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This session is intended for instructors teaching large enrollment sections of over 50 students. Join us to explore strategies that will motivate students, promote engagement, and keep them on track as they navigate your course. This session will share tips on planning and structuring your courses in ways that not only use your time efficiently but will also create great learning experiences for students.

Join this session to learn strategies for teaching students to engage with AI responsibly, which in many cases means teaching students when not to use AI and why. 

This hands-on session will share tips for creating an effective video and will walk participants through developing their own welcome video for their students this upcoming seemester. Those attending this session can then record their video in the afternoon (or the next day) in the Tech for Teaching Studio with the support of the Digital Learning team.

This session will explore digital accessibility basics and content creation. It will cover simple ways to make an immediate impact on the accessibility of your communications including structure and headings, links, images, colour, and more. 

The Q&A section will allow you to ask any questions about digital accessibility. Feel free to submit questions in advance of the workshop by emailing adam.chaboryk@torontomu.ca.

This session is for both new and returning instructors, who plan to teach using Brightspace. It will demonstrate a step-by-step process on how to:

• Request a course shell

• Add course sections to the shell

• Add additional users (co-instructors, Academic Assistants (AAs), etc.)

This will be followed up by a Q&A session related to requesting a course shell that may occur.

In this online workshop participants will explore key principles and common examples of active learning, as well as strategies for making their labs, studios, or lecture halls, and other learning spaces conducive to active learning. 

The appearance of generative AI language models has upended how many instructors in higher education think about written assignments. For some, the appearance of these tools is reason enough to abandon take-home writing assignments entirely.

This online workshop will help instructors rethink rather than discard writing assignments. We will discuss how to make these assignments meaningful and challenging for students while guarding against the misuse of generative AI. Key strategies explored will include: improving rubrics, localizing assignments, and experimenting with genre.

This session is for instructors who plan to teach using Brightspace at TMU for the first time! We will cover the very basics of getting a course shell and the first few things you might do once you have one.

The Brightspace Assignments tool facilitates the online collection and assessment of student work, and is an excellent way to organize the process, whether teaching remotely or in person.

In this session, we will cover creating an assignment submission folder, viewing student submissions and providing feedback. We will also cover the basics of setting up your gradebook with Brightspace Grades.

This session is for both new and returning instructors. It will demonstrate an overview of the digital teaching and learning tools supported at TMU in the 2025 - 2026 academic year, with examples of possible uses in your course.

In this session, participants will collaboratively remediate a document in Google Docs for accessibility. They will learn how to apply a proper heading structure, create accessible tables, and other formatting considerations that make documents easy to maintain and accessible. 

Participants will leave with an understanding on how to create and export common documents (like reports, meeting minutes and syllabi) in an accessible format. 

Join staff from the Centre for Excellence in Learning and Teaching to experiment with Gemini, Google’s suite of generative AI tools that is now available to all TMU faculty, staff, and students. We will offer several stations where you can get hands-on experience using Gemini in the context of assignments, learning activities, and course administration. CELT staff will also be available for one-on-one conversations to help you think through the possibilities and challenges of using Gemini in the classroom.

This session shares strategies for gathering feedback on teaching approaches. We will discuss ideas for documenting evidence of teaching and learning successes that move beyond student feedback. Instructors will walk away with possible steps for building components of their teaching dossiers and tips for reflecting on gathered evidence.