When students no longer have a next assignment to complete, and when their work will no longer be revised, how can you use your responding time effectively to the benefit of both you and your students? Join colleagues to talk about adjusting your response strategies for the particular context of the semester’s end.
Facilitated by Susanmarie Harrington, Writing in the Disciplines
Please reserve this time on your calendar. You will receive a Microsoft Teams calendar invitation the prior to your event explaining how to join and participate in the meeting. If you click “accept,” it will populate on your Teams calendar for easy access!
When students no longer have a next assignment to complete, and when their work will no longer be revised, how can you use your responding time effectively to the benefit of both you and your students? Join colleagues to talk about adjusting your response strategies for the particular context of the semester’s end.
Facilitated by Susanmarie Harrington, Writing in the Disciplines
Please reserve this time on your calendar. You will receive a Microsoft Teams calendar invitation the prior to your event explaining how to join and participate in the meeting. If you click “accept,” it will populate on your Teams calendar for easy access!
This workshop introduces accessible document design for the classroom context. When you create accessible documents with a wide range of users in mind, everyone in your course benefits. Join us to learn simple steps for creating accessible course materials and ways you can teach students to make their own assignments accessible—all with little added labor for you.
Facilitated by Susanmarie Harrington, Director, Writing in the Disciplines
Please hold this time on your calendar. A Teams invitation will be sent to you prior to the event.
Note: You may have arrived here via an older link. This workshop is now scheduled for Wednesday, April 10th, 10:45-11:45.
This workshop introduces accessible document design for the classroom context. When you create accessible documents with a wide range of users in mind, everyone in your course benefits. Join us to learn simple steps for creating accessible course materials and ways you can teach students to make their own assignments accessible—all with little added labor for you.
Facilitated by Susanmarie Harrington, Director, Writing in the Disciplines
Please hold this time on your calendar. A Teams invitation will be sent to you prior to the event.
Multiple tools claim to be able to detect AI-generated material, but are they reliable? How can we know? And what ethical questions and dilemmas might such tools pose? In this forum, we’ll talk about the tools we’ve tested at WID and what we learned about their effectiveness. Come share your experiences with and questions about AI detectors and we’ll explore the impacts such tools can have in the classroom.
Facilitated by Susanmarie Harrington, WID Director
Please mark your calendar! We will send a Teams invitation closer to the workshop.
Multiple tools claim to be able to detect AI-generated material, but are they reliable? How can we know? And what ethical questions and dilemmas might such tools pose? In this forum, we’ll talk about the tools we’ve tested at WID and what we learned about their effectiveness. Come share your experiences with and questions about AI detectors and we’ll explore the impacts such tools can have in the classroom.
Facilitated by Susanmarie Harrington, WID Director
Please mark your calendar! We will send a Teams invitation closer to the workshop.
Grant-writing can be a daunting task. But the GWC is here to help! This workshop will cover the ins and outs of writing grant proposals. We’ll discuss guidelines for grant-writing and effective ways to present your research to funding institutions. We welcome participants at all stages of their graduate or postdoctoral careers.
Facilitated by a Graduate Writing Center consultant in 302 Howe Memorial Library. Tea and light snacks provided.
Please reserve this time on your calendar!
This workshop is full. If you are interested in this workshop being offered again, please send us an email at gradwriting@uvm.edu.
With generative AI use on the rise, some instructors may be wondering whether, why, and how students might be cutting corners (at best) or cheating (at worst). Others may be wondering how they might talk with students about writing processes in a way that will motivate them to thoughtfully approach each assignment. In this workshop, we’ll explore what might drive some students to take shortcuts, how instructors can encourage students’ intrinsic motivation, and how we can create meaningful writing assignments.
Facilitated by Susanmarie Harrington, Writing in the Disciplines Director
Please reserve this time on your calendar! You’ll receive a Teams link prior to the event.
With generative AI use on the rise, some instructors may be wondering whether, why, and how students might be cutting corners (at best) or cheating (at worst). Others may be wondering how they might talk with students about writing processes in a way that will motivate them to thoughtfully approach each assignment. In this workshop, we’ll explore what might drive some students to take shortcuts, how instructors can encourage students’ intrinsic motivation, and how we can create meaningful writing assignments.
Facilitated by Susanmarie Harrington, Writing in the Disciplines Director
Please reserve this time on your calendar! You’ll receive a Teams link prior to the event.
