Workshops and Consultations

Online Rooms is a “web-conferencing” application accessible within each Brightspace course site. This tool allows you to schedule and host synchronous sessions with your students. Some ways to use this tool include hosting online office hours, review sessions prior to an exam, guest speaker presentations, or allowing your students to make presentations. Synchronous sessions can ... Read more

This session will cover how to schedule and host a session using Webex, including how to integrate Webex into your Brightspace course site. Demonstrations of content sharing, collaboration tools such as annotation and polls, and ways to leverage the chat tool will also be provided. As this tool is being used to record both synchronous ... Read more

This session takes a deep dive into the details and options available for assessing student learning using the tools within Brightspace, notably Quiz, Assignment and Video Assignment. The session will provide an overview of the tools, and provide an opportunity to ask specific questions related your assessment plans. Topics include: Creating an assessment Due dates, ... Read more

Online Rooms is a “web-conferencing” application accessible within each Brightspace course site. This tool allows you to schedule and host synchronous sessions with your students. Some ways to use this tool include hosting online office hours, review sessions prior to an exam, guest speaker presentations, or allowing your students to make presentations. Synchronous sessions can ... Read more

Using the Grades Tool, including the grade book, within Brightspace allows you to keep all course grades in one place and gives students the opportunity to keep track of their performance. You can link your Brightspace assessments directly to the grade book, and at the end of the course have all the grades ready to ... Read more

Regular check-ins are an important part of making connections with your students in the remote learning environment. The Survey Tool in Brightspace allows you to construct simple surveys to learn about how your students are doing while creating a supportive and encouraging learning environment. This session will introduce you to the features of the tool, ... Read more

Relationships are the very basis of teaching and learning, but without face-to-face connection, how can we help build community within our courses? Join this coffee-break conversation to share your ideas about helping students connect to one another and with you through remote teaching. This session will be hosted in Webex: https://mun.webex.com/mun/j.php?MTID=m29ee89be4435d61c809d0aa5d6b02649 You can enter the room ... Read more

The Assignment Tool in Brightspace provides instructors with a consistent location to collect student work. The tool has built in grading features, and can be linked to the gradebook for an efficient way to return work and advise students of grades. This session will walk you through the steps of setting up your assignments, submission ... Read more

Join this coffee-break discussion to share your ideas around balancing workload while maintaining instructor presence in your course. The facilitators will share some upfront strategies to build into your course design and Brightspace tools to consider without overwhelming your instructional workload. This session will be hosted in Webex. Registration for this event is required; please ... Read more

During this session participants will explore various active learning strategies and learn how to choose and adapt an activity for a specific learning need. Special consideration will be given to adapting an activity for remote teaching. The session will focus on active learning to motivate and engage students, promote deep learning, and provide opportunities to ... Read more