DTEI offerings archive
Below you will find previous DTEI professional development offerings in reverse chronological order.
2022 - 2023
Spring 2023
Keeping the Pedagogical Design in Mind When Setting Up a Canvas Course Space
Date, Time, and Location: Wednesday, September 20th, 2023, 10:00AM to 12:00PM PT, Online
Presenters: Megan Linos, Director of Digital and Online Teaching (DOT)
This hands-on workshop is designed to help faculty set up their Canvas course space for Fall 2023. We will review some key design elements and showcase a DTEI Canvas course sample in the first hour. Then, the participants will work in small groups led by the DTEI instructional designers to set up their Canvas space.
Digital Tools for Student Engagement: Rethinking Assessment Via Annotation
Date, Time, and Location: Monday, May 8th, 2023, 10:30AM to 11:30AM PT
Presenter: Barry Goldenberg, Education
Are you struggling to make sure your students are engaging with course reading assignments? Are Canvas discussion boards not doing the trick? Well, social annotation might be the solution! In his final workshop of the academic year, faculty fellow Barry Goldenberg, from the School of Education, will introduce Hypothesis—an accessible, engaging, and easy-to-use (for instructors and students) social annotation tool—and how it can be used to increase student engagement with course texts and reading materials. While this workshop will provide an overview of the “nuts and bolts” of Hypothesis and the benefits of social annotation, more importantly, it will demonstrate how to use Hypothesis and the process of social annotation as a primary mode of assessment in reading-intensive courses.
Teaching & Learning Together: How to Build a Collaborative Teaching Team
Date, Time, and Location: Tuesday, May 2nd, 2023, 11:00AM to 12:30PM PT
Presenters: Brandon Golob, Criminology, Law & Society; Karma Rose Zavita, Graduate Student – Criminology, Law & Society; Isabel Patten, Graduate Student – Criminology, Law & Society
In this workshop, we will explore tactics for building an effective teaching team. When instructors, teaching assistants, and learning assistants collaborate, we learn from one another and discover creative ways to teach our students across different instructional modalities. We encourage you to bring a device to get the most out of this active workshop!
Help Students Learn How To Learn: Team Sports Coaching Can Motivate Students To Learn More Effectively In The Classroom
Date, Time, and Location: Tuesday, April 25th, 2023, 10:30AM to 12:00PM PT
Presenters: Patrick Hong, Engineering; Scott Juniper, UCI Women’s Soccer Head Coach
Practice. Practice. Practice. We have heard the standard advice if we want to do anything well. To gain knowledge or skill, repeated drills (on the field or in the classroom) help us develop muscle memory, physically and mentally. However, that’s not enough. Authentic learning comes when one can apply the same practiced knowledge or skill in an unknown environment when it counts, such as during game time or beyond the classroom in the workplace. Come to the workshop with your device and join UCI Women’s Soccer Head Coach Scott Juniper to explore pedagogy and digital tools that empower students to practice effective learning through critical thinking and teamwork and confidently tackle future workforce demands.
Winter 2023
Digital Grading of Paper-Based Assessments to Improve Teaching Efficiency
Date, Time, and Location: Wednesday, March 1st, 2023, 1:00PM to 2:00PM PT
Presenters: Brigitte Baldi, Statistics, Natalia Chernyshoff, Social Sciences
The Division of Teaching Excellence and Innovation (DTEI) is hosting a workshop series on Exam Digitization and Grading using tools like Canvas and Gradescope to support the assessment delivery and grading process. In this workshop, we will examine how instructors can deliver a paper-based assessment in the classroom but grade them online efficiently. Faculty guest speakers will present how they currently use Gradescope Exams to upload student exams and use Gradescope’s rubrics to facilitate consistent grading and feedback.
Fully Digitizing Exams using Online Quizzing Tools
Date, Time, and Location: Wednesday, February 22nd, 2023, 1:00PM to 2:00PM PT
Presenters: Brigitte Baldi, Statistics, Rachael Barry, Biological Sciences
The Division of Teaching Excellence and Innovation (DTEI) is hosting a workshop series on Exam Digitization and Grading using tools like Canvas and Gradescope to support the assessment delivery and grading process. In this workshop, we will discuss the benefits and compare the pros and cons of creating online assessments using Canvas Quizzes and Gradescope. Faculty guest speakers will share how they use these tools to deliver, grade, and manage exams online. The participants will have the opportunity to ask questions, engage in peer discussions, explore the latest trends, and learn the best practices to stay ahead of the curve.
