Faculty Learning Hub

Are you looking to create the best assessment experience possible for your students? Designing supportive, engaging and authentic assessments for students is a critical component of curriculum design. Join this workshop to learn more about the important considerations for assessment development across a semester, including how best to ensure cultural relevance, adequate scaffolding, formative feedback and meaningful practice opportunities are...

Enhance teaching presence in your courses by including an effective welcome video. Practice using some of the functionality of video creation tools and practice creating a video. Learn how to change the permissions structure of the video, to allow it to be viewed in any course you post it to. Register Here 

What does it mean to learn online? What are strategies for designing an online course? In this workshop, we aim to help you answer these questions and consider what an online learning community can look like in your upcoming online course. Register for this workshop here.

In this workshop, you will learn how you can incorporate OneDrive and Office365 collaborative documents into learning activities. We will explore how OneDrive can act as a collaborative space for your students to make and track their contributions, and give feedback to shared work using comments. We will demonstrate how you can share documents and organize collaborative working spaces for...

Together, we will examine two changes to Conestoga's Evaluation of Student Learning Policy pertaining to the number and value of assessments in a course. With the spring course outline review process in mind, we will consider strategies for revising assessments to meet these new guidelines while promoting effective assessment strategies. Register Here

In this session, we explore ways to deliver interactive lessons that engage students and support learning using some features of Zoom best suited for teaching and learning. Learn tips and strategies for sharing Zoom links in eConestoga, pulling attendance lists, annotating and demonstrating on shared screens, supporting and monitoring breakout room, and recording your Zoon session. Register Here 

Join this workshop to explore best practices for maintaining your eCoenstoga model course shells. This workshop will cover the technical considerations of the Dynamic Instructional Plan Tool, Interpreting the Essential Elements Scanner, preparing shells as part of the Course Readiness Project and pedagogical approaches to keep your course shells up-to-date, engaging, and effective. Register for this workshop here.

So you have been asked to develop a course! Join a Curriculum Consultant and a Teaching and Learning consultant to explore the necessary elements for a great course. The session will introduce course learning outcomes as well as the overall role of the course outline and its relationship to program standards. Considerations for planning lessons, assessments, and rubrics that other...

In this workshop, participants will receive an overview of intercultural teaching strategies and frameworks to support teaching international students. We will discuss the application of these strategies to a) getting to know international student learning needs, b) building a sense of belonging in a diverse classroom community, and c) ensuring materials are presented with an intercultural communication lens. We will...

Join this workshop to transform classroom dynamics with impactful strategies for the first three weeks and discover how to unleash your students' potential through dynamic teaching methods that foster engagement and build solid foundations. This workshop equips faculty with innovative techniques to set clear expectations, implement effective assessments, and establish meaningful connections with students. You will also learn to utilize...

You got an accommodation letter, and you’re sweating bullets. Will you be sued? Do you know what to do next? What if you mess up? What do accommodations mean for your work, anyway? Come to this workshop to learn about your obligations in the accommodation process, and get your questions directly answered by staff in Accessible Learning—your allies in the...

As educators, we are often tasked with creating or modifying PowerPoint Presentations, either inherited from someone else or slides that you are creating from scratch. This workshop focuses on technological tips and best-practices for effectively creating or editing slides to suit your own teaching style and to comply with accessibility requirements. Topics discussed include. copywriting, slide layout, accessible design, and...

A long-requested eConestoga feature is finally available: the ability to attach and use Rubrics within the eConestoga Quiz tool. In this workshop, we will explore the styles of questions that can be enhanced through the use of rubrics, as well as how those rubric designs should differ from those already found in assignments. You will walk away with examples and...

Looking for ways to boost participation and engagement in your courses? Welcome to this interactive, introductory level webinar about Mentimeter! Hosted by the Mentimeter team in collaboration with Teaching and Learning, this session will go through the basics of Mentimeter and walk you through using this interactive polling tool in any teaching mode. These dynamic questions will help increase interaction...