• Plus One Strategies for UDL: Making your visuals accessible: 鈥淎lt text鈥 and visual descriptions

    Virtual Location

    Virtual event These meetings will focus on 鈥淧lus One Strategies鈥 you can adopt to proactively design courses that meet the varied needs of our increasingly diverse body of students. Each workshop will be designed with 30 minutes of learning on a specific strategy and 30 minutes of practice and Q&A to allow you to explore […]

  • Equity-Fostering Syllabus Working Group

    Equity-Fostering Syllabus Working Group
    Virtual Location

    This is a collaborative, faculty-led, practically-oriented community focusing on fostering equity through developing our syllabi and engaging them meaningfully in class.聽In Spring 2022, the syllabus working group will focus on developing a sharable "equity starter pack" for syllabi to include suggested language, organizational structures, and ways to present and engage the syllabus throughout the semester. […]

  • Roundtable Discussion: Learning and student engagement during COVID-19

    Virtual Location

    Virtual Workshop The impacts of teaching remotely during the first part of the COVID-19 pandemic continues to impact our classrooms and shape students' perspectives. In this informal discussion, we will discuss how classrooms, learners and instructors have been affected by the unique circumstances influencing teaching and learning during the COVID-19 pandemic.聽 Register for this event […]

  • Does your Syllabus Need a Tune-Up?

    Virtual Location

    Virtual Workshop In this workshop we will provide a list of resources to help revise your syllabus with more student-centered practices and language.聽 We will also review recommendations for your syllabus to help promote student success during another semester impacted by COVID-19.聽 Wednesday January 12th @ 12:00-1:30pm Register for this event (opens in Google Forms)

  • Universal Design for Learning: Complete an eight-point evaluation to determine your course accessibility

    Virtual Location

    Virtual Workshop Either as a stand alone workshop or as your entry point to our Digital Equity Community of Practice, we invite you to join us in an evaluation of your present course design and layout for digital equity and inclusion. This initial evaluation will help identify tangible goals for your work over the semester […]

  • Orientation to Teaching at 91福利

    Virtual Location

    Virtual Workshop For recently faculty slated to begin teaching at 91福利 in January, this workshop will offer an overview of the teaching tools and platforms (e.g., Brightspace, Kaltura, Zoom) used at 91福利 and connections to appropriate resources on campus (e.g., CITL, Media Services, Student Records, Classroom Scheduling).聽 Time will be dedicated to addressing your specific […]

  • What not to forget: A reflection and conversation around learning and student engagement after our first semester back on campus

    Virtual Location

    COVID-19 was hard, and continues to present challenges. In this informal discussion, we reflect on lessons learned, strategies adopted, and new approaches to teaching that have emerged as a result of the unique circumstances influencing teaching and learning during the COVID pandemic. This is a virtual workshop. Unfortunately, we were not able to fill the […]

  • Helping students understand the feedback process

    Virtual Location

    Providing effective feedback to students has been shown to improve learning and motivate students more than grades. It is also a more inclusive and equitable strategy for learning. Yet often students fail to engage in the feedback process. We will discuss some basic characteristics of good feedback, and ways to deliver feedback, ending with a […]

  • How the new Grackle add-ons can facilitate creating accessible course materials

    Virtual Location

    GrackleDocs is聽a set of add-on tools available in Google Docs, Slides, and Sheets as part of the University's Google Suite. It makes the creation and curation of digitally accessible documents easy to learn and adopt. This orientation will introduce you to this tool and demonstrate how you can use it to build your inclusive practice […]

  • Guest Speaker Dr. Sheryl Burgstahler: Creating Inclusive Learning Opportunities in Higher Education

    Virtual Location

    CITL and Student Accessibility Services welcome Dr. Sheryl Burgstahler of the University of Washington to speak about inclusive learning. Discover how learning activities and support services can be designed in such a way that they are accessible to and inclusive of students with disabilities along with other marginalized groups. Dr. Burgstahler will present tips that […]

  • What does it mean to teach with transparency? (Virtual event)

    Virtual Location

    Transparent teaching is a method of inclusive teaching that has been shown to significantly support students of color, first generation students, students with disabilities and other diverse learners. This workshop will introduce the research behind transparent teaching and introduce specific strategies to consider in your own classrooms. Register for this workshop (opens in a new […]