Center for Distributed Learning

Save time and simplify complex research tasks with emerging AI powered research tools! In this 60-minute workshop, the FMC and CDL will help you use AI-based research tools to the fullest.For similar events and training opportunities, check out our full listing of [Faculty Multimedia Center workshops and events](https://cdl.ucf.edu/support/fmc/events-workshops/) for the semester here.Don't miss out on enhancing your skills and knowledge with our beginner, intermediate, and advanced level workshops!This workshop is limited to UCF faculty, staff, and GTAs. Registration Link: https://app.acuityscheduling.com/schedule.php?owner=21423896&appointmentType=80456076

Your instructional videos have a voice, but do they speak to everyone? In this hands-on session, you'll explore the basics of audio descriptions and how to create them using Microsoft's Clipchamp. Walk away with practical strategies and skills that you can apply right away.For similar events and training opportunities, check out our full listing of [Faculty Multimedia Center workshops and events](https://cdl.ucf.edu/support/fmc/events-workshops/) for the semester here.Don't miss out on enhancing your skills and knowledge with our beginner, intermediate, and advanced level workshops!This workshop is limited to UCF faculty, staff, and GTAs. Registration Link: https://app.acuityscheduling.com/schedule.php?owner=21423896&appointmentType=80138785

In an era where AI tools are widespread, maintaining academic integrity in online assessments has never been more challenging. This workshop will explore how Respondus LockDown Browser and Monitor can be effectively used to deter and detect AI-assisted engagement during online assessments. Attendees will gain hands-on experience configuring exams, understanding monitoring analytics, and implementing best practices to ensure secure, fair testing environments.This workshop is hybrid and limited to faculty and staff. Registration Link: https://app.acuityscheduling.com/schedule/38ac1755/?appointmentTypeIds[]=82669727

Join us for a hands-on session where we'll walk through our Universal Design Online Content Inspection Tool (UDOIT), a tool within Webcourses@UCF that scans your course for accessibility issues and helps you fix them quickly. Discover why accessibility is important, gain practical experience using UDOIT in your courses, and deepen your understanding of best practices for accessible course design.Be sure to bring your laptop, your course materials, and your questions. Let's UDOIT together!This virtual workshop is limited to UCF faculty, staff, and GTAs.For similar events and training opportunities, check out our full listing of [Faculty Multimedia Center workshops and events](https://cdl.ucf.edu/support/fmc/events-workshops/) for the semester here.Don't miss out on enhancing your skills and knowledge with our beginner, intermediate, and advanced level workshops! Registration Link: https://app.acuityscheduling.com/schedule/38ac1755/?appointmentTypeIds[]=80037036

Hosted by UCF's Center for Distributed Learning, the CDL Faculty Connect expo is designed to bring faculty and staff together to explore the transformative potential of digital learning. Attendees engage with interactive booths showcasing tools and services such as AI technologies, 3D printing, VR equipment, instructional design resources, and multimedia support.The event fosters collaboration and innovation in teaching through demonstrations, conversations, and professional development opportunities. It also features light refreshments, giveaways, and insights into enhancing course delivery across modalities. Registration Link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/cdl-faculty-connect-expo-tickets-1560106744269?aff=oddtdtcreator

Want to make your online course content more welcoming and accessible for every student? Join UCF accessibility professionals to identify common barriers and demonstrate quick, effective strategies to improve course design. We'll work through interactive activities that will test and hone your digital accessibility knowledge. Additionally, we will demonstrate some free and simple-to-use tools and services available to you to enhance your course.In this workshop, you will:* Recognize common accessibility barriers in online courses, such as missing captions, unclear headings, and lack of alt text, and their impact on students. * Apply practical strategies to design accessible, student-friendly courses. * Identify UCF resources and tools to support ongoing accessibility improvements in your courses.This workshop is limited to UCF faculty, staff, and GTAs. Registration Link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1560106744269?aff=oddtdtcreator

This hands-on, bring-your-own-device workshop will explore generative AI tools in a collaborative setting. Join us to play with prompt design, try out features in UCF's Enterprise Copilot Chat, and share ideas for enhancing teaching, productivity, and everyday workflows. Working together, we'll co-create useful outputs such as structured data and simple custom bots. Let's experiment, explore, and imagine what's next for our classrooms and projects.In this workshop, participants will:* Explore UCF's Enterprise Copilot Chat and brainstorm practical ways to integrate GenAI into teaching, learning, and daily work. * Develop and refine prompts to generate structured and repurposable AI outputs. * Collaborate and co-create custom tools, structured datasets, and ideas to inspire new workflow possibilities.This workshop is limited to UCF faculty, staff, and GTAs. Registration Link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1560106744269?aff=oddtdtcreator

Bring your laptop or tablet to review gradebook settings and receive hands-on assistance configuring your gradebook and ensuring that you have everything in place to submit your final grades. Learn ways to weight and curve grades, and how you can use Grading Schemes to help automate your final grade submission process. This workshop will also cover if you calculate your final grades outside of the gradebook, and how to manage settings to reduce student confusion.* Discover the most common issues related to students' understanding of grading * Explore and create Grading Schemes to help ease the grade submission process * Manage your grades outside of the Gradebook depending on how you weight and curve your gradesThis workshop is limited to UCF faculty, staff, and GTAs. Registration Link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1560106744269?aff=oddtdtcreator

