Events and Services
The Centre for Academic and Digital Innovation (CADI) brings together expertise to support staff and students across the University of Portsmouth. We manage Moodle and related systems, drive digital innovation and enhance learning experiences. CADI also supports staff through media production, consultancy and professional development to foster teaching excellence.
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Level up your teaching with our CPD workshops
Discover our programme of tailored CPD sessions designed to support and inspire staff across the University. Covering topics such as AI in education, assessment and feedback, closing awarding gaps, learning design, student engagement and the Connected Curriculum, our workshops focus on the themes that matter most to teaching and learning today.
These interactive sessions offer practical tools, fresh ideas and opportunities to connect with colleagues. You’ll find details of each session below.
Our CPD sessions are open to internal University staff and can be booked via Docebo. If you’re external to the University and interested in attending, please get in touch with our events team at cadi.port.ac.uk.
Feedback That Clicks: Empowering Students to Engage and Act
Tired of feeling like your carefully crafted feedback goes unnoticed or unused? Do students seem to treat feedback as a box to tick rather than a tool for growth? Join this collaborative and interactive workshop to explore how to write feedback that resonates with your students, inspires reflection and drives meaningful action.
Revitalising Assessment and Feedback
If you’re looking to breathe new life into your assessment design and craft purposeful feedback while enhancing student engagement and success, this is the workshop for you. Have you ever wondered if your students even read your feedback or if your assessments truly enhance the student experience and prepare them up for the world of work.
Marking with Confidence: Using Categorical Marking and Assessment Criteria
Are you looking to enhance the transparency, consistency and fairness of your assessment processes? This interactive and practical workshop will equip you with strategies to apply categorical marking while linking to effective assessment criteria and rubrics. Whether you’re aiming to refine your marking practices, ensure alignment with the categorical scale, or better support student success, this session offers valuable insights and tools to elevate your approach.
Mind the Gap! Guidance and Tips for Tackling Awarding Gaps with Confidence
Do you want to ensure your students have an equitable opportunity to succeed? This practical workshop explores awarding gaps and what you can do in your day-to-day teaching to create a more inclusive learning environment.
Access All Areas: Incorporating Inclusive Learning Design
Want to make your teaching more accessible and engaging for all students? Join our interactive CPD workshop where we’ll explore practical ways to create more equitable learning experiences that support the diverse needs of your learners.
Fair, Flexible and Feasible: Inclusive Approaches to Assessment
How can we ensure that our assessments are fair, flexible, and feasible, both for our students and for us as educators? Join us for a hands-on, practical session on inclusive assessment, where we’ll explore how to design fair and supportive assessment experiences for all students.
The Enterprise Programme
This interactive workshop will explore what we mean by ‘being enterprising’ and put this into action. The research and academic environment offers many opportunities for enterprising individuals.
Let's be reasonable: anticipating and integrating reasonable adjustments
This session will explore the statutory requirements for University of Portsmouth staff regarding reasonable adjustments, the role of anticipatory duties and practical strategies for supporting diverse student needs.
Getting the Basics Right: Teaching Well, Consistently Well at Portsmouth
Are you new to Portsmouth or looking to refresh your approach to teaching and learning? Whether you’ve inherited a module, are navigating blended learning for the first time, or simply want a chance to review your learning and teaching strategy, this interactive and collaborative workshop is your starting point.
Engage to Learn: Design Context-Rich Activities for Active Blended Learning
Do you find it challenging to get students to engage in the classroom or participate in asynchronous activities? Are your teaching strategies feeling a bit stale, or are you unsure how to design learning experiences that truly resonate? This interactive and collaborative workshop is your chance to refresh your approach and create context-rich, sense-making activities that inspire engagement, foster belonging and enhance student understanding.
Discover your Teaching Identity: Professional Values & Personal Pedagogies
Are you considering applying for Fellowship or struggling to articulate your approach to Professional Values in your APEX claim? This interactive and collaborative workshop is designed to guide you through reflecting on your teaching identity and aligning it with the Professional Standards Framework 2023.
AI in the Classroom: Foundations and First Steps
The pace in which AI is developing is faster than most could have projected and it’s easy to feel left behind. Focused on those new to AI, this interactive and collaborative session will explore what AI is and identify the AI tools that are available to you.
Harnessing AI: Enhance Teaching, Empower Learning
In this session you will explore how generative AI tools can be meaningfully integrated into teaching practice to enhance engagement, personalise learning and streamline tasks.
AI and Assessment - Academic Integrity and Innovation
In this session, you will explore how generative AI tools can be meaningfully integrated into assessment tasks to enhance student assessment literacy and alignment.
