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Updated: Sept. 16, 2026
Welcome to the Teaching & Learning Centre Information Hub for Chairs!
This page is curated with you in mind, serving as a central resource hub to assist you in planning and supporting your faculty members. Here, you will discover a spectrum of resources tailored to empower and enhance the teaching and learning experience for your faculty.
Navigate through the following key areas:
This hub is your ally in empowering your faculty and steering them towards success. For any questions or additional support, feel free to reach out to us at teaching@senecapolytechnic.ca.
Call for Faculty Champions
We are seeking Faculty Champions for the fall 2026 cohort of the Artificial Intelligence (AI) pillar of Curriculum Integration.
Sessions: Tuesdays from 9:50 a.m. to 11:35 a.m. Eastern
Start date: Tuesday, Jan. 19
There will be some in-person sessions at Newnham Campus.
Please send your Program & Faculty Champion, or any questions, to Amy Lin (amy.lin@senecapolytechnic.ca).
A new Gradebook Grid experience arrived in early August! The update focuses on making grading workflows more efficient and giving you easier access to important grading information.
To help faculty and instructors prepare, the Teaching & Learning Centre is hosting overview webinars and virtual drop-in support sessions.
Gradebook Overview Webinars
Registration is open in MyPD.
Gradebook Drop-In Support
More details are available in the Explore the New Gradebook Grid: Overview Sessions & Drop-In Support Spark Plug article.
The Teaching & Learning Centre's Midday Mindshare: AI for Teaching series returns this term! These hands-on workshops focus on AI for teaching and take place in the AI Lab at Newnham Campus. In fall 2026, we're offering the following workshops:
We're also offering the following online webinars this term, with opportunities to explore practical applications of AI for teaching:
Registration for these workshops and webinars is open in MyPD.
Save the date: Teaching & Learning Day Fall 2026 will take place on Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2026.
More details will be shared soon!
Upcoming sections of our Fundamentals of Flexible Course Design and Delivery course:
We have a Flexible Course Design website!
We also recommend our Envisioning Your Course Through a Flexible Lens nutshell (a self-paced online module), our Five Things I've Learned about Flexible Teaching from Conversations with Seneca Faculty Spark Plug article, and our Seneca Flexible Classroom Instructional Video which shows how to set up and use the flexible classrooms on campus.
The Faculty Development Program schedule for fall 2026:
Faculty can now apply to register in MyPD.
Important deadline for you:
Important deadline for your faculty for the fall 2026 term:
The Faculty Development Program schedule for winter 2027:
Important deadline for your faculty for the winter 2027 term:
There is a standing schedule for the Faculty Development Program:
The only variables in our schedule are whether a particular course is offered during a given term and the exact timing of each course. If we have two sections of the same course running, or if that course runs in May/June, we ask for the participants to be available all day to participate in the course that they need.
Please note that FDP1 does not run in the summer term and if FDP2 and FDP3 are offered, they will run in May/June. We do not have Faculty Development Program course running in July/August.
As a reminder, The following are the professional development requirements through the Teaching & Learning Centre for newly-hired full-time faculty members:
The next Micro-teaching Sessions is taking place on Aug. 27-28, 2026 and the next New Faculty Orientation is taking place online on Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2026.
The New Faculty Mentoring Program aims to foster professional growth, knowledge sharing, relationship building, and skill development. We believe that mentorship plays a crucial role in shaping the careers and achieving the goals of our faculty.
Mentors will provide support, advice, and valuable insights to help mentees achieve their career objectives and manage issues that may arise. To support mentors in the Faculty Mentorship Program, we have developed three mentoring nutshells that will help mentors enhance their skills and provide strategies for building successful mentoring relationships. We also designed a New Faculty Mentoring Program Guide.
To learn more, visit the Mentorship Program website.
As recently highlighted by President Agnew, Seneca’s commitment to bringing our strategic priorities to life through the Curriculum Integration (CI) project continues. This initiative enhances our courses by helping learners see their field of study through the lenses of Truth and Reconciliation (TRC), Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI), Sustainability, Human Skills, and Artificial Intelligence (AI).
The Teaching and Learning Centre remains actively engaged in supporting programs as we strengthen our curriculum together. Baseline data has now been collected across all priority areas, and we are actively gathering additional data to measure and better understand the impact of this ongoing work on teaching and learning. Thank you to the academic schools for their leadership and collaboration in advancing this work and creating structures to continue sharing CI knowledge.
To support ongoing curriculum integration, the following resources are available:
Programs finalizing their CI work will receive a brief Completion Form to document key achievements and artifacts. Congratulations to those reaching this milestone! As always, write to teaching@senecapolytechnic.ca anytime!
New Faculty Orientation is taking place online on Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2026.
Attending New Faculty Orientation is a professional development requirement for all newly-hired faculty members, both full-time and non full-time.
We explain this and provide more details on our Welcome New Faculty Members: Understanding Your PD Requirements page.
In fall 2025, the Teaching & Learning Centre offered a four-part webinar series focusing on using Generative AI in teaching:
Resources and recordings are available in our Generative AI Webinar Series Spark Plug article.
GenAI Resources
Discover the assessment resources created by our Team: Assessment-Resources.pdf.
This PDF highlights the webpages, nutshells, and videos we have that focus on assessment (in general), authentic assessment, academic integrity and artificial intelligence, and formative assessment.
Reminder: The Teaching & Learning Centre can offer a workshops for your School. We also offer one-on-one consultations for faculty and instructors. Email us at teaching@senecapolytechnic.ca.
Our Learn@Seneca website is where faculty can find all the resources they'll need to teach in Learn@Seneca. With how-to articles, best practices, resources, and videos, this space hosts all of the Teaching & Learning Centre's Learn@Seneca materials.
We recommend beginning with our Learn@Seneca Crash Course. It walks through the main features of Blackboard Ultra. We have the Quick Tour, a short introduction video about Learn@Seneca, and the Course Tour, showing what a course could look like in Learn@Seneca.
The Crash Course also include four instructional videos that cover the vast majority of topics faculty need to know to successfully teach in Learn@Seneca:
The First Look at Learn@Seneca – explore the menu and content areas of Learn@Seneca, then start creating content: documents, folders, and modules
Building Assessments – explore the details of assessments in Learn@Seneca
Using the Gradebook – explore the Gradebook in Learn@Seneca and see how all the same features are still available plus some quality-of-life improvements
Groups and Accommodations – explore how to create groups and add them to assignments, plus how to set up accommodations and exceptions
These are polished versions of our webinars that were recorded without audience questions.
Faculty may also be interested in our Learn@Seneca Nutshells! Nutshells are a series of quick, self-paced, online learning modules for faculty. Our Learn@Seneca series of Nutshells provide faculty with an overview of Learn@Seneca in addition to tips, best practices, and resources.
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