As part of OIA’s mission to build capacity for excellent teaching on our campus, we offer a wide variety of workshops, seminars and facilitated online mini-courses to individuals who teach for the UA.
All of our professional development offerings incorporate Universal Design principles. Registration for these offerings includes space for participants to request any disability-related accommodations that will facilitate their full participation, such as ASL interpreting, captioned videos, Braille or electronic text. Please use the Contact Us link to ask any other questions about the accessibility of our offerings.
Just-in-Time Workshops
These workshops are designed to address topics that are high priority for instructors as they prepare for the start of the fall semester. They are open to any UA instructors, including TAs.
If you encounter any issues when trying to register for any of the sessions, email Garry Forger and indicate which session you are registering for and the error message that you received.
| Date & TIme | Just-in-Time Workshops (PDF Flyer with schedule) |
|---|---|
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Thursday August 9, 2018 |
How Can I Use Panopto Effectively? |
| August 9, 2018 9:30-11:30 am |
How Can I Build a Useful Syllabus in D2L Brightspace? |
| August 9, 2018 1:00-3:00 pm |
How Do I Set Up Grades in D2L Brightspace? |
| August 9, 2018 1:00-3:00 pm |
How Can I Use D2L Brightspace Page Templates? |
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Friday August 10, 2018 |
(OIA Open House from 8:30 am to 9:30 am in the OIA lobby. Refreshments will be served, come meet and greet the OIA staff.) How Can I Use Clickers Effectively? |
| August 10, 2018 9:30-11:30 am |
What Do Instructors Need to Know About General Education Requirements & Best Practices? |
| August 10, 2018 9:30-11:30 am |
What Do Instructors New to D2L Brightspace Need to Know? Access the Webinar at : https://arizona.zoom.us/j/630569488 |
| August 10, 2018 1:00-3:00 pm |
How Can I Build Community in my Course Using D2L Brightspace? |
| August 10, 2018 1:00-3:00 pm |
What Do TAs Need to Know About D2L Brightspace? |
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Monday August 13, 2018 |
How Can I Use Zoom Effectively? |
| August 13, 2018 9:30-11:30 am |
How Can I Use D2L Brightspace to Make My Course More Inclusive? |
| August 13, 2018 1:00-3:00 pm |
How Can We Teach Students About Plagiarism? |
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Thursday August 16, 2018 |
What Do TAs Need to Know About D2L Brightspace? |
| August 16, 2018 1:00-3:00 pm |
(OIA Open House from 11:30 am to 1:00 pm in the OIA lobby. Refreshments will be served, come meet and greet the OIA staff.) How Can I Manage Content in D2L Brightspace to Help Students Stay Organized? |
| August 16, 2018 1:00-3:00 pm |
What Do Instructors New to D2L Brightspace Need to Know? (the same content as August 10 Webinar) |
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Current Schedule of Workshops & Classes
There are no workshops currently scheduled. Please check back closer to the start of the fall 2018 semester.
Mini-Courses
The 2018 mini-courses that have already occurred will be offered at roughly the same days in 2019.
(Expect to spend about an hour a day on content for these online mini-courses. There will most likely be some synchronous meeting components, but most of the work for these will be at your own pace.)
| Date | Fully Online Mini-Courses |
|---|---|
| January 3-5 & 8-9, 2018 |
Course-Level Assessment |
| January 3-5 & 8-9, 2018 |
Effective Online Discussions |
| January 3-5 & 8-9, 2018 |
Teaching a Large Online Course |
| February 19-23, 2018 |
Building Communities in Online Courses |
| March 5-16, 2018 | Introduction to Teaching Online
In this 14-day mini-course, participants will experience taking an online course while learning about methods, tools, and best practices for teaching hybrid and fully online courses. |
| May 14-25, 2018 |
Introduction to Teaching Online |
| May 29-June 2, 2018 | Exploring VoiceThread
Participants in this five-day, fully online, mini-course will examine, play with, discuss and conceptualize uses of VoiceThread for instruction, storytelling, scenario-based learning, interactive content, community building, assessment and more. A computer or mobile device with a camera and microphone is required. |
| June 11-29, 2018 |
Collaborative Learning |
| July 23-August 6, 2018 | Course Development
This 14-day online mini-course introduces tools and best practices for effective course design, applicable both to creating new courses and revising existing ones, be it from in-person to online formats, or from a 16-week schedule to an accelerated one. |
| August 6-10, 2018 | Re-Imagining Slides This five-day mini-course will invite participants to dust off those text heavy, bullet-point-laden lecture slides and re-imagine the power and purpose of what is projected on a screen. |
| August 13-17, 2018 |
Course-Level Assessment |
| August 13-17, 2018 |
Effective Online Discussions |
| August 13-17, 2018 |
Teaching a Large Online Course |
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September 10-14 and 26, 2018 |
Designing Effective Writing Assignments and Rubrics (fully online with D2L) Register |
| September 24-28, 2018 | Building Communities in Online Courses Register Participants in this fully online five-day mini-course will conceptualize community in online environments while exploring tools, techniques, and activities that support student-to-student and student-to-instructor connectedness. |
| October 8-19, 2018 | Introduction to Teaching Online Register In this 14-day mini-course, participants will experience taking an online course while learning about methods, tools, and best practices for teaching hybrid and fully online courses. |
Self Paced Tutorials
The OIA offers several online, self paced tutorials that are available through D2L. A list of available tutorials and descriptions, along with enrollment instructions, are available at this Tutorials page.
Catalog of Workshops
Provided here is a list of workshops that OIA has facilitated in the past. This list provides examples of the range of workshops we offer, but is by no means an exhaustive list. To request that OIA offer one of these workshops again, or to request a workshop on a topic not listed here use the Contact form.
Assessment
- Classroom Assessment Techniques
- Creating Effective Multiple Choice Questions
- How Can I Grade Assignments and Give Useful Feedback?
- How Can I Use Rubrics Effectively?
- How Do I Know What My Students Are Learning?
- Building Program Assessment Plans
Classroom Management
- How Can I get My Class off to a Good Start?
- Cooperative Learning
- Discussions in Large Classroom Settings
- Classroom Management Strategies for Large Classrooms
- Inclusive Classrooms
Writing
- Feedback to Students on Writing Assignments
- Incorporating Informal Writing Opportunities
- Providing Constructive Feedback on Student Writing
D2L
- D2L: What’s New
- D2L Integrations: Additional Items for the Tool Kits
- D2L Tools and Functions
- The Library Tab in D2L
- How Can I Build a Useful Syllabus in D2L?
- How Can I Manage Content to Help Students Stay Organized?
- How Can I Use D2L to Get My Class Off to a Good Start?
- How Can I Use D2L to Make my Course More Inclusive?
- How Can I Use D2L Page Templates?
- How Can I Use the D2L Gradebook Effectively?
- What Do TAs Need to Know About D2L?
- How Can I Use D2L to Manage Large Classes?
Instructional Technologies
- Clickers: Real Time Interactive Classroom Feedback
- How Can I Use Clickers Effectively?
- Zoom
- Panopto: How Can I Use Panopto Effectively?
- VoiceThread
- Effective Use of Multimedia Instruction
- Emerging Technologies
- Tweetchat: What is it and How to Use it For Teaching
Teaching Online
- Learner Centered Education and Online Classes
- Teaching Online vs Face-to-Face