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Updated: Sept. 15, 2025
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.
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.
Seneca's Teaching and Learning Awards for Faculty recognize and celebrate faculty members who make a difference by engaging students, inspiring colleagues, and demonstrating innovative teaching practices. Nominations are now being accepted for the 2024-2025 academic year.
There are three awards:
Nomination packages are due by Nov. 30, 2025.
Guidelines for nominations from students are available (PDF). Guidelines for nominations from employees are available on the Seneca's Teaching and Learning Awards for Faculty page.
The Teaching & Learning Centre recently 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
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 2025:
Important deadlines for your faculty for the fall 2025 term:
The Faculty Development Program schedule for winter 2026:
Faculty can now apply to register in MyPD for winter 2026.
Important deadline for you:
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 bundle. If we have two sections of the same course running, or if that bundle 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 tentatively scheduled for Oct. 22-23, 2025 and the next New Faculty Orientation is tentatively scheduled for Jan. 2, 2026.
A professional development plan has been created for Seneca’s non full-time faculty members: PD Plan for Non Full-time Faculty. Every course in the PD Plan is micro-credentialled and the micro-credential can be used as proof of completion if needed.
These courses are open to all faculty members and instructors.
Upcoming courses:
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.
New Faculty Orientation is tentatively scheduled to take place on Friday, Jan. 2, 2026.
Attending New Faculty Orientation is a professional development requirement for all newly-hired faculty members, both full-time and non full-time faculty members.
If a new non full-time faculty member has prior commitments on January 2 and are unable to attend New Faculty Orientation, they can attend New Faculty Orientation for Non Full-time Faculty, tentatively scheduled to take place on Tuesday, Jan. 6, 2026 or Wednesday, Jan. 7, 2026.
We explain this and provide more details on our Welcome New Faculty Members: Understanding Your PD Requirements page.
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