Workshops

Creating Accessible Course Materials

Winter 2025:
January 13-FeBruary 16

Accessibility is the key to creating inclusive learning spaces for students with disabilities. This five-week online workshop provides hands-on experience creating accessible course content. You will create an accessible Canvas page, Word document, PowerPoint presentation, and instructional video with captions. You will also explore Ally in Canvas to identify and fix issues.

Learn more and Register: Creating Accessible Course Materials

One-week Accessibility Workshops: Canvas, Documents, PowerPoint

Winter 2025: Multiple Dates

These one-week fully online workshops provide faculty with hands-on experience creating accessible Canvas pages, Word documents, and PowerPoint presentations, in alignment with the CSU Accessible Technology Initiative. If you are interested in all three of the workshops listed below, please consider registering for Creating Accessible Course Materials, which encompasses all three in a 5-week workshop.

Learn more and Register:

• Creating Accessible Canvas Pages
• Creating Accessible Documents
• Creating Accessible PowerPoint

Improving your Canvas Course Accessibility with TidyUP

Winter 2025: Multiple Dates

TidyUP is a content cleanup tool in Canvas that can help you identify and remove outdated or unused documents, images, folders, pages, assignments, and more. This handy tool can help you quickly and efficiently improve your course accessibility! This one-week fully online workshop provides participants with hands-on experience using TidyUP.

Learn more and Register: TidyUP and Ally

Inclusive Course Design: Implementing the UDL Guidelines

Winter 2025:
January 21-February 16

Universal Design for Learning (UDL) Guidelines is a research-based framework educators can use to proactively address the needs of diverse students in ways that benefit everyone. This four-week online workshop provides participants with strategies to apply the principles of UDL to course materials, activities, and assessments to improve learning experiences for all students. 

Learn more and Register: Inclusive Course Design

Artificial Intelligence Buffet

Winter 2025: multiple dates

AI Buffet 1: January 19 - 31
AI Buffet 2: February 9 - 21
AI Buffet 3: March 2 - 14

Are you curious about AI but not sure where to start?

This two-week, self-paced workshop introduces the history of AI (including Generative AI which is in the news right now), a smattering of technology, some ethical considerations, and a whole bunch of interesting applications you can use right away to see what AI is capable of (or not).

The information is presented as a type of buffet, where you can put as much or as little on your plate as you like. We’ll have one optional Zoom discussion per workshop where you can find other diners on their journey to consume AI information as well.

Optional Zoom meetings will take place on Wednesday of the second week of each workshop.

Learn more and Register: AI Buffet

Assignment and Assessment Design to Promote Academic Integrity

winter 2025: January 23-February 13

This workshop builds faculty knowledge about course design factors that enhance student self-efficacy and increase the promotion of academic integrity. Assignment and Assessment Design to Promote Academic Integrity reviews evidence-based teaching strategies for designing or revising course assignments to enhance students' learning, critical thinking, and reflection practices.

The workshop includes support for creating activities and assignments that meet desired course learning outcomes, increase intrinsic motivation, and promote students' honest engagement with learning processes.

Learn more: Assignment and Assessment Design to Promote Academic Integrity

Creating a Blended/Hybrid Course 

Winter 2025

February 16 - March 7

This three-week, fully online and asynchronous (no Zoom sessions) workshop will focus on best practices for revising your online course to be delivered in the blended (hybrid) format, including syllabus updates, course policies, and creating student-centered active learning components to maximize in-person portions of your course. By the end of this workshop, participants will design and complete one modular unit (typically 1 week) of a blended course incorporating best practices for delivery in both the online and in-person sections.

Learn more and Register: Blended/Hybrid Course Workshop

Online and Hybrid Teaching Presentation

Winter 2025: multiple dates

See registration for dates and times

Are you interested in teaching an online or hybrid course but not sure where to start?

This short presentation, offered multiple times throughout Winter of 2025, will help guide you through the resources and pathways available for teaching online or hybrid courses at Cal Poly after the semester conversion. This presentation aims to explain the online course proposal process, CSU Rubric for Quality Teaching, how to obtain certification for quality for both your teaching and your course, and what the CSU Fully Online / CourseMatch program has to offer. 

Learn more and Register: Online and Hybrid Resources Presentation

Building Toward Equity - Racial Equity Workshops

Academic Year 2024-25

The Office for University Diversity and Inclusion (OUDI) and the Center for Teaching, Learning and Technology (CTLT)'s are offering several workshops this quarter as part of the Building Toward Equity faculty development program. This program scaffolds DEI learning to develop faculty awareness, knowledge, and skills around issues related to diversity, equity, and inclusion in teaching and learning. A group of Faculty Associates for DEI in Teaching collectively designed a Racial Equity Series of workshops that are the core element of this program.

