Upper Peninsula Teaching & Learning Conference - 2026

During the 2025-2026, the Center for Teaching and Learning sponsored a Faculty Learning Community (FLC) that explores and develops methods for integrating assignments and other activities where students create digital content and deliverables. Adobe Express will be the primary tool set utilized for these activities. As the initial cohort of six faculty, we are representing 5 different disciplines across campus and conducting this project in 6 different courses. Led by the CTL Director and an Art & Design faculty member, we were tasked to meet regularly in order to participate in relevant professional development, design and incorporate digital deliverables in our courses, and develop a research project.  
Throughout this process, each of the faculty have developed and implemented multimodal assignments of
varying lengths and point values while introducing potentially new digital content creators, e.g. Adobe
Express or Figma, as tools to compose their projects. As a group, the faculty have created a multifaceted
survey to address effectiveness of the use of these tools to achieve student learning outcomes. The faculty will share the survey questions. 


Students will be asked to complete a survey after the semester. Each student participant will answer a set of core questions and then each class has a set of discipline-relevant questions. At the time of this conference, the PIs will have the ability to report on the findings for the survey and have projects to share from students who have agreed to share their work for this study. Presenters will also introduce free digital creation tools for participants to consider as alternatives to Adobe Express.