Schedule of workshops

Workshops

These upcoming workshops support faculty and staff in the design, development and facilitation of online learning. All workshops are delivered online and are open to anyone.

Royal Roads faculty and staff can attend for free. Contact us for the discount code to use at registration.

Upcoming workshop offerings

Facilitating Learning Online Fundamentals (online)

Focused on developing teaching skills for online learning. This course is delivered online over 5 weeks.

Facilitating Academic Teamwork at Royal Roads (online)

Designed to support RRU Instructors in developing an understanding of the RRU teamwork skills and competencies framework, while learning strategies to facilitate team process and increase capacity to address student team challenges. This is a 4 week online course. 

  • Nov 4 - Dec 1, 2024. Contact us for more information and to register

Grading in Moodle

Designed to support instructors and program staff to develop proficiency in grading in Moodle. Learn best practices and different ways of grading assignments and grade items in Moodle. This workshop is delivered on-campus over 3 hours.

  • Oct 1, 2024 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. PT Register

Grading in Moodle (online)

Designed to support instructors and program staff to develop proficiency in grading in Moodle. Learn best practices and different ways of grading assignments and grade items in Moodle. This course is delivered online over 3 weeks.

Instructional Skills Workshop (ISW)

Focused on developing and reinvigorating teaching skills for face-to-face learning. This is a face-to-face workshop delivered over three days.

  • Aug 14 - 16, 2024 9:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. PT Register 

Intercultural Foundations for Education (online)

Focused on developing intercultural teaching and learning competencies. This workshop is delivered online over four weeks.

Moodle: Getting around  

Focused on the basics of navigating around a Moodle course for new users. This workshop is delivered on campus over two hours.

  • July 25, 2024, 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. PT  Register

Moodle: Editing and Enhancing

Focused on learning how to build and edit a Moodle course for users with basic Moodle navigational skills. Learn how to add and edit Moodle activities and resources. This workshop is delivered on campus over 3 hours.

  • July 25, 2024, 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. PT Register

Moodle: Editing and Enhancing Online

Focused on learning how to build and edit a Moodle course for users with basic Moodle navigational skills. Learn how to add and edit Moodle activities and resources. This workshop is delivered online over three weeks.

Pedagogical Values Series

An ongoing series of short sessions exploring the pedagogical values that form the foundation of the RRU Learning, Teaching, and Research Model (LTRM), namely: applied and authentic, caring and community-based, and transformational.

  • May 7, 2024, 10:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. 
  • Contact us to for more information and to register

Successful Team Based Learning (online)

Designed to support participants in developing skills for facilitating and supporting team-based learning, this course is offered online over 4 weeks.

Teaching Synchronously (online) 

Teaching Synchronously is a two-session online workshop that focuses on developing skills for teaching interactively online using synchronous web-conferencing platforms.  This workshop is delivered online,  session one is 90 minutes, session two is 2 hours. 

  • May 16, 2024; 10:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. & May 23, 2024; 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. PT Register

Zoom Fundamentals (Online)

Zoom Fundamentals is focused on developing technical proficiency using Zoom, a web conferencing platform.  This workshop is delivered online over 2 hours. 

  • May 9, 2024 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. PT Register