With Generative AI now widely available, it can feel like only a matter of time before you encounter an AI-created assignment submission. During this session, we will review assignments that are more likely to encourage meaningful student engagement, as well as strategies for responding when students rely on AI in ways that undermine learning. Join us for a conversation around authentic assessment. https://umich.zoom.us/j/96090221304?pwd=fXFwT9ry51e2XruAb0kqNbtar8DwOw.1

Join us for a moderated discussion about the current state of GenAI, including success stories and challenges. If you have specific questions or topics you would like us to cover, we will collect them at the start of the session. https://umich.zoom.us/j/96090221304?pwd=fXFwT9ry51e2XruAb0kqNbtar8DwOw.1

Students may be tempted to use AI tools to answer traditional exams. LSA supports tools and methods that include Process Feedback and TopHat testing to encourage authentic assessments and reduce the need for test proctoring. https://umich.zoom.us/j/96090221304?pwd=fXFwT9ry51e2XruAb0kqNbtar8DwOw.1

Join us for a hands-on workshop exploring the fascinating world of flexagons—folded paper creations that can be flipped and flexed to reveal surprising hidden designs. Similar to Jacob’s Ladder toys, flexagons are flat, book-like paper objects that unfold, or “flex,” to reveal multiple hidden faces. Participants will learn how flexagons work through playful paper-folding, experiment with patterns and color, and make a couple of their … Continue reading Flexagons Workshop: Fold, Flip, and Create »

Have you heard? U-M now has DesignPLUS available in our Canvas instances (including Canvas Catalog). DesignPLUS is a time-saving toolset for every educator and course designer working in the Canvas LMS. It helps you quickly build, style, and scale high-quality courses – making learning engaging and accessible. This hands-on workshop introduces the core DesignPLUS workflow for creating and updating Canvas content. You’ll learn how to navigate the DesignPLUS … Continue reading Elevate Your Canvas Courses with DesignPLUS, Part 1: Getting Started »

From Basics to Brilliance: Prompt Crafting with U-M GPT This workshop equips faculty, staff, and students with the essential skills to effectively use U-M GPT, the University of Michigan’s equitable, accessible, and secure text-based Generative Artificial Intelligence tool. The session includes foundational and advanced techniques for crafting effective prompts, exploring creative AI interactions, and leveraging U-M GPT for various educational applications. Participants will engage in … Continue reading From Basics to Brilliance: Prompt Crafting with U-M GPT »

In this session, we will examine proven methods for designing authentic exams that align with your course learning goals and make the most of both analog and digital tools available in LSA. You’ll leave with resources and templates to help you build effective assessments. https://umich.zoom.us/j/96090221304?pwd=fXFwT9ry51e2XruAb0kqNbtar8DwOw.1

Educators will explore Canvas New Quizzes, covering everything from dynamic question types, moderation settings, and recent platform updates. Attendees will also learn key differences between Classic and New Quizzes, including how interactive question formats and randomized item shuffling naturally help deter unauthorized student AI use. Audience: Instructors, Staff Recommended Prerequisites: A. Getting Started with Canvas Zoom join URL: https://umich.zoom.us/j/98888582214

Classes are incorporating more and more multimodal projects that ask students to produce final products that are public-facing. Accessibility is an essential component to creating digital content available on the internet. It is important that instructors are incorporating accessible design into their teaching and requirements of public-facing projects. This session will cover what accessibility is, why it is important, and guidance on what to teach … Continue reading Digital Accessibility for Public-facing Student Projects »

Join us for a hands-on workshop exploring the fascinating world of flexagons—folded paper creations that can be flipped and flexed to reveal surprising hidden designs. Similar to Jacob’s Ladder toys, flexagons are flat, book-like paper objects that unfold, or “flex,” to reveal multiple hidden faces. Participants will learn how flexagons work through playful paper-folding, experiment with patterns and color, and make a couple of their … Continue reading Flexagons Workshop: Fold, Flip, and Create »