Setting up Take-Home Exams and Assignments for Online Submission
Date, Time, and Location: Wednesday, February 15, 2023
Presenters: Jennifer Wong-Ma, Information & Computer Sciences, Ana Garcia Vedrenne, Biological Sciences
The Division of Teaching Excellence and Innovation (DTEI) is hosting a workshop series on Exam Digitization and Grading using tools like Canvas and Gradescope to support the assessment delivery and grading process. In this workshop, we will explore different options to deliver take-home exams/assignments for students to submit their work online through Canvas Assignments or Gradescope Homework/Problem Set. Faculty guest speakers will also demonstrate how they save time and effort to deliver, grade, and manage student work using these online tools.
Digital Tools for Student Engagement: Innovative Content Creation & Delivery
Date, Time, and Location: Monday, February 13th, 2023, 1:00PM to 2:30PM PT
Presenter: Barry Goldenberg, Education
Tired of PowerPoint presentations? Want to explore another way to deliver your lecture content? Wish you had a presentation platform to “jump around” on instead of linear slides? In this workshop we will introduce the use of Prezi, a non-linear presentation platform that allows for the creation of dynamic, colorful, and engaging presentations that encourages student interaction with course content. This workshop will explore the unique features and uses of Prezi through real examples, followed by a walkthrough of how to get started in designing your own presentation on the platform.
We encourage you to bring a laptop to get the most out of this hands-on workshop!
Introduction to Exam Digitization and Converting a Scantron-based Exam Online using Gradescope Bubble Sheets
Date, Time, and Location: Wednesday, February 8th, 2023, 1:00PM to 2:00PM PT
Presenters: Megan Linos, Director of Digital and Online Teaching (DOT), Constance Huang, Interim Director, Academic Testing Center, Jennifer Foung, Instructional Designer, DTEI
The Division of Teaching Excellence and Innovation (DTEI) is hosting a workshop series on Exam Digitization and Grading using tools like Canvas and Gradescope to support the assessment delivery and grading process. In this workshop, we will introduce exam digitization and grading options, and demonstrate how a digitization process can alleviate common issues with paper assessments and grading. The representative of the Academic Testing Center (ATC) will also share an update about ATC services. Finally, the participants will learn how to digitize the traditional scantron exam efficiently using Gradescope Bubble Sheets.
Embedding Digital Literacy Across Disciplines
Date, Time, and Location: Tuesday, February 7th, 2023, 10:00AM to 11:30AM PT
Presenter: Brandon Golob, Criminology, Law & Society
Digital literacy is a crucial competency for our students. In this workshop, we will explore the foundations of digital literacy, why it matters for student learning, and how to embed it in assessments. Regardless of discipline-specific goals, promoting digital literacy is beneficial for our students, ourselves, and our society at large.
Bring the Growth Mindset of a Sports Coach to the Classroom: A Workshop on Teaching Critical Thinking
Date, Time, and Location: Tuesday, January 31st, 2023, 10:30AM to 12:00PM PT
Presenter: Patrick Hong, Engineering
In this workshop, we will explore strategies for integrating critical thinking into your teaching practice, much like a sports coach incorporates it into their team’s training. By focusing on critical thinking skills and digital tools like ChatGPT, Poll Everywhere, Wordwall, etc., instructors can help students become more analytical and independent lifelong learners and increase engagement in their classrooms.
Fall 2022
Canvas Course Design Workshop
Date, Time, and Location: Thursday, December 8th, 2022 & Friday, December 9th, 2022, 10:00AM to 11:30AM PT, Online
Presenter: Jennifer Foung, Instructional Designer, DTEI
The Division of Teaching Excellence and Innovation (DTEI) hosts a Canvas Bootcamp Workshop to assist faculty in designing Canvas courses in preparation for teaching in Winter 2023. This workshop will discuss best practices in course structure and design, do’s and don’ts and accessibility considerations. Participants will have the opportunity to work with DTEI instructional designers to get started in transforming a Canvas course space to enhance the student learning
experience.
Please join one of the two following Canvas course design workshops:
- Thursday, December 08, 2022, from 10 AM to 11:30 AM on Zoom
- Friday, December 09, 2022, from 10 AM to 11:30 AM on Zoom
Watch 12/08 Recording
Watch 12/09 Recording
Digital Tools for Student Engagement: Classroom Learning & Collaboration
Date, Time, and Location: Tuesday, November 15th, 2022, 11:00AM to 12:30PM PT
Presenter: Barry Goldenberg, Education
Tired of the usual think-pair-share activity? This workshop will present two digital tools that engage students in collaborative ways and promote shared thinking and active interaction with course content. This workshop will cover the What, Why and How of Padlet & Mentimeter, including best practices and effective methods of implementation.
We encourage you to bring a laptop to get the most out of this hands-on workshop!
Building Class Community in Various Instructional Modalities
Date, Time, and Location: Tuesday November 8th, 2022, 10:00AM to 12:00PM PT
Presenter: Brandon Golob, Criminology, Law & Society
In this workshop, we will explore different practices and activities for helping students connect to course material and each other to cultivate class community regardless of instructional modality.