Discover how to design authentic online assessments --a powerful approach to evaluating student learning in meaningful, real-world contexts to foster engagement, critical thinking, and personalized learning.In this seminar, facilitated by Dr. Jo Smith and Dr. Sharon Woodill, participants will:* the meaning, purpose, and benefits of authentic assessment in online education. * key characteristics that distinguish authentic assessment from traditional testing. * how to design authentic tasks with clear criteria and effective rubrics. * how generative AI can be leveraged to support, not supplant, student learning in assessment. * how to incorporate AI with assessment to enhance originality, support process over product, and encourage academic integrity.Faculty Seminars in Online Teaching are stand-alone seminars that provide a space for collegial dialogue around best practices in online teaching. Co-presented by the Center for Distributed Learning and UCF teaching faculty, these sessions are designed as ongoing professional development for online instructors following IDL6543. However, all members of the UCF community with an interest in online teaching are welcome to participate. To view additional sessions or learn more, visit Registration Link: https://app.acuityscheduling.com/schedule/38ac1755/?appointmentTypeIds%5b%5d=81201099

Discover how 360-degree media and virtual reality can engage students through immersive experiences. Learn to create, curate, and implement interactive content with ThingLink, from virtual field trips to dynamic storytelling.For similar events and training opportunities, check out our full listing of [Faculty Multimedia Center workshops and events](https://cdl.ucf.edu/support/fmc/events-workshops/) for the semester here.Don't miss out on enhancing your skills and knowledge with our beginner, intermediate, and advanced level workshops!This workshop is limited to UCF faculty, staff, and GTAs. Registration Link: https://app.acuityscheduling.com/schedule/38ac1755/?appointmentTypeIds[]=55130751

Explore ThingLink's scenario-based learning tool to create immersive role-playing activities, escape rooms, decision trees, and more! Follow along with a live demo for creating these scenarios and syncing them to your Webcourses@UCF grade book.This workshop is limited to UCF faculty, staff, and GTAs.For similar events and training opportunities, check out our full listing of [Faculty Multimedia Center workshops and events](https://cdl.ucf.edu/support/fmc/events-workshops/) for the semester here.Don't miss out on enhancing your skills and knowledge with our beginner, intermediate, and advanced level workshops! Registration Link: https://app.acuityscheduling.com/schedule/38ac1755/?appointmentTypeIds[]=71561970

Join us for a hands-on session where we'll walk through our Universal Design Online Content Inspection Tool (UDOIT), a tool within Webcourses@UCF that scans your course for accessibility issues and helps you fix them quickly. Discover why accessibility is important, gain practical experience using UDOIT in your courses, and deepen your understanding of best practices for accessible course design.Be sure to bring your laptop, your course materials, and your questions. Let's UDOIT together!This virtual workshop is limited to UCF faculty, staff, and GTAs.For similar events and training opportunities, check out our full listing of [Faculty Multimedia Center workshops and events](https://cdl.ucf.edu/support/fmc/events-workshops/) for the semester here.Don't miss out on enhancing your skills and knowledge with our beginner, intermediate, and advanced level workshops! Registration Link: https://app.acuityscheduling.com/schedule/38ac1755/?appointmentTypeIds[]=80037036

The Division of Digital Learning's Faculty Multimedia Center (FMC) and Pegasus Innovation Lab (iLab) will be hosting events in partnership with departments and colleges around UCF. The AVID (AR VR Innovation Discovery) events aim to promote the growth of a vibrant community of professionals within the VR and AR space. AVID will offer a platform for the sharing of real-world use cases and research through interactive tech demonstrations and presentations.Join us for the next AVID event, featuring an engaging faculty panel focused on Extended Reality (XR) in nursing practice. The panel will be followed by an interactive tour of the College of Nursing's Simulation, Technology, Innovation and Modeling (STIM) Center and networking hour, hosted by the Division of Digital Learning and the College of Nursing.This event is limited to faculty. Registration Link: https://digitallearning.ucf.edu/ilab/avid/

Join us for an informative session that caters to both experienced and new Panopto users. We will focus on answering your questions and showing off Panopto's newest updates and features.This workshop is limited to UCF faculty, staff, and GTAs.For similar events and training opportunities, check out our full listing of [Faculty Multimedia Center workshops and events](https://cdl.ucf.edu/support/fmc/events-workshops/) for the semester here.Don't miss out on enhancing your skills and knowledge with our beginner, intermediate, and advanced level workshops! Registration Link: https://app.acuityscheduling.com/schedule/38ac1755/?appointmentTypeIds[]=58676187

UCF faculty credentialed to design and develop online/blended courses are invited to this one-day Universal Design for Learning (UDL) workshop offered by the Center for Distributed Learning (CDL). Explore and identify UDL strategies you are already using and new strategies you would like to adopt to reduce barriers for all students. Participants will have time during the workshop to work on two deliverables, which can be completed and submitted post-workshop to earn a CDL UDL badge. Coffee, drinks, and snacks will be provided; lunch will be on your own.This workshop is restricted to faculty credentialed to teach online and receive select CDL services/ADT.For similar events and training opportunities, check out our full listing of [Faculty Multimedia Center workshops and events](https://cdl.ucf.edu/support/fmc/events-workshops/) for the semester here.Don't miss out on enhancing your skills and knowledge with our beginner, intermediate, and advanced level workshops! Registration Link: https://app.acuityscheduling.com/schedule/38ac1755/?appointmentTypeIds%5b%5d=73835335