HCAP Pedagogical Engagement Academy - Effective Use of Artificial Intelligence
Join us for an engaging panel discussion on the "Effective Use of Artificial Intelligence"! We will explore innovative ways to integrate AI tools into the classroom, enhancing teaching and learning experiences. Our panelists from HCAP will discuss ethical considerations and share best practices to ensure the responsible and effective use of AI in learning. We look forward to an insightful and inspiring conversation with you!
Creating an effective learning environment for all is important to us. To request an accommodation, please email DigitalAccessibility@utsa.edu one week prior to your scheduled training.
Course Objectives: Identify various AI tools and applications that can be integrated into classroom settings to enhance teaching and learning experiences.
Develop strategies for effectively implementing AI tools in their teaching practices, ensuring they align with educational goals and improve student engagement and outcomes. Discuss the ethical considerations and best practices associated with using AI in education.
Coping with Change
Change is a fact of life. Every day brings about change - whether positive or negative - and even the positive changes can be stressful. The inability to cope with change can be detrimental to mental and physical health. In this session, discover tools and techniques to successfully manage change and thrive.
Contact Person: Stephanie Zamarripa
Contact Email: Stephanie Zamarripa
Motivate and Lead
Effective leaders and managers engage the workforce to increase commitment. In a business environment, employee engagement improves productivity and performance. People are not only motivated by personal gain, they can be motivated by feeling like they are contributing directly to organizational goals. Learn how good leaders motivate staff using a variety of skills.
Contact Person: Stephanie Zamarripa
Contact Email: Stephanie Zamarripa
Elevating Your Leadership Communication
Course Description:
Elevating Your Leadership Communication equips UTSA leaders with essential strategies to enhance communication, build meaningful connections, and drive team success. This interactive course emphasizes the power of effective communication in leadership, helping participants develop active listening skills, overcome barriers, and adapt their communication styles for greater impact.
Participants will learn to:
- Identify and overcome common communication barriers.
- Utilize active listening techniques to build trust and engagement.
- Adapt their communication style to different situations and team dynamics.
- Apply practical strategies for delivering clear, impactful messages.
By the end of this session, leaders will be equipped with the tools to strengthen relationships, enhance collaboration, and achieve their goals with greater clarity and confidence.
Audience: This course is designed for supervisors, managers, and leaders at UTSA who want to elevate their communication skills and leadership impact.
Four Steps to Creating Dynamic Presentations
This course will guide Business Affairs employees through the four essential steps to creating impactful presentations. You’ll learn how to organize your content effectively, create a well-structured presentation using university-approved resources and refine your work to ensure it’s clear and engaging.
Course Objectives:
- Organize your content and create a clear outline to build a strong foundation for your presentation.
- Use your outline to create a professional and engaging presentation with university-approved templates, logos and photos.
- Review your content to ensure clarity, consistency and alignment with university standards.
- Edit and refine your presentation to enhance its impact and effectiveness.
Audience: Business Affairs employees
Graphic Design Basics & Adobe Express Training
This course is designed for Business Affairs employees looking to enhance their graphic design skills. You’ll learn practical tips for creating eye-catching flyers and graphics using Adobe Express, expert advice on capturing great event photos and guidance on setting up video projects for your department.
Course Objectives:
- Develop the skills to create visually appealing flyers and graphics using Adobe Express.
- Learn how to capture high-quality event photos that enhance departmental communications.
- Gain the knowledge to effectively set up and manage video projects.
- Build confidence in using Adobe Express tools to produce professional-level designs.
Audience: Business Affairs employees
How to Lead a Team that Provides Great Customer Service
This dynamic presentation will help leaders to prepare their employees to consistently provide great service to both internal and external customers. Covered topics include how to make providing great customer service a team mission, ways to teach customer
service skills to your staff, and strategies for coaching employees that fall short of your customer service expectations.
Contact Person: Stephanie Zamarripa
Contact Email: Stephanie Zamarripa
The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Employees
Successful employees share many common traits such as integrity, a positive attitude, good interpersonal skills, and a strong work ethic. This dynamic presentation provides an overview of these and other characteristics important to career success, and outlines several strategies for integrating these traits into our own lives.
Contact Person: Stephanie Zamarripa
Contact Email: Stephanie Zamarripa
AllOne Health: The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Supervisors
Description: Successful supervisors share many common traits such as a positive attitude, good interpersonal skills, and a strong work ethic. This dynamic presentation provides an overview of these and other characteristics important to employee engagement and retention, as well as, outlines several strategies for integrating these traits into your management style.
AllOne Health: Creating an Environment that Encourages Employee Growth & Development
Description: Employee engagement increases in an environment where individuals are encouraged to grow and develop professionals. This presentation discusses strategies for creating and implementing a career development plan for each staff member.