We encourage you to bring a laptop to get the most out of this active workshop!
Want Your Students to be More Engaged in Learning? Teach Like a Coach
Date, Time, and Location: Tuesday, November 1st, 2022, 10:30AM to 12:00PM PT
Presenters: Patrick Hong, Engineering
Instead of thinking our jobs as instructors are to dissimulate knowledge and assess retention, what about considering our roles more like coaches in sports? We provide foundational knowledge as guidance in the huddle (lectures). During practice (most of the class time), we stand on the sidelines and cheer them on as they help each other and apply the knowledge through constructive failures. After repeated practice, we watch them able to make decisions on their own at game time when it counts (final assignments), adapting to new, never-seen-before conditions. All this is active learning! Come to the workshop to learn best practices from different instructors across different disciplines and class sizes on how active learning can be implemented with various digital technologies.
2021 - 2022
Spring 2022
Designing an Engaging and Visually Appealing Canvas Course Space
Date, Time, and Location: Thursday, May 19th, 2022, 1:30PM to 2:30PM PT
Presenter: Jennifer Foung, Instructional Designer, DTEI
Whether teaching an in-person, online, or hybrid course, an easily navigable, appealing, and learner-friendly Canvas course space is essential to support student learning and keep your students engaged. The DTEI instructional designers have developed a faculty-friendly and easily adopted Canvas template, and they offer a training workshop every academic quarter to facilitate faculty integrating this template into their Canvas your course space online. This DTEI Canvas template, including various Canvas layouts and page designs, will be introduced. Participants will learn how to customize the Canvas template and use the built-in design toolkit, such as banners, icons, and images, to develop a student-centered course space online. We will also discuss the best practices, examples, and accessibility considerations in this session. Participants will be guided to get started in transforming a Canvas course space to enhance student learning experience.
Using Canvas Assignments and Calendar to Enhance Learning Collaboration
Date, Time, and Location: Tuesday, May 12th, 2022, 1:30PM to 2:30PM PT
Presenter: Fanny Tsai, Instructional Designer, DTEI; Zachary Zahringer, Instructional Technologist, OIT; Cydney Palecek, Technology Support Specialist, OIT
Many faculty have raised a common question about how to use Canvas tools to set up group work and foster learning collaboration in the classroom.. In this workshop, we will demonstrate effective ways to use Canvas discussion boards to encourage student interaction, best practices in using Canvas assignments to set up group work, peer reviews and link external tools, and how to use Canvas Calendar to create group events or schedule office hours. By the end of this session, instructors will have the tools and knowledge they need to set up their Canvas Course spaces in a way that promotes teamwork, communication and a cohesive classroom atmosphere.
Step Forward to Inclusive Teaching
Date, Time, and Location: Thursday, May 5th, 2022, 1:30PM to 3:00PM PT
Presenter: Bo Choi, Instructional Designer, DTEI; Anita C. Bradford, Associate Professor and Associate Dean, Chicano/Latino Studies; Pavan Kadandale, Associate Professor of Teaching, Molecular Biology & Biochemistry
One of the first places that our students encounter and experience true college life happens in the classroom. Therefore it is crucial to make your classroom more inclusive and more accessible so that all students are given the opportunity to experience and thrive in their learning.
In this session, we will start with questions, what is inclusive teaching and why it should be important to you? What things can be done to make the teaching and learning environment more inclusive? We have invited UCI faculty who will share the importance and awareness of Inclusive teaching and the impact it has on our students to thrive to success. Rethinking about how to measure student’s learning and fostering a growth mindset into their teaching to promote inclusion.
Encouraging Ownership and Agency in Flipped and Online Classrooms
Date, Time, and Location: Thursday, April 28th, 2022, 1:30PM to 2:30PM PT
Presenters: Janet DiVincenzo, Instructional Designer, DTEI; Emily Brauer Rogers, Lecturer, Composition Program
Are you looking for ways to increase student engagement in your classes? How do you get students passionate about their projects? What makes learning meaningful? In this session, participants will come away with strategies for encouraging students to take ownership of their assignments and learning through assignment scaffolding, individualization, and gamification. This webinar will demonstrate easy-to-implement techniques using Canvas, specifically portfolios and the gradebook to help individualize work.
They’re Not Just Guest Speakers: Integrating the Best of the UC System and Beyond
Date, Time, and Location: Thursday, April 14th, 2022, 1:30PM to 2:30PM PT
Presenters: Janet DiVincenzo, Instructional Designer, DTEI; Paul Piff, Associate Professor, Psychological Science
In this workshop, participants will learn some best practices for integrating contributions from faculty across the UC system and beyond to create a vibrant and highly engaging multi-disciplinary online course. The discussion will touch on topics such as visual branding, the project management of multiple contributors, and the role of the lead instructor.
