Fall 2026 Offerings
WAC LIAISONS workshops earn AI Trailblazer Certificate Credit!
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Writing Your AI-Ready Syllabus Policies
Facilitated by Leslie Bruce
In under an hour, this asynchronous WAC LIAISONS workshop will guide faculty through adapting their syllabi academic integrity policies for the presence of AI. Policy definitions, expectations, rationale, guidance, and repercussions will be modeled and explained.
Critical Thinking with AI: A Few Ideas
Facilitated by Leslie Bruce
This asynchronous WAC LIAISONS workshop will introduce recent research on critical thinking and AI use, then explore a few generalizable ideas for using student-LLM interactions to strengthen students' critical thinking skills as they increase their subject mastery.
Using Writing to Learn in Any Class
Facilitated by Alison Marzocchi
Through this asynchronous, Canvas-based workshop, faculty will learn about Writing to Learn (WTL) activities. WTL activities typically include quick, informal, low-stakes writing tasks in which students consolidate their learning of a course’s content. Adding WTL activities to a class can improve student learning and writing, enrich class discussion, and allow faculty to quickly assess even large classes’ understanding of core concepts. Come to this workshop to learn five effective WTL activities all instructors can apply in their classes.
Adapting Major Assignments to Reduce AI Overreliance
Facilitated by Leslie Bruce
Attempts to detect generative AI use in coursework are never foolproof. When we prohibit students from using AI but can't verify whether they did so, it undermines the validity of our assessments. Students who use AI with sophistication may earn higher grades than those who avoid it, and we may reward the former for skills they don't actually have. This asynchronous workshop helps us build validity back into our assessments with assignments that prevent AI misuse, engage students, and offer alternative ways for students to demonstrate their competence. Join us any time during the workshop's two-week access window to learn several strategies for reducing AI use in your major assignments.
Authentic (and Potentially Publishable!) Writing Assignments II: Scaffolding for Success (Asynchronous)
Facilitated by Alison Marzocchi
Through this asynchronous, Canvas-based workshop, faculty will learn about scaffolding student success on authentic, discipline-specific writing assignments. This Part 2 workshop builds on Part 1 which coached faculty on choosing an authentic, discipline-specific writing task and consulting real samples to build a rubric. Part 2 will share ideas for embedding mini writing workshops into your course to build students' authentic writing skills.
Faculty Writing They Don’t Teach You in Grad School
Facilitated by Alison Marzocchi
Through this asynchronous, Canvas-based workshop, faculty will learn tips for different genres of faculty writing that are not typically taught. In graduate school, we all learned how to write a research paper, but what about recommendation letters or challenging emails? How do you self-promote on grants or award nominations? Faculty will be provided with tips for writing outside of our typical research paper genre.
Using NotebookLM to Support Teaching & Learning
Facilitated by Leslie Bruce
This one-hour, asynchronous workshop will show faculty how to reduce their workloads using Google's NotebookLM. This free LLM research tool is easily accessible and does not train models with users' data. The workshop shows faculty multiple faculty- and student-facing ways to use NotebookLM to lighten their teaching and service workflows.
Leading Effective Peer Reviews
Facilitated by Alison Marzocchi
Students learn more from writing assignments when they receive written or spoken feedback during the writing process. In- or out-of-class peer reviews will add more quality feedback to your students’ writing processes. This asynchronous workshop introduces faculty to strategies for focusing and improving student peer reviews. Students receive rubric-driven feedback on their writing before turning it in, yielding higher quality papers and decreasing grading time.
Engaging AI Critically with Your Students
Facilitated by Leslie Bruce
Take this asynchronous workshop at your own pace. Learn some of the promises and perils of AI chatbots, explore ways to support critical thinking about AI in class, and draft your own in-class AI-infused activity for feedback. (2-hour certificate credit)
