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CATL Weekly
August 1, 2025
In the August 1, 2025 issue
JOIN US BEFORE FALL COURSES START.
- Digital Accessibility, Office Hours
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Digital Accessibility 101: A look at the BS* of Title II for Canvas (*Barriers/Solutions)
Part of Professional Development Week for Instructors sponsored by CATL- 9 a.m. to noon Monday, Aug. 18
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Prescription for AI: Updating Class Policies and Guidelines
Part of Professional Development Week for Instructors sponsored by CATL- 9 a.m. to noon Tuesday, Aug. 19
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Digital Accessibility 201: The BS* of Title II for Digitizing Materials, Phase 2 (*Barriers/Solutions)
Part of Professional Development Week for Instructors sponsored by CATL- 9 a.m. to noon Wednesday, Aug. 20
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Canvas & Course Design plus CATL Consultations
Part of Professional Development Week for Instructors sponsored by CATL- 9 a.m. to noon Thursday, Aug. 21
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Conference on Teaching & Learning
UWL's 26th Annual- 9 a.m. to noon Tuesday, Aug. 26
SUMMER LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES.
- AI in Teaching and Learning: Take a self-paced training about teaching and learning with AI. Seats in the training were purchased by UWL CATL but the training is offered by Auburn University.
- Digital Accessibility: Dive into the Accessibility Course and learn about why digital accessibility is so important as well as how to create accessible Canvas courses, documents, and videos.
- Course Design: Learn more about how and why to use various tools to create a well designed course in Canvas. Request a consultation to level up your course design and we can touch on Digital Accessibility plus so much more!
MINI-CONFERENCES!
Last year, rather than sprinkling workshops on a variety of days/times, we tried a condensed approach and offered "mini-conferences", an afternoon of professional development for instructors. The design was a great success! And, we heard that only afternoon offerings did not allow some folks to attend as they wanted. While there is no perfect day/time, we are going to try the mini-conference approach again.. but this time we will plan an all-day event with hopes of allowing more people to join us. So, save these dates for the 25/26 academic year CATL mini-conferences!
- Friday, October 10 -- CATL Mini-Conference, Fall 2025
- Thursday, February 19 -- CATL Mini-Conference, Spring 2026
We'll also be hosting some other events, book clubs, communities of practice, and trainings during the 25/26 academic year. We'll post updates in the CATL Weekly as details are figure out.