Course Development Programs
The CFDE offers programs to support faculty in the development of student-centered courses.
Spring 2025 Pre-Semester Prep Webinars
Wednesday, January 8th, 9:00 AM – 3:45 PM
- Register once and receive a Zoom link for the day
- Attend as many sessions as you'd like!
Sessions:
9:00 - 10:00: Student Engagement - Turn your class plan into a practice plan! (CFDE)
- Sometimes creating an active learning environment is easier said than done
- This session will cover a variety of ways to bring activities into your classroom to better engage students and walk you through a process to help develop your class plan by thinking like a coach and turning class into practice!
10:15 - 11:15: Use Canvas to Create an Inclusive and Accessible Learning Environment (Faculty Panel)
- Hear from several faculty how use Canvas to support accessibility, transparency and engagement in their courses
- Get tips on how to develop a syllabus that is accessible and simple to read
- The Teaching and Learning Technologies group will be there to answer any Canvas questions that may come up!
11:30 - 12:30: Poll Everywhere: Engage Students in a Class of Any Size! (CFDE & TLT)
- This session will help you increase your class engagement with Poll Everywhere questions strategically placed throughout your class.
- We will start by highlighting several ways to use Poll Everywhere to meet different learning needs and goals and consider
- When would you use it?
- Why?
- What type of questions?
- Experts from TLT will demonstrate a variety of question formats, review best practices around question management, show you how to re-use or re-run questions, run reports, embed questions in ppt etc.
1:30 - 2:45: Purposeful Course Design Overview (CFDE)
- Purposeful Course Design combines course alignment, desiging courses for optimal learning, and designing courses for student flourishing.
- We will discuss what it means to flourish in a course and how using the Purposeful Course Design approach can support this
- You will be given tools to complete your own course review and start thinking about how small changes can make a big difference for you and your students!
Learning Design Lab
Is your department or program working on any curriculum or course development projects? We are here to help!
The Learning Design Lab provides support to departments/programs as they redesign high-enrollment courses or curriculums that focus on student-centered needs like transparency, engagement, equitable assessment, and accessibility. We will also partner with faculty who are offering interdisciplinary courses with multiple instructors.