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Annual Events

In addition to courses and certificate programs that you can find in our calendar, we also host several annual events. These serve to bring the community together surrounding important topics in teaching and learning in higher education. This includes our intensives, yearly Teaching in Focus (TiF) conference, and other special events!

Intensives

Theme for 2026: AI and Assessment

Dates: April 14, 15, & 16, 2026

Location: Fully Online via Zoom. Links will be provided to registrants via email the week before the Intensive.

Designed to take participants through process of making deep, substantive, robust changes to assessment practices in light of the challenges and affordances of AI, this flexible intensive invites you to join us for a single session or for three full days of engagement and learning. Whether you are an AI enthusiast or a skeptic, you will find insights, resources, and strategies to help you respond to AI in an individual assessment, throughout a course or courses, or at the level of program curricula.

Each day invites you to engage with a specific theme regarding AI and assessment: AI Literacy, Integrating AI, and Limiting AI. Across the Intensive, you will also find four series of offerings: Perspectives, Tidbits, Hack-a-thons, and Resource Spotlights. Explore by day or by series in the drop-down menus below.

Registration: To join us, simply register for all sessions you would like to attend by clicking on the linked session titles below. Registration is now open to all who teach at York. Registration beyond the York community will be open March 15-April 10. Registration is free to all.

Credit towards our Certificates in AI Pedagogies: To have your participation in the AI Intensive count towards completion of the Certificates in AI Pedagogies, you must attend a minimum of any two Hack-a-thons and any two other sessions during the Intensive, for a total of 5-6 hours. Confirmation will be provided in the week following the Intensive.

Each day invites you to engage with a specific theme regarding AI and assessment: AI Literacy, Integrating AI, and Limiting AI.

All times are Eastern Daylight Time (UCT-4).

April 14th: AI Literacy and Assessment

April 15th: Integrating AI into Assessment

April 16th: Limiting AI in Assessment

Across the Intensive, you will also find four series of offerings: Perspectives, Tidbits, Hack-a-thons, and Resource Spotlights.

All times are Eastern Daylight Time (UCT-4).

Perspectives on AI & Assessment

The Perspectives on AI & Assessment Series features a guest speaker or moderated panel discussion with time for audience Q&A.

10:00-11:00

AI & Assessment Tidbits

The AI & Assessment Tidbits Series provides quick 30-minute learning opportunities on three specific elements essential to responding to AI in our assessment practices. 

11:30-12:00

AI & Assessment Hack-a-thons

The AI & Assessment Hack-a-thons Series is an opportunity for guided hands-on time for participants to work on existing assessments, whether at the level of a specific assessment, a whole course, or across a degree curriculum. Each Hack-a-thon focusses on a distinct but complementary approach to assessment (re)design in the age of AI.

1:00-3:00

York Resource Spotlight: AI & Assessment

The York Resource Spotlight Series invites you to join staff experts who are deeply engaged in York's response to AI to learn more about what they are seeing in this evolving landscape and what resources and supports they can provide to educators.

 3:15-4:00

This is a three-day intensive and interactive workshop for course directors who would like to enhance an existing course or create a new course design. The first two days are in-person for community building through face-to-face collegial interactions and hands-on activities that are creative and practical to assist you with inclusive course design and developing skills (e.g., planning your course, identify and explore a [new] approach to teaching, complete your course outline, design an assessment, lesson plan, or activity). The third day will be fully online with synchronous and asynchronous activities, where you will select the specific resources and modules that will help you to complete your goal(s) for the workshop. Throughout the workshop, there will be moments of reflection and opportunities for support from peers and facilitators, as well as resources to apply what you gain from the workshop into your future course design.

The course design intensive is an annual summer event (July or August). When scheduled, find it in our calendar!

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Community conversations: The opposite of cheating

A dialogue on academic integrity, trust, and GenAI in teaching and learning, co-hosted by the GenAI Pedagogies Community of Practice and the Academic Integrity Community of Practice. All who teach at York are welcome to join us for one session or all six in a facilitated space for inquiry, reflection, and rethinking assessments and integrity.

We will be drawing on chapters from Bertram Gallant, T. & Rettinger, D. A. (2025). The Opposite of Cheating: Teaching for integrity in the age of AI. University of Oklahoma Press.

Events in this series are listed in our calendar.

Teaching in Focus (TiF) conference

Teaching in Focus is a pan-university conference that strives to provide a fertile terrain for informed conversations about teaching and learning while highlighting the practical benefits and conundrums in implementing these ideas wherever we teach.

Learn more

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