Workshops and Consultations

If you are an instructor curious about using Brightspace for grading student work, this webinar is for you. The Brightspace Grades tool allows instructors to keep all course grades in one place and gives students the opportunity to keep track of their performance. In this session, we will focus on setting up your grade book ... Read more

The Assignments tool in Brightspace provides instructors with a consistent location to collect student work. Instructors can also evaluate and return student submissions directly in Brightspace. The Assignments tool has a built-in annotation tool, a range of grading features (e.g., rubrics, audio/video feedback), and can be linked to the grade book for an efficient transfer ... Read more

This session will focus on the options available for assessing student learning using the Quizzes tool in Brightspace. Brightspace quizzes enable asking various types of questions of students, and they are easy to set up, administer, and grade. Topics covered in this session include: Creating a quiz Due dates, availability dates, and other restrictions Appropriate ... Read more

The Video Assignment tool, developed by Bongo and available in Brightspace, allows instructors to implement video-based assessments that evaluate students on speeches, presentations, and more. Apart from individual and group presentations, instructors can also create question- and-answer assessments where students need to respond to questions that appear on the screen in real time. An added ... Read more

The presenters for this session are Dr. Rhonda Joy, Associate Dean, Faculty of Education; Dr. Jennifer Browne, Director, Student Life, Dr. Jeannette Byrne; Associate Professor, Faculty of Human Kinetics and Recreation; and Dr. Anne-Marie Sullivan, Dean, Faculty of Human Kinetics and Recreation There are increasing expectations on higher educational institutions to ensure graduates have the ... Read more

Rubrics are an effective and efficient way to authentically assess student learning. Articulating specific criteria by which students will be assessed helps learners to prepare more thoughtful submissions that are aligned with your expectations. As an added bonus, rubrics provide an objective and systematic method for grading work. Brightspace Rubrics tool offers a variety of ... Read more

Presenting each student in your course with a slightly different version of the same quiz deters academic dishonesty and thus increases the integrity of the assessment. The Quizzes tool in Brightspace allows instructors to configure quizzes in a way that will present each student with a different version of the same quiz. In this session, ... Read more

The presenters for this session are Dr. Connie Morrison, Associate Professor, Faculty of Education and Dr. Lauren Dwyer Assistant Professor, School of Communication Studies, Mount Royal University Originally Literature Circles were designed to help young readers improve their literacy skills and engagement with fiction; however, Dr. Morrison & Dr. Dwyer modified the typical approach and ... Read more

The presenter for this session is Dr. Andreae Callanan, Per Course Instructor, Department of English, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences and Framework Coordinator, Office of Public Engagement Neurodivergence, neurodiversity, neurotypicality, neurospiciness: what do all these words mean, and what do they look like in the university classroom space? In this session, Dr. Callanan will ... Read more

Brightspace offers a range of tools that allow instructors to monitor student activity in a course such as their engagement with the course material or participation in discussions. Other Brightspace tools let you identify students who may be at risk (and those who are succeeding), and send those students automated yet personalized emails to help ... Read more