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Wednesday, November 5, 2025
- 9:00 AM5hCDL Faculty Connect Expo - Fall 2025Hosted 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
- 9:00 AM5hCDL Faculty Connect Expo - Fall 2025Hosted 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
- 9:15 AM45mAccess Granted: Building Welcoming CoursesWant 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
- 9:15 AM45mAccess Granted: Building Welcoming CoursesWant 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
- 10:05 AM45mPrompt, Play, and Create with GenAIThis 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
- 10:05 AM45mPrompt, Play, and Create with GenAIThis 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
- 11:45 AM1h 15mPreparing the Gradebook for Grade SubmissionsBring 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
- 11:45 AM1h 15mPreparing the Gradebook for Grade SubmissionsBring 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