Wednesday, April 1, 1:10pm - 2:00pm - Webinar

Explore how Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) can support the design of interactive, student-centered learning activities. This session explores practical strategies for using GenAI tools—such as ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Copilot—to design discussions, case studies, and simulations that enhance engagement and deepen learning. Examine how prompt-writing techniques and intentional use of GenAI can strengthen active learning, promote critical thinking, and create more meaningful learning experiences for your students.

By the end of this webinar, participants will be able to:

• Apply prompt-writing strategies to generate or adapt active learning activities that support engagement and student learning.
• Design interactive learning experiences—such as discussions, case studies, and simulations—that leverage GenAI to enhance participation and collaboration.
• Evaluate GenAI-generated activities to determine alignment with learning outcomes and opportunities for refinement.
• Identify ways to integrate GenAI intentionally into learning activities to promote deeper understanding, creativity, and reflection.

This is a required session for the Teaching and Learning with Generative Artificial Intelligence digital badge. Register

Thursday, April 2, 9:00am - 9:45am - Webinar

Join us for a focused Blue Coordinator training session where we’ll walk through the Course Download Tool, FileSub upload process, key dates, and the updated Coordinator Guide. This is a great opportunity to get ready for the upcoming Filesub deadline and connect with fellow coordinators.  Register

Thursday, April 2, 11:45am - 1:00pm - In-Person

This Mutual Expectations workshop and luncheon will focus on the roles students and faculty play in supporting mentoring relationships through undergraduate research. What makes a good research mentor and mentee? What are common mentoring challenges faced by both students and faculty in a research setting? How do both students and faculty work towards building high quality mentoring relationships through research experiences? Join this fun discussion with fellow students and faculty!

Free lunch is provided and RSVP required!

Sponsored by the Carolina Experience, the Center for Teaching Excellence, and the Office of Undergraduate Research.

This workshop is an elective session for a certificate of completion in Understanding USC Student Populations and Experiences. Register

Tuesday, April 7, 10:05am - 11:20am - Webinar

Engaging in conflict is challenging whether you are an experienced instructor or new to your role. A common strategy is to ignore the behavior due to our own discomfort, concern over retaliation or fear that our intervention may cause more harm or disruption. We will identify what our fears are about classroom disruption and use case study examples to practice strategies to stretch participants' comfort zones. This workshop will also explore Gerald Amada's research from Coping with Misconduct in the College Classroom and provide participants with tangible strategies to prevent and respectfully address disruptive behavior.

This is a required session for a certificate of completion in Fostering Proactive Learning Environments. Register

Tuesday, April 7, 1:00pm - 2:00pm - Webinar

This workshop is designed for Blackboard users who are familiar with the new Ultra Course View but want a more intensive look at the UCV Gradebook. In this 60-minute session, a consultant from eLearning Services will share best practices and tips & tricks for setting up a Gradebook that works for you, present a live demonstration, and answer questions. Register

Tuesday, April 7, 2:50pm - 4:05pm - Webinar

Are you curious how others are successfully incorporating games into their classroom as a means of active learning? Are you interested in asking what makes their games work or how they pick the game? This webinar will feature panelists from across disciplines discussing their expertise, tips, and answers to your questions. At the end of panel discussions, participants will have the opportunity to share their own experiences. Come join a growing group of educators here at USC who use gaming as Active Learning in their classrooms! Register

Wednesday, April 8, 12:00pm - 12:50pm - Webinar

Enhance the authenticity, clarity, and meaningfulness of your assessments with Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI). This session explores practical strategies for using GenAI tools—such as ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Copilot—to design assessment tasks, generate formative feedback, and support student reflection. Examine how intentional prompting and transparent use of GenAI can strengthen assessment for learning, promote critical thinking, and support deeper student learning.

By the end of this webinar, participants will be able to:

Wednesday, April 8, 2:20pm - 2:50pm - Webinar

Captioning and transcripts make video content more engaging, flexible, and accessible. Learn how to use USC’s supported video platform, Panopto, to easily add and manage captions for lectures and other recorded materials. Register

Thursday, April 9, 11:40am - 12:10pm - Webinar

PDFs are one of the most common file types shared across courses and websites, but they can also be one of the least accessible if not properly designed. This micro-workshop explores how to create and remediate accessible PDFs, whether you’re exporting from Word, PowerPoint, or scanning existing materials. Learn how to check PDFs for accessibility as well as resources to address the most common errors. Register

Thursday, April 9, 2:00pm - 2:45pm - Webinar

In preparation for upcoming course surveys, this session will introduce Explorance Blue, our new course survey tool. We’ll walk through the entire process—from selecting your two personalized questions to encouraging student participation. We’ll also review the instructor report, including what it looks like and when you can expect to receive it after the survey period concludes.  Register

Thursday, April 9, 2:50pm -4:05pm - Webinar

You've got your mind set on active learning strategies, but how do you bring them to scale without overwhelming yourself or your students? Maybe you're wanting to do 'something' active in your big class, or to adapt a technique you're using with a smaller class, but need support with the logistics.

