Center for Innovation in Teaching & Learning

The Center for Innovation in Teaching & Learning is dedicated to promoting, enhancing, and assessing teaching effectiveness and student learning. In addition to the events listed below, we are always available for individual consultations or workshops designed specifically for your department or college.  


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**Many workshops can be applied towards the CITL teaching certificates.  Learn more about our teaching certificates.

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Monday, November 10, 2025

  • Innovation Studio Open Hours
    Recurring

    12:00 - 4:00 pm
    Innovation Studio, Rm 172, Armory Building

    Come visit Center for Innovation in Teaching & Learning at Illinois Innovation Studio between Noon and 4 p.m. on Mondays and Tuesdays in the Armory building room 172. You will be able to interact with generative AI and virtual reality (VR), create a gift with a 3D printer or laser cutter, and interact with our new digital resources.

  • Quick Start Workshop: Make Your Canvas Courses Accessible

    1:00 - 2:00 pm

    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.

Tuesday, November 11, 2025

  • Hands-on Introduction to Generative AI

    12:00 - 1:30 pm

    This workshop gives participants a grounded, practical understanding of generative AI. Through a series hands-on exercises participants will explore how these tools generate responses, where their limits show up, and how to use them creatively without overestimating their abilities.

  • Innovation Studio Open Hours
    Recurring

    12:00 - 4:00 pm
    Innovation Studio, Rm 172, Armory Building

    Come visit Center for Innovation in Teaching & Learning at Illinois Innovation Studio between Noon and 4 p.m. on Mondays and Tuesdays in the Armory building room 172. You will be able to interact with generative AI and virtual reality (VR), create a gift with a 3D printer or laser cutter, and interact with our new digital resources.

  • Quick Start Workshop: Make Your PDF Documents Accessible, Part 1

    3:00 - 4:00 pm

    Get up to speed quickly on the basics of making PDF documents accessible for all while meeting state and federal accessibility standards. For hands-on participation, you will need Adobe Acrobat Pro (not Acrobat Reader). U of I, UIS, and UIC faculty and staff can obtain Acrobat Pro free from the U of I Webstore: https://webstore.illinois.edu/shop/product.aspx?zpid=6065

Wednesday, November 12, 2025

  • Quick Start Workshop: Using the Pope Tech Accessibility Tool

    10:00 - 11:00 am

    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.

Thursday, November 13, 2025

Subscribe to our newsletters to stay informed about new workshops, events, and presentations at CITL, 

receive our bi-weekly CITL and our monthly Gen AI newsletters.