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 2024 Teaching and Technology Workshops
The Instructional Technology team will be offering the winter workshop series below to support Santa Clara faculty members' teaching innovations and student learning and engagement.
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 several times throughout the summer.
Workshop Descriptions
AI Prompts and Possibilities for Teachers
Educators continue to encounter an expansive array of opportunities and challenges with respect to generative AI. During this workshop, you will learn about how students and faculty can use AI in their learning and teaching, and how you can thoughtfully integrate it into your pedagogy. 2 hours.
Workshop Outcomes. In this workshop, you will learn how to:
- Write and assess effective AI prompts
- Analyze practical applications of AI in educational settings
- Create personal use cases for incorporating AI into existing academic curricula
AI as a Productivity Tool for Teachers
Learn how to expedite your teaching preparation using AI and save time. In this workshop, you will learn strategies for using generative AI to help you create course materials and design course activities as a pedagogical productivity tool. All sessions are half day, held on campus. 2 hours.
Workshop Outcomes. In this workshop, you will learn how to:
- Create course assessments and learning materials using AI
- Edit and augment existing materials with AI tools
- Explore strategies for integrating AI-driven activities into classroom instruction to enhance student engagement and learning outcomes
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. 2 hours.
Workshop Outcomes. In this workshop, you will learn how to:
- Create accessible Word documents and PDFs
- Remediate common accessibility problems in Camino courses
- Assess your own course using Camino’s UDOIT accessibility checker
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 course design. 2 hours.
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 create courses whose accessibility and usability maximize 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
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. 2 hours.
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
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 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. In this workshop, you will learn how to:
- 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 Unicheck 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. 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)
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 the Lucid in Camino.
Workshop Outcomes. In this workshop, you will learn how to:
- Set up and assign Lucid charts and diagrams
- Identify appropriate use cases for concept mapping and diagramming in your teaching and assessments
Engaging Students with Poll Everywhere
Santa Clara now has a license for the Poll Everywhere tool. Come learn how you can engage your students with in-class polls and sharing results live. This hands-on tutorial will teach you everything you need to know to begin using the Poll Everywhere tool.
Workshop Outcomes. In this workshop, you will learn how to:
- Create a variety of polls using Poll Everywhere
- Embed Poll Everywhere polls in your teaching materials and slide decks
Student Collaboration with Hypothesis
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 of shared materials. This hands-on tutorial will teach you everything you need to know to begin using Hypothes.is in Camino.
Workshop Outcomes. In this workshop, you will learn how to:
- Create and assign social annotation assignments in Hypothes.is
- Assess and grade student annotations in Camino
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.