Week Zero Schedule of Events

Library Tour and Lunch

Take a tour of the library!  Learn more about our services we offer, meet with our staff, and identify ways to incorporate our services into your class. 

We will enjoy a lunch in the Walker Center following the tour.  

10:00 - Library Tour
12:30 - Lunch with Library and Walker Center Staff

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Faculty Bus Tour

The second annual faculty bus tour will explore the educational possibilities of Chattanooga to encourage incorporating our place in the UTC classroom. Speakers and locations will address the history and future of Chattanooga and how other faculty have leveraged place and community in their teaching. Both new and returning faculty are invited to register below. Food will be provided. Seating is limited to 50.

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Canvas Boot Camp

Let's get back to basics with your Canvas LMS.  Each session is 45-minutes in length and offered on Zoom.  The sessions will focus on the following topics:

9:00 am or 1:00 pm – Building and Editing Your Canvas Course
10:00 am or 2:00 pm – Online Assignments and Grading
11:00 am or 3:00 pm – Online Exams: Classic and New Quizzes

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Learning Technologies Fair

Let’s explore some of the learning technologies available on campus and how they can enhance your courses. These sessions will focus on tools that support engagement, academic integrity, and thoughtful course design. Each session is 45-minutes in length and offered on Zoom. Featured tools include:

9:00 am or 1:00 pm – Response Systems (Kahoot and Poll Everywhere)
10:00 am or 2:00 pm – Academic Integrity (Proctorio and Turnitin)
11:00 am or 3:00 pm – Designing Tools (H5P and DesignPlus) 

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AI Workshops

Let’s get practical about generative AI in your teaching. Today’s sessions will focus on identifying what belongs in an Acceptable Use Policy for your syllabus, exploring Sarah Eaton’s Six Tenets of Postplagiarism, and conducting a faculty roundtable on classroom integration of AI. We’ll finish with a quick session on one efficient way to address student use of AI tools in Canvas quizzes. Each session is 45-minutes in length and offered on Zoom.

9:00 – Crafting an Acceptable Use Policy for Your Course
10:00 – The 6 Tenets of Postplagiarism: Writing in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
11:00 - New Ideas for Implementing AI in the Classroom: Faculty Roundtable
1:00 – Addressing Student Use of AI in Canvas Quizzes 

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Coffee and Consultations

Stop by and let's review your courses together to make sure they are ready to go.  We can meet in-person or virtually.  Let's use this time to answer questions you may have, discuss ways to enhance your current courses, or just review what you've got to make sure it's ready to go.

Date: Each Friday in August
Time: 9:00 am - 2:00 pm
Where: Walker Center, Library 433 or Virtually