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Understanding Student Stressors: A Workshop for Teaching Assistants and new faculty (In-Person)

Blackburn Room (4th Floor, Robarts Library) 130 St. George St., Toronto, ON, Canada

This summer TATP along with Health & Wellness will be running a hybrid version of the Mental Health Foundations Certificate . The certificate was designed to help students develop their mental health literacy so that they can support themselves and others. This hybrid offering gives Teaching Assistants the added opportunity to learn about the stressors your students face as […]

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 […]

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, […]

UDL Express: MOVE into Accessibility: Versatility

Looking for simple, high-impact ways to make your course materials more accessible and welcoming? Join us for UDL Express: MOVE into Accessibility, a hands-on summer webinar series designed to support small, meaningful improvements in digital course content. This four-part series introduces the MOVE framework—Meaning, Organization, Versatility, and Engagement—as a set of purpose-first design checks that […]

Tune into Teaching: Getting Started with Quercus and the Academic Toolbox

Facilitators: Derek Hunt, Educational Developer, Teaching, Learning & Technology, CTSI Marko Piljevic, Educational Technology Analyst, Teaching, Learning & Technology, CTSI Maryam Shafiei, Educational Technology Analyst, Teaching, Learning & Technology, CTSI This session introduces participants to Quercus and U of T’s Academic Toolbox, with a focus on practical strategies for organizing course content, communicating with students, […]

UDL Express: MOVE into Accessibility: Engagement

Looking for simple, high-impact ways to make your course materials more accessible and welcoming? Join us for UDL Express: MOVE into Accessibility, a hands-on summer webinar series designed to support small, meaningful improvements in digital course content. This four-part series introduces the MOVE framework—Meaning, Organization, Versatility, and Engagement—as a set of purpose-first design checks that […]

Social Annotation for Digital Reading in the Age of AI

Facilitator: Brian Malone, Customer Success Specialist, Hypothesis How do digital environments and generative AI shape student reading? This workshop explores how social annotation with Hypothesis supports active, critical, and mindful reading in the digital age. Participants will examine research on digital reading, learn how annotation can reduce distractions and deepen comprehension, and explore ways to foster […]

Engage Every Student: iClicker in Action

Stephanie Bragg, Campus Support Partner, iClicker Join us for a one-hour session designed to help you confidently set up and use iClicker Cloud in your classroom. We’ll walk through the setup basics—running live polling and quizzes, tracking attendance and participation, and syncing grades with Quercus—so you can get up and running quickly. We’ll also explore […]

Introduction to Cogniti: U of T’s AI Tool to Support Student Learning

Facilitator: Jordan Holmes, Senior Manager, Teaching, Learning, and Technology, CTSI Research shows that generative AI tool design matters for learning. The OECD Digital Education Outlook 2026 finds that AI tools with clear educational guardrails may support learning outcomes, while unstructured use of AI risks becoming a shortcut that may hamper genuine learning gains. Through Cogniti, U of […]

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, […]

Introduction to Cogniti: U of T’s AI Tool to Support Student Learning

Facilitator: Jordan Holmes, Senior Manager, Teaching, Learning, and Technology, CTSI Research shows that generative AI tool design matters for learning. The OECD Digital Education Outlook 2026 finds that AI tools with clear educational guardrails may support learning outcomes, while unstructured use of AI risks becoming a shortcut that may hamper genuine learning gains. Through Cogniti, U of […]

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