This workshop explores ways you can tweak your approaches to grading and responding to written student work. With an eye to reducing your stress and workload while increasing clarity and effectiveness, we’ll explore a variety of practical grading tips.
Facilitated by Susanmarie Harrington
Please reserve this time on your calendar! You’ll receive a Teams link prior to the event.
This workshop explores ways you can tweak your approaches to grading and responding to written student work. With an eye to reducing your stress and workload while increasing clarity and effectiveness, we’ll explore a variety of practical grading tips.
Facilitated by Susanmarie Harrington
Please reserve this time on your calendar! You’ll receive a Teams link prior to the event.
Turnitin, a “similarity-detection” program, is integrated with Brightspace and can be utilized by instructors. WID has tested Turnitin’s capacities in order to inform decisions about the tool’s use. Join us to discuss WID’s observations regarding its function and limitations, and also to explore student motivation and writing integrity.
Facilitated by Susanmarie Harrington, Writing in the Disciplines
Please reserve this time on your calendar! You’ll receive a Teams link prior to the event.
James Lang’s Cheating Lessons chapter “Fostering Intrinsic Motivation” explores the ways instructor choices shape and encourage students’ inner motivation. These topics seem particularly relevant for instructors wondering whether lack of motivation might factor in students’ desires to use generative AI. Whether AI is on your mind or not, thinking about how we can design and present assignments that trigger motivation is important. We’ll read Lang’s chapter—available online via Howe Library—and talk about how it applies to spring classes.
Facilitated by Susanmarie Harrington, WID Director
Please reserve this time on your calendar! You’ll receive a Teams meeting link prior to the event.
As artificial intelligence tools become more available, it’s vital that we engage students in open and clear dialogue about course policies and other potential impacts. In this session, we will explore syllabi statements that address AI use and limits in varying contexts and how our expectations connect with UVM’s Code of Academic Integrity. Participants will be provided with a range of sample policies, statements, and guiding prompts and will leave the session with a heightened sense of the values they wish to communicate to students.
Facilitated by Susanmarie Harrington, WID Director.
Please mark your calendar! This workshop will be held in TEAMS; you’ll receive a calendar invitation prior to the event.
In this workshop, we’ll explore how focusing on just two, high-value assignment practices can make all the difference in your WIL1 course.
The first is an infusion of regular, low stakes writing prompts (tied to class material) that build writerly confidence, encourage involvement in substantive class discussions, and provide opportunities for writing practice. The second is a fully scaffolded essay that has layers of revision built into it over time, guiding students in the transition from high school to college writing in a meaningful and gratifying way.
Just these two assignment practices will not only simplify your syllabus, but also promote student growth as “writers who think.” Let’s discuss how they might work in your course! Please come prepared with a draft syllabus, or an old syllabus, to play around with.
Facilitated by Lisa Schnell, WID Faculty Associate
Please reserve this time on your calendar! You will receive an Outlook invite closer to the event. This is in-person in 302 Howe Memorial Library.
During this workshop, we’ll explore how to create and grade with rubrics in Brightspace while keeping fundamental design principles in mind. If you have a rubric you’re using for a fall assignment, please bring it with you!
Facilitated by Susanmarie Harrington, Writing in the Disciplines & Michelle Smolik, Center for Teaching and Learning
Please reserve this time on your calendar. We’ll send you a Teams link before the event.
Turnitin, a “similarity-detection” program, is integrated with Brightspace and can be utilized by instructors. WID has tested Turnitin’s capacities in order to inform decisions about the tool’s use. Join us to discuss WID’s observations regarding its function and limitations, and also to explore student motivation and writing integrity.
Facilitated by Susanmarie Harrington, Writing in the Disciplines
Please reserve this time on your calendar! You’ll receive a Teams link prior to the event.
Will you be responding to student work as part of your teaching assistant (TA) responsibilities? Come chat with past and present TAs to share your experiences, gain new insight, and explore strategies for responding to student work.
Your needs will guide the conversation, but topics might include:
- Being consistent and fair
- Aligning practices with those of the course instructor, other TAs, or the department
- Time management
- Using someone else’s rubrics
- Providing constructive feedback
New and returning undergraduate and graduate TAs from all disciplines are welcome.
Facilitated by: Madi Rougier and Jocelyn Rockhold, WID Graduate Research Assistants.
