Teaching with New Media: Short-Form Video
Short-form video is a flexible tool for explaining key concepts, prompting reflection, and engaging students through familiar media. This session will explore pedagogically grounded use cases, showcase examples aligned with common learning goals, and demo simple, accessible workflows for creating and integrating short-form video into your courses. No prior video production experience required.
Improving AI Prompts to Create Meaningful Assessments
In this session, explore practical strategies for improving AI prompts to generate higher-quality classroom assessments. We’ll share a structured approach to prompt design, highlight common pitfalls, and offer tips and tricks to produce sensible assessment items.
Assessment Feedback and Grading in Large Classes
Need to ease your grading load in a large course? Join us to explore techniques for delivering feedback efficiently and effectively at scale while still providing students with encouragement and direction to meet their goals.
Headers, Images, and GenAI…Oh My: Creating Accessible Content for All Learners
When creating digital content—especially materials for your Bruin Learn site—you have an opportunity to improve engagement and learning for all students, not just those using assistive technologies like screen readers. In this session, we’ll cover how to effectively use heading structures and write meaningful alternative text for images. We’ll also discuss how GenAI can support […]
Learn from our Graduates: Exploring the 2025 Senior Survey Data Dashboards
This session introduces key insights from the 2025 UCLA Senior Survey using interactive data dashboards. Learn how to interpret student responses to better understand their academic experiences and inform your teaching practices. Join us to explore trends and translate student feedback into meaningful improvements for your courses and programs.
Exploring the Student Writing Process with Turnitin Clarity
Understanding how students develop their writing has become more complex in the age of generative AI. This presentation introduces Turnitin Clarity, a writing process tool instructors can pilot during the Spring quarter. During this session, we will highlight key writing insights Clarity provides – indicators such as pasted text, minimal revision, active writing time, and […]
From Air Pollution to Action: Using Case-Based Guest Lectures to Promote Real-World Application in Environmental Health Courses
This session offers a method for addressing a common challenge in environmental health courses: connecting complex scientific concepts with students’ lived experiences and motivating them to think critically about public health solutions. It focuses on the implementation of a case-based learning guest lecture technique in three UCLA undergraduate and graduate courses to help students apply […]