Our workshops are designed for faculty who want to learn technology tools in the context of how they can be used in college classrooms, using examples of how they have been used by Hunter colleagues. We update them each semester as technology tools and instructors’ needs change. Workshops are listed below by date offered. You can also view them grouped on our Workshop Categories page.
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| Wed.
6/4/2025 1:00 - 2:00 PM |
10 Things You Didn't Know you could do with Top Hat We’ve rounded up a showcase of 10 of our most powerful features. See Top Hat in action and learn how some of our capabilities can increase your impact in preparing lectures, assessing and grading your students. You’ll also learn about Top Hat Ace, our new AI powered study assistant which helps customize learning experiences for students while saving administrative time for instructors! |
Susie Liebschner & Sumi Voora | Register |
| Thu.
6/5/2025 12:00 - 1:00 PM |
Open Office Hours
Anytime during the hour, join this Zoom room to get in line for one-on-one online support for professors. We will ask you to stay in the Zoom waiting room and let you in one at a time in the order you joined the call. |
Logan Spevak | Register |
| Mon.
6/9/2025 3:00 - 4:00 PM |
Open Office Hours
Anytime during the hour, join this Zoom room to get in line for one-on-one online support for professors. We will ask you to stay in the Zoom waiting room and let you in one at a time in the order you joined the call. |
Yuning Gao | Register |
| Tue.
6/10/2025 12:00 - 1:00 PM |
Assignments and Discussions
In this workshop we will cover the basics of creating, customizing settings, and giving feedback on both assignments and discussion boards within Brightspace. Learn how to create group and individual assignments, discussions, journals, give feedback within Brightspace directly on student’s paper submissions, and link activities to the gradebook. |
Logan Spevak | Register |
| Wed.
6/11/2025 12:00 - 1:00 PM |
Open Office Hours
Anytime during the hour, join this Zoom room to get in line for one-on-one online support for professors. We will ask you to stay in the Zoom waiting room and let you in one at a time in the order you joined the call. |
Logan Spevak | Register |
| Thur.
6/12/2025 1:00 - 2:00 PM |
Top Hat & Brightspace Integration Join this session for an overview of the new integration between Top Hat and Brightspace. With this integration, enable one-click enrollment for students, roster and grade synchronization. Top Hat experts will walk through how to enable and manage this integration from within your Brightspace course.
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Susie Liebschner & Sumi Voora | Register |
| Mon.
6/16/2025 12:00 - 1:00 PM |
Use Ally to Improve Accessibility of Course Materials on Brightspace
Ally, a tool integrated into Brightspace, is designed to help professors improve the accessibility of online course content by flagging content that is not accessible and suggesting ways to make it accessible. In this workshop, we will go over how to use Ally’s accessibility rating system to optimize your course content for accessibility, with a focus on how to remediate content that Ally rates poorly for accessibility. We will also discuss Ally’s student-facing features, including the ability to transcode your course content to different formats, such as HTML, braille, and audio. |
Justin Tricarico | Register |
| Mon.
6/16/2025 3:00 - 4:00 PM |
Open Office Hours
Anytime during the hour, join this Zoom room to get in line for one-on-one online support for professors. We will ask you to stay in the Zoom waiting room and let you in one at a time in the order you joined the call. |
Yuning Gao | Register |
| Wed.
6/18/2025 12:00 - 1:00 PM |
Open Office Hours
Anytime during the hour, join this Zoom room to get in line for one-on-one online support for professors. We will ask you to stay in the Zoom waiting room and let you in one at a time in the order you joined the call. |
Logan Spevak | Register |
| Wed.
6/18/2025 1:00 - 4:00 PM |
Teach with Impact. Join Top Hat’s Virtual Summer Series
Join Top Hat on June 18 for a powerful day of teaching inspiration. Featured speaker Dr. Sarah Rose Cavanagh, author of The Spark of Learning, will explore how to design happier, more impactful courses. Discover how peers are boosting engagement in large lectures and rethinking affordable, interactive course materials that connect with students beyond class time. You’ll also see how Top Hat combines AI-powered tools with best-in-class content to support more personalized learning. |
Susie Liebschner & Sumi Voora | Register |
| Mon.
6/23/2025 1:00 - 2:00 PM |
Exploring AI Literacies and Platforms through Prompt Engineering In this workshop, we will discuss a framework and rationale for using generative AI in your courses, consider use cases for assignments, and practice prompting. Participants will learn strategies for writing focused questions or directions for AI tools in order to get better results. Participants will be encouraged to experiment with Microsoft Copilot and the free version of ChatGPT to see what these tools can do when given the instructions that faculty generally provide to their students. The result of these experiments might lead to redesign of existing assignments. |
Marcus Artigliere | Register |
| Wed.
6/25/2025 12:00 - 1:00 PM |
Open Office Hours
Anytime during the hour, join this Zoom room to get in line for one-on-one online support for professors. We will ask you to stay in the Zoom waiting room and let you in one at a time in the order you joined the call. |
Logan Spevak | Register |
| Wed.
6/25/2025 3:00 - 4:00 PM |
Overview of Top Hat’s Testing Solutions
Join this session for an overview of Top Hat’s testing functionality including an overview of our proprietary lockdown feature. The session will cover test types, question randomization and how to build, administer and grade your assessments in Top Hat. |
Susie Liebschner & Sumi Voora | Register |
| Thur.
6/26/2025 11:00 - 12:00 PM |
Brightspace Essentials for the Beginning of the Semester
There is so much to do to get a Brightspace course site ready for a new semester! We will show you how to do all the following tasks in one (1!) hour:
For professors who prefer a slower pace, we will show you where to find step-by-step instructions and video tutorials. |
Yuning Gao | Register |
| Mon.
6/30/2025 3:00 - 4:00 PM |
Open Office Hours
Anytime during the hour, join this Zoom room to get in line for one-on-one online support for professors. We will ask you to stay in the Zoom waiting room and let you in one at a time in the order you joined the call. |
Yuning Gao | Register |