CIRTL National Presents: Designing Assignments with UDL: Supporting Student Emotional Capacity

Event details Date: Monday, October 26, 2026 Time: 4:00 PM Type: Lecture / Workshop About this event This workshop utilizes an object-based teaching and learning approach, allowing participants to engage with and learn directly from assignments from a wide range of disciplines. In the first session, participants will use authentic assignments as shared objects for observation, analysis, and discussion to uncover assumptions they may hold about students' emotional capacity before connecting those observations and assumptions to the UDL framework and UDL informed assignment design strategies. At the end of this session participants will begin to redesign an assignment relevant to their discipline by using at least one of the assignment design strategies discussed in the session. In the second session, participants will explore action-oriented feedback as a tool for maintaining motivation and promoting growth, then participate in a structured peer-review process to refine their assignment revisions. Participants will leave with a deeper understanding of how assignment design influences students' emotional experiences and concrete strategies for designing assignments that better support the emotional needs of learners. By the end of this workshop, participants will be prepared to: Discuss concrete strategies for promoting student emotional capacity through incorporating UDL considerations 8.5, and 9.1-3 in assignment design. Design or revise an assignment to promote student emotional capacity through the incorporation of one or more of the UDL emotional capacity considerations. Official event details: https://calendar.tamu.edu/cirtl/event/388966-cirtl-national-presents-designing-assignments-with