Facilitating Department: Center for Faculty Excellence (CFE)

Curious to know how your colleagues are using AI in their classrooms or research practices? Join an AI Exchange, a collaborative space to explore the evolving role of artificial intelligence in teaching, learning, and research. A selection of resources will be shared in advance as optional inspiration—perfect if you’d like to see examples or spark ideas before the session. Each session will focus on a different aspect of using AI in higher ed—from incorporating AI in the classroom to using AI to design assessments. Come prepared to share your own experiences, tools, and strategies for using AI—or strategies you’re interested in exploring—whether you’ve been experimenting for a while or are just getting started. Together, you and other participants will explore possibilities and walk away with actionable strategies you can apply right away.

By participating in these sessions, you will be able to:

• Share your own approaches, experiences, and strategies related to using AI in your academic practice.
• Identify practical AI strategies or tools that you can adapt for your own work.
• Connect with colleagues who share your interest in leveraging AI to enhance teaching, learning, research, and productivity.

Spring 2026 CFE-Facilitated Session Registration Form

Facilitator: Anna Rood, Instructional Designer, Center for Faculty Excellence

This hands-on workshop provides a focused look at assessment as a tool for student success and clarity. We will begin by comparing the fundamental purposes of formative versus summative assessments, then delve into practical, low-stakes strategies you can use early in the semester to provide students with essential, timely feedback and inform your Early Alerts process. Finally, explore ways to use rubrics and Canvas LMS tools for transparency and feedback. 

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

• Compare the purpose of formative and summative assessments.   
• Explore formative assessment strategies and their potential use to provide early feedback to students.  
• Describe strategies to use rubrics for transparency and feedback.  
• Explore feedback tools in Canvas LMS. 

Spring 2026 CFE-Facilitated Session Registration Form

Facilitator: Miles Wronkovich, Instructional Designer, Center for Faculty Excellence

In this session, you will apply principles of backward design to courses with fixed learning outcomes. Many courses with pre-determined goals can become stagnant or overly routine, especially if they are frequently taught semester after semester. Using the tools from the workshop, you’ll explore ways to refresh these courses and incorporate your own teaching style and perspective into their design. 

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

• Understand the structure of backward-designed courses compared to other models. 
• Expand and personalize how learning outcomes are assessed.
• Create a lesson plan using backward design principles. 

Spring 2026 CFE-Facilitated Session Registration Form

Facilitator: Holly Barber, Instructional Designer, Center for Faculty Excellence (CFE)

Join us for an engaging workshop on using Canvas Studio software within the Canvas LMS! Participants will learn to identify key features of Canvas Studio and discover how to record and edit videos. Additionally, the workshop will cover creating in-video quizzes and discussions, applying auto-closed captions, and utilizing student analytics. By the end of the session, attendees will be equipped with practical skills to create interactive and accessible video content for their courses. Don't miss this opportunity to elevate your teaching with Canvas Studio!

In this session, you will:

• Identify Canvas Studio features.  
• Discover how to record and edit videos.  
• Create in-video quizzes & discussions.  
• Apply auto-closed captions.  
• Utilize student analytics. 

Spring 2026 CFE-Facilitated Session Registration Form

Facilitators: 

• Neil Baird, Professor of English and Director, University Writing Program
• Clay Chiarelott, Assistant Teaching Professor, Writing
• Colleen Fitzgerald, Associate Professor of Communication Sciences and Disorders
• Dawn Hubbell-Staeble, Teaching Professor, Writing
• Beth Fridrick, Collections and Electronic Resources Librarian, Library Teaching & Learning

In this session, you'll explore innovative classroom materials designed to enhance student AI literacy—developed by a CFE Community of Practice. Six faculty members will share practical frameworks that address key dimensions of AI learning: how generative AI works, how to craft effective prompts, how to recognize bias, how to navigate ethical questions, and how to maintain essential human oversight. You’ll engage directly with each presenter’s materials through guided discussion and hands-on activities, leaving with adaptable resources and concrete strategies you can implement right away. Discover ways to integrate AI literacy into your courses while fostering critical thinking about emerging technologies.

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

• Identify key dimensions of AI literacy relevant to your discipline.
• Incorporate AI literacy concepts into your course materials using cross-disciplinary examples.
• Apply strategies to promote critical thinking about emerging technologies.

Fall 2025 Campus Partner CFE Session Registration Form

Facilitator: Anna Rood, Instructional Designer, Center for Faculty Excellence (CFE)

In this interactive session, you will explore innovative alternatives to the traditional online discussion board. As instructors, you understand the importance of fostering student engagement and peer interaction. However, discussion boards often fall short in achieving these goals. This session will uncover the reasons why discussion boards are not always effective and will introduce you to a variety of alternative tools and strategies that can enhance student engagement and collaboration.

