Facilitator: Tawnya Means, Ph.D., Inspire Higher Ed

This capstone session elevates AI integration beyond tool proficiency to develop student critical thinking capabilities. You’ll explore seven critical thinking strands and design learning activities that cultivate these meta-competencies. We’ll demonstrate instructional minimalism—using AI to help students “start at 80% done”—and establish peer support networks for your continued journey.

By the end of this session, you will be able to: 

• Design learning experiences that develop student judgment when AI outputs conflict 
• Create assignments that foster productive skepticism about AI claims 
• Apply the instructional minimalism principle (“Start at 80% Done”) 
• Develop reflection activities that help students examine their AI relationship 
• Establish a personal action plan with accountability structures 
• Identify colleagues for ongoing peer support

Spring 2026 CFE-Facilitated Session Registration Form

Facilitator: Dr. Subha Nagarajan, Teaching Professor, Department of Natural and Social Sciences, Firelands Campus & CFE Faculty Associate

Discover how intentional course design—grounded in outcome-driven planning and backward design—can transform student learning. In this session, you’ll be introduced to the Understanding by Design (UbD) framework and learn how to align learning outcomes, assessments, and instructional strategies to create coherent and impactful learning experiences. Whether you’re developing a new course or refining an existing one, you’ll leave with practical tools to ensure every element of your course contributes meaningfully to student learning.

By participating in this session, participants will be able to:

• Describe the process of backward course design.
•  Evaluate course objectives, activities, and assessments for alignment.
• Create a plan to design or redesign a course on backward design principles.

Spring 2026 Faculty Associate CFE Session Registration Form 

Facilitator: Holly Barber, Anna Rood, & Miles Wronkovich, Instructional Designers, Center for Faculty Excellence (CFE)

Join our hands-on working session to use YuJa Panorama to scan your course for accessibility issues and quickly implement fixes directly in Canvas to support all learners. We’ll walk through interpreting the accessibility report and practice remediation techniques for heading structure, alternative text, contrast, descriptive link text, table headers, STEM content, and more. Plan on using a course you’re actively teaching (or preparing) so you leave with real progress and plan to keep your content accessible going forward. 
 

By participating in this session, you will be able to:

• Review the accessibility report to find potential accessibility issues and prioritize items that most impact learner access. 
• Apply accessibility remediations to course content. 
• Discuss strategies for implementing a check‑and‑fix process to increase course accessibility.  

Spring 2026 CFE-Facilitated Session Registration Form

Facilitator: Stanley Varghese of YuJa Inc.

Anna Rood, & Miles Wronkovich, Instructional Designers, Center for Faculty Excellence (CFE)

YuJa Panorama is an accessibility tool available to BGSU faculty to ensure any course materials on Canvas meet compliance standards. Led by a member of the YuJa team, this demonstration will introduce the tool, highlight how to remediate some common examples of targets that would appear in their own courses, leading to advice on best practices and goal-setting for an expedient workflow.

By taking part in this session, you will be able to: 

• Review the Panorama course report to find accessibility issues and prioritize which items that most impact learner access.  
• Address accessibility remediations to course content. 
• Discuss strategies with a YuJa client success team member for implementing a check‑and‑fix process to increase course accessibility.  

Spring 2026 CFE-Facilitated Session Registration Form

Facilitator: Caitlin Bartholic, guest facilitator

This 90-minute, hands-on session introduces practical accessibility basics that you can apply immediately in your teaching and communication. You will learn how to improve color contrast, manage reading order, use clear slide structure with built-in layouts and Slide Master, write meaningful alt text for images and graphs, create accessible tables, caption presentation videos, enable live captions, and choose readable fonts. Through brief demonstrations and simple interactive activities, you will leave with concrete skills you can use right away to create cleaner, more inclusive PowerPoint presentations.

By participating in this session/event, you will be able to:

• Identify and correct common accessibility issues in PowerPoint slides, including color contrast, reading order, and font readability.
• Apply built-in PowerPoint tools such as slide layouts and Slide Master to create slides with clear and consistent structure.
• Write meaningful alt text for images, charts, and graphs to ensure visual information is available to assistive technology users.
• Create accessible tables and organize slide content so information is presented clearly and logically.
• Enable live captions and add captions to presentation videos to make presentations easier to access and understand.

Spring 2026 CFE-Facilitated Session Registration Form