Upcoming Events
F&C Webinar: Appreciative Advising: A Framework for Supporting Students to Achieve (Pt 2)
Workshop/Training
APPRECIATIVE ADVISING: A FRAMEWORK FOR SUPPORTING STUDENTS TO ACHIEVE THEIR DREAMS, GOALS, AND POTENTIALS (Part 2 of 2 sessions) Appreciative Advising is the intentional collaborative practice of asking generative, open-ended questions that help students optimize their educational experiences and achieve their dreams, goals, and potentials. This session is for student-facing professionals at Utah State University (USU) to explore the Appreciative Advising framework, learn from the strategies of student success professionals at USU, and enhance their student success practices.
Getting Started in Zoom
Workshop/Training
Learn the basics of Zoom, including scheduling, recording, managing settings, and making a good learning environment for your students.
Lunch & Learn - Increase Wellbeing: One Burst at a Time
Workshop/Training
USU Be Well and Aetna, USU's Employee Assistance Program present a lunch and learn on increasing our wellbeing through small daily bursts. Life moves fast. Many of us struggle with adding healthy habits to our day or are too exhausted to even get started. Join us for this training where we will discuss what is a burst and explain its benefits, learn about how our thoughts contribute to success, and explain steps for making an action plan and how to keep going. *Presentation will not be recorded. Attendance and participation in this event will qualify as an activity for the Be Well Rewards program.*
Aetna Webinar – Challenges of Working Parents
Workshop/Training
Aetna, USU’s Employee Assistance Provider, presents a Resources for Living webinar. Did you know that both parents work in over half of two-parent households? This statistic is even higher for single caregivers. Join this webinar to learn strategies for coping and finding work-life balance. We'll go over tips for: • Time management • Prepping and planning • Making time for you
Weber County 4-H Gunners Club (4-H Shooting Sports)
Workshop/Training | Utah 4-H and Youth
Club focus is on -.22 rifle education. Register on ZSuite.
eLearnX
Workshop/Training
The eLearnX event is cosponsored by the Empowering Teaching Excellence (ETE) and by the Center for Instructional Design and Innovation (CIDI). This three-day event provides a hands-on deep dive into the teaching tools and methodologies of online, virtual, and hybrid instruction.
Day 1: Sessions on digital pedagogy and instructor presence.
Day 2: Breakout sessions on edtech teaching tools and practical applications of instructional approaches from USU instructors and instructional professionals.
Day 3: Culminates in each participant designing an activity for their course, and access to other useful resources that can be immediately implemented.
*Enrollment cap of 30
eLearnX
Workshop/Training
The eLearnX event is cosponsored by the Empowering Teaching Excellence (ETE) and by the Center for Instructional Design and Innovation (CIDI). This three-day event provides a hands-on deep dive into the teaching tools and methodologies of online, virtual, and hybrid instruction.
Day 1: Sessions on digital pedagogy and instructor presence.
Day 2: Breakout sessions on edtech teaching tools and practical applications of instructional approaches from USU instructors and instructional professionals.
Day 3: Culminates in each participant designing an activity for their course, and access to other useful resources that can be immediately implemented.
*Enrollment cap of 30
Right Referral Webinar: ALEKS & Math Stats Competency Based Exams
Workshop/Training
A Right Referral Webinar
eLearnX
Workshop/Training
The eLearnX event is cosponsored by the Empowering Teaching Excellence (ETE) and by the Center for Instructional Design and Innovation (CIDI). This three-day event provides a hands-on deep dive into the teaching tools and methodologies of online, virtual, and hybrid instruction.
Day 1: Sessions on digital pedagogy and instructor presence.
Day 2: Breakout sessions on edtech teaching tools and practical applications of instructional approaches from USU instructors and instructional professionals.
Day 3: Culminates in each participant designing an activity for their course, and access to other useful resources that can be immediately implemented.
*Enrollment cap of 30
Aetna Webinar – Tips for Summer Safety
Workshop/Training
Aetna, USU’s Employee Assistance Provider, presents a Resources for Living webinar. Join us to learn how to protect you and your loved ones (including pets!) this summer, so you can stay healthy while enjoying all the activities that summer entails. We will discuss sun, water, insects, outdoor activities, traveling and more.
CIDI Workshop - AI in Teaching: Application Examples
Workshop/Training
This workshop provides step-by-step examples of using generative AI for the following applications: 1) lesson plans, 2) discussion topics, 3) assignment feedback, 4) assessment questions, 5) role play scenarios, 6) Images (time permitting). By focusing on specific examples, attendees will be able to follow the same steps in their own course AI implementations, or identify ways to adapt examples to fit their unique needs.
