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Welcome New Faculty!

Welcome New Faculty!

Join us for an in-person New Faculty Orientation on Mon Dec 18th in LIB321. Can’t make the in-person meeting? Contact us for other options.

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Generative AI Community of Practice

Generative AI Community of Practice

This Fall the CTE has been running an online Community of Practice for faculty interested in getting together to talk about strategies and explorations with Generative AI in their teaching practice. Interested in joining the conversation?

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Generative AI, Assignments, and your Class

Generative AI, Assignments, and your Class

Image Source: https://www.picpedia.org/post-it-note/images/artificial-intelligence.jpg Is ChatGPT completing my students’ assignments for them? For almost a year, this has been a common fear amongst instructors in higher education, worried if these new types of...

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eLearn Updates: Strategies for Adapting to Moodle 4.1

eLearn Updates: Strategies for Adapting to Moodle 4.1

On May 1, 2023, Capilano University updated its eLearn instance from Moodle version 3.9 to Moodle 4.1. This was a major upgrade which includes some important layout changes and new features, including improved accessibility standards. The Faculty Introduction to...

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Updates to the Student Digital Ambassador Program

Updates to the Student Digital Ambassador Program

Student Digital Ambassadors (SDAs) provide technical support to students on university-supported educational technology. Students can access support for educational technologies in the following ways: Course: Student Introduction to eLearn (capu.ca) on eLearn (all...

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First Day of Class: Do I Belong Here? 

First Day of Class: Do I Belong Here? 

Image by Rose Jaffe Colorado State University, made in collaboration with high school youth, Fort Collins, CO (source)    “The confidence that comes from belonging helps you try new things that may be hard or scary on their own and nearly impossible without it.”...

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Capilano University is named after Chief Joe Capilano, an important leader of the Squamish (Sḵwx̱wú7mesh) Nation of the Coast Salish people. We respectfully acknowledge that our campuses are located on the unceded sovereign Indigenous Nations of Lil’wat, xʷməθkʷəy̓əm(Musqueam), Shíshálh (Sechelt), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh(Squamish) and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh).

 

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