Turnitin, a “similarity-detection” program, is integrated with Brightspace and can be utilized by instructors. WID has tested Turnitin’s capacities in order to inform decisions about the tool’s use. Join us to discuss WID’s observations regarding its function and limitations, and also to explore student motivation and writing integrity.
Facilitated by Susanmarie Harrington, Writing in the Disciplines
Please reserve this time on your calendar! You’ll receive a Teams link prior to the event.
During this workshop, we’ll explore how to create and grade with rubrics in Brightspace while keeping fundamental design principles in mind. If you have a rubric you’re using for a fall assignment, please bring it with you!
Facilitated by Susanmarie Harrington, Writing in the Disciplines & Michelle Smolik, Center for Teaching and Learning
Please reserve this time on your calendar. We’ll send you a Teams link before the event.
During this workshop, we’ll explore how to create and grade with rubrics in Brightspace while keeping fundamental design principles in mind. If you have a rubric you’re using for a fall assignment, please bring it with you!
Facilitated by Susanmarie Harrington, Writing in the Disciplines & Michelle Smolik, Center for Teaching and Learning
Please reserve this time on your calendar. We’ll send you a Teams link before the event.
Join colleagues to learn how audio comments can increase clarity of instructor responses, reduce student stress, and improve grading and responding. Our conversation will help you to fine-tune your approach to feedback and commenting so that you get the results you want. We will demonstrate creating audio comments in Brightspace and other software.
Facilitated by Susanmarie Harrington, Writing in the Disciplines
Please reserve this time on your calendar! You’ll receive a Teams link prior to the event.
How are you feeling about grading and responding to writing? It can be both a challenging and rewarding part of teaching writing. In this open conversation, we’ll share perspectives, looking to understand the dynamics at work in our teaching practices. By talking with peers, we’ll identify strengths to build on and approaches that can reduce stress.
Facilitated by Susanmarie Harrington, Writing in the Disciplines
Please reserve this time on your calendar! You’ll receive a Teams meeting by the day prior to the event.
How are you feeling about grading and responding to writing? It can be both a challenging and rewarding part of teaching writing. In this open conversation, we’ll share perspectives, looking to understand the dynamics at work in our teaching practices. By talking with peers, we’ll identify strengths to build on and approaches that can reduce stress.
Facilitated by Susanmarie Harrington, Writing in the Disciplines
Please reserve this time on your calendar! You’ll receive a Teams meeting by the day prior to the event.
Facilitated by Susanmarie Harrington, Writing in the Disciplines Director
Please reserve this time on your calendar! You’ll receive a Teams meeting invitation close to the event.
Facilitated by Susanmarie Harrington, Writing in the Disciplines Director
This session has been canceled, but there are still openings for September 13th.
During this workshop, we’ll explore how you can help your students navigate the new-to-them expectations of college-level writing. We’ll talk about ways to connect and communicate with students as well as how to use reflection of their high school writing experiences to uncover skills they’ve already developed. Incoming students have many changes to navigate; with your support, they can experience a smoother and more successful transition.
Facilitated by Susanmarie Harrington, Writing in the Disciplines Director
Please reserve this time on your calendar! You’ll receive a Teams meeting invitation close to the event.
Due to a conflict, this workshop is now scheduled for September 11 @ 12. (It was advertised as 8/30 @ 11.)
During this workshop, we’ll explore how you can help your students navigate the new-to-them expectations of college-level writing. We’ll talk about ways to connect and communicate with students as well as how to use reflection of their high school writing experiences to uncover skills they’ve already developed. Incoming students have many changes to navigate; with your support, they can experience a smoother and more successful transition.
Facilitated by Susanmarie Harrington, Writing in the Disciplines Director
Please reserve this time on your calendar! You’ll receive a Teams meeting invitation close to the event.
Wondering what the Catamount Core’s new WIL2 requirement is all about? This short session will offer a brief overview of this new curricular option focused on writing and information literacy in a disciplinary context. We’ll spend most of our time on participants’ questions and comments.
Facilitated by Susanmarie Harrington, WID Director
Please mark your calendar! This workshop will be held in TEAMS; you’ll receive a calendar invitation prior to the event.
Wondering what the Catamount Core’s new WIL2 requirement is all about? This short session will offer a brief overview of this new curricular option focused on writing and information literacy in a disciplinary context. We’ll spend most of our time on participants’ questions and comments.
Facilitated by Susanmarie Harrington, WID Director
Please mark your calendar! This workshop will be held in TEAMS; you’ll receive a calendar invitation prior to the event.
