Emory College Learning Design Workshops
The Emory College Learning Design team offers a variety of workshops for college instructors throughout the year. These workshops are designed to support teachers as they prepare to teach engaging and effective in-person, online, and hybrid courses.
Recent Workshops
Leveraging Audio and Video Tools for Student Engagement
Winter Workshop
Audio and video tools can play a critical role in supporting student learning by offering interactive, multimedia-rich experiences. In this session, you'll learn how two powerful tools—VoiceThread and Panopto—can be integrated into your classroom to engage students more effectively. VoiceThread allows students to collaborate on group projects and present their work using audio, video, and other media. Panopto enables students to engage in flipped classroom activities and create individual or group video-based assignments to demonstrate their learning.
Canvas Design Essentials for Emory College Faculty
Winter Workshop
Join us for a Canvas Essentials workshop, specifically designed for Emory College faculty. In this session, you'll discover key elements to include in your Canvas courses. Learn how to optimize navigation and ensure accessibility with effective use of color and alt text. Enhance your course design with practical tips on naming conventions, home page setup, and utilizing design tool themes.
Edtech Lightning Round
Back to School Workshop
These back to school workshops explored the learning technologies available to all Emory College faculty. These technologies included VoiceThread, Gradescope, and Panopto. Information on these technologies can be found under their individual pages under the Tools and Technologies tab on the website.
Emory College Teaching Essentials
Back to School Workshop
This informative session covered classroom technology setup, such as connecting to classroom devices, accessing your content, using AV software, recording live class sessions, in addition to Canvas course essentials to support in-person learning.
TEACHING ESSENTIALS WORKSHOP RECORDING
AI Series Workshops
AI Basics in Higher Education
AI Series Workshop
VoiceThread and Panopto can enhance student engagement through multimedia experiences. Faculty learned to integrate these tools for collaborative projects, flipped classroom activities, and audio or video-based assignments that showcase student learning.
Rethinking Your Course With AI
AI Series Workshop
In this workshop, practical active learning strategies are used to boost student engagement and critical thinking. Faculty learned how to implement techniques like think-pair-share, close reading, and polling to create a dynamic classroom environment.
Student Assignments With AI
AI Series Workshop
In this final session, faculty will focus on student use of AI in completing assignments and learning. Topics included developing AI fluency, setting clear AI policies for your class, and ensuring academic integrity in an AI-powered world. Faculty learned how to guide students in using AI responsibly and effectively while upholding educational standards.