Kickstart your Winter 2025 with CAEN’s comprehensive workshop series

CAEN is offering a series of Winter 2025 Workshops (January 22-February 6) for Michigan Engineering faculty and staff, focusing on enhancing digital accessibility and educational technology. Sessions include writing effective U-M GPT prompts, creating accessible digital documents, enhancing video accessibility and exploring funding opportunities through Digital Accessibility Grants.

Workshop schedule:

Wednesday, January 22

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CAEN Winter Success Workshop Series: November 14-December 5

CAEN is excited to announce its Winter Success Workshop Series, offering an array of sessions designed to enhance your knowledge of available teaching and learning tools. This season’s dynamic lineup runs November 14 through December 5, 2024 and includes these sessions:

  • Unlocking Funding Potential: Navigating E3 Grants
  • An Introduction to Student Polling Using Poll
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Importance of creating accessible course content for students

Addressing accessibility is a shared responsibility that enriches our academic environment and supports our goal of fostering an inclusive educational experience for future engineers. This goes beyond legal obligations; it enhances the learning experience for all students.

Accessible design benefits everyone in the university community, making digital resources like websites, mobile applications and digital course Continue Reading »

Instructional technology updates: Canvas, new software, fall workshops

Canvas

Canvas has made changes to site navigation for the Assign to function on Assignments, Discussions and Quizzes. Note this feature will return to the previous functionality some time in August or September. In addition, Canvas now allows instructors to assign ungraded discussions, modules and pages. Learn more about Canvas software updates

New software

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CAEN fall 2024 instructional technology workshop series

CAEN is hosting a variety of workshops on various classroom and instructional technology tools this fall, from August 22-September 26. For workshop schedule and descriptions and to sign up, please visit the Fall Workshop Series Page.

Workshop titles include:

  • Instructional Tech Intro: Tools to Transform Your Classroom
  • Classroom Presentation Systems
  • An Introduction to Navigating
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8-Week GenAI Challenge – Summer 2024

Join the 8-Week GenAI Challenge presented by CAEN and ITS to unlock the potential of generative AI technologies. Each week, we’ll tackle a new aspect of GenAI, with practical challenges that showcase the power and versatility of UM-GPT and related tools. Starting July 15, expect to spend just 15-20 minutes weekly on engaging tasks. Complete Continue Reading »

CAEN summer technology workshops for faculty and staff

CAEN is hosting various online summer technology workshops geared toward faculty and staff. Workshops begin May 16 and end July 25. Topics include:

  • AI prompting
  • U-M Maizey (Introduction and Advanced)
  • Tandem – a tool to promote and manage student teamwork
  • Poll Everywhere – a student response system with interactive classroom activities 
  • Peerceptiv – peer-to-peer learning
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