Center for Excellence in Inclusive Teaching and Learning

About CEITL

The Center for Excellence in Inclusive Teaching & Learning (CEITL) supports the pursuit of inclusive teaching excellence by

promoting reflection and conversation about teaching and learning;
offering evidence-based resources and professional development opportunities;
creating opportunities for community and collaborative engagement on shared interests and challenges;
fostering a culture of inclusive practice so that all students, faculty, and staff feel that they belong and thrive at Parkside.

CEITL believes in the value of community and collaboration. We do not seek to impose a single pedagogical approach on the university’s instructors, but rather celebrate and learn from the rich diversity of instructional styles practiced on our campus.

Learn More About CEITL

Visit the CEITL Intranet site to learn more about the CEITL staff, services, resources, and more.

CEITL Intranet

Are you a new faculty member, instructor, or adjunct at Parkside?

First off, welcome to Parkside! We’re so happy to have you join us! The Center for Excellence in Inclusive Teaching & Learning team is here to support you on your teaching journey here at Parkside.

Please email ceitl@uwp.edu with any questions you might have and we will assist you. You can also enroll into the Adjunct Resource Center (regardless if you’re an adjunct, faculty member, or instructor) to access resources on Parkside, teaching, technical support, and more! You can enroll into the resource center even if you do not have a Parkside login yet.

Adjunct Resource Center

Enroll in the Adjunct Resource Center Canvas course to access resources on getting started at Parkside, teaching resources, technical resources, and much more.

Enroll in Adjunct Resource Center

Services

Services for Individuals

Services for Departments

Schedule a consultation to discuss course design, teaching methods, inclusive teaching approaches, assessment strategies, student feedback, and more. All individual consultations are voluntary and confidential.

This service includes the recording of a class session, an observation of a different class session by our director or a trained peer reviewer, and review of the syllabus and other course materials. We then schedule a consultation to discuss what is working well and identify opportunities for improvement.

Would you like to incorporate a new form of technology into your classes or learn how to better use the equipment in your classrooms? The CEITL team can help you identify tools that might enhance your students’ learning experiences and to assist with integration if an appropriate technology is identified. Assistance is available for online, face-to-face, and hybrid courses at the individual, and departmental level.

The CEITL team is proud to present the Innovation Studio! This studio is filled with state-of-the-art filming equipment to provide faculty and staff with an amazing opportunity to create high-quality instructional media content. We also have video editing available to help take your videos to the next level.

View the Innovation Studio page for more information and video examples!

Videos that are uploaded to your Kaltura My Media library or your YuJa video library are captioned automatically using machine-generated captions, which are not always accurate. The Center for Excellence in Inclusive Teaching & Learning (CEITL) has hired student workers to assist in the remediation of machine-generated captions to ensure a higher percentage of accuracy.

Caption remediation services are provided free of charge for UW-Parkside faculty and staff for Kaltura and YuJa videos with a turnaround time of approximately 10-15 business days. Depending on available resources and the level of demand when requests are submitted, the captioning staff may be able to complete orders in a shorter timeframe. Our caption remediation services prioritize instructional videos used in UW-Parkside courses by term (for example Spring 2026 videos will take priority over Fall 2026 videos).

Rush Orders

If you’re in need of a rush order due to a student with a documented disability, you should contact Student Accessibility Services as they have a specific process for students who need accommodations.

Providing Access to the Captioning Team

Within this form, you will be asked to provide the titles of the videos that need caption remediation. Before continuing in the form, please ensure that your videos have been uploaded and view the KnowledgeBase document on how to copy and paste the accurate titles for the videos which need caption remediation if your videos are hosted in Kaltura My Media. You will also need to add the captioning team as a collaborator on the videos that require caption remediation. Please view the KnowledgeBase document on how to add the captioning team as a collaborator in Kaltura or in YuJa, depending on which platform your videos are saved in.

Caption Remediation Form

PDF and PowerPoint remediation services are provided free of charge for UW-Parkside faculty and staff for teaching-related or student-facing content with a turnaround time of approximately 10-15 business days, with the same prioritization process based on the anticipated date of use. You can upload your files in a batch by creating a zip file or uploading them into your One Drive and sharing the link for the folder to be remediated. Instructions are included in the submission form. In either case, please provide us with a spreadsheet or document indicating which files belong to which courses (sub-folders or separate zip files by course work well, too!) and when they will be taught next to help us accurately prioritize your needs.

Please be aware that we will use AI to assist with PDF and PowerPoint remediation work. For example, PDFs will be remediated using DocAccess which uses AI to convert PDFs into accessible files, with a human in the loop for final accuracy checks. DocAccess is a campus enterprise tool we are in the process of subscribing to which brings additional protections against any documents uploaded into our software from being shared outside of UWP’s file system and will not be used for further AI training. PowerPoint remediation may include the uploading of any images, graphs, charts, or similar items into an AI tool to assist with generating alt-text, but we will not upload entire PowerPoint documents. Again, a human will always be in the loop to correct any AI-generated suggestions before they are included in your remediated slide deck. If you are not comfortable with our use of AI during remediation we understand and kindly ask that you do not submit your documents to our service and use the resources listed above to remediate them yourself.

PDF & PPT Remediation Form

Schedule a consultation to discuss your unit’s teaching needs, facilitate curriculum revision and design, create or review departmental student learning goals, generate program-level rubrics, or address other instructional or assessment needs. Consultations can also be used to help plan courses taught in multiple sections by different instructors or for curriculum planning within or across academic units.

All of our regular workshops can be arranged on a departmental or college level. If there is a workshop topic that your department needs, please let us know and we will work to develop it.

Choose from a variety of digital accessibility topics and schedule time with CEITL to come discuss those topics with your department!

Some of the topics that can be discussed are: