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Collaborating across Campuses: Leveraging a Land-Grant Network
Workshop/Training
Utah State’s land-grant mission provides unique opportunities for faculty to collaborate across disciplines, campuses, and communities. In this Sparkshop, we’ll explore strategies for building meaningful partnerships that foster shared vision, resource-sharing, and collective problem-solving. Participants will consider how to leverage USU’s statewide network to strengthen interdisciplinary connections and address complex challenges. Join us to exchange ideas and identify actionable ways to collaborate across boundaries.
Rubrics and Equity-based Grading
Workshop/Training | EmpowerED Series
This hour-long workshop will introduce participants to the principles of equity-based grading and the use of rubrics to promote fair and transparent assessment at the college and university level. Educators will explore how to design rubrics that align with learning goals while reducing bias and promoting student success across diverse backgrounds. Through hands-on activities and discussions, participants will gain practical tools for implementing grading practices that recognize student effort, growth, and diverse ways of demonstrating knowledge.
Rubrics and Equity-based Grading
Workshop/Training | EmpowerED Series
This hour-long workshop will introduce participants to the principles of equity-based grading and the use of rubrics to promote fair and transparent assessment at the college and university level. Educators will explore how to design rubrics that align with learning goals while reducing bias and promoting student success across diverse backgrounds. Through hands-on activities and discussions, participants will gain practical tools for implementing grading practices that recognize student effort, growth, and diverse ways of demonstrating knowledge.
How to Quickly Create a Beautiful Canvas Course
Workshop/Training
Design Tools for Canvas allows you to rapidly stylize and build out your Canvas course, allowing you to focus more time on planning engaging content and learning activities in your course.
More than Passion: Crafting an Evidence-Based Teaching Statement
Workshop/Training | EmpowerED Series
In this hour-long session, discover how to transform a teaching philosophy into a concise, impactful statement that resonates with committees, colleagues, and students. Learn practical techniques for reflecting on your pedagogical values and using powerful language to craft an evidence-based statement of teaching. Walk away with a strong framework for and fresh confidence in articulating what makes your teaching effective.
More than Passion: Crafting an Evidence-Based Teaching Statement
Workshop/Training | EmpowerED Series
In this hour-long session, discover how to transform a teaching philosophy into a concise, impactful statement that resonates with committees, colleagues, and students. Learn practical techniques for reflecting on your pedagogical values and using powerful language to craft an evidence-based statement of teaching. Walk away with a strong framework for and fresh confidence in articulating what makes your teaching effective.
Contrapower Harassment in Higher Education
Workshop/Training | EmpowerED Series
This hour-long workshop will explore the concept of contrapower harassment, where individuals with less institutional power (such as students) harass those with more authority (such as faculty or staff). Participants will learn about the dynamics of contrapower harassment, its impact on college and university environments, and strategies for responding to and preventing these behaviors.
Contrapower Harassment in Higher Education
Workshop/Training | EmpowerED Series
This hour-long workshop will explore the concept of contrapower harassment, where individuals with less institutional power (such as students) harass those with more authority (such as faculty or staff). Participants will learn about the dynamics of contrapower harassment, its impact on college and university environments, and strategies for responding to and preventing these behaviors.
More than Passion: Crafting an Evidence-Based Teaching Statement
Workshop/Training | Sparkshops
In this 45-minute session, discover how to transform a teaching philosophy into a concise, impactful statement that resonates with committees, colleagues, and students. Learn practical techniques for reflecting on your pedagogical values and using powerful language to craft an evidence-based statement of teaching. Walk away with a strong framework for and fresh confidence in articulating what makes your teaching effective.
Active Learning Strategies for In-Person Courses
Workshop/Training | EmpowerED Series
This workshop introduces practical, research-informed techniques to increase student engagement, motivation, and retention during face-to-face class sessions. This workshop explores a range of strategies—from think-pair-share and collaborative problem-solving to structured debates and real-time polling—that can be adapted across disciplines. Participants will reflect on their current teaching practices, identify opportunities for active learning, and leave with ready-to-implement ideas. Whether teaching large lectures or small seminars, instructors will gain tools to foster deeper learning and participation.
Getting Started with Canvas
Workshop/Training
This workshop covers signing in, creating assignments and setting up the gradebook, using modules, pages, and files, and updating profile and notification settings. Topics are subject to change based on the experience of attendees and what is needed.
Mentoring Students with Intention
Workshop/Training | EmpowerED Series
In this hour-long workshop, student mentors will learn about the importance of ground rules in mentoring students – establishing rapport, confidentiality, and professional boundaries. Furthermore, participants will explore how to successfully engage in student mentorship through the lens of the GROW model, a structured approach that guides mentees from goal setting to actionable outcomes. The GROW framework highlights four key stages: identifying the mentee’s Goal, evaluating the current Reality of each goal, generating possible Options (and acknowledging Obstacles), and establishing the Will or Way forward. The session will review evidence-based practices rooted in the literature and incorporated into mentorship programs from around the country. Through real-world examples and interactive discussions, participants will gain practical insights into applying the GROW model and forging professional relationships with student mentees both inside and outside the classroom.
Getting Started with the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
Workshop/Training | EmpowerED Series
Curious about how to turn your classroom into a site for scholarly inquiry? This one-hour introductory workshop will help faculty explore the fundamentals of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL), including how to frame meaningful research questions about student learning, identify relevant methods, and begin designing a SoTL project based on their own teaching. Participants will leave with practical resources, sample studies, and guidance for taking their first steps into SoTL.
Enhance Your Canvas Course with DesignPLUS
Workshop/Training
USU Design Tools is now Design Plus. This new version of the popular formatting tools for Canvas makes it easy to add a consistent look and feel to your course and enhance the visual appeal of the homepage, content pages, and assignments. You can improve the look of tables, add borders to pictures, insert dividing lines on pages, and much more!
Active Learning Strategies for Online Courses
Workshop/Training | EmpowerED Series
This workshop equips instructors with effective methods to foster student engagement and interaction in online learning environments without real-time meetings. The workshop highlights approaches such as discussion board redesign, multimedia annotations, interactive case studies, and scaffolded peer feedback to promote critical thinking and collaboration. Participants will explore how to create meaningful learning experiences that encourage active participation, even across time zones and schedules. By the end of the session, faculty will have additional strategies to make their asynchronous courses more dynamic, inclusive, and learner-centered.
Editing 2+ Courses in one Place with Canvas Blueprints
Workshop/Training
Canvas allows a teacher to create a "blueprint" course, where updates can be made just once and then synced to several associated courses. This can greatly ease the management of multiple versions of the same class. This workshop shows how to use and effectively manage blueprint courses.
Active Learning Strategies for Online Courses
Workshop/Training | EmpowerED Series
This workshop equips instructors with effective methods to foster student engagement and interaction in online learning environments without real-time meetings. The workshop highlights approaches such as discussion board redesign, multimedia annotations, interactive case studies, and scaffolded peer feedback to promote critical thinking and collaboration. Participants will explore how to create meaningful learning experiences that encourage active participation, even across time zones and schedules. By the end of the session, faculty will have additional strategies to make their asynchronous courses more dynamic, inclusive, and learner-centered.
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