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

• Examine the limitations of traditional online discussion boards.
• Discover and evaluate alternative tools that promote student interaction. 
• Create a plan for adapting a current discussion board assignment.

Spring 2026 CFE-Facilitated Session Registration Form

Facilitator: Holly Barber, Instructional Designer, Center for Faculty Excellence (CFE)

In this session, you will learn the principles of Canvas New Quizzes. New Quizzes is an updated assessment engine that integrates with Canvas and replaces the Classic Quizzes functionality. If you are a novice user of either Classic Quizzes or New Quizzes, this session will guide you on using the various question types, building your own quizzes, and exploring quiz settings that you can customize. By the end of this session, you will be able to use Canvas New Quizzes to build effective assessments.     

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

• Evaluate the principles of Canvas New Quizzes and compare them with Classic Quizzes. 
• Design various question types and build your own quizzes using Canvas New Quizzes. 
• Analyze the different quiz settings available and customize them to suit your needs. 

Spring 2026 CFE-Facilitated Session Registration Form

Facilitator: Holly Barber, Instructional Designer, Center for Faculty Excellence (CFE)

Discover how to create micro-learning videos to deliver small, engaging chunks of information to your students. This workshop introduces the principles and benefits of micro-learning, then guides you through analyzing learning objectives and designing video content that aligns with them. You’ll explore strategies for creating videos that are not only engaging but also accessible to all learners. By the end of the session, you’ll have the tools and confidence to start producing high-quality micro-learning videos that enhance learning experiences.

In this session, you will:

• Describe the principles of micro-learning and its benefits and how it supports learner engagement. 
• Analyze learning objectives and design engaging micro-learning video content that aligns with them. 
• Identify appropriate video creation tools to produce high-quality, engaging micro-learning videos that are accessible. 

Spring 2026 CFE-Facilitated Session Registration Form

Facilitator: Anna Rood, Instructional Designer, Center for Faculty Excellence (CFE)

In this advanced session, you will dive deeper into the functionalities of Canvas New Quizzes. As experienced users, you are already familiar with the basics of this powerful tool. This session is designed to expand your knowledge and enhance your skills, enabling you to leverage Canvas New Quizzes to its full potential.

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

• Explore creative question types such as fill in the blanks, stimulus, hotspot, and organizing.  
• Experiment with quiz migration and item banking.  
• Construct alternative uses for Canvas New Quizzes, such as homework adaptations, guided reading assignments, info searches, interactive case studies, and hands-on demos. 

Spring 2026 CFE-Facilitated Session Registration Form

Facilitator: Miles Wronkovich, Instructional Designer, Center for Faculty Excellence (CFE)

In this session, you will practice active learning techniques that can be implemented into a large lecture course, where students may get lost in the crowd or rely on passive learning. Through demonstration and reflection, you will put yourselves in your students’ shoes, engaging with these strategies and considering how you may implement them in your course.

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

• Define the challenges students face when enrolled in large lecture courses.  
• Apply active learning strategies to foster student-instructor and student-student engagement.  
• Reflect on your own teaching practices to identify opportunities for incorporating active learning in large lecture classes. 

Spring 2026 CFE-Facilitated Session Registration Form

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

If you're new to teaching with Canvas, this workshop is for you! You’ll have the opportunity to customize your Canvas course ensuring that your courses are suited to your teaching style. We will work together to explore Canvas features and best practices in course design.

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

• Use global navigation and access your course. 
  
• Customize the course settings and navigation. 
  
• Upload course files and documents. 
  
• Create and add content, assignments, and weekly modules. 
  
• Manage Gradebook & Speedgrader. 

Spring 2026 CFE-Facilitated Session Registration Form

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

If you're a graduate student who is new to using Canvas in your graduate student instructor role, this workshop is for you! Whether you're the instructor of record designing your own course in Canvas or supporting a faculty member or lab section using an existing Canvas shell, this session will help you build confidence and familiarity with the platform. We’ll explore key Canvas tools and best practices so you can effectively support student learning, communicate clearly, and manage grading more efficiently.

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

• Use global navigation and access your course. 
  
• Customize the course settings and navigation. 
  
• Upload course files and documents. 
  
• Create and add content, assignments, and weekly modules. 
  
• Manage Gradebook & Speedgrader. 

Spring 2026 CFE-Facilitated Session Registration Form