they can implement the ideas and concepts they're discussing into the context of their own classrooms.

10:00 am - 11:00 am | Online/Virtual |
22
May

eLearnX

Workshop/Training

The eLearnX event is cosponsored by the Empowering Teaching Excellence (ETE) and by the Center for Instructional Design and Innovation (CIDI). This three-day event provides a hands-on deep dive into the teaching tools and methodologies of online, virtual, and hybrid instruction.

Day 1: Sessions on digital pedagogy and instructor presence.
Day 2: Breakout sessions on edtech teaching tools and practical applications of instructional approaches from USU instructors and instructional professionals.
Day 3: Culminates in each participant designing an activity for their course, and access to other useful resources that can be immediately implemented.

*Enrollment cap of 30

9:00 am - 4:00 pm | Huntsman Hall |
22
May

Teaching and Generative AI: Pedagogical Possibilities and Productive Tensions

Special Event | Learning Circles

Learning Circles are small collaborative groups of instructors who meet together to read and discuss teaching topics of interest. Participants in the learning circles (or communities of inquiry) engage with a book or selected readings and then lend their unique viewpoints from different disciplines and teaching experiences not only to discuss the content and build comradery but also to consider how they can implement the ideas and concepts they're discussing into the context of their own classrooms.

1:00 pm - 2:00 pm | Online/Virtual |
23
May

Intentional Tech; Principles to Guide the Use of Educational Technology inCollege Teaching

Special Event | Learning Circles

Learning Circles are small collaborative groups of instructors who meet together to read and discuss teaching topics of interest. Participants in the learning circles (or communities of inquiry) engage with a book or selected readings and then lend their unique viewpoints from different disciplines and teaching experiences not only to discuss the content and build comradery but also to consider how they can implement the ideas and concepts they're discussing into the context of their own classrooms.

10:00 am - 11:00 am | Online/Virtual |
23
May

CIDI Workshop - AI in Teaching: Application Examples

Workshop/Training

This workshop provides step-by-step examples of using generative AI for the following applications: 1) lesson plans, 2) discussion topics, 3) assignment feedback, 4) assessment questions, 5) role play scenarios, 6) Images (time permitting). By focusing on specific examples, attendees will be able to follow the same steps in their own course AI implementations, or identify ways to adapt examples to fit their unique needs.

1:00 pm - 2:00 pm | Online/Virtual |
24
May

CIDI Workshop - Building Interactive Learning Activities with Atomic Assessments

Workshop/Training

Atomic Assessments provide 65 question types with multiple delivery and feedback options. They can be embedded nearly anywhere in Canvas, for practice or for points. Options abound for math and science. See how to create the interactive lessons you've longed to provide your students.

2:30 pm - 3:30 pm | Online/Virtual |
28
May

Revamping your Syllabus

Special Event | Learning Circles

Learning Circles are small collaborative groups of instructors who meet together to read and discuss teaching topics of interest. Participants in the learning circles (or communities of inquiry) engage with a book or selected readings and then lend their unique viewpoints from different disciplines and teaching experiences not only to discuss the content and build comradery but also to consider how they can implement the ideas and concepts they're discussing into the context of their own classrooms.

9:00 am - 10:00 am | Online/Virtual |
28
May

Use Video Effectively in Teaching

Workshop/Training

This workshop will help you enhance your teaching with video.

9:00 am - 10:00 am | Online/Virtual |
28
May

CIDI Workshop - AI in Teaching: Prompt Engineering for Optimal Results

Workshop/Training

This workshop assumes you have a basic understanding of generative AI and are ready to use it to design content and interactive activities and help your students do the same. We will review and demonstrate several documented techniques and frameworks for prompting and interacting with generative AI tools to get desirable results.

10:00 am - 11:00 am | Online/Virtual |
28
May

Right Referral Webinar: Student Orientation & Transition Services

Workshop/Training

Be up-to-date with information from Lisa Simmons, Kylee Hopkin, and Sierra Law.

10:00 am - 11:00 am | Online/Virtual |
28
May

How Humans Learn: The Science and Stories behind Effective College Teaching (Teaching and Learning in Higher Education)

Special Event | Learning Circles

Learning Circles are small collaborative groups of instructors who meet together to read and discuss teaching topics of interest. Participants in the learning circles (or communities of inquiry) engage with a book or selected readings and then lend their unique viewpoints from different disciplines and teaching experiences not only to discuss the content and build comradery but also to consider how they can implement the ideas and concepts they're discussing into the context of their own classrooms.

10:00 am - 11:00 am | Online/Virtual |
28
May

CIDI Workshop - Digital Badging Using Canvas Credentials (previously Badgr)

Workshop/Training

Digital badges are sometimes called microcredentials. They can be awarded to students for various accomplishments and then shared by students on social media and elsewhere as an indicator of their accomplishment or competence. Canvas has an integrated digital badging tool called Canvas Credentials (previously called Badgr). This workshop addresses how to create, award, and track digital badges.

2:00 pm - 3:00 pm | Online/Virtual |
29
May

Teaching and Generative AI: Pedagogical Possibilities and Productive Tensions

Special Event | Learning Circles

Learning Circles are small collaborative groups of instructors who meet together to read and discuss teaching topics of interest. Participants in the learning circles (or communities of inquiry) engage with a book or selected readings and then lend their unique viewpoints from different disciplines and teaching experiences not only to discuss the content and build comradery but also to consider how they can implement the ideas and concepts they're discussing into the context of their own classrooms.

1:00 pm - 2:00 pm | Online/Virtual |
29
May

Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom

Special Event | Learning Circles

Learning Circles are small collaborative groups of instructors who meet together to read and discuss teaching topics of interest. Participants in the learning circles (or communities of inquiry) engage with a book or selected readings and then lend their unique viewpoints from different disciplines and teaching experiences not only to discuss the content and build comradery but also to consider how they can implement the ideas and concepts they're discussing into the context of their own classrooms.

3:00 pm - 4:00 pm | Online/Virtual |
30
May

Intentional Tech; Principles to Guide the Use of Educational Technology inCollege Teaching

Special Event | Learning Circles

Learning Circles are small collaborative groups of instructors who meet together to read and discuss teaching topics of interest. Participants in the learning circles (or communities of inquiry) engage with a book or selected readings and then lend their unique viewpoints from different disciplines and teaching experiences not only to discuss the content and build comradery but also to consider how they can implement the ideas and concepts they're discussing into the context of their own classrooms.

10:00 am - 11:00 am | Online/Virtual |
30
May

Advanced Zoom

Workshop/Training

Learn about advanced Zoom options, such as breakout rooms, polls, and using multiple monitors.

1:30 pm - 2:30 pm | Online/Virtual |
30
May

Writing Outcomes for Assessment

Workshop/Training

Writing concise outcomes to be used to measure mastery through assessment in your courses.

2:30 pm - 3:30 pm | Online/Virtual |
31
May

CIDI Workshop - Publishing Open Textbooks with Pressbooks

Workshop/Training

Pressbooks is an open e-book authoring and publishing platform available to USU teachers and students. It integrates with Canvas and allows teachers and students to discover, use, and adapt existing open educational content or author and publish new content. Learn how to use and create Pressbooks content for your course.

9:30 am - 10:30 am | Online/Virtual |
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