For Instructors

We are committed to empowering our instructors and providing them with the resources and support they need to deliver engaging and innovative learning experiences to our students.

Blended Learning Studio

At the Office of Education, we are passionate about enhancing the academic experience through technology. Our fully equipped Blended Learning Studio provides instructors with a Professional video creation environment, featuring a high-quality, one-touch camera and mic system paired with a tablet for seamless annotation during live presentations or recordings. In addition, the Office of Education offers tailored training programs to ensure instructors have the skills and confidence to make the most of the studio.

Instructors book your training sessions here.

Support for Educational Technology

The Office of Education prioritizes purposeful and impactful technology integration. Our commitment is to help instructors develop effective teaching strategies that lead to specific learning outcomes. We carefully explore various tools and technologies to determine how they can best support your unique approach.

Examples of the various support we can provide includes:

• Conducting technology needs assessment and offering pedagogical consultation.
• Facilitating collaboration, sharing best practices and staying up-to-date with advancements.

Tech Library

The Tech Library is equipped with a diverse range of educational technology resources that can be utilized during in-person and hybrid lectures. To book available hardware, please click here. 

Select devices: 

• Catchbox: A Catchbox is a throwable microphone that enhances audience engagement during events. It allows for interactive communication by tossing the device between students.
• Meeting Owl: The Owl Camera revolutionizes meetings with its compact design, delivering high-quality video and audio. It naturally directs the focus to whomever is speaking in the room, allowing online participants to feel like they are physically present.

Available Platforms:

• Kritik: Kritik is a peer assessment platform designed to improve students’ higher-order thinking and critical reasoning abilities. Kritik actively involves students in their learning journeys by encouraging self-reflection and peer evaluation.
• Wooclap: Wooclap, integrated with Canvas, is an interactive learning platform designed to boost engagement during lectures, meetings, or training sessions. It allows presenters to create live polls, quizzes, word clouds, and Q&A sessions that participants can respond to in real time from their own devices, making learning and collaboration more dynamic and inclusive.
• Feedback Fruits: FeedbackFruits is an educational technology platform that helps instructors design and facilitate active learning experiences. It offers tools for peer feedback, group work, interactive study materials, and engagement tracking, all aimed at improving collaboration, critical thinking, and student learning outcomes.

Reach out to busedu@ualberta.ca if there are any direct inquiries about the above offerings, platforms or devices provided by the Office of Education.

Alberta School of Business Teaching and Learning Resources

The Office of Education is focused on developing and sharing resources that address the needs of our instructors in a continually evolving learning environment.

Some highlighted resources we have developed are:

• Teaching and Learning Shared Drive: the Teaching and Learning Shared Drive is a frequently updated collection of teaching resources available to all Alberta School of Business instructors. 
• Experiential Learning Toolkit: find out information about what experiential learning is, the different forms it might take and the various theoretical frameworks it encapsulates to assist you in implementing this type of learning into your course.
• Accommodation and Accessibility: Clarifies accommodation processes and offers tools to implement accessibility supports with confidence.
• Assigning Final Grades: Tools and guidance to support instructors in final grade calculation and submission.
• Blended Learning: Helpful tipsheets and resources to support hybrid teaching approaches.
• Indigenizing and Decolonizing: Foundational resources to begin integrating Indigenous knowledge and perspectives into your teaching.
• Large Courses: Practical strategies and tools for effectively managing large-enrollment classes.
• Open Educational Resources: Introduces the value of OERs and provides links and guidelines to help you get started.
• Artificial Intelligence Essentials: Highlights useful resources and important considerations about incorporating AI into your courses.

Artificial Intelligence Assessment Scale

In Fall 2026, the Alberta School of Business is implementing an Artificial Intelligence Assessment Scale to provide clear, consistent expectations for AI use in business courses. Instructors should determine the appropriate level of AI use for each assessment based on its specific learning goals and indicate that level on their course syllabus and assessment instructions.

To support implementation, the Office of Education has developed an AI Assessment Scale Implementation Guide that provides an overview of the scale, sample syllabus statements, guidance on determining the appropriate AI level for each assessment and guidance on navigating student objections. Graphics for use on syllabi and assessments are also available.

Should you have questions or require support as you begin applying the scale, contact busedu@ualberta.ca.

AI Assessment Scale Instructor Guide | AI Assessment Guide Accompanying Graphics

General Appointment or Consultation Booking

The Alberta School of Business Office of Education offers consultations on a variety of topics, including, but not limited to:

• LMS transition support: Support with transitioning over to Canvas, using the provided course template, etc.
• Online and hybrid teaching: Online presence, engagement strategies, special considerations for online course design, hybrid approaches to teaching and learning
• Educational technology (hardware and software): Access to and instruction on educational technology supported by the Office of Education (ex. Catchbox, Meeting Owl, Mentimeter). Recommendations for educational software.
• Large course support: Course development and planning, managing TA roles, large scale assessments, active learning, classroom management, administrative considerations, etc.
• Blended learning studio: Access to and instruction on the School of Business' Blended Learning Studio
• Course design and development: Instructional materials, learning activities, learning outcomes, feedback and assessment

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