Events for Faculty and Instructional Staff
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Teaching and AI 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.
Introduction to Generative AI: A Working Session for Beginners
Thursday, October 1, 11:30 am – 1:00 pm
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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Online Teaching Workshops
We will be announcing our spring workshop schedule soon. In the meantime, we invite you to view recordings of our recent online teaching events.
View recording of Building a Student-Friendly Brightspace Site from August 2026 (Requires UAlbany credentials)
Teaching with Technology Workshops
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Brightspace Training Webinars
There are no more Brightspace webinars scheduled for Fall 2026. For quick how-to's, please visit our collection of Brightspace Training Videos.
External Vendor Workshops
Using VoiceThread in D2L Brightspace: Part 1- non-graded uses
Tuesday, September 29, 1:00 - 2:00 pm, Zoom
This is for people who use VoiceThread in Brightspace. In this hands-on workshop, you will get to practice creating the two basic non-graded links: VT Home and Individual VT. We will review examples of non-graded uses like lecture delivery, discussion boards, class introductions, syllabus review, and virtual office hours.
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Thinking Out Loud with VoiceThread: Assessment That Can't Be Faked
Tuesday, October 6, 1:00 - 2:00 pm, Zoom
In this workshop, we’ll explore how VoiceThread can bring some of the best parts of an oral exam into an asynchronous, scalable format. Faculty are turning to oral assessment to get beyond AI-generated work and hear how students actually think. The challenges are time and scale. With VoiceThread, students can record themselves working through a problem, explaining their thinking, and responding to follow-up questions from peers or instructors.
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Using VoiceThread in D2L Brightspace: Part 2- Graded Assignments and Rubrics
Tuesday, October 20, 1:00 - 2:00 pm, Zoom
This is for people who use VoiceThread in Brightspace. In this hands-on workshop, you will get to practice creating assignments through VoiceThread's Assignment Builder. We will work on the new "Stacked Assignments", along with the standard Create and Comment assignments. You will see how students submit assignments, and we will review the Instructor's grading interface, including the new rubric interface.
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VoiceThread Accessibility and Universal Design for Learning (UDL)
Tuesday, October 27, 1:00 - 2:00 pm, Zoom
Participants will learn how VoiceThread can help educators provide multiple means of engagement, representation, action and expression for their courses. We will review all of VoiceThread’s accessibility features, including: closed captioning, automatic alt-text, video comments for ASL, and more.
Accessibility
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Accessibility Webinars
Our accessibility webinar series for Fall 2026 has concluded. Please visit the Accessibility section of our Teaching Resources page or our collection of short Accessibility Training Videos for additional information about accessible course materials.
Workshops for Graduate Students
Academic Job Market Workshops
Making a Strong Impression in Interviews
Thursday, September 17, 10:30 am – 12:00 noon, Zoom
If you’re getting ready for the academic job market or you’re on it, you need to get ready for interviews! In this interactive workshop, you’ll learn about the different purposes of interviews and the best ways to prepare for them. You’ll leave with a clearer sense of what to expect during interviews, how to avoid potential pitfalls, and how to come across as the calm, collected professional they are looking for. You’ll also get key tips on managing the Zoom platform during screening interviews. You will have an opportunity to begin planning for the interview and be invited to work further on your interview skills and strategies with a CATLOE consultant.
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Powerful Teaching Demonstrations
Wednesday, September 23, 1:00 – 2:30 pm
Whether you’re applying for a teaching-focused or a research-focused faculty position, you will be required to demonstrate your teaching ability during the on-campus or extended interview. Don’t wait to prepare! This interactive workshop will help you make good decisions based on the context of the demonstrations you may be asked to do and give you some ideas of how to best communicate your teaching skills in this high-pressure situation. You will have an opportunity to begin planning for the teaching demonstration and be invited to work further on the demonstration with a CATLOE consultant.
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Secrets of an Excellent Job Talk
Monday, September 28, 2:00 – 3:30 pm
Whether you are interviewing for a position that focuses on teaching or research, you are likely going to be asked to give the “job talk,” where you share your research with the search committee and other attendees. But what are you really being asked to do when you give the job talk? If you don’t know the secrets of the job talk, you risk confusing or boring your audience during this crucial part of the on-campus or extended interview. In this interactive workshop you’ll learn how to create a job talk that impresses the audience and communicates more than just your research. You will have an opportunity to begin planning for the job talk and be invited to work further on the job talk with a CATLOE consultant.