Programs, Trainings, and Upcoming Events
| Event | Description | Date / Register |
|---|---|---|
| Creating AI-Enhanced Course Materials | This workshop is designed to help you craft effective prompts for AI-powered tools, enabling the creation of course materials such as lecture notes, presentations, quizzes, and assignments. By learning these techniques, you can save time while providing students with a variety of engaging learning resources. We’ll also go over our four guiding principles for ethical AI usage in the classroom, ensuring that both faculty and students align with our academic integrity standards. Join us to learn how to use AI in a way that enhances teaching and learning while upholding our institutional values. | Date & Time: Monday, September 9th and Friday, September 13th at 2 p.m. Location: The Write Place in Franks Hall Facilitator: Mike McKay Register here. |
| Excel – Advanced Function and Pivot Tables | This session will be a repeat of the May session but should get further as we have more time. | Date & Time: Friday, September 13th at 10 a.m. Location: Main 13 Facilitator: Dr. George Miller Register here. |
| Faculty Success 101 | This is an open Teams session with an overview of how to navigate the Faculty Success site to record your service, scholarship, and teaching accomplishments. Topics covered will include how to create and edit a CV and where to find the Professional Development Plan template. The remainder of the hour will be dedicated to specific questions participants may have. Whether you haven’t used the tool in a while or are brand new, feel free to come at the start of the hour or just pop in with a question. You’ll get a calendar invite with a Teams link when you register. | Date & Time: Tuesday, October 8th at 11 a.m. and 6 p.m. Location: Teams Register here. |
| Enhancing Student Engagement | By learning to craft interactive prompts, faculty can use AI to create dynamic discussions, simulations, and problem-solving scenarios that foster student engagement and critical thinking skills. | Date & Time: Monday, October 21st and Thursday, October 24th at 11 a.m. Location: The Write Place in Franks Hall Facilitator: Mike McKay Register here. |
| Charting in Excel | This session will explain editing and using data to make various charts. It will also cover 3-D referencing and external Referencing. | Date & Time: Wednesday, October 23rd at 2 p.m. Location: Main 13 Facilitator: Dr. George Miller Register here. |
| Taskstream 101 | This is an open Teams session with a brief overview (10 minutes) of where to access Outcomes Assessment assignments in your Moodle shell, how to use Taskstream, and how to use the rubric. The remainder of the hour will be dedicated to specific questions participants may have. Whether you haven’t had an OA course in a while or are brand new, feel free to come at the start of the hour or just pop in with a question. You’ll get a calendar invite with a Teams link when you register. | Date & Time: Thursday, November 7th at 10 a.m. and 6 p.m. Location: Teams Register here. |
| Personalized Learning | Faculty can learn how to develop prompts that generate tailored content based on individual student needs, learning styles, and progress. This can help create a more inclusive and effective learning environment. | Date & Time: Tuesday, November 12th and Friday, November 15th at 10 a.m. Location: The Write Place in Franks Hall Facilitator: Mike McKay Register here. |
| Excel Training | Recording Macros and creating toolbars and groups. | Date & Time: Thursday, November 14th at 3:30 p.m. Location: Main 13 Facilitator: Dr. George Miller Register here. |
| Simple Syllabus 101 | Join this session to learn about the new syllabus tool everyone will be using in Spring 2025. You will learn what sections you can edit and how to do that as well as how you can populate later syllabi with saved information. | Date & Time: Thursday, December 5th at 10 a.m. and 6 p.m. Location: Teams Facilitators: Kerry Jones (10 a.m.) and Michelle Maus (6 p.m.) Register here. |
| Research Assistance | Faculty can learn how to create prompts to generate ideas, summarize articles, analyze data, and even help with drafting research papers, leveraging AI tools for their research projects. | Date & Time: Friday, December 6th at 10 a.m. Location: The Write Place in Franks Hall Facilitator: Mike McKay Register here. |
| Simple Syllabus 101 | Join this session to learn about the new syllabus tool everyone will be using in Spring 2025. You will learn what sections you can edit and how to do that as well as how you can populate later syllabi with saved information. | Date & Time: Tuesday, January 7th at 10 a.m. and 6 p.m. Location: Teams Facilitators: Kerry Jones (10 a.m.) and Michelle Maus (6 p.m.) Register here. |
| Teaching Endorsement – CCU | The Teaching Endorsement in Celebrating CulTUral Uniqueness will empower participants to foster an inclusive environment in the classroom by examining their own course and syllabus design as well as some classroom behaviors. Through videos, readings, and discussions with colleagues, faculty will engage in relevant and new material to ensure that the tangible skills they’ve begun to learn through CCU workshops can be used in the classroom. All participants will leave the course with skills to help them continue to reevaluate their courses to better serve TU students. This is a two-week asynchronous course in Moodle with 1 discussion and 1-2 activities each week. Successful completion will earn you an electronic teaching endorsement from the Center for Faculty Support & Teaching Innovation that you can use as part of your professional portfolio. Participants must have completed the initial CCU full-year training before taking this Teaching Endorsement. | Date & Time: TBD Location: Moodle Facilitator: Dr. Julia Porter Register here. |
| Teaching Endorsement – Tiffin Teaching Reflection Seminar | This Teaching Endorsement in the power of reflection on teaching will use a semi-structured and guided process to reflect on, analyze, and make meaning of the last four semesters of teaching and the feedback we’ve received from our students, colleagues and leadership. The format is based on a research methodology (Little, Caulkins, Kaldor & Wheeler 2021) that includes an iterative process of reflection, analysis, and meaning-making at the individual, paired, and group levels. This is a two-week asynchronous course in Moodle with 1 discussion and 1-2 activities each week. Successful completion will earn you an electronic teaching endorsement from the Center for Faculty Support & Teaching Innovation that you can use as part of your professional portfolio. Faculty completing their second full year at TU are especially invited to participate, but faculty of any level of experience will gain some insights by going through this process. | Date & Time: TBD Location: Moodle Facilitator: Stacey Floyd Register here. |
