September 2025 – Newsletter

Vevox: New Platform for Student Polling Vevox is a student response and polling platform open to the UWM community. Integrated with Canvas, Zoom, Powerpoint, and Teams; Vevox supports real-time polls, quizzes, and Q&A that encourages student participation, and can be …

Fall 2025 Welcome – Newsletter

The Center for Excellence in Teaching & Learning (CETL) is excited to support your teaching this Fall with new resources, workshops, and opportunities to connect. Whether you’re updating your course or exploring new strategies, we’re here to help. Together, let’s make this Fall one …

A New Teaching Assistant Newsletter – TA+

Welcome to a new Fall semester at UWM! We’re excited for another year of teaching, learning, and supporting our students together. TA+ is a newsletter to connect you with relevant resources. We’re glad you’re part of this community and look …

Leadership and Change from Within: An Honors College and CTL Partnership

Schroeder, C. & Snow, H. (2025). Leadership and Change from Within: An Honors College and CTLPartnership. In Editors: J. Zubizarreta & V. M. Bryan (Eds.), Where honors education and faculty development meet(95 – 103). National Collegiate Honors Council. Leadership and Change from Within: …

August 2025 – Newsletter

We’re excited to announce the launch of the newly redesigned UWM Canvas webpage: https://uwm.edu/canvas/.

Student Blog Series 4: Reorganizing the Class Structure

This is the area where we use all of what we’ve gathered from the past three blogs to lessen the redundancy of lectures and help students draw more value from the coursework given. Here’s how we can do it:  Move …

Student Blog Series 3: Setting Up for Integration  

This step can be thought of as the same as or similar to the first blog in the series on gathering information to create in-class support structures. What we are trying to do now is to collect information to integrate …

Student Blog Series 1: Creating Guideposts for Students

A foundational step for engaging students in coursework is to ensure that instructors create clear and transparent guideposts for students in a course. This clarity in foundational design provides the framework from which the other elements addressed in the blog …