Weber County 4-H Gunners Club (4-H Shooting Sports)
Workshop/Training | Utah 4-H and Youth
Club focus is on -.22 rifle education. Register on ZSuite.
CIDI Workshop - Building Interactive Learning Activities with Atomic Assessments
Workshop/Training
Atomic Assessments provide 65 question types with multiple delivery and feedback options. They can be embedded nearly anywhere in Canvas, for practice or for points. Options abound for math and science. See how to create the interactive lessons you've longed to provide your students.
Use Video Effectively in Teaching
Workshop/Training
This workshop will help you enhance your teaching with video.
CIDI Workshop - AI in Teaching: Prompt Engineering for Optimal Results
Workshop/Training
This workshop assumes you have a basic understanding of generative AI and are ready to use it to design content and interactive activities and help your students do the same. We will review and demonstrate several documented techniques and frameworks for prompting and interacting with generative AI tools to get desirable results.
Right Referral Webinar: Residence Life
Workshop/Training
Webinar begins at 10:30 a.m.
CIDI Workshop - Digital Badging Using Canvas Credentials (previously Badgr)
Workshop/Training
Digital badges are sometimes called microcredentials. They can be awarded to students for various accomplishments and then shared by students on social media and elsewhere as an indicator of their accomplishment or competence. Canvas has an integrated digital badging tool called Canvas Credentials (previously called Badgr). This workshop addresses how to create, award, and track digital badges.
Advanced Zoom
Workshop/Training
Learn about advanced Zoom options, such as breakout rooms, polls, and using multiple monitors.
Writing Outcomes for Assessment
Workshop/Training
Writing concise outcomes to be used to measure mastery through assessment in your courses.
Weber County 4-H Gunners Club (4-H Shooting Sports)
Workshop/Training | Utah 4-H and Youth
Club focus is on -.22 rifle education. Register on ZSuite.
CIDI Workshop - Publishing Open Textbooks with Pressbooks
Workshop/Training
Pressbooks is an open e-book authoring and publishing platform available to USU teachers and students. It integrates with Canvas and allows teachers and students to discover, use, and adapt existing open educational content or author and publish new content. Learn how to use and create Pressbooks content for your course.
CIDI Workshop - Designing Assessment for Learning
Workshop/Training
This workshop will help you create or re-design assessment to align with your overall course goals.
CIDI Workshop - Publishing Open Textbooks with Pressbooks
Workshop/Training
Pressbooks is an open e-book authoring and publishing platform available to USU teachers and students. It integrates with Canvas and allows teachers and students to discover, use, and adapt existing open educational content or author and publish new content. Learn how to use and create Pressbooks content for your course.
Weber County 4-H Public Speaking, Impromptu, and Demonstration Contests
Workshop/Training | Utah 4-H and Youth
Contestants will select a topic for their speech by randomly drawing three questions/statements from a pool of topics. They will select one question/statement and return the other two. A maximum of one minute will be allowed for this process. Topics will be relative to today’s youth and may include current events, 4‐H, and/or social issues. Examples of the type of topics include: a. If I were an author, I would write about… b. One issue facing teenagers today is… c. If I could describe my personality as a tree, which tree would I be… d. What has being involved in 4‐H taught me?
Aetna Webinar – Understanding and Overcoming Unconscious Bias
Workshop/Training
Aetna, USU’s Employee Assistance Provider, presents a Resources for Living webinar. Your subconscious attitudes can affect the way you think and feel about the people around you. Even though these attitudes aren’t well-formed, coherent thoughts they can impact your responses to everyday situations. Join this webinar to learn to: -Define unconscious bias and discuss where it comes from -Identify common types of unconscious bias -Learn to recognize and prevent unconscious bias
Weber County 4-H Gunners Club (4-H Shooting Sports)
Workshop/Training | Utah 4-H and Youth
Club focus is on -.22 rifle education. Register on ZSuite.
CIDI Workshop - Digital Badging Using Canvas Credentials (previously Badgr)
Workshop/Training
Digital badges are sometimes called microcredentials. They can be awarded to students for various accomplishments and then shared by students on social media and elsewhere as an indicator of their accomplishment or competence. Canvas has an integrated digital badging tool called Canvas Credentials (previously called Badgr). This workshop addresses how to create, award, and track digital badges.
CIDI Workshop - New Quizzes in Canvas
Workshop/Training
Learn how to leverage New Quizzes in Canvas to create a more dynamic assessment experience. This workshop will include New Quizzes creation, question types, settings, moderating, and editing. Changes to the workshop curriculum can be made based on instructor experience.