Winter 2022
Preparing Learning Content and Instructional Videos for Bite Size Online Delivery
Date, Time, and Location: Thursday, February 17, 2022, 1:30PM to 2:30PM PT
Presenters: Natalie Hadland, Video Producer, UCI Media; Megan Linos, Director of Digital and Online Teaching (DOT)
Most traditional lectures given in the lecture hall can range from 50-80 minutes. However, student attention spans online are not what they are in the classroom, and lecture videos should be more in the ballpark of ten minutes. So how do you decide how to take material that you have prepared to be delivered in the long format of the lecture hall and format it for online delivery? Can this only be done ahead of time, or can you take long videos you’ve already filmed and retrofit them for online learning? In this workshop, we will explain the importance of digital content and instructional videos for online learning. We will also share practical techniques of helping students retain knowledge by dividing lecture content and instructional videos into bite sized chunks.
Being Mindful of Teaching Accessibility when using Classroom Technologies to Engage Students
Date, Time, and Location: Thursday, February 10th, 2022, 1:30PM to 2:30PM PT
Presenters: Fanny Tsai, Instructional Designer, DTEI; Kelsey Layos, Classroom Technology Liaison and Application Support Specialist, Office of Instructional Technology; Natalie Hadland, Video Producer, UCI Media
Cultivating an accessible learning environment for all students is a vital commitment for every instructor. In this session, we will demonstrate various classroom technologies available at UCI (e.g., Poll Everywhere) and provide best practice guidelines to foster teaching accessibility. We will also discuss accessibility considerations for recording in-person class meetings or when providing lecture recordings to support absent/remote students. Finally, we will review some tips and tricks for using existing Campus-wide tools (classroom technology) and applications to engage students, regardless of any teaching mode.
Who Are Our Students? Understanding The Diversity of UCI and Taking The First Step in Inclusive Excellence
Date, Time, and Location Thursday, February 3rd, 2023, 1:30PM to 2:30PM PT
Presenters: Bo Choi, Instructional Designer, DTEI; Joseph Morales, Assistant Director, Office of Inclusive Excellence (OIE); Karen Andrews, Director, Disability Services Center (DSC)
To keep moving forward with creating a more inclusive teaching and learning environment at UCI, it’s essential to know “why” and “who” are the recipients/beneficiaries to this shift or change. In this session, Dr. Joseph Morales, assistant director of the Office of Inclusive Excellence, will share the diversity of our student population at UCI; specifically, UCI’s status as a Minority Serving Institution (MSI), a Hispanic-Serving Institution (HSI) and an Asian American and Native American Pacific Islander-Serving Institution (AANAPISI). Karen Andrews, director of UCI’s Disability Services Center, will then share about different types of disabilities, bring awareness to our current students who are registered at the DSC and also students who are not registered but are still in much need, and the impact that a more inclusive teaching and learning environment will bring to all students.
Designing an Engaging and Visually Appealing Canvas Course Space
Date, Time, and Location: Thursday, January 27th, 2022, 1:30PM to 2:30PM PT
Presenter: Jennifer Foung, Instructional Designer, DTEI
Whether you’re teaching in-person, online or hybrid, an appealing, easily navigable and user-friendly Canvas course space will help support student learning and keep your students engaged. In this workshop, participants will be introduced to a Canvas course template which will include a variety of home page, content page and layout designs. Participants will be shown how to use the built-in Canvas design toolkit which will contain matching banners, icons and images that can be used to further customize the look and feel of the course space. Finally best practices, use cases for different layouts, and accessibility considerations will be discussed. By the end of this workshop participants will have the tools they need to start transforming their courses and create a course space that is user-friendly, organized and fun to navigate!
Designing Creative and Engaging Digital Assignments
Date, Time, and Location: Thursday, January 20, 2022, 1:30PM to 3:00PM PT
Presenters: Kailey Baez, Instructional Designer, DTEI; Christine King, Assistant Professor of Teaching, Samueli School of Engineering; Joab Corey, Associate Professor of Teaching, Economics, UC Riverside
This workshop will introduce ways in which you can integrate a variety of digital engagement, productivity, and design tools into your teaching. Ways to create more engaging, reflective, collaborative, and meaningful assignments to enhance students’ learning experience will also be highlighted. In this session, UC faculty across multiple disciplines will showcase innovative teaching ideas that actively engage students in various modes of learning. We will share best practices and strategies on how you can rethink and implement engaging assignments without completely redesigning them. Participants will walk away from this workshop with new ideas and a repository of digital tools in-hand to start enhancing and creating exciting and engaging digital assignments.