Workshops and Consultations

Using Rubrics in Brightspace

WebEx (Webinar)

Rubrics are a scoring tool that outlines specific criteria for evaluating student work. Articulating evaluation criteria helps learners prepare more thoughtful submissions that are aligned with instructor expectations. Once students submit or present their work, rubrics also provide an efficient, objective, and systematic method for grading. The Rubrics tool in Brightspace offers easy-to-modify templates to ... Read more

Supporting Student Progress Through Lesser Known Brightspace Tools

WebEx (Webinar)

Brightspace offers a range of tools that allow instructors to monitor student activity in a course, such as their engagement with 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 them ... Read more

Promoting Student Engagement in Brightspace

WebEx (Webinar)

Boosting student engagement is key to creating meaningful and impactful learning experiences. This webinar is designed to give instructors insight into how Brightspace can be utilized to foster engagement and promote active participation in the learning environment. This session will focus on: Designing interactive and engaging course content using Brightspace features. Incorporating discussions, surveys, and ... Read more

The Teaching Skills Enhancement Program for Educators (CITL Program)-Week 1

ED2030B

The presenter for this session is Melanie Doyle, Educator Developer, CITL The Teaching Skills Enhancement Program (TSEP) for Educators is an 8-week program designed for Memorial instructors interested in deepening their knowledge of postsecondary teaching and exploring instructional strategies for various learning environments. The program is intended for academic staff members, contractual instructors, postdoctoral fellows, ... Read more

Using AI to navigate academic literature (CITL Instructor Series)

WebEx (Webinar)

The presenter for this session is Alison Ambi MSc MLIS | Analytics & Data Librarian Collection Strategies, Memorial University Libraries. General Large Language Models (LLMs) like ChatGPT do not provide sources to support their output, and are notoriously bad at generating accurate citations. However, there are AI-powered discovery tools that take advantage of LLM functionality ... Read more

Creating Secure Assessments with Advanced Quiz Settings

WebEx (Webinar)

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