Thank you for presenting at the 2025 UWM Teaching and Learning Symposium, which will be held on January 09, 2025. We greatly appreciate your contribution to this year’s program!
Click for help from CETL, or email Benjamin Gautsch (bgautsch@uwm.edu)
Before the Symposium
All Session Presenters will need to upload their presentations and additional material on or before Monday, December 23, 2024 by 4:30 p.m. to ensure proper accessibility guidelines are met.
Optional Symposium Zoom Training:
Tuesday, January 7 from 10:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. Click here to register!
Wednesday, January 8 from 2:30 pm. – 3:00 p.m. Click here to register!
Before your session, you should:
You may feel more comfortable presenting on the day of the symposium if you do a little preparation prior to your session.
- Review this page in its entirety
- Consider attending the optional Zoom training session – see above. Or, watch a recording of the Zoom training workshop from last year. It will help you prepare to use Zoom for the Symposium.
- Ensure your Zoom software is up to date.
- To ensure trouble-free access to your sessions, we strongly suggest using the Zoom.us desktop client.
- The “Zoom.us desktop client” is the version of Zoom run from a dedicated program – not from your browser.
- For more information, to download, or update your Zoom.us client, click the appropriate link below:
- UWM computers running Microsoft Windows can install Zoom using the Software Center.
- UWM computers running Apple macOS can install Zoom using Self Service.
- For personal computers, visit https://zoom.us/download and download & install the Zoom Client for Meetings.
- Log into Zoom using your @uwm.edu account.
- You will only have early access to your sessions using your @uwm.edu Zoom account. This means you only have to log into the desktop client with your @uwm.edu credentials.
- First open the Zoom.us desktop client.
- Select Sign in with SSO.
- If you are asked for a Company Domain enter wisconsin-edu
- Provide your ePantherID and password to sign in.
- That’s it!
- If you need additional information on logging into Zoom using your @uwm.edu account, click here!
- You will only have early access to your sessions using your @uwm.edu Zoom account. This means you only have to log into the desktop client with your @uwm.edu credentials.
- Test out Zoom Access from this page –
- After you’ve downloaded the Zoom.us desktop client and logged into your Zoom account, return to this page, scroll down, and click on the “Link to Session” next to your session/s to ensure you are able to access your rooms. You have been added to your sessions as “alternative host” and should be able to start the session on your own. Remember, you will only have access to your Zoom room if you use your @uwm.edu credentials and have logged into Zoom.
- If the session starts: Great! Play around a bit and ensure you are ready to present the day of the symposium.
- If the session does not start: Don’t worry!
- Restart your computer and try logging into your Zoom session once more.
- If that doesn’t work, reach out to Benjamin Gautsch (bgautsch@uwm.edu).
- If you’re having trouble logging into Zoom, please review the help resources linked to above, or reach out to Benjamin Gautsch (bgautsch@uwm.edu).
- Remember! There is a backup plan! If something goes wrong the day of the symposium, your moderator will be able to grant you access.
- Additional Logistics
- Provide digital handouts ahead of time in SharePoint – see below
- Determine who is speaking when (and how to communicate this in-session) if you have co-presenters.
- You’re welcome to communicate with your CETL moderator (see more info below) if you’d like to discuss session facilitation or technical details.
During Your Session
A CETL moderator will be attending your session to assist you with any technical issues that may arise. All sessions are 45 minutes in length. Your CETL moderator will keep track of time and can help you facilitate questions and discussion. On the day of the symposium, January 9, you should:
- Open the “Zoom.us” desktop client and ensure you are logged in using your @uwm.edu credentials.
- Find your session in the program on this page
- Click on “Join Session” to the right of your session description 10-15 minutes before your session begins
- Please join with your first and last name, so that your CETL moderator can recognize you in the Zoom room and make sure you have the role and permissions you need to conduct your session
- Ready any PowerPoints (or other files) you intend to share via Zoom screen-sharing and share the title slide.
- Discuss the session logistics with your CETL moderator
- How can the CETL moderator help you manage the chat, polls, breakout rooms, time management etc.
- Coordinate who will let attendees into the session from the waiting room: You, another presenter, or the moderator?
