Events for Faculty and Instructional Staff
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Spring 2026 Teaching Workshops
CATLOE's teaching workshops and benchwork sessions are highly interactive. They replicate active learning so you can experience what it might be like to use evidence-based strategies, methods, or techniques in your own classrooms. All of our events provide guided support for implementing what you’ve learned in your teaching.
Developing an AI Policy for Your Course: A Benchwork Session
Friday, January 9, 11:30 - 1:00 pm
Zoom
Registration deadline: January 5
A CATLOE benchwork session is an opportunity to dive into work on a specific aspect of your teaching and make some immediate high-impact changes.
We invite you to join us for this session to develop pedagogically sound strategies for communicating with students about AI and your course. Before the benchwork session, you will complete a pre-workshop guide that includes series of guided preparatory steps to help you determine whether AI has a role in students’ learning in your course. At the benchwork session, you will learn ways to persuasively communicate your decisions about whether students will or won’t use AI in your course.
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Having a Conversation with Your Students about AI: A Benchwork Session
Friday, January 16, 11:30 am – 1:00 pm
Zoom
Registration deadline: January 14
A CATLOE benchwork session is an opportunity to dive into work on a specific aspect of your teaching and make some immediate high-impact changes.
We invite you to join us for this session to plan and structure a motivating conversation with your students about AI. As instructors, we continue to have discussions about the role of AI in student learning, but it can be easy to forget that our students also need to be invited into a productive conversation about AI in every course they take. If we don’t talk with students about generative AI, how it works, and how it affects learning, they will be left adrift and are more likely to use AI in ways that short circuit their own learning.
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Discourage Students from Cheating with AI on Assessments: A Benchwork Session
Thursday, January 29, 1:30 – 3:00 pm
Zoom
Registration deadline: January 27
A CATLOE benchwork session is an opportunity to dive into work on a specific aspect of your teaching and make some immediate high-impact changes.
We invite you to join us for this session and bring in an assessment for a course you are currently teaching. You will work through a set of guided steps to help you make small changes that will discourage cheating with AI and prevent students from short-circuiting their learning!
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Helping Students Use Generative AI to Support their Learning: A Benchwork Session
Wednesday, February 4, 1:00 – 2:30 pm
Zoom
Registration deadline: February 2
A CATLOE benchwork session is an opportunity to dive into work on a specific aspect of your teaching and make some immediate high-impact changes.
We invite you to join us for this session to develop pedagogically sound strategies to help students use generative AI tools to support their learning in your courses. You will work through a series of guided steps to explore key strategies for designing activities and assignments that incorporate productive and thoughtful use of artificial intelligence.
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Introduction to Generative AI: A Working Session for Beginners
Friday, February 13, 10:00 - 11:30 am
Zoom
Registration deadline: February 11
A CATLOE working session is an opportunity to experience a specific pedagogical approach or tool with an eye to considering how it might be useful to you and your students.
We invite you to join us for this session to learn how instructors and students can access and use Generative AI interfaces that are readily available to them. If you haven’t previously played much (or at all) with Microsoft Copilot or ChatGPT, this working session is for you! We will cover the basics, such as accessing these platforms, prompt writing, and file sharing with AI.
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Teaching with Technology Workshops
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Accessibility Week - January 5-9, 2026
Locating Accessible Course Materials
Monday, January 5, 10:00 – 11:15 am, Zoom
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Accessible Brightspace Content
Monday, January 5, 1:00 – 2:15pm, Zoom
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Accessible Word Documents
Monday, January 5, 7:00 – 8:15 pm, Zoom
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Accessible Powerpoints
Tuesday, January 6, 10:00 - 11:15 am, Zoom
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Locating Accessible Course Materials
Tuesday, January 6, 1:00 - 2:15 pm, Zoom
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Accessible Brightspace Content
Tuesday, January 6, 7:00 - 8:15 pm, Zoom
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Accessible Word Documents
Wednesday, January 7, 10:00 - 11:15 am, Zoom
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Accessible Multimedia Content
Wednesday, January 7, 1:00 - 2:15 pm, Zoom
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Locating Accessible Course Materials
Wednesday, January 7, 7:00 - 8:15 pm, Zoom
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Accessible Multimedia Content
Thursday, January 8, 10:00 - 11:15 am, Zoom
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Accessible Word Documents
Thursday, January 8, 1:00 - 2:15 pm, Zoom
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Accessible Powerpoints
Thursday, January 8, 7:00 - 8:15 pm, Zoom
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Accessible Brightspace Content
Friday, January 9, 10:00 - 11:15 am, Zoom
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Accessible Powerpoints
Friday, January 9, 1:00 - 2:15 pm, Zoom
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Accessible Multimedia Content
Monday, January 12, 7:00 - 8:15 pm, Zoom
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Brightspace Training Webinars
For quick, focused how-to's to use Brightspace, please visit our collection of Brightspace Training Videos.
Introduction to Brightspace
Monday, January 12, 10:00 - 11:15 am, Zoom
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Brightspace Assignments
Tuesday, January 13, 10:00 - 11:15 am, Zoom
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Introduction to Brightspace
Tuesday, January 13, 7:00 - 8:15 pm, Zoom
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Organizing your Brightspace Course Effectively
Wednesday, January 14, 10:00 - 11:15 am, Zoom
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Brightspace Discussions
Wednesday, January 14, 7:00 - 8:15 pm, Zoom
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Brightspace Quizzes
Thursday, January 15, 10:00 - 11:15 am, Zoom
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Brightspace Assignments
Thursday, January 15, 7:00 - 8:15 pm , Zoom
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Brightspace Discussions
Friday, January 16, 10:00 - 11:15 am, Zoom
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Brightspace Quizzes
Tuesday, January 20, 7:00 - 8:15 pm, Zoom
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Brightspace Gradebook
Wednesday, January 21, 10:00 - 11:15 am, Zoom
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Organizing your Brightspace Course Effectively
Wednesday, January 21, 7:00 - 8:15 pm, Zoom
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Brightspace Gradebook
Thursday, January 22, 7:00 - 8:15 pm
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Vendor Demos and Training
Workshops for Graduate Students
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Academic Job Market Workshops
The academic job market is more competitive than ever, and prospective candidates must think carefully about how they present themselves both in their written materials and in interview situations. In this six-part series, you will learn the secrets of how to prepare a CV, cover letter, and teaching statement that will get you noticed. You will also learn how to prepare for interviews, how to prepare a teaching demonstration, and how to prepare your “job talk” (the overview of your research required for most searches). This series of short, high-impact workshops will provide you with the resources and support you need as you prepare to apply for faculty positions. Graduate students in all stages are encouraged to participate; however, these workshops are most effective when taken in advance of the job search process, ideally at least a year before entering the academic job market.
Please note that all academic job market workshops for graduate students were held in Fall 2025. There will be no workshops offered in Spring 2026. Please visit our Resources for Graduate Students or request a consultation for support with preparing for the academic job market.