Running Secure Exams in Canvas
Workshop/Training
This workshop addresses how to create exams in Canvas, plus tools and methods for protecting quiz content and ensuring academic integrity when in-person proctoring isn't an option. (Includes discussion of Proctorio, question banks, time limits, question design, and more.)
CIDI Workshop - Advanced Lecture Recording: Real-time Audio/Video Mixing with OBS Studio
Workshop/Training | Affiliated Events
Learn to actively switch from camera to desktop (or both) as you record your lecture from your home or office. Incorporate motion graphics and more without a lot of post-production editing. This workshop focuses on using Open Broadcaster Software (OBS Studio), a free program for video recording and live streaming, create more professional lectures.
CIDI Workshop - Teaching Classes in Zoom
Workshop/Training
Learn how to plan, begin, and successfully teach a class over Zoom. This workshop focuses less on Zoom functionality and more on teaching strategies for keeping students engaged and minimizing distractions when teaching in real-time, remotely.
CIDI Workshop - AI in Teaching: Application Examples
Workshop/Training
This workshop provides step-by-step examples of using generative AI for the following applications: 1) lesson plans, 2) discussion topics, 3) assignment feedback, 4) assessment questions, 5) role play scenarios, 6) Images (time permitting). By focusing on specific examples, attendees will be able to follow the same steps in their own course AI implementations, or identify ways to adapt examples to fit their unique needs.
Aetna Webinar – What’s Your Happiness Score?
Workshop/Training
Aetna, USU’s Employee Assistance Provider, presents a Resources for Living webinar. How happy are you? If you're like most people, you might be chasing after the wrong things to be happy. This webinar will provide you with: * The definition of happiness * A snapshot of your own happiness * Tips to feel happier
Weber County 4-H Gunners Club (4-H Shooting Sports)
Workshop/Training | Utah 4-H and Youth
Club focus is on -.22 rifle education. Register on ZSuite.
Aetna Webinar – Launching Your Kids Into Adulthood
Workshop/Training
Aetna, USU’s Employee Assistance Provider, presents a Resources for Living webinar. Learn how you as a parent or guardian can empower your kids to meet early adulthood and beyond with success and confidence. We will discuss life stages and important milestones to reach and how you can help enable your children to launch into their own at any age.
Weber County 4-H Gunners Club (4-H Shooting Sports)
Workshop/Training | Utah 4-H and Youth
Club focus is on -.22 rifle education. Register on ZSuite.
Enhance your Canvas Course with Design Plus
Workshop/Training
USU Design Tools is now Design Plus. This new version of the popular formatting tools for Canvas makes it easy to add a consistent look and feel to your course and enhance the visual appeal of the homepage, content pages, and assignments. You can improve the look of tables, add borders to pictures, insert dividing lines on pages, and much more!
Advanced Zoom
Workshop/Training
Learn about advanced Zoom options, such as breakout rooms, polls, and using multiple monitors.
Aetna Webinar – Overcoming the Fear of Commitment
Workshop/Training
Aetna, USU’s Employee Assistance Provider, presents a Resources for Living webinar. Do you have a fear of committing to relationships? Does that fear impact your romantic relationships or connections with family members, friends or coworkers? Join this webinar to learn more about the fear including: • What's the definition of commitment? • The consequences of avoiding commitment • Common fears • Ways to overcome your fears
CIDI Workshop - How to Quickly Create a Beautiful Canvas Course
Workshop/Training
Design Tools for Canvas allows you to rapidly stylize and build out your Canvas course, allowing you to focus more time on planning engaging content and learning activities in your course.
Weber County 4-H Gunners Club (4-H Shooting Sports)
Workshop/Training | Utah 4-H and Youth
Club focus is on -.22 rifle education. Register on ZSuite.
CIDI Workshop - Advanced Lecture Recording: Real-time Audio/Video Mixing with OBS Studio
Workshop/Training
Learn to actively switch from camera to desktop (or both) as you record your lecture from your home or office. Incorporate motion graphics and more without a lot of post-production editing. This workshop focuses on using Open Broadcaster Software (OBS Studio), a free program for video recording and live streaming, create more professional lectures.
CIDI Workshop - New Quizzes in Canvas
Workshop/Training
Learn how to leverage New Quizzes in Canvas to create a more dynamic assessment experience. This workshop will include New Quizzes creation, question types, settings, moderating, and editing. Changes to the workshop curriculum can be made based on instructor experience.
CIDI Workshop - Building Interactive Learning Activities with Atomic Assessments
Workshop/Training
Atomic Assessments provide 65 question types with multiple delivery and feedback options. They can be embedded nearly anywhere in Canvas, for practice or for points. Options abound for math and science. See how to create the interactive lessons you've longed to provide your students.