Have you heard? U-M now has DesignPLUS available in our Canvas instances (including Canvas Catalog). DesignPLUS is a time-saving toolset for every educator and course designer working in the Canvas LMS. It helps you quickly build, style, and scale high-quality courses – making learning engaging and accessible. In this workshop, you will build on the skills you gained in Part 1 by exploring DesignPLUS interactive components and content. You’ll also … Continue reading Elevate Your Canvas Courses with DesignPLUS, Part 2: Interactive Content & Course Building »

You’ve established syllabus policies and had conversations with your students about Generative AI, but how do you adapt your assessment strategies to ensure that you can evaluate their learning?  We know standard essay prompts, quick-answer quizzes, assignments, and even discussion posts can be easily completed by AI. This workshop focuses on evaluating the “offload-ability” of your assessments and identifying opportunities for AI integration, mitigation, or … Continue reading Rethink and Redesign Assessment for the GenAI Era »

While physical fitness keeps our bodies in shape, meditation is an exercise for the mind and mental wellness is essential to living a happy, productive life. What you will learn?  This is a weekly guided meditation drop-in session so prior knowledge of meditation is needed. The session involves 3 simple steps: Breathing Relaxation Meditation Deep breathing bring a pause followed by Relaxation brings your body … Continue reading Heartfulness Meditation »

Join this workshop to unlock the full potential of Google Gemini, the versatile AI assistant now available to all University of Michigan faculty, staff, and students. Gemini goes beyond simple Q&A, offering a powerful, multimodal platform to enhance your daily work and exploration. Learn how to use it for in-the-moment assistance, rapid content summarization, and generating various creative text formats. Recent Updates & Key Takeaways … Continue reading From Idea to Insight: Gemini for Education »

Have you heard? U-M now has DesignPLUS available in our Canvas instances (including Canvas Catalog). DesignPLUS is a time-saving toolset for every educator and course designer working in the Canvas LMS. It helps you quickly build, style, and scale high-quality courses – making learning engaging and accessible. This hands-on workshop introduces the core DesignPLUS workflow for creating and updating Canvas content. You’ll learn how to navigate the DesignPLUS … Continue reading Elevate Your Canvas Courses with DesignPLUS, Part 1: Getting Started »

Join us as we discuss the latest Canvas updates most relevant to our campus and explore what these developments may mean for teaching, learning, and Canvas support at U-M. In this session, we’ll dive into the new Notebook for Learners, which lets students highlight text, mark material as unclear, and organize course notes in a single view. We will explore the new Learner Dashboard for … Continue reading What’s New in Canvas, Part 2 »

Streamline Tasks & Amplify Learning with Instructor Tools Reimagine your teaching and course design with U-M’s innovative suite of generative AI Instructor Tools, powered by Maizey. This workshop introduces five innovative tools—each built to streamline your workflow, enrich student learning, and enhance your effectiveness as an educator.  In this workshop, you’ll get hands-on experience with 5 GenAI Instructor Tools:   AI Prompt Coach: Learn to craft … Continue reading Streamline Tasks and Amplify Learning with Instructor Tools »

Do you want to keep track of and organize the sources that you find for your research (journal articles, books, websites, reports, videos, and more)? Do you want to share those sources with classmates and colleagues? Do you spend hours trying to format your bibliography? Join us for this workshop to learn about Zotero, a free citation management tool! You will learn to: – Create and … Continue reading Introduction to Zotero for Citation Management »

Harness U-M Maizey for Teaching and Learning U-M Maizey is a tool that enables U-M faculty, staff, and students to use custom datasets to enhance their GenAI experience, helping them extract insights, discover patterns, and gain deeper knowledge from the data. Discover how to enhance your classroom with U-M Maizey by integrating it seamlessly with Canvas and using it as an innovative assistant for supporting … Continue reading Harness U-M Maizey for Teaching and Learning »

Have you heard? U-M now has DesignPLUS available in our Canvas instances (including Canvas Catalog). DesignPLUS is a time-saving toolset for every educator and course designer working in the Canvas LMS. It helps you quickly build, style, and scale high-quality courses – making learning engaging and accessible. In this workshop, you will build on the skills you gained in Part 1 by exploring DesignPLUS interactive components and content. You’ll also … Continue reading Elevate Your Canvas Courses with DesignPLUS, Part 2: Interactive Content & Course Building »

