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• Surveying GenAI in Higher Education 

• Understanding GenAI and Gemini

• Using Prompts Effectively and Carefully

• Determining GenAI’s Role in your Course Design

• Communicating Expectations for GenAI and Academic Integrity

• Building an Ethic of GenAI Use

• Key Takeaways

• References

• Additional Resources

Hosted by CELT, the Teaching Café is a monthly, in-person drop-in space for faculty and CUPE instructors to connect, share, and learn from one another. Each session offers an informal and supportive environment to discuss teaching challenges, exchange ideas, and hear how colleagues are approaching their courses. Whether you’re looking for practical strategies, new perspectives, or simply a sense of community, the Teaching Café is a chance to engage in meaningful conversation with peers who understand the realities of teaching. Come as you are, no preparation required.

Akindi and the Digital Media Projects team invite you to a hands-on training session of using Akindi's On-Paper assessments with your Brightspace course. This session is designed to help you quickly set up your midterm assessments in Akindi On-Paper assessments, but is also applicable to Final Exams and interim assessments. We'll walk you through the entire process, from creating your custom bubble-response sheets to submitting them for printing. You'll also learn how to use Akindi to grade your assessments and get insights into question performance.

Join the CELT’s Academic Integrity Office for activities related to this year's theme: "Everyday integrity: Discovering your superpower!" Students will be invited to decorate/design their superhero while chatting with our Academic Integrity Ambassadors about why integrity matters to them. Alongside the art-ing and chatting, there will be giveaways!

The Office of Social Innovation continues its information sessions for the Sanctuary Scholars program this fall. These sessions aim to build awareness of the challenges these students face, offer support strategies, and highlight available resources. We invite faculty, contract lecturers, TAs/GAs and staff to join and learn more.

Laboratories and studios are often central to STEM learning, yet their full potential as teaching and learning environments may not always be realized. This workshop invites faculty to reflect on the goals of labs and studios and consider ways in which these spaces can equitably equip learners with core disciplinary skills, while also fostering collaboration and critical thinking. Together, we will explore strategies that seek to address questions such as: What unique learning opportunities can our lab and studio spaces offer learners? How can instructors foster inclusion and collaboration in these spaces? And what forms of assessment best capture the learning that takes place in labs and studios? Attendees will leave with concrete strategies for enhancing their lab and studio pedagogy.

Are you planning on using specifications grading or another form of alternative grading in the Winter 2025 semester? If so, this half-day workshop is for you. In hands-on activities, you will learn how to modify or design assignments to use specifications grading and how to integrate these assignments into your course. Please note that this workshop is primarily intended for members of the Faculty of Arts. Some familiarity with alternative grading principles is helpful, but experience using those principles in your classes is not required.