Training and Professional Development

Join colleagues for conversation and guided meditation to build your connection and resilience. Co-facilitated by Nancy Olson and Sasha Wallace, and offered weekly on Fridays at noon.

This 50-minute presentation is presented by the Campus Assistance, Response, and Engagement (CARE) and Dean of Students staff. This presentation will provide practical tips to help faculty and staff identify students who may be experiencing distress, crisis, or an emergency and ways they can refer them to on and off-campus resources, including the CARE office.

If we only had more information sooner to support the success of our students. Now we do! Canvas New Analytics is an amazing visual dashboard that educators have at their fingertips! Track and analyze student performance and behavior; provide critical, timely communication that can make a difference in a student’s success in the course, e.g., identifying students who may need additional support in a critical time period; and view students’ engagement that can inform timely design and pedagogical choices that make a difference in their learning.

Non-positional thinking helps us explore beyond the obvious and rise above our "positions" on specific issues.  It helps us question our underlying assumptions to create new and more well-founded solutions.   Learn this four-step process to help you think more deeply.

Explore the ways in which to design your Canvas course using Canvas Pages and/or Modules that organize and structure course content. You will be introduced to a variety of ways to use these features to help you meet your needs, and the needs of your students.

Change at an institutional, department or even individual level is more than the business side of planning. Every bit as important is the people side of change. Prosci's ADKAR Model is designed to guide change based, fundamentally, on how we as human beings experience change. 

This session is essentially a roundtable discussion. The purpose is to share what student engagement looks like in your classes, what is working, and to get ideas from colleagues. The challenges are numerous, so this session focuses on solutions and approaches. Please join us to share your experiences and get ideas from others.

Employees who move into a new position on campus benefit greatly when their onboarding experience is well-managed and meaningful. Research shows employees who are onboarded with intention and thoroughness are 70% more productive and 82% more likely to stay with their employer. This course will equip anyone with employee onboarding responsibilities with clear guidelines and best practices for onboarding reassigned employees.

Learn the basics of retaining institutional knowledge, transfering key partnerships, appropriately acknowledging exiting employees and more.

Learn how to configure the gradebook to provide students up to date information on their progress in the course. Learn to organize assignments into groups, set percentage weights, add extra credit, and activate drop the lowest score. See SpeedGrader in action as you practice efficient grading workflows, providing students timely feedback. Learn to view the gradebook in a variety of ways to gather the information needed to answer student questions and track the progress of students.

Join colleagues for conversation and guided meditation to build your connection and resilience. Co-facilitated by Nancy Olson and Sasha Wallace, and offered weekly on Fridays at noon.