While physical fitness keeps our bodies in shape, meditation is an exercise for the mind and mental wellness is essential to living a happy, productive life. What you will learn?  This is a weekly guided meditation drop-in session so prior knowledge of meditation is needed. The session involves 3 simple steps: Breathing Relaxation Meditation Deep breathing bring a pause followed by Relaxation brings your body … Continue reading Heartfulness Meditation »

Have you heard? U-M now has DesignPLUS available in our Canvas instances (including Canvas Catalog). DesignPLUS is a time-saving toolset for every educator and course designer working in the Canvas LMS. It helps you quickly build, style, and scale high-quality courses – making learning engaging and accessible. This hands-on workshop introduces the core DesignPLUS workflow for creating and updating Canvas content. You’ll learn how to navigate the DesignPLUS … Continue reading Elevate Your Canvas Courses with DesignPLUS, Part 1: Getting Started »

Make meditation part of your goal to strengthen your mental well-being. Discover three core practices—meditation, rejuvenation, and inner connect in just three session. Meditation is a mindful journey for regulating your mind. It’s like a mental workout, training the mind to focus on a single thought amid the 60,000 that pass through daily. With 3 core practices it cultivates effortless concentration, heightened awareness, and presence … Continue reading Learn to Meditate in 3 days »

This course will familiarize the student with the basics of accessing and interacting with Linux computers using the GNU/Linux operating system’s Bash shell, also generically referred to as “the command line”. Topics include: a brief overview of Linux, the Bash shell, navigating the file system, basic commands, shell redirection, permissions, processes, and the command environment. The workshop will also provide a quick introduction to nano a simple … Continue reading Introduction to the Linux Command Line »

Educators will explore Canvas New Quizzes, covering everything from dynamic question types, moderation settings, and recent platform updates. Attendees will also learn key differences between Classic and New Quizzes, including how interactive question formats and randomized item shuffling naturally help deter unauthorized student AI use. Audience: Instructors, Staff Recommended Prerequisites: A. Getting Started with Canvas Zoom join URL: https://umich.zoom.us/j/98888582214

Have you heard? U-M now has DesignPLUS available in our Canvas instances (including Canvas Catalog). DesignPLUS is a time-saving toolset for every educator and course designer working in the Canvas LMS. It helps you quickly build, style, and scale high-quality courses – making learning engaging and accessible. In this workshop, you will build on the skills you gained in Part 1 by exploring DesignPLUS interactive components and content. You’ll also … Continue reading Elevate Your Canvas Courses with DesignPLUS, Part 2: Interactive Content & Course Building »

While physical fitness keeps our bodies in shape, meditation is an exercise for the mind and mental wellness is essential to living a happy, productive life. What you will learn?  This is a weekly guided meditation drop-in session so prior knowledge of meditation is needed. The session involves 3 simple steps: Breathing Relaxation Meditation Deep breathing bring a pause followed by Relaxation brings your body … Continue reading Heartfulness Meditation »

Discover the power of Gemini Notebook, the advanced AI-powered research and note-taking assistant available to all University of Michigan faculty, staff, and students. Designed to help you understand and synthesize information from your own documents,  transforms your lesson plans, lecture notes, and research papers into a dynamic knowledge base. By grounding its responses entirely in your sources, it becomes your most trusted research partner. Recent … Continue reading Exploring Gemini Notebook for Education »

Introduction to Research Computing on the Great Lakes Cluster This course is remotely over Zoom.  A Zoom link will be provided to all registrants. This workshop will introduce you to high performance computing on the Great Lakes cluster.  After a brief overview of the components of the cluster and the resources available there, the main body of the workshop will cover creating batch scripts and the … Continue reading Introduction to Research Computing on the Great Lakes Cluster »

The TrustEd Apps Management Suite (TAMS), is a 1EdTech web app that helps organizations and vendors independently verify they follow 1EdTech standards and that their data works smoothly with third‑party services. Key features include: A searchable catalog of LTIs available in Canvas Clear descriptions of each tool’s purpose and typical instructional uses Notes on availability limitations (unit-specific access) and any prerequisites Links to guidance/training and … Continue reading TAMS: A Canvas-Integrated Catalog of External (LTI) Tools to Enrich Teaching and Learning »

