Academic Technology regularly holds workshops to help faculty better integrate technology with their teaching. These workshops will focus on making in-person, hybrid, and online classes as engaging as possible for faculty-student interaction and student-student interaction using the resources and tools available at Santa Clara.
Summer 2026 Teaching and Technology Workshops
The Instructional Technology team will be offering the workshops below in its 2026 Teaching and Technology faculty development series. Join us for opportunities to continue innovating your courses as you design effective instruction in support of student success. This summer’s series has two special focuses:
- Digital Accessibility: Whether applying Universal Design for Learning (UDL) principles or ensuring your courses are digitally accessible, designing with learner needs in mind promotes equal opportunities for learning and students’ sense of belonging.
- AI and Learning Design: AI tools on campus can support an array of use cases for both faculty and students. We invite you to attend the workshops below, whose topics range from student AI literacy to assignment design to deploying AI in your course development.
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Format
Some workshops will be held in person in the Learning Commons, and others will be held over Zoom.
Schedule
Each workshop will be offered throughout the summer. for specific dates.
Workshop Descriptions
Universal Design for Student Success
How can you design your courses and learning activities to meet the needs of all students? In this workshop, you will apply the Universal Design for Learning (UDL) framework to approach practical challenges and ideate new solutions for meeting instructional goals. You will leave with the necessary knowledge and skills to implement UDL principles in your teaching practice.
Workshop Outcomes. After completing this workshop, you will:
- Identify the needs of your learners
- Describe practical applications of UDL principles
- Create a plan to address one learning challenge or opportunity using UDL
- Develop a plan for assessing your implementation of a UDL principle
Active and Collaborative Learning in the Classroom
In this workshop, you will learn how to "flip" an upcoming class, bringing your lecture content and learning content outside the classroom to enable you to foster an active learning environment. Topics to be covered include: planning, recording, and editing lectures; gathering learning materials for online engagement; using Camino quizzes for knowledge checks to ensure student learning; building Camino courses that support flipped classrooms; and planning active learning strategies for your live sessions.
Workshop Outcomes. After completing this workshop, you will:
- Identify content/meetings that can be "flipped"
- Develop a plan for active learning
- Identify the best tools for creating content
- Produce lecture content and learning materials
- Use Camino to check your students’ learning
- Use Camino to support online content, active learning, and assessment
Optimizing Teaching and Learning Through Course Design
This workshop will teach you how to enhance student engagement through thoughtful Camino course design. Drawing from instructional design principles and research-based frameworks for course development, you will learn ways to align your learning objectives with course materials, learning activities, instructional tools, and course accessibility to put student learning at the center of your Camino design.
Workshop Outcomes. After completing this workshop, you will:
- Design courses in Camino that align learning objectives with learning activities/materials/tools and assessments
- Implement good design practices to create courses whose accessibility and usability maximizes support for learners in meeting learning objectives while minimizing cognitive load
- Create course overviews, module overviews, and course introductions that let learners know what to expect and that provide guidance to help learners succeed
Creating Accessible Documents
Level up your digital accessibility knowledge to ensure that materials you create now and in the future provide equal access to all students! In this workshop, we will cover best practices in creating accessible materials in Word, PowerPoint, and Google Apps. You will also learn how to use the accessibility checkers built into these tools.
Workshop Outcomes. After completing this workshop, you will:
- Apply best practices for creating accessible documents and slide decks
- Identify and fix accessibility issues using automated accessibility checkers in common applications (Word, PowerPoint)
Making Your Camino Course Accessible
Get to know the tools 911±¬ÁÏÍø provides to help faculty improve accessibility for all students. In this workshop, you will get hands-on experience using Camino’s accessibility tools: UDOIT and Convert. You will also learn best practices for creating accessible learning content in Camino (text formatting, videos, images, and link descriptions) and managing inaccessible PDFs in your courses.
Workshop Outcomes. After completing this workshop, you will:
- Locate and utilize Camino’s accessibility tools
- Apply best practices for creating accessible Camino pages, assignments, and quizzes
- Conduct an audit of the files in your Camino course
- Compare options for remediating and replacing inaccessible files
- Determine the strategies and resources you could use to find accessible materials for your course
Cultivating AI Literacy in the Classroom
In this workshop, you will strategize how to support students in developing their critical AI literacy. We will discuss AI literacy frameworks—and consider student experiences with AI on our campus—as a foundation for designing materials and activities that support students’ critical and active engagement with AI in their learning. You will leave with a drafted plan for using these materials and implementing these activities in your upcoming course(s).
Workshop Outcomes. After completing this workshop, you will:
- Compare different AI literacy frameworks to support students in developing a critical approach to AI use and output
- Describe students’ different approaches to and uses of AI
- Explain how AI influences your teaching design choices
- Design learning activities to support students’ critical engagement with AI
Assignment Design in the Age of AI
Learn how you can use AI to redesign assignments. In this workshop, you will bring an assignment and use generative AI to revise it using Bloom’s Taxonomy and Universal Design for Learning (UDL) principles. You will also learn strategies for using AI to generate assignment rubrics.