- Let attendees into the session from the waiting room. As attendees select your session from the symposium website, they will be taken to a waiting area until you let them in.
- Share your webcam and greet attendees as they enter the session.
- Invite attendees to participate (when appropriate) using chat, polls, or audio
Please note that all sessions will be recorded (including the chat) and posted on a UWM-affiliated site.
Tips for Success
For the best technical performance, you may want to:
- Restart your computer prior to your presentation
- Keep all unnecessary tabs in your browser closed and all unneeded applications on your computer inactive
- Use a headset or earbuds if you are presenting in a location with background noise
- Make sure PowerPoint slides are in a readable font (24 size font minimum)
To provide context for attendees in your session, you may want to:
- Describe your course (discipline, course topic, enrollment, etc.)
- Describe your pedagogical challenge, including why it matters and how you addressed it
- Show example materials (assignment sheets, de-identified student work, videos, etc.)
- Discuss your results, including student feedback and instructor reflection
- Consider how your approach might apply to courses in other disciplines and formats
Teaching Topic Exchanges are designed for all attendees to share challenges, questions, practices, and ideas across disciplines, course formats, course sizes, and/or student populations. Rather than a presentation, the person proposing this session will identify a discussion topic (i.e., assignment design incorporating Generative AI, engaging small group members in projects, preparing adjunct instructors to engage students, increasing interaction in online courses) and facilitate the exchange of information across all attendees while using online interactive teaching strategies to solicit conversation between attendees (e.g., chat, audio, polls). The session facilitator plays an important role in introducing a pertinent topic and generating interaction and ideas from attendees rather than sharing information.
If you are leading a Teaching Topic Exchange session, you may want to:
- Plan for multiple threads of conversation with key questions to prompt conversation
- Encourage the exchange of ideas, challenges, and resources among participants
- Facilitate a large group discussion about your proposed theme or topic using a combination of audio and chat
- Coordinate small group discussions using breakout rooms in Zoom
Strategies in Teaching and Learning sessions are designed to allow 1-3 colleagues to share a specific class, department, or curricular strategy that advances student learning. The session facilitator(s) should:
- Describe the teaching and learning or college/department level strategy
- Provide a rationale including what was done and why
- Explain how the strategy impacted student learning, what worked well, and future strategy enhancements
- Provide ways the strategy is broadly applicable in other courses, disciplines, and programs
- At least 15-20 minutes of the session should intentionally include interactive elements (e.g., chat, audio, polls) that engage attendees through using online teaching technologies to experience the strategy, discuss ways they could apply the strategy in their own teaching, or solicit extensions/applications of the strategy
If you are leading an interactive presentation session, you may want to:
- Use key questions to engage session attendees through audio, chat, and/or polls
- Share digital handouts through Microsoft Word Online or Google Docs
- Leave 10-15 minutes at the end for questions
Micro Presentations should be submitted by or before December 16, 2024.
Micro Presentation sessions are succinct pre-recorded 10-minute presentations that share a specific teaching technique, assignment, or practice that can be adapted to a variety of class topics and types. These sessions are designed to give attendees great ideas for teaching in simple, concise, small bites to inspire new practices or practice adaptations. Three Micro Session pre-recordings will be clustered and played during the session first (30 minutes). Presenters will attend the live session and must be available to engage with attendees for a question-and-answer session (15 minutes)
There are multiple methods for recording your presentation. In the end, you will need to provide an mp4 file for submission and upload (more information on where and how to upload will come soon).
CETL suggests the following methods for recording your presentation:
- Instructor Guide for Creating Narrated PowerPoint Presentations: https://kb.uwm.edu/cetl/98952
- Create a screen recording using Kaltura Capture through My Media in Canvas?: https://kb.uwm.edu/cetl/104814
If Something Goes Wrong
Your CETL moderator will be in the Zoom Room to help address technical issues you may encounter. However, if you have trouble logging into the session or lose connectivity, please contact your CETL moderator (see name and contact info below). You can also contact CETL directly at 414-229-4319.
Program and CETL Facilitator Information
Access the 2025 Itinerary and Session Descriptions with Join Links