While physical fitness keeps our bodies in shape, meditation is an exercise for the mind and mental wellness is essential to living a happy, productive life. What you will learn?  This is a weekly guided meditation drop-in session so prior knowledge of meditation is needed. The session involves 3 simple steps: Breathing Relaxation Meditation Deep breathing bring a pause followed by Relaxation brings your body … Continue reading Heartfulness Meditation »

OVERVIEW Advanced Research Computing on the Great Lakes Cluster This course is remotely over Zoom.  A Zoom link will be provided to all registrants for those who choose to attend remotely. This workshop will cover some more advanced topics in computing on the U-M Great Lakes Cluster.  Topics to be covered include a brief review of common parallel programming models and basic use of Great … Continue reading Advanced Research Computing on the Great Lakes Cluster »

Streamline Daily Work Tasks with U-M Maizey U-M Maizey is a tool that enables U-M faculty, staff, and students to use custom datasets to enhance their GenAI experience, helping them extract insights, discover patterns, and gain deeper knowledge from the data. Enhance your productivity by harnessing U-M Maizey for various staff-related tasks, including managing Dropbox, Google Drive, and public website data efficiently. This workshop is … Continue reading Streamline Daily Work Tasks with U-M Maizey »

Have you heard? U-M now has DesignPLUS available in our Canvas instances (including Canvas Catalog). DesignPLUS is a time-saving toolset for every educator and course designer working in the Canvas LMS. It helps you quickly build, style, and scale high-quality courses – making learning engaging and accessible. This hands-on workshop introduces the core DesignPLUS workflow for creating and updating Canvas content. You’ll learn how to navigate the DesignPLUS … Continue reading Elevate Your Canvas Courses with DesignPLUS, Part 1: Getting Started »

Have you heard? U-M now has DesignPLUS available in our Canvas instances (including Canvas Catalog). DesignPLUS is a time-saving toolset for every educator and course designer working in the Canvas LMS. It helps you quickly build, style, and scale high-quality courses – making learning engaging and accessible. In this workshop, you will build on the skills you gained in Part 1 by exploring DesignPLUS interactive components and content. You’ll also … Continue reading Elevate Your Canvas Courses with DesignPLUS, Part 2: Interactive Content & Course Building »

While physical fitness keeps our bodies in shape, meditation is an exercise for the mind and mental wellness is essential to living a happy, productive life. What you will learn?  This is a weekly guided meditation drop-in session so prior knowledge of meditation is needed. The session involves 3 simple steps: Breathing Relaxation Meditation Deep breathing bring a pause followed by Relaxation brings your body … Continue reading Heartfulness Meditation »

Library Launchpad is a series of library workshops aimed at graduate students on the Ann Arbor campus. Join library experts to learn about research services and spaces for graduate students, and to get comfortable in your new academic home. In this informal walking workshop, you will get a guided tour of the Harlan Hatcher Library, U-M’s largest and most historic library. During the tour, you’ll … Continue reading Library Launchpad: Workshop Series for Graduate Students: Explore Library Spaces and Services »

Generative AI chatbot tools like ChatGPT or U-M GPT can suggest sources to be cited in academic works. They can also summarize and create a bibliography of those sources. Unfortunately, those AI-suggested articles may not actually exist, or their citations may contain errors. Citing a fake article, even inadvertently, significantly undermines the trustworthiness of the content and the academic research process as a whole. In … Continue reading Verifying the Accuracy of Citations Generated by AI Chatbots »

From Data to Action: Harnessing Learning Analytics in Your Course Delve into the world of learning analytics with this session designed to enhance your teaching and learning strategies. We’ll start with the basics, defining learning analytics and how it can inform educational practice. Explore readily available tools like Canvas New Analytics, MiVideo Analytics, and My Learning Analytics (MyLA- more info below) that offer actionable insights … Continue reading From Data to Action: Harnessing Learning Analytics in Your Course »