Join us for an overview of effective, evidence-based active learning strategies that are manageable in larger classes - whether for you that means 30 or 300.  Register

Tuesday, April 14, 2:50pm - 4:05pm - In-Person

Reflecting upon your mentoring relationships is a vital part of becoming a more effective mentor. This is especially important immediately following a mentor-mentee training sequence like Entering Mentoring as it allows you to consider how to implement changes in your mentoring practice based on the training you have received. The ability and practice of reflecting on your mentoring at regular intervals is strongly encouraged.

This is a required session for the Entering Mentoring certificate of completion. Register

Wednesday, April 15, 12:00pm - 12:50pm - Virtual

The Virtual Environments Community of Practice is planning ways to integrate virtual reality, augmented reality and mixed reality into teaching and learning environments at USC. Meetings are open to faculty, staff and students. Register

Wednesday, April 15, 2:30pm - 4:00pm - Webinar

The Generative Artificial Intelligence Community of Practice (GenAI CoP) at the University of South Carolina is a collaborative initiative designed to explore and discuss the implications of GenAI in higher education. This community brings together faculty, staff, and graduate students to share insights, strategies, and experiences related to the integration of GenAI across administration, research, teaching, and learning.  Register

Thursday, April 16, 10:05am - 11:20am - In-Person

Learn to question your assumptions about what students know and explicitly identify the knowledge and skills you want them to acquire when completing library research assignments. [In this session, participants will explore common challenges students face when conducting library research and identify best practices for designing assignments that require or encourage the use of library resources. Participants will also have the opportunity to learn about ways in which faculty can partner with librarians to support student success. By creating research assignments with specific learning outcomes that are clear to your students, you can improve the experience for everyone involved.

This is a required session for a certificate of completion in Teaching with the Library.  Register

Thursday, April 16, 1:15pm - 2:30pm - In-Person

Through Recovery Ally workshops, Gamecock Recovery strives to empower students, faculty and staff to make campus more supportive of students in recovery from substance use disorder. Learn to: confront myths and stigma about substance use disorder; use and model acts of allyship in everyday interactions; and identify, access, and direct people to recovery resources at USC.

The Recovery Ally workshop is presented in a flipped-classroom model that includes a self-paced video module as prework (estimated 20 minutes) and an in-person session. Please review the recorded content prior to your workshop session.

This is a required session for a certificate of completion in Mental Health and Well-being Competency.  Register

Friday, April 17, 1:00pm - 2:15pm - Webinar

In this workshop, you will begin to develop (or revise) a syllabus for a course you teach now or in the future, through exploration of the Backward Design framework (Wiggins & McTighe 1998) and the associated concept of course alignment (Fink 2013). We’ll discuss the importance and role of learning outcomes and explore how to craft them using Bloom’s revised taxonomy (Anderson & Krathwohl 2001). Attendees will then learn how the development of thoughtfully designed learning outcomes guides instructors in formulating the appropriate assessment, creating a quality learning activity or assignment, and finally, determining the most effective method for teaching that activity. Other tips and resources for syllabus development will be discussed, including template resources from the CTE, inclusion of required and optional sections (as per USC policies), and other recommendations.  Register

Tuesday, April 21, 11:40am - 12:55pm - Webinar

A teaching philosophy statement provides a concise description of an instructor's perspective on teaching, student learning, methodologies, and implementation, and institutions typically request a teaching philosophy statement from applicants for faculty positions and as part of the tenure and promotion process.

What, then, is your teaching philosophy? What aspects should you reflect upon, write, or include? And importantly, how has the writing of this document changed as a result of ChatGPT, both in your perspective on this fundamental shift in higher education as well as document construction assistance? This will be a working webinar, where we will discuss strategies for composing the statement, incorporating time for personalized theme development, and tips for using ChatGPT prompts in writing it. Participants will leave with a thematic outline and components of their statement, and guidelines to continue crafting it.

NOTE: For you and other participants to benefit the most in the time available, this webinar requires that you do some reflective writing in advance of the session.

This is a required session for the Teaching and Learning with Generative Artificial Intelligence digital badge.  Register

Tuesday, April 21, 2:50pm - 4:05pm - Webinar

Active learning can energize your classroom and provide AI-proof ways to assess students' progress. Unfortunately, many students groan at the thought of group work or discussions. Come learn how adding various tools and media to your classroom can get your students excited about the coursework. This webinar tackles the question of how educators can use student-facing technologies such as virtual whiteboards, collaborative documents, VR, games, podcasts, polling, and more to increase student interest both in the in-person and online classroom. In addition, we will talk about overcoming common obstacles both in planning and implementation.  Register

Wednesday, April 22, 2:20pm - 3:10pm - In-Person

The Universal Design for Learning (UDL) community of practice provides an intentional space for discussion regarding accessibility in teaching and learning at the university. Faculty, staff, and students are invited to join. Register

Thursday, April 23, 10:05am - 11:20am - In-Person

Thursday, April 23, 11:40am - 12:55pm - In-Person