All events are online and in Eastern time unless otherwise noted.

LILE Teaching Consultants Available
During the Winter Break

Stop by our open online office hours for one-on-one teaching support

LILE teaching consultants will remain available during their regularly scheduled online office hours throughout the winter break, which are Mondays from 1 - 3 pm and Thursdays from 10 am - 12 pm. LILE consultants can help you try new ideas, address teaching and learning challenges, provide guidance on Canvas site design, and create approaches that improve your experience as an instructor and enhance student learning.

Hello, GPT! Crafting Generative AI Tools for Your Classroom

Monday, January 6 | 12 - 1:30 pm

Join this highly interactive workshop to learn how to adapt the latest generative AI tools for your classroom or other learning setting. Facilitated by Carter Zenke ′20, this online workshop is specifically tailored to those wanting to begin teaching with AI. Past participants have brought a range of ideas to life: an expert clinician to help nurse practitioners in training, a tutor to answer student questions at 3am, and a co-teacher to generate classroom activities, among others. Come with an idea and leave with a prototype! No prior experience with generative AI required. This event is open to all, regardless of Duke affiliation.

Crafting the Writing Process

Tuesday, January 14 | 12 - 1 pm

Co-Sponsored by the Thompson Writing Program and the Language, Arts and Media Program

Left to their own devices, students often wait to begin writing assignments until they are nearly due-cheating themselves out of much the learning the assignment was designed to support. This session explores a range of options for staging the writing process in ways that can maximize learning, without overburdening the instructor.

GenAI Fundamentals: A Beginner’s Guide to Generative AI & Prompting

Friday, January 17 | 12 - 1 pm

In this workshop we will trace the impact of generative AI over the last year. We will review what generative AI means and discuss how natural language processing has created an AI accessible to all. Finally we will discuss the basics of how to use generative AI. This means how to create prompts that will get you the best results in your conversations with the AI.

Designing Your Canvas Site for Student Success

Friday, January 3 | 10 - 11:30 am

This session will focus on the core of Canvas – the Modules tool – and how to use it and several other key Canvas tools to best organize your site to support student success.

Assessing Student Learning in Canvas

Friday, January 3 | 1:30 - 3 pm

This session will cover assessing student learning in Canvas using quizzes, graded discussions, assignment submissions, and the gradebook.

Canvas Open Office Hours

Monday, January 6 | 10 am - 2 pm | Bostock 127 (The Edge Workshop Room)

Instructors are invited to work in person on their Canvas sites for Spring. There will be teaching consultants available to help answer your questions. Plus, in the company of other instructors, you can share ideas and information about how you’ll be using Canvas. This is a drop-in event. No registration is necessary.

Accessibility in Canvas

Tuesday, January 7 | 12 - 1 pm

This workshop will cover the principles of accessibility and how to apply them when designing your course sites in Canvas. We will also review tools within Canvas you can use to improve the accessibility of your course.