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Wednesday, September 1st
Early Career Professional Development Circle
CTLT’s Early-Career Faculty Circles offer faculty in their 1st through 4th years of service at ISU a combination of professional development and peer support. Join us for a series of lively conversations about teaching, surviving and thriving in the academy. No registration is required for these events. Sessions repeat each week, so choose to attend…
The Safe Zone Project for Instructors
The Safe Zone Project is a nationally recognized open-source curriculum to promote the support and inclusion of LGBTQ+ individuals in educational settings at all levels. This workshop is based on that curriculum with a special focus on employing the principles of the Safe Zone Project as instructors, both in the classroom and in the design…
Thursday, September 2nd
Early Career Professional Development Circle
CTLT’s Early-Career Faculty Circles offer faculty in their 1st through 4th years of service at ISU a combination of professional development and peer support. Join us for a series of lively conversations about teaching, surviving and thriving in the academy. No registration is required for these events. Sessions repeat each week, so choose to attend…
Omni CMS (OU Campus)
Learn how to use OU Campus, Illinois State's primary content management system for department and college websites. This training covers all the basic vocabulary of websites and goes over how to edit and publish content. You'll also learn how to request more complex website updates from the WEB staff, such as layout changes, adding pages,…
Wednesday, September 8th
Adobe Portfolio
Explore this easy-to-use portfolio website creation and management tool. Registration is required.
Reflecting on Teaching through Formative Feedback
Over the past several semesters, course instructors have had to reimagine their courses, learn and apply new teaching strategies, figure out new ways to develop relationships with students, and assess all aspects of their courses. Once again, teaching contexts will be changing as we return to in-person teaching. Course instructors have risen to this challenge…
Thursday, September 9th
ReggieNet: Rubrics
Give your students the feedback they need to truly learn from their assignments and assessments. This workshop will introduce you to ReggieNet’s built-in Rubrics tool, show you how to construct rubrics and associate them with Assignments, Tests & Quizzes, and more. You’ll also see how students can view rubric-based feedback. Registration is required.
Friday, September 10th
Implicit Bias
Implicit bias is our unconscious tendency to judge people based on past experiences. Even when we’re mindful of diversity and inclusion, it is hard for us to notice our implicit bias until we encounter the situations where it is activated. In this workshop, explore the nature of implicit bias and discover strategies to minimize bias…
Monday, September 13th
OneDrive: Getting Started
Take your projects on the go using Microsoft Office apps for iOS, Android, and Windows mobile devices through OneDrive, Microsoft’s cloud-based storage, free for members of the campus community. Learn how to share documents through OneDrive and discuss how to use this service within the boundaries of Illinois State data security policies and FERPA. Bring…
Microsoft Forms: Getting Started
Microsoft Forms is a quick, easy, mobile-friendly way to create sign-up forms, polls, and surveys. As part of Office 365, it is open to faculty, staff, and students. This one-hour workshop will get you started using forms, show you how to design questionnaires, export data, and use this powerful tool as a real-time way to…
Tuesday, September 14th
Adobe Spark
Create compelling media with Adobe Spark- a browser-based, mobile-friendly graphic design app. Discover how students can use this free tool to craft social media, web pages, and short videos as part of a presentation or other learning project. You’ll get a chance to practice with Spark, explore its different uses, and become aware of important…
ReggieNet: Assignments
Learn how to create, post, review, and grade assignments using the Assignments tool. After this hands-on workshop, you’ll feel confident about the basics and ready to consider more advance types of assignments. Registration is required.
Wednesday, September 15th
ReggieNet: Lessons
Create engaging online lessons in your course through the Lessons tool. It allows you to arrange different kinds of content items in one place, providing your students with rich learning possibilities. In this hands-on workshop, you’ll learn how to create a basic lesson, incorporating instructional materials, learning activities, and assessments. Registration is required.
