Webinar Recordings

Sessions offered as part of the CITL Instructor Series are available on CITL’s YouTube channel. Recordings of other CITL sessions are available below. When available, supporting resources are also provided.

For video instructions on using different Brightspace tools, please visit Brightspace Tutorials.

Academic Success Centre – Supporting Student Success in Your Course

The Academic Success Centre provides Memorial’s students with information on the available academic services designed to help them succeed in their courses.

Communication for Learning

This presentation offers strategies and tools to help instructors improve their communication with students, especially when opportunities for face-to-face communication are challenging

Memorial University’s Libraries is now responsible for copyright support services. This presentation discusses the library’s copyright clearance service, and guides for using images, films, and other materials in courses.

Creating Safe and Inclusive Learning Environment

This session focuses on how we can make the learning environment as safe, equitable, accessible, and inclusive as possible.

Cultural Humility

Memorial’s Indigenous Education Specialist facilitates a session on the power imbalance that exists in cross-cultural relationships and interactions.

Culturally Appropriate Assessments

Jodie Lane from the Department of Education and Economic Development, Nunatsiavut Government and Dr. Jennifer Godfrey Anderson from the Faculty of Education at Memorial explore how traditional assessment practices impact Inuit learners.

Developing Your Course in Brightspace for Continuity During Disruption

This webinar focuses on designing/structuring your course to include mixed learning environments to teach and maintain continuity during times of disruption.

Dos and Don’ts of Audio and Video Recording

This webinar explores technologies you can use to generate recordings, including helpful production tips on video, webcams, lighting, location and audio quality.

Effective Online Discussions

One of the most common communication tools used in online courses is the discussion board, but rarely are they used in an effective manner.

Embedding Principles of Universal Design in Remote Instruction

This webinar, prepared by Memorial University’s Centre for Innovation in Teaching and Learning (CITL) and the Blundon Centre, provides guidance on how the principals of universal design can be embedded into your course syllabus and design to optimize instruction for all students.

Equity, Accessibility, and Inclusive Teaching

We teach a diverse range of students, but how do we teach and assess in a way that is equitable, accessible and inclusive?

Exploring High Impact Practices: Why Are They So Important?

Implementing high impact practices in your course promotes deep learning and student engagement.

Providing Meaningful Feedback

Providing regular feedback to learners, and designing activities that allow them to get feedback from peers, establishes instructor presence and removes the isolation often associated with learning online.

Assessment & Evaluation

Alternatives to Exams

Learners can demonstrate their skills and knowledge in a variety of ways. Summative assessments provide the opportunity to confirm whether or the degree to which students have learned the material covered in the course, as outlined in the learning outcomes; however, exams are not always the best or most reliable method of assessment This session will look at some comprehensive summative assessment strategies you can consider using in the delivery of your course.

Open Book Assessments

Open book assessments are an alternative to traditional tests and exams. This webinar focuses on when and why open-book assessments are useful, how to design them, and how to prepare students to write them.

Quizzes in Brightspace: Advanced Settings

The Brightspace Quiz tool has a variety of settings to help you ensure academic integrity and to provide accommodations to students with approved accommodation requests

Question Library, Question Types and Respondus

This session is designed to provide an overview of the features of the Quiz Tool in Brightspace. The quiz tool offers a variety of question types ranging from multiple choice to essay questions. This session will explore these question types and discuss how you may convert your existing questions to another type. The session will also introduce the Question Library which allows you to organize your questions to create robust, fair, and randomized exams. Through the session you will be provided an introduction to Respondus – a quiz/question library builder tool that allows you to design/work with existing word versions of your exams and upload them into Brightspace for use, with some minor formatting requirements.

Rubrics in Brightspace

Brightspace Rubrics are effective and efficient evaluation tools. They also help students prepare submissions that are better aligned with the instructor’s expectations

Using Video & Audio Evaluation in Your Course

Using video and audio submissions to evaluate student learning, allows students the option to demonstrate their creativity and understanding in a way that better suits their learning style. While learning online or remote, students may experience challenges with internet connectivity preventing them from fully engaging in a synchronous way. The opportunity to record audio or video submissions provides equal opportunity for student participation, regardless of technology limitations. This session provides an overview of an evaluation matrix that could be used to assist with assessing submissions, as well as information that an instructor can use to help guide students in the creation of media submissions.

Teaching Remotely

Active Learning Strategies in Your Remote Course

Implementing active learning strategies and adapting activities for specific learning needs are ways to motivate and engage learners.

Additional Resources: Presentation Slides

Preparing to Teach Remotely

This session is designed to help participants understand what it means to teach remotely. Participants will receive advice about preparing to adapt a face-to-face course for a virtual classroom and will be provided with a practical framework for the task. This session would be a great compliment to the Getting Started with Brightspace for Remote Instruction.

Resources from Webinars Without Recordings

Connection and Community in Remote Teaching

Relationships are the very basis of teaching and learning, but without face-to-face connection, how can we help build community within our courses? This session presents ideas about helping students connect to one another and with you through remote teaching.

Resources: Presentation Slides | Transcript

Fostering Student Motivation and Engagement

Resources: Presentation Slides

Feedback on Teaching: All You Wanted to Know but Didn’t Know How to Ask

Resources: Presentation Slides

Instructional Efficiencies in Course Design

Resources: Infographic

Low-Tech Solutions for Remote Teaching

Remote teaching doesn’t always mean high-tech! How can we provide an equitable learning experience for students who may NOT have access to a computer, video-conferencing, or high-speed internet?

Resources: Presentation Slides | Transcript

Maximizing Virtual Lecture Time with Students

Resources: Handout

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