Faculty Prep Week • January 6 –10, 2025
The Center for Integrated Professional Development is ready to help you teach this next semester. In addition to the workshops below, check out our many Teaching Resources.
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Maker Day Workshops
In this new series from the Online Education team at the Center for Integrated Professional Development, Maker Days are a space where instructors can work independently and collaboratively to discuss topics related to teaching and develop artifacts that can be used in their courses.
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Midterm Chats - Spring 2025
What your students are really thinking?
Midterm Chats for both face-to-face and synchronous online courses are available from Monday, February 10 through Friday, March 21.
Technology Courses
Creating and Grading Quizzes in Canvas
Register for this session by Wednesday, February 26
Synchronous session:
Thursday, February 27 • 2 p.m. to 3 p.m.
Online
The Canvas Quiz tool is a great way to offer assessments, surveys, and practice quizzes to your students. In this workshop, we will review the differences between Classic Quizzes and New Quizzes, the two quiz engines offered in Canvas. However, because New Quizzes is still in development, we will focus on Classic Quizzes: creating a quiz with different question types, creating question banks, moderating a quiz, and grading a quiz using SpeedGrader. We’ll also talk about adding a quiz to an assignment group in order to set rules to drop lowest grades, etc. Registration is required.
Facilitator:
Allison Hauser, Center for Integrated Professional Development
Create Videos Within Canvas
Register for this session by Thursday, March 6
Synchronous session:
Friday, March 7 • 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.
Online
You do not have to be a video production specialist to incorporate video into your Canvas courses. Import videos from your computer or record video from your webcam or screen capture—quickly and easily. All videos will be automatically closed-captioned. You can record videos once and embed them into multiple courses for teaching, assignments, assessment, and feedback. You can also see how long each of your students has watched your videos. You will also learn how to easily edit your videos and share them with users inside and outside of ISU. Registration is required.
Facilitator:
Tony Piña, Center for Integrated Professional Development
Greg Maier, Center for Integrated Professional Development
Engage Your Students with Instructor Video
Register for this session by Thursday, March 13
Synchronous session:
Friday, March 14 • 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.
Online
Students report that courses which incorporate instructor videos into their Canvas courses are much more engaging and effective than those containing only text and still images. In this workshop, you will learn how to build interactivity into your videos by inserting hyperlinks and test questions--turning videos into graded assignments. You can also create assignments where students can record videos within Canvas and submit them as gradable assignments in Canvas SpeedGrader. You can also create video-based discussion boards. This workshop assumes that you have attended the “Create Video Within Canvas” workshop or have used Canvas Studio. Registration is required.
Facilitator:
Tony Piña, Center for Integrated Professional Development
Greg Maier, Center for Integrated Professional Development
Workshops
Maker Day: Let's Class Prep
Register by:
Wednesday, January 8
Synchronous sessions:
Thursday, January 9 • 9 a.m. to 12 p.m.
Location:
Williams 325
In this new series from the Online Education team at the Center for Integrated Professional Development, Maker Days are a space where instructors can work independently and collaboratively to discuss topics related to teaching and develop artifacts that can be used in their courses. Staff will be available throughout to answer questions, brainstorm, and guide the session with brief lectures on specific, timely subjects. Each Maker Day will focus on a chosen theme with three subtopics that guide and focus the artifacts that you may choose to work on. While we encourage you to come for the entire 3 hours, you may also drop in as interested. Bring a laptop and course materials you'd like to work on!
Maker Day: Let's Class Prep focuses on getting your course prepped for the upcoming semester. The first hour will focus on crafting course goals that promote student wellness and wellbeing. The second hour will focus on best practices for building modules to scaffold and chunk content. The final hour will focus on creating equitable and accessible assignments. Artifacts that can be drafted during this Maker Day include: syllabus policies, assignment sheets, modules maps, welcome announcements, grading policies, etc. Registration is required.
Facilitator:
Allison Hauser, Center for Integrated Professional Development
Addy Lamb, Center for Integrated Professional Development
Zero to Hero: AI
Synchronous sessions:
Thursday, January 9 • 1 p.m. to 3 p.m.
Location:
Julian Hall 133
Zero to Hero: AI is a hands-on introduction to generative AI designed for faculty and staff who have questions, concerns, or simply don’t know where to begin. This session provides a safe space to explore, demystify, and engage with tools like ChatGPT and Microsoft Copilot. Whether you're curious, skeptical, or eager to learn, this workshop will help you build confidence and discover practical applications for AI in your academic or administrative work. No registration needed.
Offered in partnership with the Office of Technology Solutions
Facilitator:
Kristen Carlson, Office of the Provost
David Giovagnoli, Center for Integrated Professional Development
Allison Hauser, Center for Integrated Professional Development