Thursday, September 16th
Design Your Online Course (Self-Paced Workshop)
The Design Your Online Course workshop includes an overview of the Quality Matters™ Rubric and provides a framework for participants to design an online course plan. An integral element of the workshop is an exploration of the eight General Standards of the QM Rubric, focusing on learning objectives and overall course alignment. Participants will complete…
Teaching with Zoom
Practice using Zoom, the university’s online conferencing platform, to facilitate learning. Learn how to set up virtual meetings, and explore useful tools like polls, break-out rooms, and more. You’ll also learn about the latest security updates and recommended practices to ensure a safe and productive synchronous learning environment. We’ll also review ways to mitigate equity…
Friday, September 17th
Creation of Whiteness
In this session, we will go back to the beginning of the nation and examine how systems of racial oppression are created. Registration is required by September 10. In CTLT’s Seeing White workshop and study group series, we will discuss the inceptions of racist-thoughts and system and how we are all unwittingly socialized into these…
Monday, September 20th
Microsoft Stream
Microsoft Stream is a new video hosting service, replacing Office 365 Video. It allows instructors to upload and share video content with their students through ReggieNet, websites, or direct links. Registration is required.
ReggieNet: Tests & Quizzes
Explore how to create assessments from scratch in the Tests & Quizzes tool or import them from other sources. You’ll get an overview of the different types of available questions, and how to adjust settings such as release and close dates, and how to give individual students more time to take a quiz. You’ll also…
Tuesday, September 21st
Nearpod
Get started using Nearpod, an interactive tool replacing classroom clickers at Illinois State. This one-hour 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.
Wednesday, September 22nd
Omni CMS (OU Campus)
Learn how to use OU Campus, Illinois State's primary content management system for department and college websites. This training covers all the basic vocabulary of websites and goes over how to edit and publish content. You'll also learn how to request more complex website updates from the WEB staff, such as layout changes, adding pages,…
ReggieNet: Gradebook
Get a hands-on tour of the ReggieNet Gradebook tool. Learn how to create items within the Gradebook or add them from other ReggieNet tools. You’ll tackle basic features like setting up grade categories, working with weighted categories, reordering your gradebook items, and viewing grading statistics. Registration is required.
Thursday, September 23rd
Zoom: Breakout Rooms Clinic
Explore using Zoom’s breakout rooms feature to create group learning experiences during your live class session. Learn how to pre-assign students to specific breakout groups and discuss strategies for managing students’ experiences before, during, and after breakout room activities. This workshop will focus exclusively on this tool – for more general knowledge, consider the broader…
Foundations of College Teaching: Impact of Course Design
Most higher education instructors prepare a course by thinking about "content coverage." You know how that goes--Week 1, Chapter 1; Week 2, Chapter 2, and so on. This workshop provides an alternative to course design that makes it more likely that all of your students will be engaged in the course material the way you…
Friday, September 24th
The Equitable and Inclusive Syllabus
Developing an equitable and inclusive syllabus is the first step for equitable and inclusive teaching. A syllabus is not a simple contract or information for your students. What is included or not included sends implicit and explicit messages to students about your value and commitment to equity, inclusion, and diversity. Registration is required. In this…
Tuesday, September 28th
Applying the Quality Matters™ Rubric (Self-Paced Workshop)
Learn about the Quality Matters™ Higher Education Rubric and how to use it to review an online course. This internationally recognized workshop includes hands-on activities designed to help you discover how to continuously improve an online course so that it meets research-based standards of high quality. This version of the workshop is offered as a…
ReggieNet: Discussions
Create engaging class discussions. Learn how to automatically create discussion groups. You’ll also survey the different ways to grade discussions, including by topic or message. Registration is required.
Screencast-O-Matic Pro
Screencast-O-Matic is an inexpensive, web-based software that allows you to record and narrate videos from your desktop. This workshop explores how to use this screen-recording software to create material for a flipped, blended, or online course. Registration is required.