Cogniti Onboarding: Setting Up Your AI Tool for Student Use

Facilitators:  Derek Hunt, Educational Developer, Teaching, Learning, and Technology, CTSI Victoria Sheldon, Educational Developer, Teaching, Learning, and Technology, CTSI  Cogniti is U of T's platform for building course-specific AI tutors: grounded in your content, aligned with your pedagogy, and deployed directly in Quercus. In this session, we will walk you through everything you need to […]

Designing Assessments with UDL and GenAI in Mind

Facilitators: Victoria Sheldon, Educational Developer, Teaching, Learning & Technology, CTSI Samantha Chang, Educational Developer, Teaching, Learning & Technology, CTSI  This session explores three key moments in assessment design—assessment preparation (instructions, expectations, and framing), student demonstration of learning, and feedback and reflection—through the lens of Universal Design for Learning (UDL) and the evolving role of generative […]

Customizing Cogniti: Aligning for Different Learning Goals

Facilitators: Derek Hunt, Educational Developer, Teaching, Learning, and Technology, CTSI Victoria Sheldon, Educational Developer, Teaching, Learning, and Technology, CTSI  Once your Cogniti tutor is up and running, the real work begins: aligning it to what you want students to learn and how you want them to engage. Different learning goals call for different tutor designs, […]

Making Course Improvement Visible: Student Feedback & Documenting Instructor Growth

Facilitator: Haley Zubyk, Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream, Human Biology Program End-of-term course evaluations are valuable, but they often arrive too late to support the students currently in your classroom, and they rarely provide the kind of specific, actionable insight that helps you refine course design in real time. In large classes, especially, it can be […]