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| Blended Learning: Tips for Designing and Teaching | Tue Nov 25, 2025 | 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM | GMCTL Event | Blended learning combines the best of in-person and online asynchronous learning, allowing learners to complete some learning activities independently online and others during in-person sessions. This approach offers unique opportunities and chall ...(more) |
Ryan Banow, Gwenna Moss Centre, USask |
Online - Web Link | Register |
| AI kiyohkewin - What's new and exciting? | Thu Nov 27, 2025 | 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM | GMCTL Event | AI kiyohkewin is a lightly facilitated, informal gathering for faculty and staff to share ideas and experiences about Artificial Intelligence. kiyohkewin, the Cree word for visiting, captures the idea that these meetings ...(more) |
Kristine Dreaver-Charles, University of Saskatchewan Kurt Bergsma, Gwenna Moss Centre, USask |
MURRAY GMCTL 50.12 | Register |
| Oral Assessments in Online Courses | Fri Nov 28, 2025 | 9:30 AM - 11:00 AM | GMCTL Event | In a world where AI can write and generate content with ease, oral assessments offer a powerful way to hear what students actually know. Performing these assessments effectively in an online context presents unique challenges. This workshop will e ...(more) |
Ryan Banow, Gwenna Moss Centre, USask Kurt Bergsma, Gwenna Moss Centre, USask |
Online - Web Link | Register |
| Assessing Case-Based Learning | Mon Dec 1, 2025 | 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM | GMCTL Event | You’ve brought case-based learning into your course—now how do you assess it effectively? In this interactive session, we’ll explore ways to evaluate critical thinking, problem solving, and decision-making skills through case wor ...(more) |
Rachel Regier, Gwenna Moss Centre, USask |
MURRAY Library 161 | Register |
| Indigenous Appropriation vs. Indigenous Appreciation | Mon Dec 1, 2025 | 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM | GMCTL Event | This session enables educators to develop the ability to differentiate between Indigenous Appropriation and Indigenous Appreciation in academia. Through clarification of definitions and practical examples, faculty will build their comfortability i ...(more) |
Jade Hupé, Gwenna Moss Centre, USask |
MURRAY GMCTL 50.12 | Register |
| Creating Your Course Syllabus | Mon Dec 1, 2025 | 1:30 PM - 3:30 PM | GMCTL Event | This session will allow participants to create a course syllabus that includes elements required under the Academic Courses Policy, reflects the instructor’s teaching style, and sets the tone they hope the class will have. Participants shoul ...(more) |
Heather M. Ross, Gwenna Moss Centre, USask |
Online - Web Link | Register |
| Designing to Support Student Growth | Tue Dec 2, 2025 | 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM | GMCTL Event | Join us to explore practical design strategies to help reduce anxiety, boost engagement, and foster independent learning. We'll start by exploring our positionality and openness to providing choice to students. Certificate in ...(more) |
Roberta Campbell-Chudoba, Gwenna Moss Centre, USask |
MURRAY GMCTL 50.12 | Register |
| Poll Everywhere: Daily Opportunities for Practice & Feedback | Wed Dec 3, 2025 | 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM | GMCTL Event | Unlock the power of Poll Everywhere to create daily opportunities for student practice and immediate feedback, even in your largest classes. This 90-minute interactive session will guide you through designing effective polling activities to foster ...(more) |
Kurt Bergsma, Gwenna Moss Centre, USask |
Online - Web Link | Register |
| SLEQ Question Validation for Students | Wed Dec 3, 2025 | 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM | GMCTL Event | Students, come help us validate SLEQ questions! We are creating optional additional modules to supplement the core SLEQ question set, but must ensure the questions are well designed to get valid feedback. Lunch will be pro ...(more) |
Norah Jacob, University Students' Union, USSU David Greaves, Gwenna Moss Centre, USask |
Place Riel Roy Romanow Student Council Chambers (110.3) | Register |
| Finding Your Why in Open: Connecting Values, Practice, and Student Success | Thu Dec 4, 2025 | 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM | GMCTL Event | All USask faculty and instructors are welcome to join this interactive session with Guest Speaker, Amanda Coolidge. Open education is rooted in access, collaboration, and student empowerment. This interactive session invi ...(more) |