Weber County 4-H Gunners Club (4-H Shooting Sports)
Workshop/Training | Utah 4-H and Youth
Club focus is on -.22 rifle education. Register on ZSuite.
CIDI Workshop - Improving Online Discussions
Workshop/Training
Help your online students get to know each other and interact with you better. Connect your students to each other through thoughtfully designed discussion boards, peer reviews, and group projects. Use techniques to speed up your feedback process when grading.
How to Quickly Create a Beautiful Canvas Course
Workshop/Training
Design Tools for Canvas allows you to rapidly stylize and build out your Canvas course, allowing you to focus more time on planning engaging content and learning activities in your course.
Weber County 4-H Gunners Club (4-H Shooting Sports)
Workshop/Training | Utah 4-H and Youth
Club focus is on -.22 rifle education. Register on ZSuite.
CIDI Workshop - Enhance your Canvas Course with Design Plus
Workshop/Training
USU Design Tools is now Design Plus. This new version of the popular formatting tools for Canvas makes it easy to add a consistent look and feel to your course and enhance the visual appeal of the homepage, content pages, and assignments. You can improve the look of tables, add borders to pictures, insert dividing lines on pages, and much more!
CIDI Workshop - Building Interactive Learning Activities with Atomic Assessments
Workshop/Training
Atomic Assessments provide 65 question types with multiple delivery and feedback options. They can be embedded nearly anywhere in Canvas, for practice or for points. Options abound for math and science. See how to create the interactive lessons you've longed to provide your students.
CIDI Workshop - How to Quickly Create a Beautiful Canvas Course
Workshop/Training
Design Tools for Canvas allows you to rapidly stylize and build out your Canvas course, allowing you to focus more time on planning engaging content and learning activities in your course.
CIDI Workshop - AI in Teaching: Basics and Opportunities
Workshop/Training
In this workshop, we discuss the basics of generative AI tools, such as ChatGPT, MS Copilot, Dall-E, etc., as they pertain to higher education. Specifically, we'll seek to address how they work and ways teachers can choose to approach them in their classes. We'll discuss syllabus language, AI detection tools, and ways to encourage students to think critically, use AI responsibly, and demonstrate their own capabilities. We'll also share some ideas and examples of AI as a teaching tool.
CIDI Workshop - Importing and Updating Your Course for the New Semester
Workshop/Training
This workshop addresses how to copy content from one semester's course to another, update due dates and settings, check for problems, and make additional enhancements.
CIDI Workshop - Improving Online Discussions
Workshop/Training
Help your online students get to know each other and interact with you better. Connect your students to each other through thoughtfully designed discussion boards, peer reviews, and group projects. Use techniques to speed up your feedback process when grading.
Getting Started in Zoom
Workshop/Training
Learn the basics of Zoom, including scheduling, recording, managing settings, and making a good learning environment for your students.
Weber County 4-H Gunners Club (4-H Shooting Sports)
Workshop/Training | Utah 4-H and Youth
Club focus is on -.22 rifle education. Register on ZSuite.
Importing and Updating Your Course for the New Semester
Workshop/Training
This workshop addresses how to copy content from one semester's course to another, update due dates and settings, check for problems, and make additional enhancements.
CIDI Workshop - Grading in Canvas
Workshop/Training
Grading is the most important thing to get right in Canvas. To help, this workshop covers: * The basic logic of Canvas grading, with assignments and assignment groups. * Using the SpeedGrader and rubrics * Assignment rules and assignment weighting * Showing and hiding grades * Late work policies * Extra credit scenarios * Pushing grades to Banner * Grades from third-party tools and content (Time permitting) * Outcomes (Time permitting)
CIDI Workshop - AI in Teaching: Prompt Engineering for Optimal Results
Workshop/Training
This workshop assumes you have a basic understanding of generative AI and are ready to use it to design content and interactive activities and help your students do the same. We will review and demonstrate several documented techniques and frameworks for prompting and interacting with generative AI tools to get desirable results.
Weber County 4-H Gunners Club (4-H Shooting Sports)
Workshop/Training | Utah 4-H and Youth
Club focus is on -.22 rifle education. Register on ZSuite.
