Allison Hughes, M. Ed.

Faculty Support

Workshops & Consultations

Workshops and consultations have remained an essential format for instructional design support. I’ve worked on strengthening how faculty connect with these services though, in order to try to increase participation in them. We do our workshops through the Faculty Teaching & Learning Center to streamline where faculty find our workshop offerings, and I’ve started calling for consultations both in division meeting visits and through Canvas global announcements to remind faculty that I’m here. I tried including an email-based consultation option as that’s how most people get in contact with me. I think it helped lower the stakes of reaching out and gave us a quicker option of offering quick email support up front with the option for a meeting always available, but not a requirement for accessing help.

2026 Flex Workshops

  • 1/9/26 – Experience Navigating Technology & AI Learning Tools as a Student
  • 1/9/26 – When AI Attacks: Triage How to Heal Your Assignments Suffering from AI Submissions
  • 4/16/26 – Let’s Improve Our Accessibility Together!
  • 8/14/26 – New Faculty Orientation
  • 8/14/26 – Participating in College Decision-Making
  • 8/14/26 – Let’s Get Our Gradebooks Ready! – Tips, Tricks and Ideas for a Semester of Great Grading in Canvas
  • 10/7/26 – Let’s Improve Our Accessibility Together!
  • 10/7/26 – Let’s Give Great Feedback to Our Students!

2026 FTLCL Sessions

  • 1/29/26 – How to Connect Canvas and Nuventive to Save Time Assessing Your SLOs
  • 9/15/26 – Tech Workshop: Let’s Improve Our Accessibility Together!
  • 10/14/26 – Tech Workshop: Hands-On NectirAI – Build Your Course AI Assistant
  • 11/17/26 – Authentic & Analog Assessment Strategies for Lessening AI Submissions

New Newsletter Format

For many years I sent the Instructional Technology & Design Newsletter in a simple PDF document format to ensure accessibility and keep the create quick and easy. But with the expansion of our team, we needed a format that lent itself better to collaboration. We also found out about the Outlook Newsletters feature, which we could access for free and displayed graphical newsletters really well within Outlook. We’ve switched to this format and its been working really well. We’re also able to see the analytics for each issue and faculty are accessing the newsletter again and again, which is encouraging to know that we are sending out a valuable reference material.