Learn more: Building Toward Equity

Examining Whiteness Foundational Series

Winter 2025, January 23- February 27

Faculty and staff are invited to sign up for "Examining Whiteness,” a program inspired by Building Anti-Racist White Educators (BARWE). The Examining Whiteness foundational series is designed as a first step for White educators toward engaging in critical reflection on Whiteness and working toward antiracism.  

Learn more and register: Examining Whiteness

Intro to Equitable and Inclusive Teaching

Next Offered Spring 2025

Introduction to Equitable and Inclusive Teaching introduces faculty to evidence-based teaching strategies for equity and inclusion, supports faculty in developing an inclusive course climate, encourages faculty to reflect on the impacts of social identities in higher education teaching and learning environments, and supports faculty in further developing an equitable and inclusive teaching lens. Participating in this program is a way for you to contribute in concrete and powerful ways to our goals of making Cal Poly more equitable and inclusive. 

Learn more and Register: Intro to Equitable and Inclusive Teaching

Cultivating Connections: Part Two

Part Two: Integrating Indigenous Perspectives into Sustainability Curricula, Friday January 24 and 31, 2025 12-1:30 

This two-part workshop series extends an invitation to faculty members from all disciplines who are keen on deepening their comprehension regarding Native Nations. It aims to equip participants with the necessary awareness and tools to engage with Tribal communities equitably and effectively, while also exploring the Indigenous underpinnings of contemporary sustainability practices and knowledge.

Learn more and register: Cultivating Connections Part Two

Half-day Faculty Writers' Sprints

Academic Year 2024-2025

Fall 2024: December 10-12

Winter 2025: March 18-20

Spring 2025: June 10-12

These 3-day session of half-day faculty writers' sprints are designed to help faculty make progress on their scholarly writing. The group meets daily from 9 am to 12 pm with facilitator Dr. Dianna Winslow, CTLT Assistant Director and Writing Instruction Specialist.

Each day there will be group check-ins to start and end the day, concentrated writing time, and plenty of snacks and coffee to keep the momentum going.

Dianna will offer one-on-one consultations as requested, and help form "buddy groups" for post-sprint encouragement if desired. Tara Gray's Publish and Flourish book and other occasional resources shape daily discussions about the writing and research process. The newest edition of Gray's book will be provided to you free of charge by the CTLT once you enroll in the group.

Register for Academic Year 2024-2025 Half-day Faculty Writers' Sprints

Writing in the Disciplines

next offering, tbd

This workshop is offered in partnership with the Office of Writing and Learning Initiatives and is designed to create space for faculty to explore how writing operates within their disciplines and to develop writing learning outcomes for their courses.  

Writing In the Disciplines provides evidence-based teaching strategies for using writing to enhance students' learning, critical thinking, and written communication practices.

This workshop aligns with campus efforts to expand Graduation Writing Requirement (GWR) courses across the curriculum and includes information on the GWR course proposal process.

Learn more: Writing in the Disciplines

Developing clear learning objectives is a fundamental element of effective course design, yet not all instructors have had the opportunity to learn to write effective and measurable learning objectives. This self-paced module provides guidance and instructions for those who are new to writing learning objectives, and those who may wish to review and revise current objectives.

Self-enroll: Creating Effective Learning Objectives

The OER Faculty Roadmap is a self-paced online Canvas module designed to help faculty explore, create, optimize, and maintain Open Educational Resources (OER) for their courses.

Self-enroll: OER Faculty Roadmap

Self-paced Accessibility Modules

Always available

Accessibility is an essential part of course design and ensures that all students have equitable access to learning. Select any of the links below to self-enroll in an online module to learn how to create accessible course content.

• Creating Accessible Canvas Content
• Creating Accessible Documents
• Creating Accessible PowerPoint
• Creating Accessible Video

Canvas Webinar Recordings & Self-Paced Courses

Always available

We provide live webinars and share recording links on the Canvas Workshop and Events page. Please check out the page for items, such as:

• Introduction to Canvas 
• Using Templates
• Creating Content
• Gradebook Setup 
• Secure Exams

Self-Paced Online Courses

• Cal Poly Canvas Orientation
• Launching a Course Online with Canvas

The CTLT hosts book circles every academic quarter and during summers. They are open to all Cal Poly educators. Selected books draw from a broad array of thoughtful and inspiring educational literature. 

Learn more and register: CTLT Book Circles