Workshop Outcomes. After completing this workshop, you will:
- Design authentic assessments that provide options for students to demonstrate their knowledge
- Design AI-related assignments applying Bloom's Taxonomy
- Integrate Universal Design for Learning (UDL) into AI-related assignments
- Create a rubric for assessment using AI
Custom ChatBots to Support Student Success
In this hands-on workshop, you will design a “course bot” that helps students stay on track with assignments, course policies, and course resources using Google Gems. We will focus on chatbot design that prioritizes learning as we discuss how to systematically draft prompts, set usage parameters and boundaries, and align the bot with your course goals. By the end of the workshop, you will leave with a prototype tailored to one of your classes.
Workshop Outcomes. After completing this workshop, you will:
- Describe how AI chat bots can support student learning
- Develop and train a Google Gem for an upcoming course
NotebookLM for the Classroom
Discover how Google’s NotebookLM can support your teaching. This workshop introduces the pedagogical potential of NotebookLM as a multimodal AI environment. You will learn how to create Notebooks to generate podcasts, video infographics, quizzes, and flashcards based on sources you upload. By the end of the workshop, you will leave with a detailed Notebook tool and a plan for integrating NotebookLM into course design and student project workflows.
Workshop Outcomes. After completing this workshop, you will:
- Use NotebookLM to create podcasts, explainer videos, quizzes, flashcards, and concept maps
- Design student projects centered around custom sets of research and learning materials
Google Gemini Beyond Chat
Discover the latest features and built-in tools in Google’s Gemini AI tool. In this workshop, you will learn how Gemini’s learning and research features can enhance your teaching design and support your students’ learning.
Workshop Outcomes. After completing this workshop, you will:
- Use the Learning feature in Gemini to support student learning
- Describe how Gemini’s Deep Research feature can enhance your courses
Camino/Canvas Workshops
Getting Started in Camino
Learn the basics of using Camino, 911±¬ÁÏÍø’s branded version of the Canvas Learning Management System. We will cover strategies for communicating with students, uploading course media, configuring course settings, and best practices for creating well-designed Camino courses that help you and your students communicate and stay organized.
Workshop Outcomes. After completing this workshop, you will:
- Explore the Camino interface for global and course navigation
- Evaluate and select different ways to communicate with students
- Upload content to your Camino course
- Organize course content using modules
Assessments and Quizzes in Camino
This workshop focuses on using Camino for assigning and assessing student work. You will learn how to create, grade, and give feedback to students using a variety of Camino assignment types. In addition to Assignments, we will cover creating, moderating, and grading in Camino's Quizzes tool.
Workshop Outcomes. After completing this workshop, you will:
- Create extra credit assignments (for participation, adjusting grades for extra credit, and quiz questions)
- Create a variety of assignment types in Camino
- Use Camino's SpeedGrader tool for grading student work and providing feedback
- Determine appropriate use cases for the CopyLeaks plagiarism detector and know how to configure the tool
- Create a rubric for grading an assignment to provide students with transparency about how they will be assessed
Grading and Feedback in Camino
You can use settings in Camino to ensure your course is optimized for your grading and teaching workflows. In this workshop, you will learn how you can set up your gradebook with a grade posting policy that matches your grading workflow, configure weighted grades, and show students where they can view instructor feedback. You will also learn about advanced Camino settings to stipulate when and how students access course materials.
Workshop Outcomes. After completing this workshop, you will:
- Create assignment groups
- Weight grades for different assignments
- Communicate to students how to view instructor feedback and grades
- Customize publishing and hiding settings for assignment and quiz grades
- Configure student access and visibility settings for your course
Student Collaboration with Hypothesis
Learn how you can use the Hypothes.is social annotation tool to support student learning and collaboration. Students can use Hypothes.is to learn from one another as they collaboratively take notes and ask questions of shared materials. This hands-on tutorial will teach you everything you need to know to begin using Hypothes.is in Camino.
Workshop Outcomes. In this workshop, you will learn how to:
- Create and assign social annotation assignments in Hypothes.is
- Assess and grade student annotations in Camino
Visual Collaboration with Lucid
Camino now has the Lucid information mapping and visual collaboration tool integrated across campus. Come learn how you can use and assign Lucid to help students visualize, organize, and understand information and concepts in your courses. This hands-on tutorial will teach you everything you need to know to begin using Lucid in Camino.
Workshop Outcomes. In this workshop, you will learn how to:
- Set up and assign Lucid charts and diagrams
- Identify appropriate use cases for concept mapping and diagramming in your teaching and assessments
Contact
If you have any questions about the workshops or instructional technology support in general, please contact the Instructional Technology team at caminosupport@scu.edu.