Faculty Webinars | Fall 2025

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 member 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.

On-Demand Video

Course Materials @ Penn Libraries with Leganto

On-Demand Video | Want to learn how to streamline access to assigned reading material for your students? Watch this demo of the Course Materials @ Penn Libraries system, hosted by Mia Wells from the Lippincott Library of the Wharton School. Mia will show you how to submit your syllabus to the library and how the staff there will build your customized reading list and load it directly into your course Canvas site. Beyond the list creation, you’ll also see how to flexibly edit and interact with the list if you want to make changes throughout the semester.

▶️ View the Leganto recording (no registration required)

Friday, AUG 29 @ 12-1pm

🗓️ Register for: All About aPlus+ Attendance

Live Webinar | At The Wharton School, aPlus+ Attendance currently serves as the primary self-service tool for tracking attendance and check-ins across courses, particularly at the graduate level. If you are interested in using the tool for the first time in a Wharton course, this training will serve as an introduction, along with helpful tips & tricks. Alternatively, if you have used aPlus+ in the past and would like a refresher on how to add this to a Canvas site for a new semester, this training is for you.

▶️ View the aPlus+ Attendance recording

Friday, SEP 12 @ 12-1pm

🗓️ Register for: Presenting Wooclap, a Peek into Polling & More

Live Webinar | Discover Wooclap, an interactive polling tool currently being piloted. In this session, we’ll explore how Wooclap can enhance classroom engagement through live polls, word clouds, Q&A, brainstorming, and interactive presentations. Learn how to use icebreakers and warm-ups to energize your sessions, run live comprehension checks and cognitive pauses, or incorporate game-based learning with a leaderboard feature Wooclap supports inclusive, student-centered learning with real-time feedback and active participation.

▶️ View the Wooclap recording and Wooclap webinar slides (if you are watching the recording & want to be able to access the course mentioned, please send an email request with your PennKey to courseware@wharton.upenn.edu)

Friday, SEP 26 @ 12-1pm

🗓️ Register for: Discouraging Cheat Culture in the GenAI Era & Understanding the Penn Academic Integrity Disciplinary Process

Live Webinar | As generative AI tools become more prevalent in higher education, fostering a strong culture of academic integrity is more important than ever. This session will highlight emerging trends in academic misconduct and offer proactive strategies to discourage a cheating culture through intentional planning & classroom practices. Faculty and staff will explore ways to support academic honesty, and instructors will leave with a clear understanding of the academic integrity disciplinary process at Penn. Special Guest: Dani Crowl, Deputy Director – Penn Center for Community Standards and Accountability

▶️ View Dani Crowl’s recording

Friday, OCT 03 @ 12-1pm

👩🏻‍💻 Sign Up for the Courseware Teams & Faculty – 10/03 Office Hour

Open Questions | Join the Courseware Teams for an informal Ask Me Anything (AMA) session. It’s your chance to ask quick questions or get advice on best practices. Whether you’re curious about Canvas, course design, or quizzing/exam options, we’re here to help! Drop in, ask away, and leave with helpful insights you can use right away. [meeting not recorded]

Friday, OCT 24 @ 12-1pm

🗓️ Register for: Exploring Wharton’s Lecture-Recall Tool: Powered by ChatGPT Edu

Live Webinar | Join us for a behind-the-scenes look at Wharton’s Lecture Recall GPT, an AI-powered innovation designed to transform how students engage with course content. This custom GPT tool allows students to ask questions about lecture material, receive summarized responses, and even get direct video links to the exact moment in a lecture recording. We’ll provide a demo of the tool, requirements, limitations, where to get started and the impact of integrating this generative tool into your teaching. Special Guests: Brandon Lafvig, Strategic Partner – Wharton Computing and Peter Fader, Frances and Pei-Yuan Chia Professor – Wharton Marketing

▶️ View the Lecture Recall Custom GPT recording

Learn more about ChatGPT at Wharton

Friday, NOV 07 @ 12-1pm

🗓️ Register for: Improve Peer Assessment with Peerceptiv

Live Webinar | Learn how Peerceptiv can improve peer-to-peer collaboration and engagement in your classes. This year, Wharton is piloting Peerceptiv, a new option for peer and self-assessment, live presentation feedback, and group member evaluation. This session will provide an overview of Peerceptiv’s Peer Assessment and Team Member Evaluation activities, including how they integrate with Canvas and options for qualitative and quantitative feedback. Whether you are just getting started with peer review or looking to improve peer-collaboration assessment, join this session to see if Peerceptiv is right for your course.

▶️ View the Peerceptiv recording

Friday, NOV 21 @ 12-1pm

👩🏻‍💻 Sign Up for the Courseware Teams & Faculty – 11/21 Office Hour

Mini-Webinar & Open Questions | Join the Courseware Teams for an informal Ask Me Anything (AMA) session. It’s your chance to ask quick questions or get advice on best practices. Whether you’re curious about Canvas, course design, or quizzing/exam options, we’re here to help! Drop in, ask away, and leave with helpful insights you can use right away. [meeting not recorded]

Friday, DEC 05 @ 12-1pm

🗓️ Register for: Transitioning – Why New Quizzes? Why Now?

Live Webinar | In this session, you’ll learn how to effectively transition from the legacy Canvas quiz tool to New Quizzes, a more modern and feature-rich quiz engine. We’ll demo how to streamline your assessment workflow and take advantage of new question types, settings, and functionalities designed to enhance teaching and learning. If you’ve been waiting to transition because of needed quiz features, now’s the time to revisit New Quizzes!

▶️ View the New Quizzes recording

Resources: New Quizzes Presentation Slides (Penn Box), Canvas Guide – New Quizzes, and UPenn Libraries Study Break course

📚 Penn Libraries Canvas Workshops

Penn Libraries Canvas Workshops for Instructors

Our colleagues at Penn Libraries also host webinars about Canvas, running Aug 14-Sep 12, 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.