Restoration Consortium Workshop: Sediment Transport for Restoration Design
Workshop/Training
This course is intended for those who wish to understand and apply the principles of sediment transport to alluvial channel assessment and design. Principles of open channel flow and sediment transport are combined with watershed-scale, hydrologic and sediment source analysis to place channel assessment and design in the appropriate context. Tools for estimating sediment supply at the watershed to reach level are applied in class exercises. Threshold and alluvial channel design methods are presented along with guidelines for assessing and incorporating uncertainty. The course balances advance reading, lecture, field work, and hands-on exercises for estimating sediment supply, calculating sediment transport rates, and forecasting channel response to water and sediment supply. This course is intended for participants who are familiar with basic principles of river geomorphology.
Instructors: Dr. Peter Wilcock, Tyler Allred, Dr. Patrick Belmont
Dates: July 29 - Aug 2, 2024
Cost: $1850 ($1600 if registered before June 1st)
Register: Eventbrite. To register for CEU, you must register through USU Continuing Education Portal (CEWA 6900-31725. Opens April 3.)
Restoration Consortium Workshop: Sediment Transport for Restoration Design
Workshop/Training
This course is intended for those who wish to understand and apply the principles of sediment transport to alluvial channel assessment and design. Principles of open channel flow and sediment transport are combined with watershed-scale, hydrologic and sediment source analysis to place channel assessment and design in the appropriate context. Tools for estimating sediment supply at the watershed to reach level are applied in class exercises. Threshold and alluvial channel design methods are presented along with guidelines for assessing and incorporating uncertainty. The course balances advance reading, lecture, field work, and hands-on exercises for estimating sediment supply, calculating sediment transport rates, and forecasting channel response to water and sediment supply. This course is intended for participants who are familiar with basic principles of river geomorphology.
Instructors: Dr. Peter Wilcock, Tyler Allred, Dr. Patrick Belmont
Dates: July 29 - Aug 2, 2024
Cost: $1850 ($1600 if registered before June 1st)
Register: Eventbrite. To register for CEU, you must register through USU Continuing Education Portal (CEWA 6900-31725. Opens April 3.)
Restoration Consortium Workshop: Sediment Transport for Restoration Design
Workshop/Training
This course is intended for those who wish to understand and apply the principles of sediment transport to alluvial channel assessment and design. Principles of open channel flow and sediment transport are combined with watershed-scale, hydrologic and sediment source analysis to place channel assessment and design in the appropriate context. Tools for estimating sediment supply at the watershed to reach level are applied in class exercises. Threshold and alluvial channel design methods are presented along with guidelines for assessing and incorporating uncertainty. The course balances advance reading, lecture, field work, and hands-on exercises for estimating sediment supply, calculating sediment transport rates, and forecasting channel response to water and sediment supply. This course is intended for participants who are familiar with basic principles of river geomorphology.
Instructors: Dr. Peter Wilcock, Tyler Allred, Dr. Patrick Belmont
Dates: July 29 - Aug 2, 2024
Cost: $1850 ($1600 if registered before June 1st)
Register: Eventbrite. To register for CEU, you must register through USU Continuing Education Portal (CEWA 6900-31725. Opens April 3.)
Restoration Consortium Workshop: Sediment Transport for Restoration Design
Workshop/Training
This course is intended for those who wish to understand and apply the principles of sediment transport to alluvial channel assessment and design. Principles of open channel flow and sediment transport are combined with watershed-scale, hydrologic and sediment source analysis to place channel assessment and design in the appropriate context. Tools for estimating sediment supply at the watershed to reach level are applied in class exercises. Threshold and alluvial channel design methods are presented along with guidelines for assessing and incorporating uncertainty. The course balances advance reading, lecture, field work, and hands-on exercises for estimating sediment supply, calculating sediment transport rates, and forecasting channel response to water and sediment supply. This course is intended for participants who are familiar with basic principles of river geomorphology.
Instructors: Dr. Peter Wilcock, Tyler Allred, Dr. Patrick Belmont
Dates: July 29 - Aug 2, 2024
Cost: $1850 ($1600 if registered before June 1st)
Register: Eventbrite. To register for CEU, you must register through USU Continuing Education Portal (CEWA 6900-31725. Opens April 3.)
CIDI Workshop - AI in Teaching: Basics and Opportunities
Workshop/Training
In this workshop, we discuss the basics of generative AI tools, such as ChatGPT, MS Copilot, Dall-E, etc., as they pertain to higher education. Specifically, we'll seek to address how they work and ways teachers can choose to approach them in their classes. We'll discuss syllabus language, AI detection tools, and ways to encourage students to think critically, use AI responsibly, and demonstrate their own capabilities. We'll also share some ideas and examples of AI as a teaching tool.
Teaching Classes in Zoom
Workshop/Training
Learn how to plan, begin, and successfully teach a class over Zoom. This workshop focuses less on Zoom functionality and more on teaching strategies for keeping students engaged and minimizing distractions when teaching in real-time, remotely.
