Perusall is a social learning platform that turns coursework into a social experience. Whether you are new to Perusall or an experienced user, join us to learn more about how using it can significantly improve student engagement, interaction, and collaboration in your classes. CETL Instructional Designer Tim Stubbs will answer your questions about initial setup, creating assignments, syncing with HuskyCT, communicating with students, etc.
New Topics: “Staged threads” (like “post-first” online discussions), the three approaches to using learner analytics and/or automatic scoring, and Perusall Quizzes for formative assessment.
Recommended Pre-reading (Optional): An Overview of Perusall and Perusall: Social Annotation Tool.

Register - https://fins.uconn.edu/secure_inst/workshops/workshop_view.php?ser=3330

Moving forward, 1000-2000 level courses will use the latest version of Blackboard, called Ultra Course View, a.k.a. “Ultra” Starting in Fall 2025, ALL academic courses will be in Ultra. All levels of experience are welcome, bring your questions! This session will cover:

- An overview of the Ultra course experience and key differences

- How to convert your Original course to Ultra

- The basics of Ultra course building and organization.

Register - https://fins.uconn.edu/secure_inst/workshops/workshop_view.php?ser=3299

It’s January and you might be redesigning your spring course. Are you curious about how to use tools like CoPilot or ChatGPT to support your teaching this semester? Some would argue that GenAI can free up course prep time that you can instead spend on enhancing feedback to students. Ideas and resources for using GenAI to edit assignment prompts for clarity, create case studies, generate problem sets, develop remedial modules, and make quizzes, etc., will be shared. In this interactive session, participants are encouraged to share examples, solicit feedback, or ask questions of other attendees.

This session is suitable for participants with minimal experience using generative AI but will be most useful if you know how to access either Microsoft CoPilot through your UConn Microsoft 365 login, or ChatGPT (both the free “mini” and paid versions will be demonstrated).

Register - https://fins.uconn.edu/secure_inst/workshops/workshop_view.php?ser=3336

In this workshop we will discuss:

• The purposes of a syllabus
• UConn-specific syllabus requirements, resources, and templates
• Ways to improve your syllabus
• The syllabus as contract, blueprint, reference, or inspiration

You are encouraged to share your questions, ideas, and experiences. We hope you will walk away with new ideas for making your syllabus more interactive and engaging.

Register - https://fins.uconn.edu/secure_inst/workshops/workshop_view.php?ser=3320