Classroom & Webinar Courses

Welcome back! 

Whether you're stepping into the classroom, training staff, or supporting students behind the scenes,
this workshop highlights the most useful Panopto updates and tools to help you start the semester confident and ready.

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 Description: Welcome back! Whether you're stepping into the classroom, leading staff meetings, or supporting students behind the scenes,
this workshop highlights the most useful Zoom updates and tools to help you start the semester confident and ready.

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.

Take your alternative text skills to the next level! In this exciting session, you’ll learn how to craft detailed, accurate alt text for complex images and explore how AI tools can streamline the process. By the end, you’ll be ready to evaluate and refine AI-generated alt text, ensuring your visual content is accessible and impactful. Note: This is a hands-on training, so bring your complex image files to apply the skills you’ll learn!

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: Learners will be able to identify and incorporate a workflow for common complex images.
Learners will be able to write detailed and accurate alt text for complex images. Learners will be able to leverage and evaluate AI tools to aid in the creation of alt text for complex images.

Target Audience: Faculty; TAs

Enrollment Type: Open (Anyone can enroll)

Contact Person: Mychelle Hadley

Contact Person Email: mychelle.hadley@utsa.edu

Sharing PDFs in your course? This beginner-friendly session will introduce Equidox and show you step-by-step how to fix common issues like reading order, headings, tables, and images. You’ll leave with practical skills you can use right away to create more usable, student-ready documents.

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 Description: Join us to discover the latest Padlet updates! This workshop will explore how these new tools can enhance engagement, streamline instructional tasks, and support interactive learning experiences. Through demonstrations and practical examples, you will see how Padlet’s newest features can be applied across a variety of teaching and learning contexts. The session is designed to help you confidently integrate these updates into your courses with purpose and impact.

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.

Ready to ignite creativity in your classroom? Join the Adobe Peer Network, a dynamic community where faculty like you come together to explore innovative ways to integrate digital literacy and creativity into teaching.

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. Engage with other faculty interested in the topic.
2. Learn the newest tips, trends and tools related to the topic.
3. Share successes and concerns with other faculty interested in the topic.

This course provides an overview of accessibility features in RowdyLink, highlighting where to find and how to use key fields such as alt text, accessible hyperlinks, spelling checks, and document requirements. Participants will learn practical steps to improve the accessibility of their content and support ongoing efforts toward updated ADA compliance by 2027.

Explore how Adobe’s AI-powered tools can unlock new creative possibilities in education. This series introduces imaginative approaches to academic content creation, helping you communicate ideas in fresh, visually compelling ways.

Designing with Purpose in Illustrator (July 6, 2026)

Get comfortable with the core Adobe tools you’ll encounter in real scenarios. These sessions focus on practical workflows, common user pain points, and how the apps connect, so you can work efficiently without needing to be experts in each tool. By understanding the basics, you can ask better questions, resolve issues faster, and support creative work with clarity instead of guesswork.

Identity and Expression in Photoshop (July 13, 2026)

Explore how Adobe’s AI-powered tools can unlock new creative possibilities in education. This series introduces imaginative approaches to academic content creation, helping you communicate ideas in fresh, visually compelling ways.

Motion and Emotion in Video with Premiere Pro (July 20, 2026)

Explore how Adobe’s AI-powered tools can unlock new creative possibilities in education. This series introduces imaginative approaches to academic content creation, helping you communicate ideas in fresh, visually compelling ways.

Adobe Foundations for Academic Innovation

Building confidence across the Adobe ecosystem (June 16 and July 6, 2026)
Get comfortable with the core Adobe tools you’ll encounter in real scenarios. These sessions focus on practical workflows, common user pain points, and how the apps connect, so you can work efficiently without needing to be experts in each tool. By understanding the basics, you can ask better questions, resolve issues faster, and support creative work with clarity instead of guesswork.