Restoration Consortium Workshop: Sediment Transport for Restoration Design
Workshop/Training
This course is intended for those who wish to understand and apply the principles of sediment transport to alluvial channel assessment and design. Principles of open channel flow and sediment transport are combined with watershed-scale, hydrologic and sediment source analysis to place channel assessment and design in the appropriate context. Tools for estimating sediment supply at the watershed to reach level are applied in class exercises. Threshold and alluvial channel design methods are presented along with guidelines for assessing and incorporating uncertainty. The course balances advance reading, lecture, field work, and hands-on exercises for estimating sediment supply, calculating sediment transport rates, and forecasting channel response to water and sediment supply. This course is intended for participants who are familiar with basic principles of river geomorphology.
Instructors: Dr. Peter Wilcock, Tyler Allred, Dr. Patrick Belmont
Dates: July 29 - Aug 2, 2024
Cost: $1850 ($1600 if registered before June 1st)
Register: Eventbrite. To register for CEU, you must register through USU Continuing Education Portal (CEWA 6900-31725. Opens April 3.)
CIDI Workshop - Importing and Updating Your Course for the New Semester
Workshop/Training
This workshop addresses how to copy content from one semester's course to another, update due dates and settings, check for problems, and make additional enhancements.
CIDI Workshop - Editing 2+ Courses in one Place with Canvas Blueprints
Workshop/Training
Canvas allows a teacher to create a "blueprint" course, where updates can be made just once and then synced to several associated courses. This can greatly ease the management of multiple versions of the same class. This workshop shows how to use and effectively manage blueprint courses.
CIDI Workshop - Building Interactive Learning Activities with Atomic Assessments
Workshop/Training
Atomic Assessments provide 65 question types with multiple delivery and feedback options. They can be embedded nearly anywhere in Canvas, for practice or for points. Options abound for math and science. See how to create the interactive lessons you've longed to provide your students.
CIDI Workshop - Managing and Editing Lecture Recordings
Workshop/Training
With all the recordings you have probably been creating lately, your MyMedia account may be in need of some attention. This workshop will take you through the first steps to becoming a media master: learn how to tag and add descriptions to your recordings to make them more easily searchable, discover the power of playlists, and become familiar with the basic editing tools that are available through MyMedia.
CIDI Workshop - Importing and Updating Your Course for the New Semester
Workshop/Training
This workshop addresses how to copy content from one semester's course to another, update due dates and settings, check for problems, and make additional enhancements.
CIDI Workshop - Getting Started in Zoom
Workshop/Training
Learn the basics of Zoom, including scheduling, recording, managing settings, and making a good learning environment for your students.
CIDI Workshop - Teaching Hybrid Classes
Workshop/Training
A hybrid class replaces some synchronous teaching time with asynchronous learning. It involves both the development of quality online content and interactions and the effective use of live class time. This workshop addresses tips for success in both the online and live components of a hybrid class.
CIDI Workshop - AI in Teaching: Basics and Opportunities
Workshop/Training
In this workshop, we discuss the basics of generative AI tools, such as ChatGPT, MS Copilot, Dall-E, etc., as they pertain to higher education. Specifically, we'll seek to address how they work and ways teachers can choose to approach them in their classes. We'll discuss syllabus language, AI detection tools, and ways to encourage students to think critically, use AI responsibly, and demonstrate their own capabilities. We'll also share some ideas and examples of AI as a teaching tool.
CIDI Workshop - Teaching Connect Classes
Workshop/Training
Best practices and tools to use while broadcast teaching. Topics will vary based on attendees and their needs.
CIDI Workshop - Advanced Lecture Recording: Real-time Audio/Video Mixing with OBS Studio
Workshop/Training
Learn to actively switch from camera to desktop (or both) as you record your lecture from your home or office. Incorporate motion graphics and more without a lot of post-production editing. This workshop focuses on using Open Broadcaster Software (OBS Studio), a free program for video recording and live streaming, create more professional lectures.
CIDI Workshop - Getting Started With Canvas
Workshop/Training
This workshop covers signing in, creating assignments and setting up the gradebook, using modules, pages, and files, and updating profile and notification settings. Topics are subject to change based on the experience of attendees and what is needed.
CIDI Workshop - Getting Started With Canvas
Workshop/Training
This workshop covers signing in, creating assignments and setting up the gradebook, using modules, pages, and files, and updating profile and notification settings. Topics are subject to change based on the experience of attendees and what is needed.
