The Center for Distributed Learning invited faculty and staff to CDL Faculty Connect Wednesday, November 5.

This gathering brought UCF faculty and staff together to explore digital learning’s transformative potential. Please email cdl@ucf.edu for any questions.

Agenda

Insightful sessions, swag and light refreshments were provided to attendees. Check out the agenda below to see the exciting topics that were covered, from personalized learning to course enhancement tools.

9:00 AM: Welcome

9:15 AM: Access Granted: Building Welcoming Courses

10:05 AM: Prompt, Play and Create with GenAI

10:55 AM:
Immersive Teaching at UCF: How CDL Supports Faculty with XR

11:45 AM:
Preparing the Gradebook for Grade Submissions

2 PM: Event End

Faculty Multimedia Center: Classroom Building 1 (CB1), Room 202

Our Teams

Faculty Multimedia Center (FMC) Booth: Learn about 3D printing, AI tools, DIY recording studios, VR headsets, and 360-video equipment to enhance your courses. The FMC is available to all UCF faculty.

Instructional Design Booth: Learn about professional development opportunities and course support. You can also find out how you can incorporate Open Educational Resources and Pressbooks to reduce costs for your students and enhance your course.

Webcourses@UCF Support Booth: Get to know essential platforms like Panopto, Zoom, Canvas, and Respondus Monitor.

Graphics Booth: Discover how the Graphics team works with faculty and can support you in your course development.

Video@CDL Booth: Get to know the Video team and hear about their award-winning projects.

Learning Systems & Technology (LS&T) Booth: Explore tools like Materia, Obojobo, UDOIT, and more.

Pegasus Innovation Lab (iLab) Booth: Hear how this team supports and promotes large scale Digital Learning Initiatives, positively impacting student success in online learning at the institutional level.

Instructional Development (iDev) Booth: From Proactive Captioning toSpecial Programs, stop by the team that plays a critical role in supporting faculty by enhancing their course delivery and instructional quality across all modalities.

The engaging hands-on demonstrations below took place every hour on the hour in Room 205 from 9:15 a.m. to 11:45 a.m. Whether you were looking to learn something new or simply enjoy a fun, interactive experience, there was something for everyone!

2025 CDL Faculty Connect

Last year’s Faculty Connect event hosted by the Center for Distributed welcomed faculty and staff interested in learning about support and resources available to them for course and content creation. View photos from the event below.