AI Intensive theme for 2026: AI and Assessment [Deadline: April 10, 2026]

AI Intensive theme for 2026: AI and Assessment

April 14-16, 2026
Online

Registration Deadline: April 10 at 9 am Pacific Time

Designed to take participants through a process of making deep, substantive, robust changes to assessment practices in light of the challenges and affordances of AI, this flexible intensive invites you to join us for a single session or for three full days of engagement and learning. Whether you are an AI enthusiast or a skeptic, you will find insights, resources, and strategies to help you respond to AI in an individual assessment, throughout a course or courses, or at the level of program curricula.

Each day invites you to engage with a specific theme regarding AI and assessment: AI Literacy, Integrating AI, and Limiting AI. Across the Intensive, you will also find four series of offerings: Perspectives, Tidbits, Hack-a-thons, and Resource Spotlights. 

Registration: To join us, simply register for all sessions you would like to attend by clicking on the linked session titles below. Registration is now open to all who teach at York. Registration beyond the York community will be open March 15-April 10. Registration is free to all.

Explore by Series

Across the Intensive, you will also find four series of offerings: Perspectives, Tidbits, Hack-a-thons, and Resource Spotlights.

All times are Eastern Daylight Time (UCT-4).

Perspectives on AI & Assessment

The Perspectives on AI & Assessment Series features a guest speaker or moderated panel discussion with time for audience Q&A.

10:00-11:00

• April 14th: Mapping Assessment Paths in the AI Landscape
• April 15th: Faculty Panel on AI-Open Assessments
• April 16th: Faculty Panel on AI-Limited Assessments

AI & Assessment Tidbits

The AI & Assessment Tidbits Series provides quick 30-minute learning opportunities on three specific elements essential to responding to AI in our assessment practices. 

11:30-12:00

• April 14th: AI Literacy & Effective Assessment
• April 15th: Discursive Shifts in Assessment Practice
• April 16th: Structural Shifts in Assessment Practice

AI & Assessment Hack-a-thons

The AI & Assessment Hack-a-thons Series is an opportunity for guided hands-on time for participants to work on existing assessments, whether at the level of a specific assessment, a whole course, or across a degree curriculum. Each Hack-a-thon focusses on a distinct but complementary approach to assessment (re)design in the age of AI.

1:00-3:00

• April 14th: Integrating AI Literacy into Assessment Practice
• April 15th: AI-Open Assessment
• April 16th: AI-Limited assessment

York Resource Spotlight: AI & Assessment

The York Resource Spotlight Series invites you to join staff experts who are deeply engaged in York's response to AI to learn more about what they are seeing in this evolving landscape and what resources and supports they can provide to educators.

 3:15-4:00

• April 14th: Libraries
• April 15th: Academic Integrity
• April 16th: Teaching Commons

To learn more: https://www.yorku.ca/teachingcommons/annual-events/#AiIntensiveByDay