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.
Friday, JAN 30 @ 12-1pm
🗓️ Register for: Leveraging aPlus+ Attendance: Pre-class clicks, tips, & tricks
Live Webinar | Say goodbye to paper and pencil tracking! In this session, we’ll walk you through the aPlus+ check-in tool and demonstrate how to turn a once-tedious task into a quick, painless part of class. Learn time-saving tips, practical tricks, and other added features.
▶️ View the aPlus+ recording (available after the event concludes)
Friday, FEB 13 @ 12-1pm
🗓️ Register for: Gradescope – Simplify Assignment Delivery & Grading
Live Webinar | This session will showcase how Gradescope supports paper-based, fully online, and hybrid assignment workflows within Canvas, allowing students to submit freeform work without printers. Participants will learn time-saving tools such as answer grouping, reusable comments, and flexible rubrics that update across previously graded submissions to ensure consistency. The webinar will also highlight assignment analytics that help faculty gain deeper insight into student learning at Wharton.
▶️ View the Gradescope recording (available after the event concludes)
Friday, FEB 27 @ 12-1pm
🗓️ Register for: Groups That Work! Fostering Community & Collaboration through Group Work
Live Webinar | Collaboration is a core foundation of business education. Group work, when thoughtfully designed, is a powerful tool for fostering community, increasing engagement, and enhancing student learning across in-person, online, and hybrid course modalities. Group activities can improve knowledge retention and integration, while helping students to develop critical peer-to-peer collaboration skills. But using groups effectively in Canvas and related tools can be a challenge. In this webinar, we’ll address the benefits of groups and group work, how the ed-tech tools we offer support group work (including through peer review and evaluation), and share strategies for successfully managing groups and group assignments.
▶️ View the Group Work recording (available after the event concludes)
Friday, MAR 20 @ 12-1pm
🗓️ Register for: Super Peer Review Showdown
Live Webinar | We all love peer reviews, and Wharton has a few different options for you! This session will compare the peer review functionalities of Harmonize and Feedback Fruits, and how they integrate with Canvas. Specific topics will include: how the tools allocate work to review, integration with Canvas groups, setting up grading options, and more!
▶️ View the Peer Review recording (available after the event concludes)
Friday, MAR 27 @ 12-1pm
🗓️ Register for: Intentional Assessment Design – the GenAI Challenge
Live Webinar | Generative AI has created new challenges for assessing student learning, leaving many faculty anxious about giving high-stakes exams. This webinar will prepare attendees with strategies for reconsidering assessment options. We’ll provide an overview of the current technologies available at Wharton for both supporting and limiting student use of generative AI in learning activities and assessments. We’ll share strategies for intentionally designing assessments to evaluate student learning, including developing assignment-specific AI policies, matching assessment format with what is being assessed, and considering options for alternative assessment modalities.
▶️ View the Intentional Assessment recording (available after the event concludes)
Friday, APR 17 @ 12-1pm
🗓️ Register for: Tool Odyssey – a Journey to Fall
Live Webinar | Join us as we sail through an epic tour of learning tools that integrate with Canvas. 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!
▶️ View the Tool Odyssey recording (available after the event concludes)
Friday, MAY 15 @ 12-1pm
🗓️ Register for: Getting Your Course Ready – a Journey to Fall
Live Webinar | Ready to request your Fall course? Attend this session to explore considerations for your course and it’s successful journey to becoming student-ready! Need a simulation? Want to make high-quality asynchronous videos? Gain practical tips for structuring your course sites, incorporating rich media & interactive tools, while ensuring accessibility & compliance with copyright standards. We’ll address the course development request process and you’ll get tips from Wharton Computing teams that help make effective courses shine.
▶️ View the Course Ready recording (available after the event concludes)
Penn Libraries Canvas Workshops for Instructors
Our colleagues at Penn Libraries also host webinars about Canvas, running Jan 05-Feb 12, 2026.
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.
Center for Teaching Learning & Innovation (CETLI) Events
Also, our Penn CETLI staff host trainings, workshops, and webinars of interest to faculty and staff supporting teaching & learning.
Featured AI-related Sessions
- Jan 07, 2-3:15pm | Assigning Reading in the Age of AI
- Jan 08, 10-11:15am | Active In-class Uses of Generative AI
- Jan 27, 12:00-1:15pm | Teaching Students AI Literacy
If you missed any of IDEA Courseware’s Fall 2025 Wharton faculty webinars, please access the recordings.
Questions about our faculty webinars or want to suggest new topics? Contact us: courseware@wharton.upenn.edu.