While physical fitness keeps our bodies in shape, meditation is an exercise for the mind and mental wellness is essential to living a happy, productive life. What you will learn?  This is a weekly guided meditation drop-in session so prior knowledge of meditation is needed. The session involves 3 simple steps: Breathing Relaxation Meditation Deep breathing bring a pause followed by Relaxation brings your body … Continue reading Heartfulness Meditation »

This course will familiarize the student with the basics of accessing and interacting with Linux computers using the GNU/Linux operating system’s Bash shell, also generically referred to as “the command line”. Topics include: a brief overview of Linux, the Bash shell, navigating the file system, basic commands, shell redirection, permissions, processes, and the command environment. The workshop will also provide a quick introduction to nano a simple … Continue reading Introduction to the Linux Command Line »

Ever wondered if Zenodo is a data repository that would work for your data? Join us to learn more about Zenodo, what data the repository works with, how to include it in your data management plan, and how to deposit data. The workshop will include a demo and/or screenshots of each step of the deposit process, and we’ll also have time for questions and answers.

Make meditation part of your goal to strengthen your mental well-being. Discover three core practices—meditation, rejuvenation, and inner connect in just three session. Meditation is a mindful journey for regulating your mind. It’s like a mental workout, training the mind to focus on a single thought amid the 60,000 that pass through daily. With 3 core practices it cultivates effortless concentration, heightened awareness, and presence … Continue reading Learn to Meditate in 3 days »

Introduction to Research Computing on the Great Lakes Cluster This course is remotely over Zoom.  A Zoom link will be provided to all registrants. This workshop will introduce you to high performance computing on the Great Lakes cluster.  After a brief overview of the components of the cluster and the resources available there, the main body of the workshop will cover creating batch scripts and the … Continue reading Introduction to Research Computing on the Great Lakes Cluster »

Library Launchpad is a series of library workshops aimed at graduate students on the Ann Arbor campus. Join library experts to learn about research services and spaces for graduate students, and to get comfortable in your new academic home. In this informal walking workshop, you will get a guided tour of the Harlan Hatcher Library, U-M’s largest and most historic library. During the tour, you’ll … Continue reading Library Launchpad: Workshop Series for Graduate Students: Explore Library Spaces and Services »

OVERVIEW Advanced Research Computing on the Great Lakes Cluster This course is remotely over Zoom.  A Zoom link will be provided to all registrants for those who choose to attend remotely. This workshop will cover some more advanced topics in computing on the U-M Great Lakes Cluster.  Topics to be covered include a brief review of common parallel programming models and basic use of Great … Continue reading Advanced Research Computing on the Great Lakes Cluster »

Join us for this workshop to learn about EndNote, a citation management tool! You will learn to: – Create and organize personal and group libraries, – Invite collaborators to view or contribute to those libraries, – Annotate the PDFs you read, – Add a bibliography and in-text citations in your Microsoft Word document. Please note: EndNote is NOT a free tool, and it is NOT … Continue reading Introduction to EndNote for Citation Management »

Are you working on or considering beginning a systematic review, meta-analysis, scoping review, or other literature review project? Learn to use the software Covidence, which is free for U-M faculty, staff, and students (and any project collaborators from other institutions). Covidence can help you: – Deduplicate your literature search results set – Share your literature search results with your collaborators – Keep track of your … Continue reading Introduction to Covidence: A Systematic Review Software Tool »

Library Launchpad is a series of library workshops aimed at graduate students on the Ann Arbor campus. Join library experts to learn about how the library supports graduate students’ research in different disciplines. In this session, we’ll demonstrate: Aspects of Library Search, the library’s search engine, including how and when to use Catalog Search and Articles Search, as well as how to interpret your results. … Continue reading Library Launchpad: Workshop Series for Graduate Students: Explore Discipline-based Library Research Tools »

Library Launchpad is a series of library workshops aimed at graduate students on the Ann Arbor campus. Join library experts to learn about how the library supports graduate students’ research in different disciplines. In this session, we’ll demonstrate: Aspects of Library Search, the library’s search engine, including how and when to use Catalog Search and Articles Search, as well as how to interpret your results. … Continue reading Library Launchpad: Workshop Series for Graduate Students: Explore Discipline-based Library Research Tools »