MURRAY LIBRARY 102 | Register | |
| Teaching with the Sustainable Development Goals | Fri Dec 5, 2025 | 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM | GMCTL Event | Are you interested in making your teaching more impactful and relevant to today’s global challenges? This interactive workshop will introduce practical ways to connect your course with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). ...(more) |
Rachel Regier, Gwenna Moss Centre, USask |
MURRAY GMCTL 50.12 | Register |
| Assessment (re)Design | Fri Dec 5, 2025 | 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM | GMCTL Event | Bring your lunch, and learn with us! Discover how to use USask’s AI Learning Design Assistant (ALDA) to begin redesigning an existing assessment. Grounded in the University’s Assessment Principles, the session ...(more) |
Anne-Marie Rollo, Gwenna Moss Centre, USask |
MURRAY GMCTL 50.12 | Register |
| Getting started with AI: Microsoft Copilot | Mon Dec 8, 2025 | 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM | GMCTL Event | This session will introduce you to using one of USask’s AI tools: Microsoft Copilot. A licensed and protected version of Copilot is available to USask faculty, staff, and students. We’ll start with the basics, so even if you’ve n ...(more) |
Kurt Bergsma, Gwenna Moss Centre, USask |
Online - Web Link | Register |
| Helping Your Students Use AI Tools Effectively | Tue Dec 9, 2025 | 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM | GMCTL Event | All students at USask now have access to Microsoft Copilot as an approved and supported generative AI tool. Alongside this, USask has a set of guidelines for student AI use. As instructors, we should take this opportunity to begin to support stude ...(more) |
Kurt Bergsma, Gwenna Moss Centre, USask |
Online - Web Link | Register |
| Teaching Skills Short Course (TSSC) | Tue Dec 9, 2025 | no time specified - see description | GMCTL Event | This interactive short course supports faculty members and instructors in teaching. The workshop encourages reflection and examination of one's teaching practices. You will practice delivering 10-minute lessons to supportive peers using an active ...(more) |
Roberta Campbell-Chudoba, Gwenna Moss Centre, USask |
MURRAY Library G3 | Register |
| Using Canvas Quizzes as Practice and Feedback | Wed Dec 10, 2025 | 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM | GMCTL Event | Using Canvas quizzes for digital exams is just one piece of the assessment puzzle. This 90-minute workshop will explore the basics of creating Canvas New Quizzes and focus on how to design quizzes that genuinely serve as powerful tools for student ...(more) |
Kurt Bergsma, Gwenna Moss Centre, USask |
Online - Web Link | Register |
| AI Exists: Rethinking Assessments | Thu Dec 11, 2025 | 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM | GMCTL Event | As AI becomes increasingly embedded in student learning, educators face the challenge of designing assessments that both leverage its potential and maintain academic integrity. This workshop explores how to create assessment tasks that make room f ...(more) |
Kurt Bergsma, Gwenna Moss Centre, USask |
Online - Web Link | Register |
| Faculty Lunch & Learn with Dr. Loleen Berdahl | Fri Dec 12, 2025 | 11:45 AM - 12:50 PM | GMCTL Event | Join us for this lunch session where Dr. Loleen Berdahl will introduce The Joy of Learning—a new resource co-created by the 2024 cohort of 3M National Teaching Fellows. Every participant will receive a copy of this insp ...(more) |
Sara Dzaman, Gwenna Moss Centre, USask |
AGRI- 2C61 | Register |
| 6 Ways to Create an Inclusive Learning Environment | Mon Dec 15, 2025 | 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM | GMCTL Event | In anticipation of next term, we'll explore 6 practical strategies to foster inclusivity, building a supportive community and enhance a sense of belonging among all students. Certificate in University Teaching and Learning (C ...(more) |
Roberta Campbell-Chudoba, Gwenna Moss Centre, USask |
MURRAY GMCTL 50.12 | Register |
| Connecting with Land through the Curriculum - Indigenization and Sustainability | Tue Dec 16, 2025 | 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM | GMCTL Event | Evaluate current educational strategies to identify gaps and opportunities in incorporating principles of Indigenization in the curriculum. Create a personal commitment to continuous learning and respect for Indigenous perspectives and an action p ...(more) |
Jade Hupé Darryl Isbister, Gwenna Moss Centre, USask Rachel Regier |
MURRAY GMCTL 50.12 | Register |