Seminars of Interest

Looking to enhance your online course design? Join us for an engaging session where you'll discover how the Quality Matters (QM) rubric and resources can help you transform your online and hybrid courses. QM provides a rich set of tools and resources to guide you through improving online course quality and optimizing students' learning experiences.

Emotional Baggage Claim: Unpacking Your Feelings

MIC is a safe space where you can share your experiences, concerns and questions while evaluating your cannabis habits, and learning strategies for low-risk use.

"Reflect on what you're learning" is a hopeful but difficult prompt for students and instructors. In this workshop, two scholars and instructors from the clinical-community psychology department will introduce a simple framework for engaging in reflection assignments and broader reflexive practice, playfully called “SpORE" (Specific Observation, Reaction, Expansion).

RIO is a two-part program that teaches students techniques for recognizing and moving past situations that cause stress, frustration, and anxiety.

This workshop is designed to assist students with questions about everyday social situations and make them feel more comfortable interacting with others to meet their needs.

Train your own LLM and deploy it as a Teaching Assistant and link it with Canvas.  Set it up as a trustworthy tutor that provides instruction, yet does not give away answers to homework problems.  Have it assist you with literature review. This workshop will showcase the creation process of a custom LLM for classroom purposes with Illinois.chat.

CAAP is an in-person, safe space where you can share your experiences, concerns, and questions about alcohol while learning strategies for low-risk drinking.

Learn the accessibility requirements for making your Canvas courses accessible. This hands-on workshop will cover using the Canvas editor to create navigable pages, writing effective alt text description for images, charts, and graphs, ensuring readable color contrast, creating accessible tables and links, and using Canvas accessibility tools to fix common issues.

Procrastination Station: All Aboard the Time Management Train

RIO is a two-part program that teaches students techniques for recognizing and moving past situations that cause stress, frustration, and anxiety.

This two-part program helps students realize when perfectionism is more harmful than good and develop more realistic expectations.

Teaching presence strongly impacts the way students build their knowledge in your course. In this session, you will learn how to strategically apply your teaching presence to the critical roles you have as a Teaching Assistant and gain insights from outstanding faculty here at Illinois.

Get up to speed on using the Pope Tech Canvas Accessibility Guide to make Canvas pages more accessible for everyone! In this hands-on workshop, we’ll start with an overview of the Pope Tech Canvas Accessibility Guide, how it functions, what the various errors, alerts, structural elements, and features mean, and how to fix these issues on a Canvas page.

A workshop that provides strategies that can help with test anxiety.

CAAP is an in-person, safe space where you can share your experiences, concerns, and questions about alcohol while learning strategies for low-risk drinking.

Turning the Page: Embracing New Chapters After Relationship Loss

This workshop is a body acceptance-based program designed to help students feel better about their bodies as we directly discuss the impact of diversity within cultural appearance ideals.

Learn the accessibility requirements for making your Moodle courses accessible. This hands-on workshop covers creating accessible navigation, headings, tables, lists, and hyperlinks, how to write alt text for images, generate and edit video captions, as well as the advantages (and limitations) of using Moodle’s accessibility checker and screen reader helper.

Learn to craft competitive statements for Fulbright US Student Study/Research Awards.

Feeling burnt out and looking for resources? Attend a BYOB workshop!

This hands-on workshop will help you integrate Audio Description (AD) into your workflow, making visual content accessible from the start rather than as a post-production fix. You'll learn to replace vague cues like “As you can see here” with rich, meaningful descriptions that enhance accessibility and reduce technical hurdles.

Finding Balance: Where Work Ends and Life Begins

CAAP is an in-person, safe space where you can share your experiences, concerns, and questions about alcohol while learning strategies for low-risk drinking.

RIO is a two-part program that teaches students techniques for recognizing and moving past situations that cause stress, frustration, and anxiety.

Get up to speed quickly on making your MS Excel spreadsheets accessible for everyone! In this hands-on workshop, we'll work together, hands-on, with practical strategies for naming tables, labeling header cells and workbook titles and sheets, creating accessible links, and working with colors and color testing tools.

RIO is a two-part program that teaches students techniques for recognizing and moving past situations that cause stress, frustration, and anxiety.

A workshop that provides strategies that can help with test anxiety.

CAAP is an in-person, safe space where you can share your experiences, concerns, and questions about alcohol while learning strategies for low-risk drinking.

Documents must be proactively accessible for all students. This hands-on workshop will cover what to look for and several tools to help you find and fix issues. You’ll learn how to scan multiple document types for accessibility issues and remediate them.

Under Pressure: Navigating the (Stress of) Post-Grad Future