Events across campus

Are you unable to attend one of Centre for Career Development's live workshops or missed a particular workshop you're interested in? The Centre for Career Development has alternative online workshops that you can take at any time at your own pace. In these workshops, you will find a short video, activities, and links to additional resources and information for next steps.

Note: UWaterloo log-in is required to access these workshops.

Career development workshops: 

• Creating your Résumé
• Writing a Compelling Cover Letter
• How to Interview Effectively
• Personal Branding Part 1: Build Your Brand
• Personal Branding Part 2: Articulate Your Brand
• Networking to Job Search
• Networking at Conferences

Academic career development workshops: 

• Academic CV's
• Academic Cover Letters
• Academic Interviews

Self-directed workshops:

• Supporting Student Mental Health
• Independent Blended Course Design
• Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Methods

Recorded workshops: 

• Reducing Cheating Online: Examples and Tips
• Beyond the Final Exam 
• Improving Academic Integrity with Scheduled, Timed Interval Exams
• Building Instructor Presence in Remote and Online Courses 
• Simple and Effective Online Teaching 
• Deepening Your Course Design: Remote Edition 
• Teaching More Accessibly: Five Easy Improvements to our Practice 
• Teaching Online and On-Campus Courses Concurrently
• Looking Backward, Looking Forward: Learnings from Remote Learning
• Key Features in Virtual Meeting Platforms for Effective Synchronous Class Delivery
• Bongo 1: Video Assignment: Individual and Group Project
• Bongo 2: Video Assignment: Q&A and Interactive Video
• There's an App for That
• Using MS Teams for Synchronous Delivery
• Engaged Reading with Perusall’s Online Annotation Software
• An Introduction to Extended Reality: What It is and How It Can Help Your Students Learn
• Gender Pronouns and Cultures of Respect
• Universal Design for Learning
• Teaching Practices to Cultivate Well-being and Compassion Part 1: Supporting Student Wellbeing and Maintaining Your Own as a TA or Graduate Instructor 
• Teaching Practices to Cultivate Well-being and Compassion Part 2: Teaching Strategies to Cultivate Compassion 
• Teaching Practices to Cultivate Well-being and Compassion Part 3: Building Connections 
• Fostering Student Engagement Online: Examples and Tips

Mitacs offers a series of courses on topics relevant to graduate students. Each course bundle involves a self-paced asynchronous component, and a synchronous virtual session (dates for which can be found in the calendar above). Completion of both components will earn you an official certificate of completion from Mitacs for that course. 

To access Mitacs online courses, you will need to create an account on EDGE, the Mitacs online learning management system. To get started: 

1. Visit the Mitacs EDGE login page.
2. Create a new account. Please do not attempt to use your existing login credentials with previous Mitacs platforms, they will not work.
3. Confirm your account by following the prompt in the verification email that is sent to you. This will redirect you to back to the login page, where you can now sign in. 
4. Select your Learner Affiliationusing the drop-down list. Select "General Learner."
5. Fill out the personal information page to complete your registration. 

Once you have created an EDGE account, you may enrol in the following self-paced, asynchronous online courses:

• Advance your reach (Networking Skills)
• Spur up your project management and time management skills (Project and Time Management)
• Foster a culture of reconciliation, equity, diversity, and inclusion (Reconciliation and EDI)
• Enhance your communication skills (Communication Skills)
• Boost your career (Career Planning)
• High-performing leadership and teams (Leadership Skills)
• Refine your writing and presentation skills (Writing and Presentation Skills)

Mitacs offers both synchronous and asynchronous courses through the EDGE platform. Asynchronous courses are listed as an "Online Course", while synchronous sessions are listed as an "Instructor-Led Course". As all synchronous sessions are currently being offered online, they are open to graduate students from across Canada. 

The Student Success Office (SSO) offers access to intercultural learning modules part of an Open Educational Resource (OER) called Advancing Intercultural Competence for Global Learners. This can be accessed in both English and French.

The Writing and Communication Centre (WCC) offers several grad-specific workshops. WCC workshops will be available on the Writing and Communication Centre's LEARN site. WCC is offering both asynchronous workshops in LEARN and their new one-to-one workshops facilitated by a writing and communication advisor. 

Self-register for the LEARN course titled "WCC Workshops" to gain access to the asynchronous workshops, which can be found under the Content tab of that course. These can be completed at your own pace.

• Assertion-evidence presentations for research talks (available as a one-to-one workshop only, not available in LEARN)
• From Big Picture to the Final Details: Revising and Editing Your Academic Paper
• Getting it done: Productive writing strategies for big projects
• Getting published for graduate students (available as a one-to-one workshop only, not available in LEARN)
• Graduate literature reviews A: Organizing research
• Graduate literature reviews B: Writing it
• Research statements for academic job applications (available as a one-to-one workshop only, not available in LEARN)
• Rock your Thesis: Get ready to write
• Say it in your own words: Paraphrase & summary for graduate students
• Tri-agency scholarships (NSERC, SSHRC, CIHR) (available as a one-to-one workshop only, not available in LEARN)