Staff & Instructor Resources: Safety & Empowerment Online Training

Safety and Empowerment for Experiential Learning: Professional Behavior and Appropriate Boundaries is a Canvas training module designed for students participating in experiential learning, such as an internship, community-based learning, or off-campus work study.

If you are an instructor who is assigning this training in your course, please fill out this form to let us know who you are and what course(s) you’re teaching. You can also use this course assignment template as a starting point.

Instructor & Staff Frequently Asked Questions

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Who do you envision sharing the Safety & Empowerment for Experiential Learning training with students?

We envision UW-Madison career centers, supervisors for student employees, and instructors for workplace experiences or community-based learning courses sharing this training with students. 

If you are assigning this training in your course, please fill out this form to let us know who you are and what course(s) you’re teaching. 

How do I share this training with students?

  1. If you are not assigning this for a course and are just sharing information with students, please point them here: careers.wisc.edu/safety-empowerment-training
  2. If you are assigning this training in a course, use this assignment template as a starting point.

The Safety & Empowerment for Experiential Learning Canvas course can always be found at go.wisc.edu/safety-empowerment.

How do my students enroll in the Safety & Empowerment training?

This training is built in Canvas and is set for students to self-enroll.

To point students directly to the Canvas training: go.wisc.edu/safety-empowerment

To share the training’s informational website page with students: careers.wisc.edu/safety-empowerment-training

How can I verify that my students completed the Safety & Empowerment for Experiential Learning training?

We recommend asking students to print their Canvas course gradebook as a PDF and submit it for your course’s assignment. An alternative method is having students take a screenshot of their gradebook.

Visit the assignment template for additional details.

Alternatively, you can check the Safety & Empowerment for Experiential Learning Box folder to verify (you will get access to Box after you fill out this form). We will upload the training’s gradebook in Box weekly for the first 4 weeks of each semester and then monthly thereafter. Within the Box folder, you will need to find the sub-folder for the appropriate term and then find the students enrolled in your course.

Who can I reach out to with questions?

Please send your questions to info@careers.wisc.edu at any time and we will respond during typical business hours.