Educator's Forum

Creating connections and fostering collaborations through computer graphics and interactive techniques starts with you and your contributions to SIGGRAPH 2026. We are excited that you are submitting your work for consideration.

Log into the submission portal, select the “Make a New Submission” tab, select ”General Submissions,” and then select “Engaging Education Techniques and Assignments” under “Presentation Formats.” To see the information you need to submit, view the sample submission form.

Below are the components you need to include in your submission:

• A presentation format. Select the appropriate presentation format – EETA | Talk | Panel | Course as your presentation format. You will be taken to the forms specific to this presentation format. Check the box that says: “If the jury finds your proposal to be appropriate for educators, are you willing to have your submission scheduled as part of the Educator’s Forum sessions?” Please see below for more information about required information and materials for this presentation format.
• Identification of all contributors to the work being submitted, with unique email addresses.
• A representative image suitable for use on the conference website and in promotional materials. See the Representative Image Guidelines.
• Here is a well-formatted example. The final documentation (up to a three-page abstract) should explain the assignment and contextualize the contribution for other educators who will be using it in their educational setting. The abstract must include metadata in tabular form (include a table that replicates the metadata table found here) and must provide classification of the assignment with respect to its content and level of study (undergraduate, graduate, etc.). The document you submit for review should be a single column PDF, which can be prepared in Microsoft Word or LaTeX – we recommend the use of LaTeX, and the “manuscript” parameter to the \documentclass will prepare the PDF as a one-column document: \documentclass[manuscript]{acmart} If you are using Microsoft Word to prepare your submission, print the document to a PDF fileThis “submitted for review” PDF may be more than two pages in length.If accepted for presentation, the final PDF version of your documentation must be no more than up to three pages in length, including references, and will be generated in TAPS from your Microsoft Word or LaTeX source material.Abstracts should include authors’ names and affiliations, as the review process is “single blind.”
• Length of proposal: 20 minutes (short Talk)
• Supplementary text document (PDF). This material can include text and images to help the jury further understand any unique results of your EETA submission beyond the merits of your required abstract. This material is only for optional jury use and might not be reviewed. Critical information for your submission should be noted in your abstract.

General Evaluation:

• Topical: Relates to current issues, workflows and practices relevant for a wide range of CG education programs.
• Inspirational and Thought-Provoking: Inspires educators to think in new directions and discuss challenges in today’s educational environment.

Evaluation Guidelines for Submission Categories

• EETA: What makes an assignment innovative?
  • Fun: EETAs often have a playful aspect. The best of these assignments have deep learning objectives wrapped in a fun, inviting way that encourages students to explore and play with the material.
  • Platform/Language: Platform independence is desirable but not critical. EETAs that are independent of non-standard libraries and platforms are more widely useful. We understand, however, that the nature of computer graphics and interactive techniques makes some platform dependence inevitable.
  • Scalable: Many of the best assignments have multiple levels of engagement. There may be a core part of the assignment that all students undertake and then “stretch goals” for advanced students.
  • Adoptable: The grooviest of the EETAs will be easy for an instructor to adopt for their own course. This means including a wide variety of materials like documentation, starter code, data files, example solutions, and other ancillary materials.
• Talks:
  • Brief 20-minute talks that inform educators about advances in CG education through the presentation of detailed case studies, review and assessment of teaching methods and best practices, perspectives and reflective statements on evolving CG pedagogy.
• Panels:
  • Provoke discussion around contemporary issues, teaching methods and practices.
  • Share challenges, issues and limitations that represent a barrier to teaching and learning experiences.
• Courses:
  • Introduce educators to effective ways of teaching concepts and techniques in classrooms.
  • Train educators to identify emerging trends, develop learning material and integrate concepts into existing course components.

You will be notified of acceptance or rejection of your presentation in mid-April 2026. If your Engaging Education Techniques and Assignments is accepted you will receive an email from “rightsreview@acm.org” with a link to your ACM Rights Management form within 72 hours of notification of acceptance of your work to the conference. Your representative image and text may be used for promotional purposes.