Common Photoshop Failures (July 13, 2026)

Easy Audio with Adobe Podcast (July 20, 2026)

Accessible forms make it possible for all users to successfully complete, navigate, and submit important information. In this hands-on session, participants will learn how to create accessible PDF forms with clear structure, proper labeling, and keyboard-friendly navigation. We’ll explore common accessibility barriers in forms and share practical techniques to help ensure a smoother experience for all users.

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

In this session dedicated to professionals in the Career Center office, we covered what resources the division of Academic Innovation has created for faculty and students, how to stay up-to-date through the Generative AI Peer Learning Network; how to access the Canvas Open Course and the Coursera micro credentials on generative AI; best practices for prompt engineering and for generative AI platforms.

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.

Canvas Intelligent Insights provides institutional-level analytics that help academic leadership better understand patterns of student engagement across courses in Canvas. This session introduces the core dashboards, engagement indicators, and activity trends available through Intelligent Insights. Participants will learn how these insights can support conversations around student engagement, instructional practices, and student success initiatives.

Course Description: Join us for an training session on Peerceptiv, a research-backed peer assessment tool designed to facilitate student engagement and collaborative learning. This session will walk you through the core features of the platform, with a special focus on setting up and managing Peer Evaluations and Group Evaluations. Please come prepared with one or more specific assignments in mind and an idea of how you would like them to run. If you have a rubric for the assignment, please have that document available as well.

Course Description: ObservED by Cidi Labs is a course monitoring platform that provides visibility into student progress and course activity within Canvas. This session introduces the core features of ObservED, including automated grade flags, monitoring dashboards, and reporting tools that help identify potential academic concerns. Participants will learn how these insights can support proactive outreach and advising conversations.

Join us to learn more about how you can power up your course and increase student engagement with Padlet. Design customized Padlets, which are collaborative digital discussion boards, using various media formats with our representative from Padlet.

Please bring a device to this working session to get personalized support.

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: 

• Describe the purpose and functionality of Padlet as a collaborative digital discussion tool for instructional and engagement purposes.
• Create customized Padlets by selecting appropriate formats and layouts that align with specific learning outcomes or discussion goals.
• Incorporate diverse media formats, including text, images, video, audio, links, and embedded content, into Padlets to enhance visual appeal and learner interaction.
• Apply design principles to organize Padlet content effectively, ensuring accessibility, clarity, and engagement for diverse learners.

This session will provide an introductory overview of Adobe InDesign. In this session participants will learn how to layout text, images, and graphics.

Join Apple for an engaging session designed specifically for university faculty and staff. Discover how Apple products and tools can transform your teaching—both in-person and online—with approaches to meet the needs of all learners.

In the era of generative AI (GenAI), academic integrity is more than a matter of catching misconduct. It’s about cultivating trust, motivation, and authentic learning experiences. This interactive workshop begins with insights from recent data on HCAP faculty perspectives about GenAI and its impact on teaching and learning. Together, we’ll reflect on what AI is more broadly, and then focus on GenAI, clarifying how it fits within the larger AI landscape, what it means for higher education, and how it is reshaping the ways students engage with knowledge. Drawing on The opposite of cheating: teaching for integrity in the age of AI by Tricia Bertram Gallant and David A. Rettinger, we’ll reframe integrity as an opportunity to design engaging learning environments. Participants will explore strategies for promoting student motivation, as well as practical approaches to authentic assessment design that align with both integrity and deeper learning. By the end of the session, participants will leave with evidence-based strategies and concrete tools for cultivating a culture of integrity in their classrooms, one that is responsive to the challenges and opportunities of the GenAI era.

Faculty are invited to come to the workshop with an assignment or activity they would like to revisit leveraging GenAI.

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.

Please note that this session is specifically for HCAP Faculty

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Gain the power of real-time accessibility data at your fingertips! In this hands-on session, we’ll explore the Course Accessibility Report in Canvas and show you how to interpret and act on what you find to improve the student experience.
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.