Reading Assignments & Technology 🗓
As AI capabilities improve, reading-as-a-hobby is decreasing, and students express their exhaustion of discussion boards, what is the best way to structure reading & response assignments?
January 7, 2026
Tag: Learning Technologies
AI and the Classroom: Open Conversation 🗓
Thinking about artificial intelligence? So are we! Join this open conversation to discuss artificial intelligence in connection to our fields of study, our classrooms, our cultures, and more. This session will be loosely facilitated, and we invite you to bring in your thoughts, questions, and concerns about how developments in artificial intelligence impact the Pratt community.
January 7, 2026
Getting Started with Canvas: Spring 2026 🗓
New to Canvas, or need a refresher? Join to get oriented before the semester starts.
December 19, 2025
Canvas Webinar: Gradebook, Rubrics, Assignment Groups 🗓
Interested in transforming your Canvas Gradebook? Join the CTL’s Educational Technologist for this informative session and learn how to set up weighted assignment groups to accurately calculate final grades, create rubrics and connect them to assignments, change your gradebook settings to manually post grades, and more.
December 19, 2025
Resource: External Tools and Integrations in Canvas
This recording and accompanying resource describe how to:
Seamlessly incorporate material from the Pratt Libraries into your Canvas course,
Utilize Lucid, Canvas’s interactive whiteboard tool,
Include a custom link in your course with the Redirect tool,
Use the Canvas Mods extension for updated user experience,
and get started with Perusall, a social annotation tool for reading assignments.
October 27, 2025
Resources: AI Literacy Webinar
In this session, Pratt librarians Hannah Fountain-Pileggi and Morgan Võ introduce a range of generative AI technologies, outline ethical and pedagogical considerations associated with AI use, and explore key features of AI literacy from a critical research perspective.
September 12, 2025
AI Learning Labs: Fall 2025 🗓
Curious to experiment with generative AI chatbots, but not sure where to start or how to get worthwhile results? Join us for an hour of hands-on AI experimentation, with some guiding frameworks to get you feeling confident.
September 9, 2025
AI Literacy Webinar 🗓
Join us for a virtual webinar to support faculty navigating AI literacy in the Pratt classroom! In this session, Pratt librarians Hannah Fountain-Pileggi and Morgan Võ will introduce a range of generative AI technologies, outline ethical and pedagogical considerations associated with AI use, and explore key features of AI literacy from a critical research perspective.
August 15, 2025
Canvas: External Tools and Integrations 🗓
Join the CTL’s Educational Technologist for this informative session on some of the external tools and integrations that can be used to boost your Canvas course.
July 7, 2025
Canvas Q&As: Fall 2025 🗓
As we progress through the semester, are there any questions you have about using Canvas? Join these sessions to get assistance and chat with other faculty members who are also using Canvas.
July 7, 2025