Complete Stage 2: Program Materials by Tuesday, 28 April 2026, which includes:

a. Review your submission through the submission portal to confirm or update the list of contributors(s), affiliation(s) and 50 word summary statement suitable for conference publicity.

b. Provide a valid ORCID identifier – ACM requires that all accepted contributors register and provide ACM with valid ORCID identifiers prior to publication.

Corresponding contributors are responsible for collecting these ORCID identifiers from co-contributors and providing them to ACM as part of the ACM eRights selection process.

You and your co-contributors can create and register your ORCID identifier at https://orcid.org/register. ACM only requires you to complete the initial ORCID registration process. However, ACM encourages you to take the additional step to claim ownership of all of your published works via the ORCID site.

c. Additional supplementary material will be submitted for archiving in the ACM Digital Library. This supplementary material will vary from assignment to assignment, but it typically includes handouts, documentation, starter code, data files, assets, and example solutions.

Publication

When your ACM Rights Management Form has been delivered to ACM, you will then receive an email from “tapsadmin@aptaracorp.awsapps.com” with information about the preparation and delivery of your material to TAPS for publication.

Please make sure that emails from “rightsreview@acm.org” and “tapsadmin@aptaracorp.awsapps.com” are part of the “allow list” in your email program, so that you do not miss these email messages.

The source (Word or LaTeX) of your abstract, as well as any supplemental materials, must be delivered to TAPS, ACM’s article production system. TAPS will generate the PDF and HTML5 versions of your abstract for publication in the ACM Digital Library. The TAPS-generated PDF of your abstract must be no more than three pages in length, including references.

You must deliver your material to TAPS, resolve any formatting issues identified by TAPS or by the proceedings production editor, and approve your material for publication by Tuesday, 19 May 2026. If you cannot meet that deadline, you will not be allowed to present your material at SIGGRAPH 2026.

Information about the preparation and delivery of your final material to TAPS also can be found at https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~spencer/taps/taps.html.

In-Person Presentations

If your Engaging Education Techniques and Assignments talk is accepted, the contributor must:

• Only present accepted, jury-reviewed content. Presenting new content is not allowed.
• Attend and present your talk in-person at SIGGRAPH 2026 in Los Angeles.
• Contributors should plan to present from their own personal laptops. SIGGRAPH will provide adapters needed to connect personal computers to the session projector.

Presenter Recognition

Contributor Registration Benefit: One contributor per accepted Engaging Education Techniques and Assignments talk receives a 25% discount on Experience and above registration level.

To present your Engaging Education Techniques and Assignments talk at SIGGRAPH 2026 contributors must be registered at the Experience and above registration level.

You will receive an email by early May explaining how to access the registration discount code as well as instructions for registering. The contributor using the discount code is eligible for the early-bird registration rate regardless of when registration is completed. Any additional contributors that will be attending the Engaging Education Techniques and Assignments sessions are also required to register at the appropriate registration level for the program, and prevailing registration rates will apply.

All deadlines are 22:00 UTC/GMT unless otherwise noted.

10 February 2026, 22:00 UTC/GMT
Submission deadline.

Mid-April 2026
Acceptance or rejection notices are sent to all submitters.

28 April 2026
Deadline to make any changes to materials (i.e., approved title changes, contributors names, descriptions) for publication on the website.

19 May 2026
Three-page abstract uploaded to TAPS deadline. If we do not receive your abstract by Tuesday, 19 May, you will not be allowed to present at SIGGRAPH 2026.

19 July 2026
Official publication date for the ACM Digital Library

Please Note: The official publication date is the date the proceedings are made available in the ACM Digital Library. This date may be up to two weeks prior to the first day of your conference. The official publication date affects the deadline for any patent filings related to published work. (For those rare conferences whose proceedings are published in the ACM Digital Library after the conference is over, the official publication date remains the first day of the conference.)

19-23 July 2026
SIGGRAPH 2026
Los Angeles Convention Center
Los Angeles, California