Join hundreds of colleagues in a deep exploration of the art and science behind student success. The 2024 Symposium will be held entirely in-person at the Bone Student Center, with sessions facilitated by Illinois State faculty and staff throughout the morning. A boxed lunch will be provided. The day will also include a special workshop […]
New to teaching in Canvas? Still working on building out your Canvas site and need a quick crash course as the semester begins? This workshop packs a lot in just 90 minutes. Learn how to get started with the most important settings and tools, create basic course content using Pages and Modules, communicate with students […]
The Assignments and Gradebook tools in Canvas work in tandem, differently than you might have experienced in ReggieNet or other learning management systems. The Assignments tool is for creating and editing, while the Gradebook is exclusively for grading. In this session, you will explore the life cycle of a graded assignment— creating the assignment, adding […]
Get started using Nearpod, an interactive tool replacing classroom clickers at Illinois State. This workshop will give you a tour of the tool's basic features. It allows you to empower students, track attendance, distribute learning resources, and check the pulse of your class with ongoing formative assessments in many learning scenarios. Registration is required.
Facilitate learning using Zoom, the University’s online conferencing platform. Learn how to set up virtual meetings, and explore useful tools like polls, break-out rooms, and new features like whiteboards and apps. You’ll learn about recommended practices to ensure a safe and productive synchronous learning environment and discuss ways to mitigate equity issues for students with […]
Illinois State instructors can currently choose between two different quiz tools in Canvas: Classic Quizzes and its future replacement, New Quizzes. While you’ll compare the features of both tools, this workshop will focus on Classic Quizzes. Learn how to create a quiz with different question types, create question banks, moderate a quiz, and grade using […]
While there are several ways to both mitigate and incorporate GenAI into assignments, they can be time-consuming for instructors and aren’t always scalable to large courses. This session will feature a discussion about how to deal with GenAI in effective and ethical ways for classes of over thirty students. Registration is required. Thriving with Artificial […]
Explore ways to increase interactivity and engagement within your online courses, while also meeting federal regulations for distance education. Regular and substantive interaction (RSI) is a federal requirement for all online courses that distinguishes “distance education” from “correspondence education”—the latter is ineligible to be paid for by federal financial funding (i.e., the University must return […]
Have you been struggling to find time to look for grant funding, or have your searches been missing the mark? Take advantage of this dedicated time to search in the Pivot-RP platform, with staff available to assist you as needed. Practice searching for funding opportunities, ask questions, and learn the next steps to take with […]
LGBTQIA2S+ youth, including college students, are among the most at-risk groups for mental health challenges, housing and food insecurity, and domestic violence, because of the ways in which society’s support systems fail to see and value them. Formerly referred called Safe Zone, Intro to Queer Allyship is a knowledge-level workshop focusing on using terminology appropriately, […]
Generative AI services such as Chat GPT have disrupted writing across the landscape of Higher Education. This session is an opportunity for faculty members to work in small groups with facilitators to pull apart one of their existing writing assignments to redevelop it in one of two ways: to make it more resistant to students […]
When teaching online or in-person, using inclusive methods for communication and inclusive language is critical for helping all students be successful. First, you will explore ways that you can use tools such as New Analytics, “Message Students Who,” and Inbox in Canvas to better connect with your students and support them. Then, you will learn […]