Faculty and Staff Development Opportunities
Professional development is at the heart of our mission to support growth, innovation, and excellence across our campus community. Our programs are designed to empower faculty and staff with practical tools, fresh perspectives, and collaborative opportunities that enhance teaching, learning, and professional practice. Whether you’re looking to explore new technologies, strengthen instructional strategies, or engage in conversations that spark innovation, this is your space to learn, share, and grow.
Canvas Clinic
Canvas Clinic is a 17-session hybrid workshop dedicated to covering the main features of Canvas, beginning in September and continuing through March of 2026. In each session, the Division of Academic Innovation (DAI) experts will cover basic and intermediate details of Canvas features. We will explore and experience various components of Canvas. You can self-enroll in the course to preview what’s coming.
Level 2 sessions are brand new this year! Check the schedule for four additional offerings where we’ll dive deeper into each topic through hands-on activities and real-time workshopping.
Ed Tech in Teaching
DAI offers comprehensive training sessions on educational technology tools to support effective and innovative teaching practices. These sessions address a wide range of platforms, including learning management systems, interactive software, digital assessment tools, and virtual collaboration technologies. Through participation, faculty gain strategies to enhance instructional methods, foster student engagement, and streamline administrative processes. In addition, these trainings promote digital literacy for both instructors and learners, contributing to a more dynamic, adaptable, and future-ready academic environment.
Academy of Health Science Educators (AHSE)
AHSE is a monthly workshop series dedicated to best practices in learning and education in the health sciences. AHSE will encourage all faculty to develop in themselves and in their colleagues’ excellence in facilitating learning at all stages of education from classrooms and labs to practice and research. The AHSE will foster a culture of educational excellence that values diversity. Continuing education credits can be claimed for attendance at many of our AHSE sessions.
Self-Paced Courses
Preparing to Teach Online (PTTO) is a self-paced, required training for faculty teaching online for the first time as per the UNT Health Distance Education Policy. Starting from September 10th, 2021, participants can claim continuing education credit after completing all the assessments and meeting the minimum requirement of this course. To enroll in the PTTO course, contact canvas@unthealth.edu.
This course covers the essentials of Canvas you need to know as an instructor, from learning your way around the Canvas interface to using Canvas tools. To enroll in this course, contact canvas@unthealth.edu.
This course provides guidance for using the more advanced features of Canvas, as well as a variety of third party tools that are available for use within Canvas. To enroll in this course, contact canvas@unthealth.edu.
This course is a required training for teaching assistants at UNT Health that trains and prepares them for the experience of being a TA. For information regarding this course, contact canvas@unthsc.edu.
This course is designed to provide both guidelines and a repository to help you in your rubric development. You may review the rubrics course at any time.
This resource provides a collection of ready-to-use Canvas course templates available for download and import into your course shell. Each template is designed to save time, promote consistency, and support effective course design. Inside, you’ll find step-by-step instructions for importing a template, along with guidance on how and why templates are used to enhance teaching, streamline navigation, and improve the student learning experience. You may review the Canvas Course Templates at any time.
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