AllOne Health: Stress & Its Impact on Your Health
Description: This seminar takes a practical look at the effect stress has on individuals mentally and physically, along with helpful strategies for listening to internal alarm systems and proactively implementing stress management techniques that can improve health, productivity, and life satisfaction.
AllOne Health: How to Work More Collaboratively with Your Team
Description: This session covers the benefits of collaborative communication, including proactively connecting with colleagues to learn their communication style, approaches for soliciting more input from others, and how to better utilize brainstorming to encourage people to share their thoughts and ideas during conversations and meetings.
AllOne Health: Moving from Manager to Leader
Description: This important presentation discusses the key differences between being a manager and a leader and provides several strategies for becoming more of a leader on a day-to-day basis. Covered topics include core leadership goals, the mindset of effective leaders, the importance of using a collaborative approach, and methods for motivating your team.
AllOne Health: How to Build Positive Workplace Relationships
Advanced Communication Skills that Improve Employee Motivation
This practical presentation covers several key interpersonal skills that help strengthen workplace relationships including learning to focus the needs of others, how to respond instead of react during conflict, and ways to amicably resolve disagreements.
Contact Person: Stephanie Zamarripa
Contact email: Stephanie.zamarripa2@utsa.edu
Leadership Skills for Non-Supervisor Staff Members
All staff members can be called on to lead others at one time or another. Whether it be taking the lead on a project or organizing a department function, the ability to lead and influence others is an important skill set. This important session is designed to help individuals that are not currently in a supervisory role to enhance leadership skills such as building strong bonds with colleagues, collaborating effectively on tasks and projects, and resolving conflicts that arise.
Contact Person: Stephanie Zamarripa
Contact Email: Stephanie.zamarripa2@utsa.edu
Adobe Express Faculty Institute
Course Description: The Adobe Express Faculty Institute consists of four 45-minute sessions. Participants will be introduced to applications included in Adobe Express, an online tool that is free for all UTSA faculty, staff, and students. Attendees will be able to complete short projects that will give them the opportunity to produce artifacts that they can use to improve their digital literacy skills. Participants may attend the sessions synchronously on Zoom or asynchronously on Panopto. Each cohort will be capped at 20 participants.
*Incentive: $500 for benefits eligible faculty who complete all
assignments (Staff with a teaching assignment will not be eligible for the incentive)
Creating an effective learning environment for all is important to us. To request an accommodation, please email DigitalAccessibility@utsa.edu one week prior to your scheduled training.
**Staff members and instructors with Teaching Assistant I, Teaching Assistant II, and Graduate Research Assistant appointments do not qualify for enrollment**
Course Objectives: By attending this course, participants will be able to:
Design visually engaging course graphics optimized for Canvas, social media, and presentations, incorporating photos, graphics, and type, and export them effectively for screen and print use.
Create and edit short-form videos with graphics and audio, differentiating them from long-form videos, and produce a one-minute welcome video tailored to their course needs.
Build and customize Express pages by adding and editing content, type, and graphics, and publish them as shareable digital resources.
Develop dynamic presentations using Express, integrating media, embedded content, and assets created in previous sessions, and share them effectively across platforms.
Adapt course assignments into relevant, innovative projects for their own teaching contexts by utilizing creative tools and strategies introduced in the course.
Target Audience: Faculty
Enrollment Type: Open (Anyone can enroll)
Adobe Roundtable Series: Embedding Adobe Badges Into Courses
Course Description: The Adobe Roundtable Series at UTSA is designed to foster an interactive, collaborative dialogue about the integration of Adobe tools into university courses. This series will underscore Adobe’s influential role in enhancing digital literacy and spearheading educational innovation. Each monthly session connects educators with Adobe experts, UTSA staff, and faculty who are adopting groundbreaking methods to enrich learning experiences with Adobe technologies. Participants will explore best practices, exchange strategies, and gain actionable insights to empower both educators and students in digital literacy.
Creating an effective learning environment for all is important to us. To request an accommodation, please email DigitalAccessibility@utsa.edu one week prior to your scheduled training.
Course Objectives: Explore the role of Adobe digital badges in enhancing students' professional development and adding value to their learning experiences.
Target Audience: Faculty
Enrollment Type: Open (Anyone can enroll)
Canvas + Creating Engaging Assignments
Course Description: Are you looking for ways to increase student engagement while monitoring their progress in your course? Join us to learn more about how to use tools within Canvas to assess student learning across all coursework, and how you can use this information to make data-driven decisions using New Analytics.
Creating an effective learning environment for all is important to us. To request an accommodation, please email DigitalAccessibility@utsa.edu one week prior to your scheduled training.
Course Objectives:
1. Identify currently used methods to increase student engagement in your course.
2. Plan ways to monitor the student progress in your course.
3. Use tools within Canvas to assess student learning across all coursework
4. Review Canvas' New Analytics data.
Target Audience: Faculty and TA's
Enrollment Type: Open (Anyone can enroll)