About our Wharton Faculty Webinars
The IDEA Courseware Team offers a series of faculty training sessions to share teaching tools and best practices. Any teaching team members or staff are welcome to attend. Recordings of each Zoom-delivered webinar session will be shared with registrants, so feel free to register even if you can’t make it to the live session. All sessions listed are expressed in Eastern Time (ET). If you are interested in attending, please register for a faculty webinars session.
Friday, Feb. 21 @ 12-1pm
Academic Integrity in the Era of ChatGPT
Live Webinar | Ensuring academic integrity in your courses can be challenging, especially when a course has online or take-home assessments. While the availability of AI tools like ChatGPT has injected new urgency into this concern, there are steps you can take to help your students abide by the University’s Code of Academic Integrity or the MBA Code of Ethics.
During this session, we’ll review the social, institutional, and technological factors contributing to student cheating, describe the tools and best practices that discourage cheating on assignments and exams, and arm you with steps you can take if you think an academic integrity violation has happened.
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Friday, Mar. 21 @ 12-1pm
Midterms, Meet Machines: Using GenAI to Create Assignments & Exams
Live Webinar | Learn how ChatGPT and other generative AI can help you create effective assignments and exams for your students.
We’ll explore prompting strategies to get what you want out of AI, use cases to save time and effort, and streamline the process of converting AI-generated content to Canvas Quizzes and other common formats.
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Friday, Apr. 18 @ 12-1pm
Spring Clean Your Canvas Site with TidyUP and UDOIT!
Live Webinar | Copying content from a previous course is a great way to quickly set up your new Canvas site. But, it can also lead to an accumulation of old and unused files and other course content. During this session, we’ll look at tools designed to help you keep your Canvas site organized and accessible – making it easier for you to update and your students to navigate!
Cidi Labs’ TidyUP scans your Canvas site to find unused files, folders, and pages and lets you quickly remove content that’s no longer being used. Also, UDOIT Advantage checks your site for common accessibility issues and makes it easy to fix flagged problems. Attendees will come away with a plan to declutter old and unused course content and make your sites more accessible.
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Friday, May. 02 @ 12-1pm
May the Course be with You: Elevate Your Fall Canvas Prep
Live Webinar | Join the IDEA Courseware Team as we guide you through essential strategies to prepare your Canvas Sites for a stellar Fall semester. Discover practical tips for structuring your course sites, incorporating rich media & interactive tools while ensuring accessibility and compliance with copyright standards. Don’t miss this opportunity to ignite your creative force to ensure your courses are set up for success.
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Friday, May. 16 @ 12-1pm
Changed for Good: Wicked Tools to Transform Your Canvas Course
Zoom | Join us for an exploration of learning tools that integrate seamlessly with Canvas. Discover discussion-enhancing platforms like Harmonize and EdDiscussion and powerful assessment tools such as Gradescope and FeedbackFruits to streamline grading and feedback.
This self-guided, breakout-style session will cover class recordings and attendance tracking tools to support dynamic, organized instruction. Whether you want to enhance collaboration, improve the functionality of assessments, or simplify classroom management, this learning tool showcase will provide you with lots of options to elevate your teaching experience.
Penn Libraries’ Canvas Workshops for Instructors
Our colleagues at Penn Libraries also host webinars about Canvas, running Jan 03-Jan 28, 2025.
While there might be slight differences in how Wharton classes are set up or additional tools Wharton teaching teams have access to, these Penn Libraries workshops include valuable information on basic Canvas use and features. All workshops will be held virtually on Zoom, and all registered participants will receive a copy of the recording.
- Monday, December 16, 2024, from 12:00-12:45 PM ET – Registration Link
- Friday, January 3, 2025, from 12:00-12:45 PM ET – Registration Link
- Monday, January 6, 2025, from 12:00-12:45 PM ET – Registration Link
This workshop will introduce basic Canvas functions that will allow participants to do the following: set profile and notifications; navigate the Canvas interface; create content for a Canvas site; and post files, images, and videos.
- Tuesday, January 14, 2025, from 12:00-12:45 PM ET – Registration Link
A new semester means new tools, features, and updates in Canvas. This workshop will introduce and explore the notable changes in Canvas for Spring 2025.
- Tuesday, January 21, 2025, from 12:00-12:45 PM ET – Registration Link
This workshop will focus on using Assignments and Quizzes in Canvas. Topics covered include creating assignments with various submission types, creating quizzes with multiple question types, configuring quiz and assignment settings, and using Assignment Groups.
- Tuesday, January 28, 2025, from 12:00-12:45 PM ET – Registration Link
This workshop will provide step-by-step guidance on how to set up the Canvas Gradebook. Faculty and staff will learn how to configure a grade posting policy, select late policies, apply a grading scheme, and weigh their gradebook by points or by percentages using Assignment Groups.
If you missed any of our Fall 2024 Wharton faculty webinars, please access the recordings.
Questions about our Wharton faculty webinars? Contact us at courseware@wharton.upenn.edu.