CIDI Workshop - Teaching Online Classes
Workshop/Training
Learn how to set up an online course in Canvas using a Canvas template. This workshop addresses the process of beginning with a course map, importing a Canvas template, and then developing and organizing course materials into modules.
CIDI Workshop - AI in Teaching: Prompt Engineering for Optimal Results
Workshop/Training
This workshop assumes you have a basic understanding of generative AI and are ready to use it to design content and interactive activities and help your students do the same. We will review and demonstrate several documented techniques and frameworks for prompting and interacting with generative AI tools to get desirable results.
CIDI Workshop - What's New in Canvas?
Workshop/Training
This workshop will walk through new features in Canvas and how to utilize them in your courses.
CIDI Workshop - Teaching Connect Classes
Workshop/Training
Best practices and tools to use while broadcast teaching. Topics will vary based on attendees and their needs.
CIDI Workshop - AI in Teaching: Application Examples
Workshop/Training
This workshop provides step-by-step examples of using generative AI for the following applications: 1) lesson plans, 2) discussion topics, 3) assignment feedback, 4) assessment questions, 5) role play scenarios, 6) Images (time permitting). By focusing on specific examples, attendees will be able to follow the same steps in their own course AI implementations, or identify ways to adapt examples to fit their unique needs.
Restoration Consortium Workshop: Basic Wetland Delineation
Workshop/Training
Basic Wetland Delineation
Students gain a basic understanding of wetland delineation procedures and the underlying ecological, biogeochemical, and hydrological processes that shape them. This course will teach students to apply wetland delineation course material in real-world wetland settings when problem-solving and decision-making in the face of uncertainty are necessary (especially with problematic soil situations)
Instructors: Nate Norman & Dr. Karin Kettenring
Dates: August 19 & 20, 2024
Location: Logan, UT
Format: In-Person
Cost: $745
Registration: Registration opens April 8
Advanced Zoom
Workshop/Training
Learn about advanced Zoom options, such as breakout rooms, polls, and using multiple monitors.
CIDI Workshop - Getting Started With Canvas
Workshop/Training
This workshop covers signing in, creating assignments and setting up the gradebook, using modules, pages, and files, and updating profile and notification settings. Topics are subject to change based on the experience of attendees and what is needed.
CIDI Workshop - AI in Teaching: Basics and Opportunities
Workshop/Training
In this workshop, we discuss the basics of generative AI tools, such as ChatGPT, MS Copilot, Dall-E, etc., as they pertain to higher education. Specifically, we'll seek to address how they work and ways teachers can choose to approach them in their classes. We'll discuss syllabus language, AI detection tools, and ways to encourage students to think critically, use AI responsibly, and demonstrate their own capabilities. We'll also share some ideas and examples of AI as a teaching tool.
CIDI Workshop - AI in Teaching: Application Examples
Workshop/Training
This workshop provides step-by-step examples of using generative AI for the following applications: 1) lesson plans, 2) discussion topics, 3) assignment feedback, 4) assessment questions, 5) role play scenarios, 6) Images (time permitting). By focusing on specific examples, attendees will be able to follow the same steps in their own course AI implementations, or identify ways to adapt examples to fit their unique needs.
CIDI Workshop - New Quizzes in Canvas
Workshop/Training
Learn how to leverage New Quizzes in Canvas to create a more dynamic assessment experience. This workshop will include New Quizzes creation, question types, settings, moderating, and editing. Changes to the workshop curriculum can be made based on instructor experience.
Restoration Consortium Workshop: Basic Wetland Delineation
Workshop/Training
Basic Wetland Delineation
Students gain a basic understanding of wetland delineation procedures and the underlying ecological, biogeochemical, and hydrological processes that shape them. This course will teach students to apply wetland delineation course material in real-world wetland settings when problem-solving and decision-making in the face of uncertainty are necessary (especially with problematic soil situations)
Instructors: Nate Norman & Dr. Karin Kettenring
Dates: August 19 & 20, 2024
Location: Logan, UT
Format: In-Person
Cost: $745
Registration: Registration opens April 8
CIDI Workshop - Importing and Updating Your Course for the New Semester
Workshop/Training
This workshop addresses how to copy content from one semester's course to another, update due dates and settings, check for problems, and make additional enhancements.
CIDI Workshop - Creating Usable, Accessible Courses
Workshop/Training
Learn quick and easy practical tips to make sure your content more usable and easy to learn for the students in your course. In this workshop we will go over how to 1) get rid of extra content and simplify navigation, 2) get rid of broken links and make sure your content is published, 3) embed and caption your videos to make them more usable for everyone, and 4) provide content in user-friendly formats that work well on mobile devices.
