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Pedagogy Picnic

  • Teaching with Joy
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Event For:
  • Faculty, Grad Students, Postdocs

Join your fellow instructors for Pedagogy Picnic! This is a fun, social opportunity to get to know your colleagues and connect over a shared interest in teaching. Come chat, ask questions, laugh, or vent – we're here for all of it! No registration needed – simply show up! The CTL […]

Course Design Institute: May 13 – 23

  • Institute
Via Canvas Course and Synchronous Zoom Sessions
Event For:
  • Faculty

This intensive course design institute, spread out over 2 weeks, will guide participants in planning and preparing to teach a course that is supported by the latest research in teaching and learning. During the CDI, facilitators will model and discuss a range of tools and strategies that can enhance your […]

Pedagogy Picnic

  • Teaching with Joy
See event description
Event For:
  • Faculty, Grad Students, Postdocs

Join your fellow instructors for Pedagogy Picnic! This is a fun, social opportunity to get to know your colleagues and connect over a shared interest in teaching. Come chat, ask questions, laugh, or vent – we're here for all of it! No registration needed – simply show up! The CTL […]

Summer 2025 Faculty Reading Community (FRC)

  • Faculty Reading Community
via Zoom
Event For:
  • Faculty

Join fellow faculty and CTL staff for sustained cross-disciplinary conversation on critical topics in teaching and learning. The featured book for the Summer 2025 Faculty Reading Community will be Elizabeth Norell’s recently published The Present Professor: Authenticity and Transformational Teaching. Amid the current crises of higher education, this timely book […]

Course Design Institute: August 5 – 14

  • Institute
Via Canvas Course and Synchronous Zoom Sessions
Event For:
  • Faculty

This intensive course design institute, spread out over 2 weeks, will guide participants in planning and preparing to teach a course that is supported by the latest research in teaching and learning. During the CDI, facilitators will model and discuss a range of tools and strategies that can enhance your […]

Introduction to Poll Everywhere

  • Tech Training
via Zoom
Event For:
  • Faculty, Grad Students, Postdocs

Discover how Poll Everywhere  can breathe new life into your courses by increasing student interaction and providing real-time feedback. This session will equip you with tools to instantly gauge student understanding, create memorable learning moments that boost knowledge retention, and collect data to refine your teaching approach. Whether you're teaching […]

Introduction to Padlet and AI Features

  • Tech Training
via Zoom
Event For:
  • Faculty, Grad Students, Postdocs

Discover how Padlet can enhance active learning in your courses through its versatile collaboration tools and new AI-powered features. In this session, you'll explore the basics of Padlet, as well as Padlet AI and Padlet TA, which can help generate content, assist with feedback, and support student engagement. Perfect for […]

“Too Much Reading”: Estimating Student Workload

  • Virtual Conversation
via Zoom
Event For:
  • Faculty, Grad Students, Postdocs

Many students have an acute sense of courses being "a ton of work" or "easy," but do we? This brief session shares a helpful tool and data to realistically assess the student workload in your classes. You'll learn about how much time students spend on their studies and how many […]

Hypothesis: Activating Annotation

  • Tech Training
via Zoom
Event For:
  • Faculty, Grad Students, Postdocs

Join us to see how collaborative annotation can help deepen student engagement with assigned readings. In this workshop, we'll explore Hypothes.is—a tool that creates an interactive layer over webpages, PDFs, and images. Fully integrated with Canvas, Hypothes.is allows for sentence-level annotation, collaborative discussion, and critical analysis directly on assigned texts. […]

Introduction to Piazza

  • Tech Training
via Zoom
Event For:
  • Faculty, Grad Students, Postdocs

Join us to see how Piazza creates an online learning environment for discussion and Q&A that allows students to collaborate with their peers and instructors at any time.  In this session, we'll cover how: wiki-style formatting enables collaboration in a single space anonymous posting encourages every student to participate instructors can endorse […]

Demystifying the Edtech Landscape at WashU

  • Virtual Conversation
via Zoom
Event For:
  • Faculty, Grad Students, Postdocs

Did you know WashU has subscriptions to over a dozen educational technology tools you can use for free? Learn how to navigate WashU's educational technology ecosystem with confidence. In this practical 30-minute session designed for instructors and staff,, you'll discover the institutionally-supported tools available to you, learn the most efficient […]

Introduction to Alternative Grading

  • Virtual Conversation
via Zoom
Event For:
  • Faculty, Grad Students, Postdocs

Are you frustrated with your current grading practices? Maybe you’ve heard of things like specifications grading, standards-based grading, or ungrading and you’re curious to learn more? If so, join us for this virtual conversation where we will briefly introduce some of the most well-known alternative grading systems and offer suggestions […]

Equitable and Effective STEM Teaching: a Report from the National Academies

  • Virtual Conversation
via Zoom
Event For:
  • Faculty, Grad Students, Postdocs

In January 2025, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine released a report that synthesized decades of research on effective and equitable STEM teaching. This session will provide an overview of the report and share some highlights. We will discuss ways to increase awareness of the findings as we […]

Learning Student Names

  • Virtual Conversation
via Zoom
Event For:
  • Faculty, Grad Students, Postdocs

Learning student names is one of the most effective ways to create an inclusive, engaging, and effective classroom environment, but for many of us learning names and putting them to faces is hard. Drawing on insights from recently published book A Teacher’s Guide to Learning Student Names by cognitive scientist […]

Introduction to Teaching and AI

  • Faculty Workshop
Danforth Campus
Event For:
  • Faculty

Curious about how generative AI can enhance your teaching practice? Join us for an interactive workshop designed to demystify AI and large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT. We'll introduce key AI concepts, explore how LLMs work, and examine their capabilities and limitations in an educational context. You'll get hands-on experience […]

Course AI Policies

  • Virtual Conversation
via Zoom
Event For:
  • Faculty, Grad Students, Postdocs

As generative AI tools become increasingly embedded in student workflows, clear and thoughtful syllabus policies are more important than ever. In this session, we’ll explore a range of options for addressing student use of AI in your course. Participants will review sample policy language, consider discipline-specific approaches, and discuss how […]

Canvas Hidden Treasures: Tips & Tricks for Using Canvas

  • Virtual Conversation
via Zoom
Event For:
  • Faculty, Grad Students, Postdocs

Join us as we learn about recently added Canvas features that can boost your productivity and increase engagement in your courses. This session is designed for both new and experienced Canvas users. This session will be facilitated by Tiffany Lang, Instructional Designer and Canvas Administrator, Arts & Sciences. If you […]

Assessment in the Age of AI

  • Faculty Workshop
Danforth Campus
Event For:
  • Faculty

As generative AI tools like ChatGPT become more accessible and powerful, traditional approaches to assessment face new challenges... which also creates new opportunities! In this workshop, we’ll explore the evolving landscape of assessment in the age of AI, including vulnerabilities in conventional formats, ideas for alternative approaches, and emerging strategies […]

Finishing Up Your Syllabus

  • Virtual Conversation
via Zoom
Event For:
  • Faculty, Grad Students, Postdocs

The start of the semester is coming and it's time to make the final adjustments to your course syllabi. In this session, we will go over important considerations for writing and revising a syllabus. We will also discuss ways that the syllabus can help set the tone for a course […]

Easy Wins: Low-Prep Active Learning

  • Virtual Conversation
via Zoom
Event For:
  • Faculty, Grad Students, Postdocs

We all know active learning is a high-impact practice, but it can seem daunting to implement when pressed for time and energy. In this brief session, we'll focus on classroom activities that are engaging but don't require much prep or time. You'll leave with ideas you can implement in your […]