Faculty Wellness Lunch n’ Learn

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Led by: Nicole Muth, Nichole Ostrowski, Lisa Adams-Qualls

Date: February 25th, 12:00 PM-1:00 PM

Location: Lakeshore Room 

Holding Space While Holding Ourselves: Trauma-Informed Tools for Faculty Well-Being is a faculty-led, practical training designed to support CUW educators navigating the emotional realities of today’s classrooms. This session explores the cost of caring, the impact of student trauma on faculty, and core principles of trauma-informed teaching. Participants will gain simple, usable tools for responding when students disclose distress, setting healthy boundaries, and replenishing their own energy. Emphasizing psychological safety, choice, and sustainability, this session offers strategies faculty can use immediately to care well for students and themselves.

Self-care Assessment

Wellness Wheel

Self-Care Checklist

Session Slides

Using Tests and Quizzes in Canvas for Meaningful Student Learning

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Led by: Tyler Shadick, Kate Robertson

Dates: Thursday, February 12th, 2026 – 12:00 – 1:00 PM

Location: Lakeshore Room

Come to this program to learn how and why to use tests and quizzes in Canvas. This program will focus both on the pedagogical decisions behind designing tests so students can demonstrate meaningful learning and the technological “how-to” of setting up tests in Canvas. Bring your laptop and any questions for the team.

Presentation Recording

Quizzes and Exams Training PowerPoint

Respondus Lockdown Browser Training PowerPoint

Using Studio to Increase Student Engagement

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Led by: Tyler Shadick, Mary Buenz, Jackie Pomeranke, Seth Westfall

Tuesday, January 13, 2026 – 12noon-1 pm – Lakeshore Room

Come to this program to learn how to use Studio in Canvas to increase student engagement with you, other students, and the content of your course. This program is geared toward all faculty, but attendance is strongly encouraged for any faculty who currently utilize VoiceThread in their courses, as our university VoiceThread subscription is ending. You will learn all the basics of Studio, as well as have time to ask questions.

Session Recording

PowerPoint

Canvas Studio v. VoiceThread Handout

Successful Department Chair 2025

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Dr. Leah Dvorak

The Successful Department Chair

October 13, 12noon-1 pm (1-2 AA), Zoom

The audience for this program is Department Chairs and Program Directors. What are the expectations for the role of Department Chair or Academic Program Director? An effective chair or academic program director manages faculty, staff, programs, courses, and processes vital to student success. The effective chair also fosters a healthy departmental culture and establishes efficient, collaborative decision-making processes. A strong department chair or program director uses both management skills and leadership skills to create and sustain a successful department in which faculty and staff feel engaged and energized.

Session Recording

Mathematica Hands-On Training Seminar

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Mathematica Hands-On Training Seminar

Tuesday November 10, 1-3pm on Pharmacy 149

Stay the entire time, or drop in for part of the time.

Click here to register.

Seminar presented by Neil Andrews from Wolfram, the makers of Mathematica. This will be an introduction to the software and hands-on help. Concordia University has purchased a site license. All faculty and students can download and activate the software for free, but it may be especially helpful for those in the math or sciences areas.

Downloading and installing Mathematica is easy through the Wolfram user portal (https://user.wolfram.com/portal/login.html).  You need to create a Wolfram account.  You can then download Mathematica and request an activation key.  Anyone with a @cuw.edu or @cuaa.edu email should have no trouble obtaining an activation key.

Here is a link to a 6 minute overview of Mathematica: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0QPUemRnPU

The session will be recording for those who cannot attend.

Panopto: How to move recordings from a folder that is scheduled for deletion

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Due to the high utilization of Panopto, academic recordings will need to be archived after three semesters. Folders that are four semesters or older will be deleted from the Panopto server after each semester.  An example is a folder with a term code of 201410 (Fall 2013) will be removed from Panopto at the start of the 201610 (Fall 2015) term. There are many folders that are unlabeled, these will be removed as well if they are more than four semesters old.

If your current classes require videos from older terms it will be the responsibility of the folder owner to move the recordings from those folder slated for deletion. If you share a folder with another faculty member, please work together to keep only recordings you need. Instructions for moving videos to a recent folder can be found here.

If you have any questions about videos falling under the policy stated above, please feel free to email Rob Erbes at robert.erbes@cuw.edu.

Using Videoconference Stations (Polycomm) – all locations

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If you are having trouble, and you cannot reconnect as described below, call the AV number 262-243-4370.

Using the Polycomm HDX Remote (handout)

How to Make a Connection to Another Site (handout)

Emergency Plan of Action if Trouble Arises (handout)

Best Practices for Teaching with Videoconference (handout)

Sign up here for the self-paced Videoconference Course for faculty (Mequon or Ann Arbor locations). Center faculty contact your center director to be registered for the Center version.

Smart Board Software Links

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Here is the information for the Smart Notebook Software.

If you would like to download the Smart Notebook Software to play with on your own computer, go to http://www.smarttech.com/us/Support/Browse+Support/Download+Software.

You will be asked for a product key.  Please contact CELT for access to this key.  The license states that you can download the software for free on other computers, but may not use the software on competitor’s products, so you can’t use the software with a different brand of interactive white board (so you can’t use it on a Promethean Board).

You may also be interested in the social network on Ning for Smart Board using educators http://smartboardrevolution.ning.com/ or http://eduscapes.com/sessions/smartboard/.  The National Library of Virtual Manipulatives, Shodor Interactivate, and NCTM Illuminations are great resources for any Interactive white board, computer lab activities, for a math center with a few classroom computers, or with 1 computer and a projector.

If you teach with a Promethean Board at some point I recommend checking out http://www.prometheanworld.com/ for resources for Promethean Boards.  Promethean Boards also have a great deal of resources.  I’m just not as familiar with those.   Let me know if you have any questions.

Nicole Muth Ph.D.

Concordia University Wisconsin

Middle Childhood Through Early Adolescence Department Chair

 

CELT Mission Statement

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Concordia University Wisconsin’s Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching develops faculty for excellence in teaching in the face-to-face and blended learning environments, including the meaningful connection between faith and learning, to support Concordia’s mission of Christ-centered Lutheran higher education. CELT encourages self-reflective, scholarly teaching among Concordia faculty through consultation, collaboration, and community.