CIDI Workshop - Introduction to Social Annotation with Hypothes.is
Workshop/Training
This workshop will share how teachers are using annotation-powered reading to help students develop foundational academic skills like deep reading and persuasive writing.
CIDI Workshop - How to Quickly Create a Beautiful Canvas Course
Workshop/Training
Design Tools for Canvas allows you to rapidly stylize and build out your Canvas course, allowing you to focus more time on planning engaging content and learning activities in your course.
Restoration Consortium Workshop: Field Botany: Wetland and Riparian Plants
Workshop/Training
Students will learn to apply Field Botany course material to improve problem-solving and decision-making in plant identification. This course will cover terminology and classification related to the botany of wetland and riparian plants and teach students to recognized dominant plant communities in wetland areas. Instructors: Dr. Leila Shultz & Dr. Karin Kettenring Dates: August 21-23, 2024 Location: Logan, UT Format: In-Person Cost: $745 Registration: Registration opens April 8
CIDI Workshop - Editing 2+ Courses in one Place with Canvas Blueprints
Workshop/Training
Canvas allows a teacher to create a "blueprint" course, where updates can be made just once and then synced to several associated courses. This can greatly ease the management of multiple versions of the same class. This workshop shows how to use and effectively manage blueprint courses.
CIDI Workshop - Teaching Online Classes
Workshop/Training
Learn how to set up an online course in Canvas using a Canvas template. This workshop addresses the process of beginning with a course map, importing a Canvas template, and then developing and organizing course materials into modules.
CIDI Workshop - Importing and Updating Your Course for the New Semester
Workshop/Training
This workshop addresses how to copy content from one semester's course to another, update due dates and settings, check for problems, and make additional enhancements.
Restoration Consortium Workshop: Field Botany: Wetland and Riparian Plants
Workshop/Training
Students will learn to apply Field Botany course material to improve problem-solving and decision-making in plant identification. This course will cover terminology and classification related to the botany of wetland and riparian plants and teach students to recognized dominant plant communities in wetland areas. Instructors: Dr. Leila Shultz & Dr. Karin Kettenring Dates: August 21-23, 2024 Location: Logan, UT Format: In-Person Cost: $745 Registration: Registration opens April 8
CIDI Workshop - Introduction to Social Annotation with Hypothes.is
Workshop/Training
This workshop will share how teachers are using annotation-powered reading to help students develop foundational academic skills like deep reading and persuasive writing.
CIDI Workshop - Teaching Connect Classes
Workshop/Training
Best practices and tools to use while broadcast teaching. Topics will vary based on attendees and their needs.
Restoration Consortium Workshop: Field Botany: Wetland and Riparian Plants
Workshop/Training
Students will learn to apply Field Botany course material to improve problem-solving and decision-making in plant identification. This course will cover terminology and classification related to the botany of wetland and riparian plants and teach students to recognized dominant plant communities in wetland areas. Instructors: Dr. Leila Shultz & Dr. Karin Kettenring Dates: August 21-23, 2024 Location: Logan, UT Format: In-Person Cost: $745 Registration: Registration opens April 8
CIDI Workshop - Getting Started With Canvas
Workshop/Training
This workshop covers signing in, creating assignments and setting up the gradebook, using modules, pages, and files, and updating profile and notification settings. Topics are subject to change based on the experience of attendees and what is needed.
CIDI Workshop - Introduction to Social Annotation with Hypothes.is
Workshop/Training
This workshop will share how teachers are using annotation-powered reading to help students develop foundational academic skills like deep reading and persuasive writing.
CIDI Workshop - What's New in Canvas?
Workshop/Training
This workshop will walk through new features in Canvas and how to utilize them in your courses.
CIDI Workshop - Introduction to Social Annotation with Hypothes.is
Workshop/Training
This workshop will share how teachers are using annotation-powered reading to help students develop foundational academic skills like deep reading and persuasive writing.
CIDI Workshop - Introduction to Social Annotation with Hypothes.is
Workshop/Training
This workshop will share how teachers are using annotation-powered reading to help students develop foundational academic skills like deep reading and persuasive writing.
CIDI Workshop - Introduction to Social Annotation with Hypothes.is
Workshop/Training
This workshop will share how teachers are using annotation-powered reading to help students develop foundational academic skills like deep reading and persuasive writing.
CIDI Workshop - Running Secure Exams in Canvas
Workshop/Training
This workshop addresses how to create exams in Canvas, plus tools and methods for protecting quiz content and ensuring academic integrity when in-person proctoring isn't an option. (Includes discussion of Proctorio, question banks, time limits, question design, and more.)
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