Collaborative Learning with LucidSpark in Canvas

Explore how Lucidspark in Canvas can help your students collaborate more effectively. This session introduces simple, engaging tools for brainstorming, organizing ideas, and working together in real time—all directly integrated into your Canvas course.

When: December 11th at 11am via Zoom

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Canvas Essentials Training by Academic Technologies

Register for a one-hour virtual interactive session to learn the Canvas features you will use every day—from organizing course materials to managing assignments and communicating with students.

Sessions run twice a week from late October through early January. Click below to reserve your spot early and ensure availability.

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Canvas Office Hours

Need extra support or have specific questions? Drop into Canvas Office Hours, offered weekly now through January. Work directly with a Canvas Consultant to troubleshoot, explore features, and get personalized support.

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Impactful Teaching Through Active Learning Course

Created and facilitated by team members from PETAL and Learning Innovation Faculty Engagement (LIFE)

The course is facilitated on Blackboard Ultra and was designed to be a self-paced, asynchronous four-week course that showcases different methodologies and activities that encourage a more active and learner-centered approach. The course is broken into four modules and dives into strategies and educational tools that support active lecturing, discussions, collaborative learning, and more. The course also comprises several activities for participants to complete such as case studies, discussions, and reflective journal prompts.

You can register at any point throughout the year and complete the modules at your own pace. Participants will also receive a certificate upon completion of the course.  

After you have registered, administrators will have you enrolled in the course via Blackboard and you will be notified via email of your enrollment. The course was developed on Blackboard Ultra.  

If you have any issues with enrollment, please email life@miami.edu

Register for the Impactful Teaching Course

     Fall 2025

• PETAL Lunch and Learn - Exploring Qualitative Methods: Coding & Codebook Development 
• New Faculty Orientation (NFO) Resource Fair 2025 

     Summer 2025

• Summer Pedagogical Summer Institute (SPRI) Summer 2025

     Spring 2025

• Explore Ed Tech Tools in 30 Minutes or Less! (LIFE)
• Assessment: The Silent Killer of Learning - Lunch & Learn with Dr. Eric Mazur 
• Flat Space, Deep Learning: Using Project and Team-based Learning to Promote Ownership of Learning - Lunch & Learn with Dr. Eric Mazur
• Breaking Down Classroom Walls and Setting Learning Free - Lunch & Learn with Dr. Eric Mazur
• Reading Reimagined: Engaging Students through Active Reading Strategies

     Fall 2024

• Question Design Workshop with Eric Mazur 
• Listen Courageously Documentary Film and Workshop
• PETAL Lunch and Learn: Promoting Evidence-Based Study Skills for Students’ Success  

     Spring 2024

• UMverse: Using Immersive Technologies in the Classroom

     Fall 2023 - Prior 

• The AI Teaching Exchange (LIFE)
• Transformative Teaching with Virtual and Augmented Reality
• Teaching in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
• Getting Started with Discussion
• First-Hand Knowledge: Exploring Primary Sources at the University Libraries
• Developing a Student-Centered Syllabus
• Coffee and Course Design
• Classroom Connections through Object-Based Learning
• Get to Know the Lowe: Tour of UM Faculty
• Cognates and Quality Enhancement Plan
• UM Student Context
• Active Learning Pedagogy
• Integrating Innovative Technologies Effectively
• Online Learning and Course Design
• Assessment and Evaluation Panel

If you have a workshop topic you would like to recommend we explore, please email petal@miami.edu and we will get back to you!