Rethinking In-Class Learning

What kinds of learning activities might benefit from the shared time and space of the classroom?

College Readiness of the Post-COVID Cohort

How have our state’s incoming college students changed over the past ten years? What are their expectations in the classroom? What kinds of learning challenges do they excel at, and how can college educators be better support their emerging skills?

Join COLRS for a discussion on agentic AI and how it differs from generative AI or text prediction platforms. How can instructors stay savvy to the changing landscape? Let's discuss! No previous AI experience is required.

• Date: April 16, 2026
• Time: 12:00 p.m. (1 hour)
• Location: UHB 1008 or COLRS Zoom

CFE/COLRS: Accessibility Compliance Party

Not sure where to start on making your Canvas courses accessible? Or do you want to carve out some time to get a head start on your Summer or Fall courses? We are here to help!

This session explores how Work-Based Learning can move beyond internships and become the structural backbone of a program in higher education. Drawing from decades of implementation experience, including contributions to UIS’s planned School of Engineering. Ronald Ulseth will share models, design principles, and implementation strategies for integrating authentic industry work, reflection, and competency assessment into the curriculum.

Ronald Ulseth is Founder and Retired Director of Iron Range Engineering. 

Discover a full suite of AI-enabled computing resources available to support your research, teaching, and innovative course design at UIS. This hands-on session will introduce four powerful tools you can begin using right away:

When you're building an online course, considering how to keep students interested and engaged can be challenging. Integrating multimedia and interactive elements can ensure that students get the most out of their courses. During this workshop, we will provide some helpful tips for how best to use multimedia and interactions in an online course and will explore tools like DesignPLUS and H5P.

Google Assignments is a Canvas LTI that allows instructors to assign Google Workspace documents to students. Join COLRS staff as we discuss how to enable Google Assignments in your courses and how it might improve the experience for both students and instructors.

• Date: March 31, 2026
• Time: 12:00 PM
• Location: UHB 2022 or COLRS Zoom

CSIL: Student Panel on LMS Course Design

Learners experience our LMS course sites every day for online and in-person courses. They have insight into what supports learning and what creates confusion. In this interactive panel, we will assemble a small group of learners (undergraduate students) from multiple Illinois institutions, who will share their honest perspectives on what works (and what doesn’t) in LMS course design. The session will be guided by questions such as: What makes a course site easy to navigate and understand?

This workshop will explore practical strategies for designing, facilitating, and assessing meaningful student peer review in a Canvas course. We will look at how peer review supports deeper learning, engagement, and feedback literacy.

We will also go over how to set up peer review using Canvas Assignments and the Harmonize discussion tool.

Join us in UHB 2004 or on Zoom.